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July 9, 2001

The quest for renewal
A program to encourage and refresh Florida's top teachers is in jeopardy after Gov. Jeb Bush's veto.

Woman escapes alligator attack
A woman walking her dog is pulled to the ground by an alligator. She received a 6-inch thigh wound.

Shark victim's kidneys failing
Jessie Arbogast, 8, is in critical condition after doctors reattached his arm that was severed in an attack by a 7-foot bull shark.

Lucy Morgan
Despite all the rhetoric, Barron was a true leader
Former Senate President Dempsey Barron spent a lot of time sparring with editorial writers and reporters during his 32-year political career. He routinely called one of the St. Petersburg Times' editorial writers "a social misfit creep" and once described a Daytona Beach News-Journal writer as "a journalistic pygmy."


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