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Hurricane season's swirling to a close today -- officially anyway
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Robert P. King - - Palm Beach Post
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These are the words Floridians have longed to hear: Hurricane season ends today.
Sure, Tropical Storm Epsilon is still spinning east of Bermuda after popping up Tuesday. But at least on the calendar, today is the finale of the Atlantic hurricane season, a six-month obstacle course that has never seemed more eternal.
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'Things are happening,' President Bush assures South Floridians
Thursday, October 27, 2005
George Bennett and Pilar Ulibarri - - Palm Beach Post
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President Bush paid a surprise visit to a hurricane relief site today to thank volunteers for their "amazing spirit" in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma.
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Many without power, water as Hurricane Wilma cleanup begins
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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The roar of generators and chainsaws filled the air in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast today as residents cleaned up from a powerful Hurricane Wilma that experts say caused at least $9 billion in damage in South Florida.
But even as they cleaned their yards of debris, residents biggest concerns were the most basic: water and electricity.
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Lightning strikes boy's head, knocking him and pal out
Monday, July 25, 2005
Rochelle Brenner Gilken - - Palm Beach Post
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Lightning hit a 15-year-old boy in the head Sunday afternoon, tearing his baseball cap off and knocking him and his 16-year-old friend unconscious, according to Tequesta Fire-Rescue.
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Boca doctor indicted in terror case
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Scott McCabe - - Palm Beach Post
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A federal grand jury in New York indicted a suburban Boca Raton doctor and a Bronx jazz musician Monday on charges of conspiring to provide material support and resources to the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda.
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Harris to challenge Nelson for Senate seat
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
AP's Brendan Farrington - - Palm Beach Post
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Republican U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, who was praised and vilified for her role as Florida's secretary of state in the 2000 presidential recount, said Tuesday she will run for the U.S. Senate next year against Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson.
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Terror tie doesn't fit suburban Boca doctor's reputation
Sunday, June 5, 2005
Antigone Barton and Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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The people who knew Rafiq Sabir as a standout medical student, a hard-working doctor and a devoted family man say they can't picture him throwing away what ambition and long hours had brought him.
But by the time the suburban Boca Raton doctor was arrested on a terrorism conspiracy charge May 28, just days before he was to travel to Saudi Arabia, he may have grown used to seeing his plans derailed.
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Appeals court rejects negligence claim against gun company
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
AP's JILL BARTON - - Palm Beach Post
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The widow of a middle school teacher gunned down by a student lost an appeal Wednesday in her lawsuit against the gun distributor.
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West Boca doctor sought jihad tie, feds say
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Kelly Wolfe, Deana Poole, and Cynthia Kopkowski - - Palm Beach Post
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The South Florida doctor accused of offering medical services to Al-Qaeda was once thrown out of a New York mosque for attempting to establish a terrorist cell, according to a complaint released Monday by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Why was Carlitos born this way?
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
John Lantigua - - Palm Beach Post
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He's one of three Immokalee babies who were born horribly disfigured to mothers and fathers who work together in Florida's fields.
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'Red tide' poisons Gulf Coast tourism
Sunday, May 22, 2005
John Lantigua - - Palm Beach Post
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Red tide is a natural seaborne bloom that, in large quantities, kills fish, sweeping them ashore and littering beaches. It also kills manatees, at least 46 this year. Lastly, it unleashes toxic gases that cause coughing, running noses and respiratory problems in humans.
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Cuban militant for whom Castro seeks punishment detained by U.S.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
AP's ADRIAN SAINZ - - Palm Beach Post
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Under growing international pressure, U.S. authorities Tuesday seized a Cuban exile accused by Fidel Castro's government of masterminding a 1976 airliner bombing that killed 73 people. He had been seeking asylum in the United States.
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Girl in state care ends pregnancy
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Kathleen Chapman - - Palm Beach Post
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A 13-year-old foster child ended her pregnancy Tuesday, hours after Gov. Jeb Bush ordered the state to stop all intervention in her case.
