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

November 14, 2002

Voting process gets high marks
An election night survey finds many of those who voted satisfied with their experience at the polling place.

Reefs off Keys get protection
WASHINGTON -- Vast coral reefs, sea grass meadows and mangrove forests in ocean waters off the Florida Keys are being designated as especially sensitive by the U.S. government.

Jury deliberates gun's merits
WEST PALM BEACH -- Two years after a 13-year-old student gunned down teacher Barry Grunow in a middle school hallway, an attorney for his widow asked jurors to send a message to the gun industry and award the woman and her family $76-million.

Bush: Gambling is option to fund class sizes
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush adamantly opposed any expansion of gambling during his first term. But with a voter mandate to shrink class sizes, he may have to consider it, he conceded Wednesday.

Around the state
Jury finds no discrimination at prisons

High-speed rail still in the works
A member of the authority overseeing the project says construction may not begin until 2004, instead of 2003.

Democratic senator helps GOP fundraiser
Fellow Senate Democrats are dumbfounded that a peer would help the Republicans.

State grand jury embraces Crist's hotline idea
As an attorney general candidate, he advocated establishing a statewide identity theft hotline.

Judge wants explanation of reported jail remark
A lawyer for a missing girl's caregiver says a jail doctor told her a horse with her ailments would be shot.

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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