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January 2, 2003

FCAT looms large over graduation
A number of students around the state have yet to pass the exam. They get one more chance, in March, to qualify before commencement.

ERA activists undaunted by 20-year delay
Opponents say the Supreme Court sealed the amendment's defeat in 1982 and efforts to revive it are moot.

Salvation Army rejects $100,000 gift
MARCO ISLAND -- The Salvation Army will not accept a $100,000 donation from a Florida Lotto winner because some officials question receiving money associated with a form of gambling, the group said.

Around the state
Salvation Army rejects Lotto winner's donation

Sen. Frist aids victims of wreck
MIAMI -- Incoming U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a surgeon, helped tend to six victims of a rollover accident on a Florida highway New Year's Day, earning praise from paramedics for stabilizing some of the four survivors.

Thieves steal $7-million in paintings
NAPLES -- Thieves broke into a Naples beachfront home and stole two French impressionist-era paintings with a combined value of nearly $7-million, police said.

Boater killed in crash with wildlife officer
KEY WEST -- A sponge fisherman died after his boat collided with a patrol boat operated by a state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

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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