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

October 4, 2002

Governor's Rilya quip criticized
In a meeting with lawmakers, Bush implied that the missing girl's caregivers are lesbians.

Hybrid cars win favor with cops
They see the vehicles as a way to avoid dependence on foreign oil. Florida leads the South in the government purchase of hybrids.

Around the state
Daytona Beach to bar bare Biketoberfest

Third trial ordered for death row prisoner
The state Supreme Court decides Gerald Murray should be tried again because of DNA evidence that fell short.

State balks as more parents seek FCAT results
Officials plan to stall by appealing a judge's decision that a Pinellas man is entitled to see his son's test answers.

Guard: Attorney told teen who killed dad how to commit suicide
PENSACOLA -- A lawyer told a 13-year-old convicted of the baseball bat murder of his father how to commit suicide by swallowing razors and slitting his wrists, a jail house guard says.

Man faces charges in former actor's death
BRADENTON -- Deputies charged a man Thursday with killing a former actor and model in August as he awaited a hearing for violating probation on earlier charges.

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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