1.  Among Southeastern states, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina have statewide pool laws.

2.  Analysts regard BellSouth, which has a comfortable franchise in nine Southeastern states, as an attractive merger candidate.

3.  An area of snow will move from the northern Mississippi Valley to the northern Ohio Valley as a low-pressure system begins to develop over the Southeastern states.

4.  Another electoral dispute, this time in the southeastern peninsular state of Yucatan, is giving Fox the first real test of his authority.

5.  Another weak jet-stream disturbance rippling through the Southeastern states will combine with a slow-moving front to produce scattered thunderstorms from Alabama to the Carolinas.

6.  As firefighters inched toward controlling forest fires in Chiapas, opposition politicians said Tuesday that political strife continues to rage in the southeastern state.

7.  Bands of strong thunderstorms will sweep across the interior Southeastern states as very humid air expands through the region.

8.  Atlanta Air covers five Southeastern states, the Caribbean and Puerto Rico for the NTSB.

9.  BellSouth has for years been billing international as one-third of its long-term growth strategy, along with domestic wireless and local service in the nine southeastern states.

10.  BellSouth, which offers local phone service in nine southeastern states, said it will cut management and non-management jobs.