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A group wants to use a plot downtown to memorialize African American history, which has faced opposition from some residents.
The Church of Scientology has withdrawn its request to purchase a downtown Clearwater strip of public land on the eve of a vote by the City Council. The item was removed from Thursday’s agenda. A ...
Attorney General James Uthmeier is speaking out amid a battle between the City of Clearwater and the Church of Scientology ...
Residents, City Council members and the Church of Scientology have been locked in a tug-of-war over a portion of roadway in ...
The Church of Scientology has firmly made Clearwater, Florida its home in the blink of an eye - shelling out $103million to sweep up 101 acres of the city's waterfront downtown area over the ...
It marked one of the first times the public heard directly from the Church of Scientology. The grassroots group Reconnect Clearwater recently submitted a counter proposal for the street called ...
In Clearwater, Fla., there's been a quiet series of land purchases over the last three years, $103 million worth made by the Church of Scientology and its parishioners - a doubling of the church's ...
Reporting from Clearwater, Fla. — When the Church of Scientology secretly purchased the dilapidated 11-story Fort Harrison Hotel in this western Florida city in 1975, locals didn’t know what ...
Clearwater City Council postponed voting on the sale of South Garden Avenue between Court Street and Franklin Street to the Church of Scientology. The church wants to close the street and build an ...
CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Church of Scientology has withdrawn what's become a controversial application to purchase a stretch of land from the City of Clearwater. A letter obtained by 10 Tampa Bay ...
CLEARWATER -- Shawn Lonsdale, who became one of the most bedeviling local critics of the Church of Scientology, died last weekend -- apparently by suicide -- at his Clearwater home. He was 39.