October 24, 2000
Clinton scandal surfaces in Senate debate
TAMPA -- For months, Florida's U.S. Senate candidates have studiously avoided uttering the I-word. Impeachment, and all its polarizing baggage, was better left looming in the background, they decided.
Some environmental work to go private
TALLAHASSEE -- In just a few months, the inspectors who check the polluted runoff from your neighborhood construction site or a nearby industrial plant won't be state Department of Environmental Protection workers -- they'll work for a private company that's paid by taxpayers.
Colleges rush to get crime reports online
An amendment to a federal law means universities need to get crime reports online.
Work-at-home company closed
Federal and state authorities have shut down a Sarasota work-at-home company accused of defrauding thousands of people around the nation.
Calls on Social Security miff GOP
Democrats turn to actor Ed Asner for phone calls some consider an unfair scare tactic.
Around the state
5 bikers -- 3 helmetless -- killed during festival
$10-million in health grants target minorities
TALLAHASSEE -- African-Americans are twice as likely as white people to contract diabetes, die of a stroke or have low-birth-weight babies, according to the Florida Department of Health.