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Prep steroids bill won't pass
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Charles Elmore - - Palm Beach Post
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A bill to make Florida the first state to test high school athletes for steroids has stalled in the state Senate.
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Judge: State can't bar girl's abortion
Monday, May 2, 2005
Kathleen Chapman - - Palm Beach Post
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A judge has refused to allow the state to stop the abortion of a 13-year-old foster child, two sources said Monday.
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Wage hike soon for U.S. workers deemed unlikely
Sunday, May 1, 2005
Marilyn Geewax - - Palm Beach Post
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Pity the paycheck earner.
When the Labor Department issues its April employment report Friday, it likely will show that hourly wage earners are still losing the battle against inflation. As of March, their weekly wages lagged rising prices by 0.5 percent over the previous year.
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Lawmaker begs off speech at Republican fund-raiser after rules explained
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Dara Kam - - Palm Beach Post
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A North Florida lawmaker canceled his plans to attend a GOP fund-raiser this week after learning it would violate Senate rules.
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Senator slams pre-K decision but won't fight it
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Kimberly Miller - - Palm Beach Post
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TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Tom Lee says the Department of Education's decision this week to include more school districts in the state's new pre-kindergarten program is tantamount to making law — something it can't do.
But fearing a lack of eligible schools and no consensus to amend the statute, the Republican from Brandon said he doesn't plan to fight the decision, which Education Commissioner John Winn announced Tuesday.
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E. coli outbreak definitely linked to petting zoo animals
Saturday, April 9, 2005
AP's DAVID ROYSE - - Palm Beach Post
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An outbreak of E. coli bacteria in central Florida that has caused kidney disease in several people has been definitively linked to animals from petting zoos at three fairs, state officials said Friday.
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Martinez critics: Shift now 'pattern'
Friday, April 8, 2005
Larry Lipman and Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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Freshman U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez again found himself in a politically awkward position Thursday after it was learned that one of his top aides wrote a memo detailing how Republicans could use the Terri Schiavo case to score political points against Democrats.
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Bill allowing people to 'meet force with force' heads to governor
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
AP's DAVID ROYSE - - Palm Beach Post
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Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he intends to sign a bill that would allow people who feel threatened on the street, in a bar, at a ball game — or just about anywhere — to "meet force with force" to defend themselves without fear of being prosecuted.
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Lawmakers' reaction mix of sadness, relief
Friday, April 1, 2005
Dara Kam - - Palm Beach Post
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The death of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman described by one lawmaker as a "martyr," brought a flood of anguish tinged with relief for politicians in the state Capitol Thursday.
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Schindlers' pleas rebuffed again by Supreme Court
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Brian Crowley and Tom Collins - - Palm Beach Post
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Insisting that their daughter is not beyond the point of no return, the parents of Terri Schiavo — now in her 13th day without food and water — again failed Wednesday to win a reprieve from the courts, Gov. Jeb Bush or the Florida legislature.
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Rev. Jackson joins parents' plea to help Schiavo
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Tom R. Collins and Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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Refused access to Terri Schiavo Tuesday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson turned his efforts to offering moral support to her parents and lobbying Florida lawmakers to intervene to keep her alive.
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Schiavo's parents get new chance with court
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Thomas R. Collins and Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town but could offer little more than moral support to Terri Schiavo's parents. But early today, a federal appeals court agreed to consider a petition by her parents for a new hearing on whether to reconnect their severely brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube.
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Makeshift services held outside Schiavo hospice
Monday, March 28, 2005
Thomas R. Collins and Brian Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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Terri Schiavo received holy communion and the Catholic sacrament for the sick and dying - formerly called the last rites - on Easter Sunday as she entered her 10th day without food and water.
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Governor pressured to take action
Friday, March 25, 2005
Thomas R. Collins, Dara Kam, and Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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The legal wrangling that has consumed Terri Schiavo's family for seven years neared its end Thursday as courts continued to rebuff desperate attempts by her parents and the state of Florida to keep her alive.
