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December 25, 2001
Christmas glows on him
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[Times photo: John Pendygraft]
A Tampa man accumulates 200,000 lights and enough decorations to keep him busy for five months and still not find time to trim his tree.
Top stories
Cafe strives to attract needy
Faith Cafe has a good location in South Tampa, caring staff and free food. But it wants more customers.

Near ground zero for the holidays
Nine people from the area volunteer to spend the season helping people who were directly affected by the terrorist attacks.

That moving voice belongs to his son
Out of the sadness of Sept. 11 has emerged the talent of a New York City police officer who has family in Clearwater.

New schools struggle with malfunctions
Mildewed walls and faltering air conditioning have the School Board looking at its construction process.

Activist says charity drains Pinellas funds
ST. PETERSBURG -- Metropolitan Ministries serves more than a million meals a year to the needy, shelters up to 214 homeless people nightly and helps thousands of families avoid homelessness.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Good Samaritan dies in his efforts
  • Suspect in 2000 rape turns himself in
  • Suspect gets away as patrol cars collide

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Two homes hark back to Victorian traditions
  • 12 Days of Pinellas
  • Area players capitalize on system

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Cafe's reopening renews questions regarding deal
  • Police sued over request for records

  • Ernest Hooper
  • Columbia matriarch lit the way with love

  • News of Florida
  • Open records watchers scurrying since attacks
  • Walton sheriff, brother under FBI investigation
  • Controversy isn't commission's first
  • Universities must weed a surge of applicants
  • Bullet found at airport forces evacuation, delays
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