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July 23, 2002
Extended practices put heat in focus
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[Times photo: Scott Keeler]
In the hottest months, schools use a variety of methods to keep kids from suffering heatstroke.

Mary Jo Melone

Corporate royalty can sneer at their debt
I am putting myself on a diet -- not the kind where you count your starches and eat your fruit and drink eight glasses of water a day, but the one where you pick up the scissors and start cutting the credit cards.

Top stories
Aquarium to offer shark encounters
Visiting the Florida Aquarium will be wet and wild for certified divers willing to pay to hang out with sharks.

Leaving choice for another day
Two centers helping parents with Pinellas' complex school choice program are not exactly drawing people in droves.

Daughter plans run for dad's position
A Republican official says she'll be a contender for the Pinellas County School Board seat Thomas C. Todd held until his death in June.

TIA security employee pulled over, then arrested
TAMPA -- After he was pulled over and accused of driving 80 mph in a 45 mph zone at Tampa International Airport, an airport security screener was arrested Thursday on multiple charges.

'Meth' called growing threat
It's now the No. 1 drug problem in rural America, law officers are told at a Tampa meeting.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Albert Whitted manager resigns

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • City leaders to consider 2 key projects
  • Safety Harbor cuts city tax rate, yet revenue will rise
  • Killing girlfriend gets man 40 years
  • Oldsmar budget session postponed
  • Crisp holds off Craver for victory
  • County may cut raucous noise

  • Letters
  • Firefighters' needs should be priority in Clearwater

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Child's wish for a pony granted
  • Storms starts moratorium buzz
  • Raid on adult video store leads to 14 arrests
  • Easterling shrugs off commission tiff on out-of-district appearances

  • News of Florida
  • 3 die when truck hits church bus on turnpike
  • Corpse find prompts fraud charge
  • Cruise group rewards GOP
  • Heist of moon rocks unravels in Orlando
  • Reno becomes first to qualify to run
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