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By Rachelle Bowden in News on Feb 7, 2006 11:53PM

  • Natarus and Gold Coast residents are still rallying to shut up street performers. Ironically, a Trib poll reveals that 56% of us say street performers don't bug us.
  • A dozen people who recently bought heroin along the same stretch of South State St. have died. Police think that the drug is tainted or that they were sold fentanyl, which is many times stronger than morphine, instead of heroine.
  • Scott Okun, the head of I-PASS, has been suspended without pay for job-related misconduct.