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

September 24, 2002

Class size plans lack in detail
Voters must decide whether Gov. Jeb Bush or challenger Bill McBride has the best plan to pay for reducing class size.

Candidates swamp the Tampa Bay region with TV ads
Pols love the Tampa Bay area. Viewers in the 10-county Tampa Bay TV market have been subjected to more political ads this campaign season than any other major market in the Florida, a clear sign of the region's influence.

Chief: DCF's system behind
While the agency has progressed, its computer system is too difficult to use, Secretary Jerry Regier says.

Debate won't be on TV in bay area
WTSP-TV Ch. 10 won't let Friday's Bush-McBride debate pre-empt the season premiere of 48 Hours.

Around the state
Dynamite joke lost on airport personnel

Boys' testimony against man questioned in drowning trial
The defense attorney says one of the boys, who have immunity, has bragged about pushing the victim into a canal but is accusing the defendant, who is retarded.

Foster mom wins another round in fight with DCF
The agency has tried to remove a boy from the woman's custody, saying her low income may affect her ability to care for him.

Police seek killer, motive after 5 slain
A woman, her adult children and boyfriend of eight years are found dead in Lake Worth.

Florida panther births are on the rise
Thirty kittens were born in the wild in South Florida this spring and summer, the most births in a decade.

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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