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PANAMA CITY LOCAL | B1 FIGHTING CANCER Employee at tax collector’s offi ce wants to thank community for support during her battle with cancer Monday, July 9, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ BAY ASKED, WE ANSWERED Bridge closure adds to response times Alaqua Animal Refuge founder Laurie Hood and Rachel Pankow visit with one of the horses brought to the shelter Friday from a hoarding case in Washington County. [PHOTO BY DEVON RAVINE/ DAILY NEWS] Alaqua Animal Refuge rescues 67 animals from Washington County By Alicia Adams Alaqua’s staff, the Wash- 315-4443 | @aliciaNWFDN ington County Sheriff’s [email protected] Office and Washington County Animal Control FREEPORT — Alaqua contacted the owner Thurs- Animal Refuge has its day night to say that if she hands full after rescuing didn’t surrender the ani- 67 animals Friday morning mals to Alaqua, she would from a home in Vernon in be charged with animal Residents living across the Laird Bayou Bridge are concerned that the bridge’s closure will impact Washington County. cruelty. emergency response times. [JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] Alaqua founder Laurie The woman was able to Hood said she was made keep a couple of small dogs aware of the animals about she would be able to take By Katie Landeck a year and a half ago when care of, Hood said. 522-5114 | @PCNHKatieL neighbors started com- It took about five hours [email protected] plaining of the noise and to move the animals from smell. The no-kill shelter Vernon to Alaqua’s 10-acre CALLAWAY — Since the has been working ever since facility in Freeport. county was unexpectedly then to rescue the 35 dogs, “We had a lot of help,” forced to close the Laird 15 cats, 10 horses, six par- Hood said. “We had Lucky Bayou Bridge in May, local rots and a goat. Puppy Rescue (of Bonifay) resident Susan Watson and Until Friday, the animals that always brings their bus her neighbors have had a nag- lived in the home of an and helps us transport.” ging question. elderly woman who strug- The home directly across “Are emergency services gled to take care of herself, the street was where for residents living across let alone that many pets, Alaqua rescued about 80 the now closed Laird Bayou Hood said. Great Pyrenees dogs a little Bridge compromised because “It was very fortunate more than a year ago. of the extended travel time to that she surrendered them, According to Hood, get there?,” Watson wrote in for the animals’ sake,” Alaqua has seen dozens to Bay Asked, We Answered. Hood said. “That means we of cases like those — with The detour, she said, adds can immediately tell people 400 animals being the larg- about 20 minutes to her trip we have them, because est — since it was founded into town and those 20 min- otherwise we couldn’t in 2007. utes, she worried, would add talk about it if it’s an open up dangerously in the event of case.” See ALAQUA, A5 an emergency. “I think about stroke vic- tims, and they have to have See BRIDGE, A5 NATION & WORLD | A4 THAILAND CAVE SEARCH To help us choose which question to investigate Expert divers rescue four of 12 boys from a next, vote online at: http:// fl ooded cave in northern Thailand where they www.newsherald.com/ A map of the current detour to bypass the closed Laird Bayou were trapped with their soccer coach for more bay-asked-we-answered Bridge. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] than two weeks Trump administration takes another swipe at ‘Obamacare’ By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar repeal it. subsidies are involved. The Associated Press In a weekend announce- The idea behind the pro- ment, the Centers for gram is to remove the WASHINGTON — The Medicare and Medicaid Ser- financial incentive for insur- Trump administration is vices said the administration ers to “cherry pick” healthier freezing payments under an is acting because of conflict- customers. The government “Obamacare” program that ing court ruling in lawsuits uses a similar approach with protects insurers with sicker filed by some smaller insurers Medicare private insurance patients from financial losses, who question whether they plans and the Medicare pre- a move expected to add to are being fairly treated under scription drug benefit. premium increases next year. the program. Major insurer groups said At stake are billions in pay- The so-called “risk Saturday the administration’s ments to insurers with sicker adjustment” program takes action interferes with a pro- customers. The latest admin- payments from insurers gram that’s working well. istration action could disrupt with healthier customers The Blue Cross Blue Shield the Affordable Care Act, and redistributes that money Association, whose members the health care law that has to companies with sicker are a mainstay of Affordable In this July 24, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks about withstood President Donald enrollees. Payments for 2017 healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington.[ALEX Trump’s efforts to completely are $10.4 billion. No taxpayer See HEALTH, A5 BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO] Panama City News Herald Diversions ......................B6 Sports.........................C1-5 TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Want to subscribe? Local & State ...............B1-4 TV grid ..........................B8 A t-storm A t-storm Partly sunny Call 850-747-5050 Obituaries ......................B3 Viewpoints .................... 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