Top Stories of the Week: March 11-17

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Palm Harbor resident Tyler Whitehurst, 20, who is a Special Olympics winner for golf, said it was the "best 10 minutes of my life" when he got to meet PGA pro Padraig Harrington at the Transitions Championship Pro-Am at Innisbrook Wednesday.

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A 40 ft. boat was destroyed in an early morning fire. The blaze proved just how hazardous a firefighter's job can be, when one firefighter fell in the water.

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Lawmakers passed a bill Friday that pays Irv Hoffman of Palm Harbor, and his ex-wife, Margie Weiss a $2.4 million settlement in a wrongful death suit. Their daughter, Rachel Hoffman, was 23 when she was killed during a botched undercover drug sting.

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Kelly Rothwell, who lived in Indian Rocks Beach and worked in St. Petersburg, has been missing since March 12, 2011. Rewards of $50,000 are being offered for information on her whereabouts.

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So far, Padraig Harrington is having a great week at Innisbrook's Transitions Championship. Thursday, he set the course record with a 10-under-par 61. During Wednesday's Pro-Am, he made a hole-in-one while shooting 64.