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September 24, 2002
There's a new game in town
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[Times photo: Scott Keeler]
The kids who avidly traded Pokemon cards are enjoying a new card craze from Japan.

Mary Jo Melone

Public trust betrayed by a private immorality
Chicago is learning to live without Bob Greene. The celebrated syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune was shown the door 10 days ago after he owned up to an affair years earlier with a high school senior.

Top stories
Abused girl on road to recovery
Police photos reveal the depth of abuse the 7-year-old suffered. Her mother and a boyfriend are in jail.

Catching a wave on Pinellas beaches
Hurricane-spawned waves offer a rare opportunity for surfers at Pinellas beaches.

Pinellas is under alert for West Nile
Six more counties, including Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando, have been placed on a medical alert for West Nile virus.

Flu shots urged for young kids
The Centers for Disease Control for the first time says children 6 months to 23 months old should get the shots.

She's America's oldest. And thirsty.
Mary Parr of St. Petersburg might be the oldest person in America. But all she wants is some water.

Jeb says keep CentCom here
The governor asks the secretary of defense not to move the Central Command from MacDill.

Terri Schiavo unlikely to recover, doctor says
A court-appointed doctor who examined brain-damaged Terri Schiavo has concluded that she is in a permanent vegetative state with no meaningful chance of recovery.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Museum of history boss bids farewell

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • County systems chief resigns
  • Big appetite needed for Taste
  • Boater falls overboard, is cut by propeller
  • Duchess of York will drop in on city mall
  • Officer reaches top ranks of police
  • Suspects in home invasion arrested
  • Oldsmar loses quiet advocate
  • Disabled man found dead in his kitchen
  • It is another stroke of bad luck for Heintz
  • Notes meet numbers

  • Letters
  • Don't spare the punishment when teens go wrong

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Man linked to drug fatality gets 35 years
  • Art museum board adds some corporate muscle
  • Housing advocate again fights eviction
  • Suspect held in thefts of trucks, equipment

  • News of Florida
  • Class size plans lack in detail
  • Candidates swamp the Tampa Bay region with TV ads
  • Chief: DCF's system behind
  • Debate won't be on TV in bay area
  • Around the state
  • Boys' testimony against man questioned in drowning trial
  • Foster mom wins another round in fight with DCF
  • Police seek killer, motive after 5 slain
  • Florida panther births are on the rise
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