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December 29, 2001
Crash creates an inferno
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[Times photo: Fraser Hale]
A gasoline tanker fire hurt no one but produced enough heat to melt bridge beams and disrupt air and road traffic for hours.
Top stories
Defiant killer sentenced to death one more time
It's No. 7 for Oscar Ray Bolin -- three times for a 1986 murder alone. The first six were overturned.

A litany of excuses
The broken speedometer defense doesn't go far in Pinellas County night court, where the magistrate has heard it all.

Homeless cross bay in protest
People from Pinellas demand that Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa return some money collected on the other side of the bridges.

Air Force cadet dies in car crash
A 19-year-old who had dreamed of becoming an astronaut and was training to become a fighter pilot dies over Christmas break.

The practice of peaceful meditation . . . and revolt
John Nania speaks this weekend during a conference on falun gong meditation, a practice banned in its birthplace of China.

Tampa Bay briefs
Hit-and-run critically injures tow truck driver


South Pinellas headlines
  • Space heater blamed in house fire
  • Mayor backs Bayfront Health's partnership
  • Errant car lurches into bridal store

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Thrown Big Gulp slows robber
  • Baby doesn't wait for ride to hospital
  • Firefighter's family given Florida Christmas
  • College Hill finally wins spelling fight
  • Oldsmar in market for library location
  • Ruling a blow to foes of Stauffer plan
  • Mystery writer has more books up his sleeve
  • Pinellas digest
  • Crash causes five-car pileup on Gulf-to-Bay
  • AWBL pitcher tops highlights
  • Lion, lamb reside in one man

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Heritage echoes in Kwanzaa
  • A closer look: One Hillsborough church

  • Sandra Thompson
  • New charms prove less captivating than the old

  • News of Florida
  • Foundations' founder yet to donate $67-million

  • Steve Bousquet
  • Turning up the heat on tax reform dreams
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