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December 23, 2001

Tampa Bay: December 23, 2001 Ernest Hooper
Greater goods, a classy hotel club and a strange trio
The end justifies the means.

Hillsborough County news
Childhood dream of bike fills 400 wishes
TAMPA -- Diners go to Alex's Southern Style Bar-B-Q in northwest Hillsborough County for the ribs, the chicken and the trademark barbecue baked beans.

Judge earns respect, enemies
TAMPA -- It was July 2000 and Circuit Judge Gregory Holder stood in the chief judge's office with an explosive letter in his hand.

Gonzmart of the Columbia dies
The matriarch of the Ybor City restaurant was a concert pianist that helped form music and dance groups.


Tampa Bay headlines
  • With a blush, church accepts strippers' collection of gifts
  • Students learn outside charter school
  • Metro week in review

  • Pinellas headlines
  • Chief's firing splits, confounds neighbors
  • Residents protest zoning plan change
  • This old creek
  • St. Pete Beach delays land changes
  • Cracker village a gem needing polish
  • Small-scale condos in works for downtown
  • Horseshoe player's pitch for pits pays off
  • School leader's head is 86.51% to dye for
  • County denies new zoning for businesses
  • Shoe store helps scores walk a bit more proudly
  • Move to St. Pete Beach lifts manager's salary
  • Owner wants escaped Yorkies to come home
  • A word to dogged trolley riders, fast I-275 drivers
  • Little Santa, big helpers save Christmas
  • Gulfport residents protest utility's plan to cut trees
  • GI's painting makes an incredible journey
  • Lost dog home for Christmas
  • Kulaga finishing on sweet note in Sugar
  • Pinellas competitors mastering marathon
  • Some Christmas presents, wishes for area bowlers
  • 12 Days of Pinellas
  • Looking for fun? County wants to help
  • Special gifts for a special boy all in a day's work
  • Question: Where will guests come from?
  • Protect future of our past
  • Doctors don't provide for our basic needs
  • Man charged with DUI in death of biker
  • Headlines through the years
  • Kulaga finishing on sweet note in Sugar

  • News of Florida
  • Officials fight plan to reduce class size
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