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Click for coverage of the 2003 Florida Legislature

April 19, 2003

Bush tries to ease bill's impact
The governor is looking for ways to help people left vulnerable by cuts to the Medically Needy program.

DCF-approved guardians accused in deaths
In South Florida, one child is beaten to death, one stomped, autopsies say. Both men charged had been given custody by the DCF.

Mayor's candidacy puts damper on UNF search
JACKSONVILLE -- John Delaney knows most people don't think he's qualified to be a university president.

Break for electric carts parked in tax package
The driver: a legislator who happens to live where the "low-speed vehicles" are rampant.

Column: Cut Bright Futures? It's risky business
To suburban swing voters who often decide elections, it may not matter much whether the Legislature limits medical malpractice damage awards or raids affordable housing money.

Family sues Cuba, wins court judgment
A judge awards $67-million in the case of a businessman executed after the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Audit: Bidding on drugs could save millions
TALLAHASSEE -- Requiring drugmakers to give rebates as a condition of having their products used in the state's Medicaid program has saved Florida more than $80-million. But more could be saved if pharmacy networks had to bid for the Medicaid business, an audit concluded.

Around the state: Some fraud charges dropped against Rilya's caretaker
MIAMI -- Prosecutors have dropped five of 11 counts of welfare fraud against Pamela Graham, one of the caretakers of missing foster child Rilya Wilson.

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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