Gainesville Local News Archive

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5/30/2003

Ranking top students
 can turn into a chore

Report: Mercury
 in rain a threat

90-year-old man wins
$16 million Florida
 Lottery prize

Friends celebrate
 woman's life at 110

 

 

5/29/2003

Wal-Mart Seeks
New Locations After

 Site Rejections

UF Tuition Will Jump
15% Despite Help
 From Supporters

Arrest brings relief
to family of
slain UF grad

Man accused of being
 naked bus hijacker
 faces numerous charges

 

5/28/2003

$53.5 Billion Budget
 OK'd By Legislators

Area Greens might
pass on 2004 race

Suspects found with
10,000 stolen phones

Shooting suspect
|now charged with
home invasion




 

5/27/2003

Ronald McDonald
House Holds
Out Hope

UF Team Discovers
New Cluster Of Stars

Graham's security
 complaints might
bite back

 

5/26/2003

Eastside,Buchholz
Make List Of
Top 100 Schools

Prostitute measure
is lauded
as success

UF looks at treating
Parkinson's in men

War Intensifies
Today's Public,
Private Tributes


5/25/2003

Crowds Gather To
 See Region's Best

Belly-Flops

 

A Close One On
The Gainesville
Gas Tax

from 5/25/2003
Gainesville Sun

Top News
Of The Week

 

5/15/2003

Student Test Scores
 Rise In County

Slawson's execution
 pushed to today

VA care falls
 short of
requirements

Circled in shadow

 

5/15/2003

A Pain-Filled past

Rod Smith takes
 a stand on budget


Lunar eclipse
 will be quite a show

Bison Babies
Newest Addition
To Paynes Prairie

 

5/14/2003

Angry Residents Give
 City Officials Tour
Of Kennedy Homes

 

Woman Goes To
Hospital For Anxiety,
Has Baby Instead

 

5/13/2003

'Health Insurance
A Problem For
 Small Local Businesses
 
 

 

 

5/11/2003

 State Changes To
Everglades Cleanup
 Could Be Costly

More Moms
 Are S
taying Home

Special session
kicks off Monday


Jacksonville community
college dean arrested
 after standoff

 

5/10/2003

Moms making strides

A Sweltering Summer

 Ford vehicles still
king of police fleet

 Robotic turkeys help
crack down on
area poachers

Proposed budget serves
up plenty of
pork with cuts

 

 

5/09/2003

Towns call
tax share unfair

Charcoal is cause
 of fire at complex

 Interim UF dentistry
 dean named to
permanent post

5/08/2003

Campus Club fire
displaces 20 people

Ben Hill Griffin skybox
expansion moving
right along

Report: School
sees fake officer

UF Researchers:Disgust, not
 fear, may be factor
 in mental disorder

Officials: Cubans who
swam ashore could
face criminal charges

 

5/07/2003

County May Freeze
Pay To Balance
Tight Budget

Ocala-area fire
kills 5 champion
 thoroughbreds

Summer
slowdown

Baird suit waits
 for its day in court

New principals
take over jobs

 

 

5/06/2003

Stage set for
 jump in gas tax

Gainesville losing
airport screeners

Third-grade FCAT
scores up in county

Family Entertainment
Complex Could
Open In August

Lawmakers OK
 motorcycle tag

Woodpecker blamed
for Panhandle
 power outage

Former Miss Vermont
sues over Web
site portrayal



 

5/05/2003

Lingering questions
on pollution

Teachers' pay may
 get boost from deal

Police say man
robbed 3 stores

Police blotter

Courthouse
 Parking Debate



Child's Death Shows
Danger Of Large
 Trucks In Town

Motorcyclist dies in
 Martin County after
hitting cow on I-95

Colombian man accused
of being a drug
kingpin to go on trial


 


 

5/01/2003

SEC Leader
Pledges Reforms


Forward Movement
For Santa Fe Grad

 

4/31/2003

Legislation will
 jack up phone bills

A psychic sleuth

99-Year Old Loften
recognized for
 life's work

Concept would put
colleges to the test

 

 

4/30/2003

Nielsen, Bryant
capture final
commission seats

Budget standoff
 derails session

Chiles' principal
honored at state
prinicipals' convention

4/29/2003

Area girl, 9, struck
and killed by truck

Area officials unsure
of turnout
 for runoffs


Hawthorne gets
15 years for murder

City hears appeals
 on garage

Longtime civil rights
figure, NAACP head
Davies dead at 69

Sheriff suspended
for 2nd time in year

 