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Judge mulls state request for Schiavo custody
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Kathleen Chapman, Dara Kam, and S.V. Dáte - - Palm Beach Post
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As Terri Schiavo grew weaker in a Pinellas Park hospice Wednesday, people fighting to keep her alive found their hopes fading along with her.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta twice rejected pleas to restore the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube.
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Nationwide call for protesters unheeded
Monday, March 21, 2005
John Lantigua - - Palm Beach Post
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Demonstrators who believe Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be reconnected spent much of Palm Sunday praying outside her hospice. But they attracted very few of their fellow churchgoers from this area, who expressed mixed feelings about the case.
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Schiavo actions multiply
Sunday, March 20, 2005
John Lantigua - - Palm Beach Post
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Terri Schiavo went without food and water Saturday, while in Washington, the most powerful politicians in the country tried to find a way to reattach her feeding tube, at least temporarily.
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Congress' moves on Schiavo might have been on shaky legal ground
Saturday, March 19, 2005
AP's HOPE YEN - - Palm Beach Post
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Republican congressional leaders might have overstepped their authority when they tried to intervene on behalf of a brain-damaged woman, legal experts say.
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Emotions run over in lawmakers' right-to-die debate
Saturday, March 19, 2005
AP's Samantha Gross - - Palm Beach Post
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She's known for her sharp wit and no-nonsense tone, but when Sen. Nancy Argenziano took the floor after a week of closed-door negotiations and tense debate over legislation meant to keep Terri Schiavo alive, she wept.
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Martinez trades vote for promise
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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A Bush administration commitment to support the moratorium on oil and gas exploration off Florida's Gulf Coast until 2012 was Sen. Mel Martinez's price for supporting controversial drilling in the Alaskan wilderness.
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Life groups vow to rally for Schiavo
Thursday, March 17, 2005
John Lantigua and Dara Kam - - Palm Beach Post
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Leaders of pro-life and religious organizations said Wednesday they will summon thousands of protesters to this quiet town this week if Florida officials don't act to save the life of Terri Schiavo.
But a state appeals court refused Wednesday to block the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, which a circuit judge has ruled can happen as early as Friday, and the state House and Senate remained at odds on proposed legislation to keep her alive.
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Bills that may save Schiavo on track as clock ticks
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Dara Kam - - Palm Beach Post
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Lawmakers and Gov. Jeb Bush have settled on a deal to once again try to prevent the death of a severely brain-damaged Clearwater woman whose tragic plight has turned into a constitutional struggle between the courts and the other two branches of government.
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Hacked data boosts identity theft to critical issue
Friday, March 11, 2005
Stephen Pounds - - Palm Beach Post
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The computer breach at consumer data broker Seisint raised identity theft in the United States to crisis proportions Thursday, a day after the second major data broker disclosed that its database containing a plethora of private information on virtually every American was compromised.
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Social Security debate critical to women
Monday, February 21, 2005
Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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For women, even more than men, the debate over individual accounts for Social Security pits security against opportunity.
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Group launches drive for Florida amendment banning same-sex marriage
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
George Bennett - - Palm Beach Post
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Backed by some major Christian conservative organizations, an Orlando attorney launched a campaign Monday to amend Florida's constitution to ban gay marriage.
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Group launches drive for amendment banning same-sex marriage
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
AP's MIKE BRANOM - - Palm Beach Post
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A group with ties to conservative Christian organizations officially launched Monday a petition drive aimed at writing a ban on gay marriage into the state constitution.
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Nelson exhorts Democrats to unify
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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Targeted by the GOP and facing a staggering $18 million reelection campaign, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is trying to persuade Florida Democrats to quickly unite the party behind a slate of statewide candidates to avoid bitter and costly party primaries next year.
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Road to presidency calls for early, coy campaigning
Sunday, February 6, 2005
Scott Shepard - - Palm Beach Post (Cox News Service)
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In his first public remarks as the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman said it is not too early to start preparing for the next White House race.
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Bush on Social Security reform: 'Ideas are on the table'
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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Workers who are now under 55 should be allowed to invest one-third of their payroll taxes into individual investment accounts "to strengthen and save Social Security," President Bush said Wednesday night in his State of the Union address.
