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December 24, 2001
Fortifying security within
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[Times photo: Ken Helle]
TAMPA -- As the Federal Aviation Administration wrestles with new ways to make airports more secure for the traveling public, Tampa International Airport is seeking to make the facility safer from the inside.
Howard Troxler
Christmas sing-along for the politically irreverent
GOOD KING GRECO

Top stories
Kickbacks ruined Pinellas lab, doctors
Clearwater was a small town when James McKeown Sr. opened his blood lab in 1957. He threw himself into the business, working 14-hour days and driving his Jeep to doctors' offices, nursing homes and patients' houses to pick up blood samples.

Care may dwindle for AIDS patients
For the past four years, a special Medicaid program has paid for massage to keep Patsy Stewart walking, routine housework to keep her home clean, meals to keep her weight up.

Tampa Bay briefs
TAMPA -- A former employee, accompanied by an acquaintance, beat up and robbed his former boss Saturday evening after claiming he was due a paycheck, police said.

Disabled kids send mittens for victims
BRADENTON -- A group of disabled children touched by the Sept. 11 attacks said they wanted to give a Christmas treat to children who lost their parents.


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