 

4/28/2003

Medically Needy Program
Set To Become
More Difficult

Chestnut's plan for
 indigent tax
faces challenges

Finley student killed
 on bike on
way to school

Officials weigh
 new dates
for elections

 

 

 

4/27/2003

Growth is at
core of city race

For first time nearly
 in a decade, Florida
 prisons buy
recreation gear

Squandering
school rewards

Two schools
 spend on mowers

Agency helps
lift up those
 in need

 

4/26/2003

New Look UF
Health Facilities

Saluting our soldiers

Cedar Key Marine
honored in ceremony

Legislative session
is headed for overtime


Whitaker election
 war chest is largest

Pensacola second-grader
 charged with
making bomb threat



 

 

4/25/2003

Achieving gold

Candidates differ over
 city's stance on business

State Session at a
deadlock ove
 plan for budget

Report: Florida child-welfare
 agency too
focused on crises

Around the region

 

 

4/24/2003

Suspect on run prompts
 lockdown at
Kanapaha Middle School

Overtime session looms
as legislators
 fight over budget

Marion official tapped
 to run state's
 67 school systems

Prosecutors used electronic
 device to follow
man to wife's body

Kennedy Space Center
 worker accused of
 taking shuttle debris

 

4/23/2003

Skatepark
solution near

UF student-created
robots show off
 their capabilities

Web surfers
set free
 downtown

Mom says she didn't
mean to stab
sleepy teen
son in buttocks

 

 

 

4/22/2003

Sunrise Service brings
 meaningful message

Gators statues
find new homes

City signs to offer
directional aid

Safer side
of boating

Subtropical storm
 Ana forms
 out in Atlantic

 

 

 

Saturday, April 19

City Native Dies
While On Patrol
In Iraq War

Man killed after being
thrown from motorcycle,
 hit by semi

Around the region

 

Friday, April 18

Father urges people
to say 'yes' to
organ donation

End of New
Start Day Care?

UF study: Kids aren't
 key to
Senior happiness

Rain may
ward off
brush fires

Body found in trash
 identified as missing
Gainesville man

Airport approves
operations contract

 

Thursday, April 14

Crime in
Florida lowest
 in 30 years

Nightclub declared
 ‘public nuisance’

State has 14
 suspected SARS cases

Seder retells
story of Passover

 

Wednesday, April 16

Anti-war activists
not finished yet


Area family mourns
third loss
 in 8 months

City may
 toughen rules
 for Wal-Mart

Gators Scramble
For Day At Capital


 

Tuesday, April 15

City Stuck On
 Garage Design

UF experts:
 U.S. must
 justify war

War death
 details sketchy

County unlikely
 to fund increase
in recreation

Workers' comp
gets overhaul


3 hopefuls
 join president race

Marine, former
Lakeland resident,
dies in Iraq

 

Plants May
Help Find
Bomb Waste

from 04/14/2003
Gainesville Sun


After Joke Issue
Stetson Closes

 College Newspaper

from 4/14/2003
CNN

Around the Region
from 04/14/2003
Gainesville Sun

Top Local
News Of
The Week

from 04/13/2003
Gainesville Sun

 Budget Plans Could
Cut Those In Need

from 04/13/2003
Gainesville Sun

Florida's Oldest
 Theme Park

 To Close

from 4/12/2003
CNN

UF Grad May
 Be Behind
Gator Flag In Iraq

from 04/12/2003
Gainesville Sun

Alertness, Not Pani
 Urged For Area
SARS Search

from 04/11/2003
Gainesville Sun

Two Charged
With Abusing
 Adopted Kids

from 04/11/2003
Gainesville Sun

Banner Tradition
Being Revived

from 04/11/2003
Gainesville Sun

Suspect In Moon-
Rock Theft

Arrested In Utah

from 04/11/2003
Gainesville Sun

 

County Has Two
 More Suspected
SARS Cases

from 04/10/2003
Gainesville Sun

Budget Is At
 Risk Of
Bush Veto

from 04/10/2003
Gainesville Sun

Lowe Heads To City
Commission; 4 Others
  Face Off In Runoffs

from 04/09/2003
Gainesville Sun

Incumbents Handily
 Re-Elected
In Alachua

from 04/09/2003
Gainesville Sun

Manatee Jail Employee
Jailed After Smuggling
In Easter Candy

from 04/09/2003
Gainesville Sun


80 Million Bees
 Spilled On
 Fla. Highway

from 4/08/2003
USA Today

City Seats
Contested In
Today's Election

from 04/08/2003
Gainesville Sun

'Offensive' Billboard
 On U.S.
19 Repainted

from 04/08/2003
Gainesville Sun

Preservation Buys
|
from 04/08/2003
Gainesville Sun


You Snooze,
You Win

sleep clinic
offers help

from 04/07/2003
Gainesville Sun

New Batch Of
Environmental
Bills Considered

from 04/07/2003
Gainesville Sun




 

