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December 29, 2001
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Crash creates an inferno

[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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