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July 31, 2002

Broward city presses flashing button to vote
SOUTHWEST RANCHES -- In her first experience with Broward County's new touch screen voting machines, Joanne Mitchell wasn't sure Tuesday which button to push to complete her electronic ballot, which replaced the controversial punch card system she'd used before.

Prekindergarten measure on ballot
TALLAHASSEE -- A proposal to provide free prekindergarten for Florida's 4-year-olds has become the eighth proposed constitutional amendment to qualify for the November ballot, state election officials said Tuesday.

Around the State
DCF visited child three days before fatal head battering

Former Graham consultant files new ethics complaint
He challenges a deal in which tax-deductible donations to a nonprofit result in cost cuts for Sen. Graham's drive to restore statewide university governance.

Manatees create stir in Boca Raton
BOCA RATON -- Beachgoers were treated to a heavyweight spectacle Tuesday: a female manatee that beached herself after tiring of the advances of five males, which followed her onto the sand.

From AP's Florida news wire
  • Hurricane Jeanne appears on track to hit Florida's east coast
  • Rumor mill working overtime after Florida hurricanes
  • Developments associated with Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne
  • Four killed in Panhandle plane crash were on Ivan charity mission
  • Hurricane Frances caused estimated $4.4 billion in insured damage
  • Disabled want more handicapped-accessible voting machines
  • USF forces administrators to resign over test score changes
  • Man's death at Universal Studios ruled accidental
  • State child welfare workers in Miami fail to do background checks
  • Hurricane Jeanne heads toward southeast U.S. coast
  • Hurricane Jeanne spurs more anxiety for storm-weary Floridians
  • Mistrial declared in case where teen was target of racial "joke"
  • Panhandle utility wants sewer plant moved to higher ground
  • State employee arrested on theft, bribery charges
  • Homestead house fire kills four children, one adult
  • Pierson leader tries to cut off relief to local fern cutters
  • Florida's high court rules Terri's law unconstitutional
  • Jacksonville students punished for putting stripper pole in dorm
  • FEMA handling nearly 600,000 applications for help
  • Man who killed wife, niece, self also killed mother in 1971
  • Producer sues city over lead ball fired by Miami police
  • Tourism suffers across Florida after pummeling by hurricanes
  • Key dates in the life of Terri Schiavo
  • An excerpt from the unanimous ruling in the Schiavo case
  • Four confirmed dead after small plane crash in Panhandle
  • Correction: Disney-Cruise Line story

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