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Martinez working in Senate 'trailer'
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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There's no blue tarp on the roof, but they call it a double-wide and it's the office of Florida's junior senator, Mel Martinez.
"I feel like I'm very much in touch with a lot of my constituents: A lot of them live in mobile homes," said Martinez, a Republican who served as federal housing secretary for three years.
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Florida gay couples drop challenges to federal marriage act
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
AP's VICKIE CHACHERE - - Palm Beach Post
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Three gay couples dropped their lawsuits Tuesday challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act, saying they don't want to risk having a conservative U.S. Supreme Court set legal precedent by rejecting their cases.
The suits were brought by gay couples married in Massachusetts and Canada who wanted Florida to recognize their marriages. Florida law only recognizes marriages between a man and a woman, and the Defense of Marriage Act allows states to disregard gay marriages performed in other states and foreign countries.
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Wexler wants Bush to fire FEMA head over hurricane response
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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Rep. Robert Wexler wants President Bush to fire Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In a letter sent to the president Monday, Wexler said Brown should be fired for his "failure to address agency fraud including a massive misallocation of recovery aid funds in Florida."
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News on pain pill risks leaves patients in lurch
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Stephanie Horvath and Lori Becker - - Palm Beach Post
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When Jackie Greene's shoulders would ache in the middle of the night, she'd climb out of bed and take a Celebrex pill, the one thing that eased the pain.
She took it only occasionally, but her 87-year-old arthritic mother took it every day. Three weeks ago, Greene stopped using the anti-inflammatory and took her mother off of it, too, when she heard Vioxx, a similar medicine, was linked to increased risk of heart attack.
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Family of couple poisoned by fake Botox sue doctor
Thursday, December 16, 2004
John Pacenti - - Palm Beach Post
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Flanked by the brother and son of a chiropractor paralyzed by bogus Botox, a prominent civil litigator said Thursday he had filed a lawsuit on behalf of family and is determined to find out how such potent poison made its way to South Florida.
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SCHOOL DROPS SOME CHRISTMAS SONGS FROM CONCERT
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Pamela Perez - - Palm Beach Post
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Chris and Judy Franklin will be disappointed tonight when the holiday choral performance at their daughter's school ends a few minutes before schedule.
Their 12-year-old daughter Erica won't be performing The Little Drummer Boy, after it was cut from her Jupiter school's concert program because of its religious nature, according to her parents.
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Patients test positive for botulism toxin
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Jane Daugherty - - Palm Beach Post
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Three of the four people hospitalized in critical condition after receiving Botox injections or a black market version of the anti-wrinkle treatments at an Oakland Park clinic have tested positive for the deadly botulism toxin type A, public health officials announced Tuesday.
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No-call list tweak offers big loophole, Nelson says
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Pilar Ulibarri - - Palm Beach Post
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson had a town hall meeting in a suburban Boynton Beach community clubhouse Monday to point out a problem with a proposed change in the National Do Not Call Registry.
"It's a loophole large enough to drive a Mack truck through," Nelson told an audience of about 150 seniors gathered in the Coral Lakes community.
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Some suspect faux Botox paralyzed 4 patients
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Antigone Barton, STACEY SINGER, and Jennifer Sorentrue - - Palm Beach Post
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Whatever four people hospitalized with symptoms of botulism used to smooth their wrinkles at an Oakland Park clinic last week, it probably wasn't Botox, authorities on cosmetic procedures agreed Tuesday.
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Race is on to find quicker way to make flu vaccine
Saturday, November 27, 2004
Jane Daugherty - - Palm Beach Post
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When it comes to flu vaccine, what comes first is the chicken and the egg. It takes both and about six months to make the lifesaving shots.
But promising new manufacturing methods are on the horizon, including one using viruses grown in cultured cells from monkeys, dogs or human stem cells that could significantly speed the vaccine-making process and avoid massive shortages.
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Local lawyers lining up to find Vioxx cases
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Mary McLachlin - - Palm Beach Post
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Stanley Silber just knew something was wrong. Playing tennis, walking his 4 miles a day, his body wasn't responding the way it should.
