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Review the Times' day-by-day coverage of the 2002 Florida Legislature

September 3, 2002

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[Times photo: Chris Zuppa]
Janet Reno pitches in at Al Lang.

Finish line near for Reno, McBride
With a week before the primary election, polls bolster McBride's campaign. Reno, though, thinks a large voter turnout is her key to victory.

Tiny spying machines
University of Florida researchers land defense contracts to design micro-aerial vehicles to spy from the sky.

Attorney general hopefuls to debate
SEMINOLE -- Six of the seven Democratic and Republican candidates for attorney general plan to arrive in Pinellas County on Wednesday for a debate that will later be televised, organizers said.

Man charged in quadruple 1997 Polk slayings
Nelson Ivan Serrano was deported from Ecuador to face murder charges. More than 1,300 leads were followed in the 41/2-year investigation.

Around the state
Man held in wife's slaying commits suicide in jail

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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