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March 20, 2003

Code enforcers threaten fines for illegal store signs
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[Times photo: Brendan Fitterer]
Owners reluctantly tug in their balloons and flags as enforcers warn that fines can total thousands of dollars.
Search is on for two suspects in shooting
Police are looking for two men who tried to rob a business owner Tuesday night, then shot him in the thigh.

Leap from a moving car foils her abductor
After leaving a bar, a woman is attacked by a man who forces her to leave in her car. He wants sex, but she sees a chance and takes it.

Student adds artistic touch to fest
The seventh-grader's logo, a girl in front of the skyline, appears on items for the Wesley Chapel Community Festival.

Look who wants to be judge: 30 apply
Some familiar names are on the list to fill a circuit seat, including a prosecutor, a public defender and county judges.

American Indians may disrupt Chasco
A Florida group goes through legal channels to stop a Chasco Fiesta pageant and float. And if legal channels fail . . .

Chasco's opener dedicated to American Indian heritage
For the first time in its 81 years, Chasco Fiesta will open with "Native American Night" and continue with a five-day "Native American Festival" and dance competition followed by daily educational programs and presentations given by American Indians on Monday through March 30.

C.T. Bowen: Column: Memory lane taints Final Four
Junior's recent homework assignment to learn about newspapers required yours truly to dig through the dusty college textbooks stored in the garage to provide him with a suitable glossary.

Parade gives winless Gulf a little respite
NEW PORT RICHEY -- Sure, Gulf is the county's lone winless team. But it has something no other team has: a float in the Chasco Fiesta Street Parade.

Mitchell irked to learn of suspended pitcher's DUI arrest
TRINITY -- Pitcher Tyler Clippard's dismissal from the Mitchell baseball team last week came two days after his arrest on misdemeanor DUI charges, and infielder Derek Shortz, also dismissed, was a passenger during the arrest, according to school officials.

Soccer star's odyssey lands him at Ridgewood
NEW PORT RICHEY -- Richard Jata, the talented and well-traveled soccer player who starred at River Ridge as a sophomore and was ruled ineligible at Gulf this season, has changed schools again.

Bigger roles, bigger goals
This season, Kiki Von Holt, Mandy Udovich aim to carry River Ridge back to states.

Police reports: Naples man dies of injuries from Interstate 75 crash
DADE CITY -- A Naples man injured in a car accident early Monday morning has died from his injuries.

Letters: With proper management, penny not needed
Editor: How gullible do the commissioners think we Pasco residents are? Their latest try at getting the 1-cent for Pasco is a promise that the property taxes would be lowered. For how long? One year and then back to normal? Where does that leave us? We are back at square one with an additional penny tax.

 


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