Sure, he had arthritis here and there — who doesn't at age 70? But for three years, he'd had it under control with a fantastic drug, so it couldn't be that. He went to a cardiologist.
"He saved my life," Silber says now. "He took me off Vioxx."
Now, he and his wife, Susan, are the first Palm Beach County plaintiffs in a gathering avalanche of lawsuits against Merck & Co., the maker of Vioxx.
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Florida tomato war gets Ugly
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Susan Salisbury - - Palm Beach Post
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The rule is this: No tomato destined for sale outside Florida shall cross the Suwannee River unless it is the right shape.
That's the way it's been since 1955, when a federal marketing order established the standards for what a Florida tomato is all about.
Joe Procacci says that rule leaves his company out of luck.
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Florida certifies election, quietly
Monday, November 15, 2004
Dara Kam - - Palm Beach Post
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The 2004 presidential election in Florida officially ended Sunday with so little fanfare and media attention that one of the state canvassing commission members didn't even bother to show up.
In fact, none of them did.
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Seniors take tiny Social Security increase in stride
Sunday, November 14, 2004
Ron Hayes - - Palm Beach Post
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Social Security was never meant to be a retiree's sole source of income, but for eight out of 10 Americans it is. So the modest 2.7 percent cost-of-living raise starting with January's check is sure to be noticed.
If you get $760 a month, for example, your check will rise to $780.52, an increase of $20.52.
But wait, there's less.
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Bush's wins on Democratic turf fuel conspiracy cries
Friday, November 12, 2004
Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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As chairman of the Dixie County Democratic Party, Arthur Pinner didn't need an exit poll to tell him which presidential candidate was going to win the overwhelmingly Democratic county.
The majority of voters — like him — were going to vote for President Bush.
Internet bloggers and other conspiracy theorists point to Dixie and many of the state's other rural Democratic-leaning counties to shore up their beliefs that the election was stolen from Kerry.
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State to get 140,000 flu vaccine doses soon
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Jane Daugherty - - Palm Beach Post
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State health officials said Monday that Florida soon will receive an additional 140,000 doses of scarce flu vaccine. Hours later, the Palm Beach County Health Department announced plans for long-awaited flu vaccine clinics on Saturday — by appointment only.
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Hispanic vote probably propelled Martinez into Senate
Sunday, November 7, 2004
Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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Mel Martinez was worried. Months of campaigning and dreams of being the first Cuban-American to go to the United States Senate seemed to be slipping away.
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Martin County man files Vioxx suit
Friday, November 5, 2004
SARAH PROHASKA - - Palm Beach Post
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A Martin County man sued the maker of the prescription drug Vioxx and the Walgreen Corp., alleging he had a heart attack after taking the drug to relieve pain from arthritis, according to the lawsuit filed Friday morning in St. Lucie County.
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Many erred attempting to predict youth vote
Friday, November 5, 2004
Mike Williams - - Palm Beach Post
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Rock stars and media celebrities courted them, along with a small army of voter-registration activists and the campaigns of both presidential candidates.
In the end, huge numbers of young people voted Tuesday, although the record overall turnout meant that young voters' percentage of the total number of ballots cast stayed the same as in the 2000 contest — about 18 percent.
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Senate hopefuls wrap up statewide push on the wing
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Larry Lipman and Brian Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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On the final day of their U.S. Senate campaigns, Betty Castor and Mel Martinez participated in a decades-old political tradition: flying around the state, whipping up supporters and hoping for a few more seconds of local television coverage.
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We're not in 2000 anymore: Oz poll shows Kerry winner
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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Forget what the average voter thinks about jobs, education or the war in Iraq.
When it comes down to who will be elected president today, at least one national pollster thinks the decision rests on a much simpler debate.
For the second time, pollster John Zogby this weekend asked voters this simple question: "Who would you more likely vote for president — the Tin Man, who is all brains and no heart, or the Scarecrow, who is all heart and no brain?"
