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October 28, 2002

Election puts One Florida offstage
As universities' minority enrollment holds steady, the governor's race is dominated by public education issues.

Day's issues precise
FORT LAUDERDALE -- With two new polls showing him maintaining his lead over Bill McBride, Gov. Jeb Bush found time Sunday to rally opposition to his other opponent on the ballot, the class-size amendment.

DCF workers hard to hold on to
Gov. Jeb Bush has shoved money at the problem so more could be hired. Bill McBride says it's not enough.

Caution, accuracy now paramount in projections
An exit polling consortium's new approach is at the heart of media reforms triggered by missteps in 2000.

McBride aims to reassure North Florida Democrats
Despite having a centrist image expected to woo conservative voters, he trails Bush in a poll of the region.

Festival dispenses dose of evening ribaldry
KEY WEST -- A children's day event at a local park ended Key West's annual costume festival Sunday, but the revelry a day earlier on Duval Street featured a parade that was a bit more risque.

Plane crash victims from Lakeland
LAKELAND -- Family friends and co-workers identified the three people killed this week in a small plane crash into a lake shore near Greensboro, N.C., as a doctor, his wife and their 8-year-old son from this central Florida city.

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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