 

ARS Patient In
Area May Be
Released Soon

from 04/06/2003
Gainesville Sun

1,200 Attend
Service For
Area Marine

from 04/06/2003
Gainesville Sun

Medical Errors
A Thorny Issue

from 04/06/2003
Gainesville SunS

Forecasters Predict
 More Hurricanes
This Year

from 04/05/2003
Gainesville Sun

Clinton Tells Local
Audience We Need
Partners, Not Foes

from 04/05/2003
Gainesville Sun

Mute March
Asks For
Another Way

from 04/05/2003
Gainesville Sun

Florida Pastor Urges
U.N. Body To Stop
 U.S. Prosecution Of Children

from 04/05/2003
Gainesville Sun

Gainesville Only
City To Win

Gold For Wellness

from 04/03/2003
Gainesville Sun

Ex-Pastor
Gets 30 Days
 In Jail

from 04/03/2003
Gainesville Sun

AARP Ranks
Gainesville Among Top

Cities To Live

from 04/02/2003
Gainesville Sun

New York Times
 Links Local Marine
To Family

from 04/02/2003
Gainesville Sun

Cold Could
Bring A
Record For April

from 04/01/2003
Gainesville Sun

Meeting Explores
 5 Cent Gas Tax

from 04/01/2003
Gainesville Sun

Area Guardsmen
 Bid Farewell
To Family, Friends

from 04/01/2003
Gainesville Sun

Area On
Freeze Watch
Tonight

from 03/31/2003
Gainesville Sun

Chestnut Has
Goals For
East Side

from 03/31/2003
Gainesville Sun

Around The Region
from 03/31/2003
Gainesville Sun


 

 

Alachua Election
May Turn
On Growth

from 03/30/2003
Gainesville Sun

City’s Residents
Feeling Somber
As War Grinds On

from 03/30/2003
Gainesville Sun

Area Troops
Preparing
To Deploy

from 03/29/2003
Gainesville Sun

75 More Yellow
Ribbons Added
To City Hall Tree

from 03/29/2003
Gainesville Sun

UF Plans Large
Tuition Increase

from 03/29/2003
Gainesville Sun

Area High School
Students Form
 Peace Groups

from 03/29/2003
Gainesville Sun

Powerful Storms
Hit Region

from 03/29/2003
Gainesville Sun

Senate Panel
Gives Approval
To Painful Budget

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun

Doctors Rally In
 Capital For
Malpractice Relief

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun

Things Just Get
 Worse For Once
 Famous Lawyer

F. Lee Bailey

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun

Veteran Works
 To Help Military
Families In Need

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun

Counties: State
Is Passing Buck

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun


Group Says
Area Schools
Lacking In Sports

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun

Action Network
Wants Youth
Recreation

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun

High Speed
 Rail May Have
To Wait

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun

Newberry Could
Get A Working
 Film Studio

from 03/27/2003
Gainesville Sun
 

 

Group Counts 602
Homeless In City

from 03/26/2003
Gainesville Sun

Renewed Drive For
 Micanopy Subdivision
 May Doom Park Plan

from 03/26/2003
Gainesville Sun

Districts Urged To
 Stop Using Carpenter
School Bus Model

from 03/25/2003
Gainesville Sun

Students Die
In Sunday
 Night Crash

from 03/25/2003
Gainesville Sun

 Bright Futures
May Not Cover
Cost Of Tuition

from 03/25/2003
Gainesville Sun

U.S. Troop Support
 Resolution Can't

 Pass City Council

from 03/25/2003
Gainesville Sun

 

Agencies Strive
 To Be Prepared
 For Attacks

from 03/24/2003
Gainesville Sun


Local Churches
Offer War Views
 During Services

from 03/24/2003
Gainesville Sun

 

Walking To
 Save Lives

from 03/23/2003
Gainesville Sun

Anti-War Activists
Gather Downtown, Call
Conflict Unjust

from 03/23/2003
Gainesville Sun

Area Clergy Prepare
 To Talk About