And for the second time, he said the answer to the so-called Wizard of Oz question has helped him unlock the mystery of who will win today's too-close-to-call presidential race.
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Edwards hits Pensacola, Pompano Beach in final stops
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Dara Kam - - Palm Beach Post
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En route to an election-eve rally in Pompano Beach, U.S. Sen. John Edwards made a brief stop in Pensacola Monday, his first visit to the military heartland of the Florida Panhandle and his third consecutive day in the battleground state where he plans to also spend Election Day.
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Democrats challenge Hood's voting-machine recount ruling
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
John Pacenti - - Palm Beach Post
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The Democratic Party of Florida attacked Secretary of State Glenda Hood's emergency ruling on manual recounts of touch-screen voting machines as a "profound abuse of executive power" in a brief filed Monday to the state Supreme Court.
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Polls hint at key role for state again
Monday, November 1, 2004
J. CHRISTOPHER HAIN - - Palm Beach Post
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A poll in several battleground states Sunday showed Sen. John Kerry picking up ground in the presidential campaign, creating a possible Electoral College split nearly identical to that of the 2000 election.
And that, once again, would put the fate of Tuesday's election in the hands of voters in Florida, where Kerry maintained a slim 48 percent to 47 percent lead in Sunday's Palm Beach Post/Reuters/Zogby International poll.
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Journalist snapping photos tackled, jailed
Monday, November 1, 2004
Jane Daugherty - - Palm Beach Post
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A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his camera outside the elections supervisor's headquarters.
About 600 people were standing in line waiting to vote early when James S. Henry was charged with disorderly conduct for taking photos of waiting voters about 3:30 p.m. outside the main elections office on Military Trail near West Palm Beach.
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Edwards encourages early voting to Jacksonville church members
Monday, November 1, 2004
Dara Kam - - Palm Beach Post
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U.S. Sen. John Edwards ended a hurried weekend jaunt to Florida by attending a black church Sunday morning in a sharply divided community that has become a symbol of voter disenfranchisement.
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Castor campaigns with Kerry; Martinez rallies with Bush
Monday, November 1, 2004
Brian E. Crowley and Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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Mel Martinez spent Sunday campaigning with President Bush while Betty Castor visited black churches and ended her day campaigning with Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry.
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Kerry keeps Fla. lead
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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President Bush started last week with Florida voters evenly split about whether he should be reelected: 48 percent supported him and 48 percent wanted someone new.
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Kerry invokes Sox victory as proof he will prevail
Friday, October 29, 2004
S.V. Date - - Palm Beach Post
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Democrat John Kerry today resumed his push to take Florida away from President George Bush, invoking the success of his beloved Boston Red Sox as proof that Florida Democrats could prevail as well.
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Central Florida holds key to Senate race
Thursday, October 28, 2004
J. CHRISTOPHER HAIN - - Palm Beach Post
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Republican Mel Martinez holds a 47 percent to 45 percent lead over Democrat Betty Castor in the bitter race to replace U.S. Sen. Bob Graham. But five days of polling have shown the race to be so close and volatile that the lead changes hands virtually every day.
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Kerry squeaks ahead in Florida
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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For the first time this week, U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Friday pulled ahead of President Bush in Florida, according to a poll that has been tracking voter opinion in 10 key states.
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Terror tape shakes up Bush-Kerry campaign
Saturday, October 30, 2004
AP's CALVIN WOODWARD and DEB RIECHMANN - - Palm Beach Post
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President Bush on Saturday directed his national security aides to take the necessary steps in response to Osama bin Laden's sudden reappearance on tape, a video that sent the Republican and Democratic Sen. John Kerry into a sharp final round of argument over which one can defeat terrorism.
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Local vote often mirrors nation's
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Eliot Kleinberg - - Palm Beach Post
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With the presidential election days away, Florida is once again expected to play a pivotal role, if not the same chaotic one it played in 2000.
But Florida — and Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast — have often been key players.
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Kerry pumps up West Palm crowd: 'It's in your hands'
Saturday, October 30, 2004
S.V. Date - - Palm Beach Post
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Democrat John Kerry resumed his push Friday to take Florida away from President Bush, invoking the success of his beloved Boston Red Sox as proof that Florida Democrats could prevail as well.
