Tampa Bay: December 18, 2001
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Colorful writing
[Times photo: Jim Damaske]
DUNEDIN -- Academie Da Vinci teacher Sue Aven has turned writing into a colorful game. |
North Pinellas County news
Commission limits public comment to 30 minutes
CLEARWATER -- After nine months together in office -- and many long, late nights at public meetings -- the Clearwater City Commission has approved new policies that will redefine how the public interacts with them at meetings.
Audit faults museum's management
Pinellas County auditors say management at Heritage Village, the county's open-air historic museum, was so lax that they have recommended nearly 50 changes to the museum's operating and financial practices.
County EMS examines power crew delay
LARGO -- Pinellas County dispatchers made five emergency calls to Florida Power Corp. seeking help to save Andrew Miller after his car slammed into a utility pole last Tuesday night, 911 records released Monday show.
Graduate rarely saw college campus
LARGO -- Melissa Grubbs graduated from a college she hardly set foot in.
Three men sought in carjacking, robbery
LARGO -- Police are searching for three men suspected in a carjacking and fast-food restaurant robbery on Missouri Avenue late last week.
Living arrangement 'not against the law'
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Monday it appears former East Lake High School teacher and girls basketball coach Willie Hopkins broke no laws in allowing a 17-year-old East Lake student to stay at his apartment in Holiday.
FHP does good job of keeping roads safe
This letter is in response to the Dec. 9 editorial entitled Troopers, not deputies or police, should respond. The editorial was written subsequent to a recent Times article concerning the Largo Police Department responding to traffic crashes in unincorporated county areas bordering the city of Largo because Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Pinellas County sheriff's deputies were taking too long to respond.
Alleged cohort of slain man accused
SEMINOLE -- Joseph Dazio is not the man who broke into a house in Seminole last month and squirted the homeowner with pepper spray. He's not the one who died when the homeowner pulled out his gun and started firing.
Countryside win gives club boost
Countryside Country Club won last week's Pinellas Interclub match at Cove Cay, moving up from eighth place to fourth in the standings.
Attempted robbery trial of ex-cop opens
LARGO -- Because someone had stolen his car weeks earlier, Christopher Croley was nervous when a vehicle pulled up behind him in Gulfport on Jan. 6.
