'It's never been the same'' [Times photo: Lisa DeJong] GAINESVILLE -- On a day when this city remembered the extraordinary and the violent -- five murders that stripped away innocence a decade ago -- Dianna Hoyt chose to recall the ordinary and the peaceful.

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Data, danger mix on Internet
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Witness to execution: 'It was too humane'
The victim's mother says, "I would like to see Old Sparky back," after her daughter's murderer dies quietly with no final statement.

Prison nurse 'cried' over killer's death
Four guards are accused of murder in the beating of the death row inmate.

Task force weighs nursing home issues
USF professors outline significant problems with long-term health care for a legislative panel.

More charges filed in patient brokering case
TAMPA -- Stephen Edward Levy, a principal in an enterprise regarded by federal prosecutors as the largest patient brokering business in the United States, has been charged with Medicare fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government.

Child support program's money found
The program's missing $750,000 is buried inside a $50-million surplus block of welfare funding.

Candidates tangle over disaster bill
Ratcheting up the hostile rhetoric in the U.S. Senate campaign, Bill McCollum is accusing Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson of putting politics ahead of Floridians' safety by refusing to embrace a controversial disaster insurance bill in Congress.

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Court-appointed manager to oversee cemeteries

For Florida, Reform candidate still unknown
If anyone knows what Florida voters will see on their November election ballots, it should be Clay Roberts, director of the state Division of Elections. So, Mr. Roberts, who will be the Reform Party presidential candidate on the ballot?

Fears diminish as time and students move on
GAINESVILLE -- Ten years after Danny Harold Rolling murdered five college students, setting off a frenzy of fear, the forces of time and turnover have lessened concerns here about safety.