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First Lady stresses leadership in Port St. Lucie
Thursday, October 28, 2004
SARAH PROHASKA - - Palm Beach Post
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To many of the 2,200 people who squeezed into bleachers at the South County Sports Complex Thursday afternoon, a quick visit by First Lady Laura Bush was just as much cause for excitement and hoopla as if the president himself had come to town.
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Election spat gets violent, leads to arrest
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Andrew Marra - - Palm Beach Post
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Steven Soper liked his girlfriend, but authorities say he liked President Bush more.
When his girlfriend suggested this week she wanted to vote for John Kerry, officials allege it was too much for the 18-year-old Bush supporter. A political argument prompted him to end their two-year relationship — and that was just for starters.
Sheriff's officials say Soper, a Marines recruit, later became so upset that he dragged 18-year-old Stacey Silveira into his suburban Lake Worth home, beat her and held her hostage with a screwdriver.
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Number of Federal Poll Watchers to Triple
Thursday, October 28, 2004
AP's CURT ANDERSON - - Palm Beach Post
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The Justice Department is sending out three times as many poll watchers on Election Day than in 2000, assigning some to Florida and other closely contested states in the presidential election.
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Graham takes on role as kingmaker
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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It's Bob Graham's last hurrah and he's not even on the ballot.
After 38 years as an elected official — state representative, state senator, two-term governor, three-term U.S. senator — Graham is not running for reelection.
Instead, he's stumping the state for Betty Castor and the country for John Kerry.
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Incumbent Shaw faces unusual set of opponents
Thursday, October 28, 2004
George Bennett - - Palm Beach Post
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Clay Shaw rode into Congress on Ronald Reagan's coattails in 1980 and was nearly ridden out on Al Gore's and Joe Lieberman's in 2000.
In his 12 runs for Congress, the Fort Lauderdale Republican has gone unopposed and been challenged by political veterans, by neophytes and by a candidate whose campaign centerpiece was a telephone hot line for buying prescription drugs from Canada.
But he's never had a race like this.
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Edwards presses Bush on missing explosives
Thursday, October 28, 2004
S.V. Date - - Palm Beach Post
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Democrat John Edwards traversed the Florida peninsula Wednesday with a trio of rallies that cheered hard-core supporters with slashing attacks on President Bush's four-year tenure.
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Final plans being made for final week
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
KEN HERMAN - - Palm Beach Post (Cox News Service)
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Now that most of the money has been spent, time becomes the most precious commodity for the presidential candidates campaigning toward what polls indicate will be a photo finish one week from Tuesday.
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Supreme Court moves to fore in Senate debate
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Larry Lipman and Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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With the news that Chief Justice William Rehnquist is undergoing treatment for cancer, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mel Martinez told television viewers Monday that Democrat Betty Castor would use a "litmus test" in voting for a new Supreme Court justice.
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Bush-Kerry split over environment less stark on Florida issues
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Robert P. King - - Palm Beach Post
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Environmental activists are pressing that very case as they seek to sway the ultimate swing state, where Nader received 97,000 votes four years ago — far more than Bush's 537-vote margin of victory. Thousands of those votes may have come from environmentalists angry at Gore's failure to denounce a proposed airport next to Everglades National Park, some of his advisers have conceded.
This time, Bush hopes to attract some of those votes — pointing, among other things, to the $1 billion the White House says it has spent on the Everglades under his watch.
But the most vocal environmentalists call that unlikely. They say this race presents the starkest imaginable contrast between environmental visions.
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Kerry courts the faithful by emphasizing religion
Monday, October 25, 2004
S.V. Date - - Palm Beach Post
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Hoping to narrow a "God gap" in his race against an evangelical Christian president, Democrat John Kerry on Sunday spelled out how his own Catholic faith shows him a nation and a world that need the strongest and richest to reach out to the weak and the poor.
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Educators call new standards unrealistic
Monday, October 25, 2004
Kimberly Miller - - Palm Beach Post
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Florida has the worst record in the nation when it comes to the federal No Child Left Behind Act — just 23 percent of schools met academic standards.
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Religion plays major role in Bush campaign
Monday, October 25, 2004
S.V. Date - - Palm Beach Post
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Does God favor one candidate in the presidential race? Or is the very question absurd?
Right there is one of the most dramatic fault lines that separates supporters of Republican President George Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry.
Neither candidate or campaign likes to phrase it in such stark terms, but at the grassroots level, this is possibly the most divisive of the many divisive religious issues in the election.
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Outcome likely to require patience
Saturday, October 23, 2004
John Lantigua - - Palm Beach Post
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Many elections officials, party activists and media executives believe the final outcome of the Nov. 2 presidential election may not be known that night, or even the next morning. In fact, the public may not have a clear and declared winner for days because of possible glitches in voting and counting, and subsequent legal challenges.
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Edge-hungry Bush, Kerry woo Latinos
Saturday, October 23, 2004
John Lantigua - - Palm Beach Post
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Sutton Ridge, a neighborhood in suburban Orlando, is home to a large Puerto Rican population, where the battle for the U.S. presidency is being fought house to house, or casa a casa.
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Intelligence secrecy ability may expand
Saturday, October 23, 2004
EUNICE MOSCOSO - - Palm Beach Post (Cox News Service)
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Civil liberties groups and advocates of open government are alarmed at a provision moving rapidly in Congress that would give a new national intelligence director power to keep information secret to protect intelligence "sources and methods."
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John Edwards to start Florida swing in Boynton Beach
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Thomas R. Collins - - Palm Beach Post
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Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards will begin a two-day, five-city swing through Florida beginning with an appearance in Boynton Beach Friday morning.
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Bush Criticizes Kerry on Health Care
Thursday, October 21, 2004
AP's PETE YOST - - Palm Beach Post
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President Bush criticized Sen. John Kerry's plans for health care and medical liability reform on Thursday, saying the result would be even higher costs and more federal involvement.
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Fewer problems on early vote's second day
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
John Murawski and Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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Ann Dean spent eight hours — five on Monday and three on Tuesday — before she finally managed to vote.
The Boca Raton resident was one of scores stuck in voting limbo Tuesday morning when six touch-screen voting machines at the county branch library off Palmetto Park Road wouldn't start, forcing elections workers to order replacements.
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Vote lawsuit centering on intent
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
George Bennett - - Palm Beach Post
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Resurrecting arguments from Florida's 2000 presidential election dispute, lawyers and witnesses sparred in federal court Tuesday over determining "voter intent" during ballot recounts.
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Problems reported as Florida voters begin casting early ballots
Monday, October 18, 2004
AP's JILL BARTON - - Palm Beach Post
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — With memories of 2000 and the state's bitter fight over ballots still fresh, Floridians began casting votes on Monday and within an hour problems cropped up.
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Is Martinez's HUD record germane to Senate race?
Monday, October 18, 2004
Brian E. Crowley - - Palm Beach Post
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As Mel Martinez campaigns for the U.S. Senate, he passionately tells audiences a personal story that can be summed up like this: A Cuban refugee arrives in Florida at 15 without his parents or a home. Nearly 40 years later, Martinez is standing in the Oval Office being sworn in as a member of President Bush's Cabinet.
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Elderly issues divide Castor, Martinez
Monday, October 18, 2004
Larry Lipman - - Palm Beach Post
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One out of five Floridians is over 65. Older residents also vote in greater proportion than any other age group.
Small wonder, then, that U.S. Senate candidates Betty Castor and Mel Martinez can frequently be found visiting senior centers and residential complexes. That's where the votes are.
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Waiting, confusion impede early vote
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Jane Musgrave - - Palm Beach Post
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Frustration gripped voters throughout Palm Beach County and across Florida as those who decided to take advantage of the first statewide exercise in early voting were greeted with long lines, malfunctioning machines and few people who could answer their questions.
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Candidate urges supporters to vote early
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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