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+ PLUS >> Some things you might have missed, Opinion 4A. COMMUNITY LOCAL SPORTS National Pets die in Burns takes Customer apartment three state Service Week fire on 47 titles to UF See Page 2A See Page 3A See Page 1B THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Group home owner arrested County Road 252B, was Woman, employee face child abuse-related charges. charged with cruelty By EMILY BUCHANAN homes for disabled chil- Janice Harrell Summers, ment/neglect and destroy- toward a child, records [email protected] dren and adults was arrest- 63, of 760 SW Finley Little ing evidence, jail records show. ed along with an employee Road, was charged with show. Both were released on The owner of four Wednesday on charges failure to report suspect- Timothy Harold Summers Herndon recently shuttered group related to child abuse. ed child abuse/abandon- Herndon, 51, of 1801 SW GROUP continued on 3A Sheriff: Car catches fire at gas station Hunter ‘Honest under mistake’ fire for in man’s tennis arrest project Offers apology; victim isn’t sure EDAB split on of next move. director’s focus on complex. By EMILY BUCHANAN [email protected] By SARAH LOFTUS [email protected] Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter on Wednesday Economic Development apologized for the wrong- Director ful arrest of a man falsely Glenn accused of using a stolen Hunter came credit card and called it “an TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter under fire at honest mistake.” Columbia County firefighters look through debris following a Wednesday afternoon car fire which occurred around Wednesday’s However, he said Detective 2:46 p.m. at the Spires Supermarket/IGA Express, 2681 NE Bascom Norris Drive. Economic Andrea Useche “got indica- Development Hunter tors that he was being decep- Advisory tive” during an interview and Driver had burning candle in cupholder Board meeting for his plans to believed the evidence point- build a tennis complex here. ed to his guilt. it was parked Wednesday. No one Ford Fusion’s center console cup- EDAB members Stephen He said she would not face Blaze destroyed car, was hurt. holder and went inside the store Douglas and Glen Owens said disciplinary action. gas pumps, but no The car caught fire shortly after to buy gas without extinguishing they don’t think a tennis com- “This is just so unfortu- injuries reported. 3 p.m. at Spires Supermarket/ the candle. She told firefighters plex falls in the realm of eco- nate and I really hate this IGA Express, 2681 NE Bascom when she returned to the car, nomic development. Other took place,” Hunter said. By TONY BRITT Norris Drive. her seat and purse were on fire board members, including “I’m sorry that it took place [email protected] According to preliminary and she returned to the store and chair Ron Williams, vice chair to someone who’s out here reports from firefighters on the called for help. Jeff Simmons and Wendell being productive in the com- A fire caused by a candle left scene, an 18-year-old woman, who Columbia County Sheriff’s dep- Johnson, came to Hunter’s burning in a car destroyed the firefighters did not identify, had a uties evacuated the store as fire- defense, saying he isn’t pursu- WRONG continued on 6A vehicle and gas pumps at which candle lit and burning in the 2007 fighters doused the blaze. ing the tennis complex as an economic development proj- ect, but in his role as a private citizen. Williams, Simmons and Johnson said that while FWC seeking to restore Alligator Lake Hunter is pursuing the proj- ect on his own time, a tennis By TONY BRITT ramp or something of that complex does fall within the [email protected] nature, they would be able realm of economic develop- to work on a clean up proj- ment because of the jobs it Alligator Lake is on the ect on fairly quick basis. creates. list of more than 90 bod- Jaggers said other lakes Hunter has met twice with ies of water across the in the area that have been what he calls a “grassroots state the Florida Fish and included on the list for the committee” to discuss building Wildlife Conservation North Central region are: a tennis complex in Columbia Commission is seeking a Orange Lake, Lochloosa County that would function as permit to conduct resto- Lake and Newnans Lake. a place for local leagues to play ration activities on within “Alligator Lake is on the and as a facility for the United the next 15 years. list because of the dense States Tennis Association to The FWC applied for growth of vegetation that host tournaments. Hunter said a permit from the U.S. periodically we need to do USTA, which recently built a Army Corps of Engineers some plant control work new headquarters in Orlando, Jacksonville District to keep access open at is interested in partnering JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter to conduct restoration the boat ramps,” he said. with Columbia County to help A patch of vegetation is seen growing in Alligator Lake on Wednesday. The dense growth activities on 11 lakes and “That’s what that 15-year build and use a tennis complex of vegetation has prompted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to water bodies in the FWC’s permit is for.” for preliminary tournament launch a restoration project on the lake. North Central Region. The request is part rounds. Bruce Jaggers, an FWC a 15-year permit and there normally work on a fair- mit. We’re just getting the of an overall initiative in Hunter said he’s looking biological scientist in the is no specific project listed ly routine basis,” he said. permit in place and the which the FWC is working at building 16 courts and Eustice office, said the for Alligator Lake. “We do not have a specif- methods approved.” with the Corps to obtain expects it to cost $1-2 million. work with the Corps is a “The purpose of that ic project planned at the He said they found public announcement for permit is for lakes we time concerning that per- tussocks blocking a boat ALLIGATOR continued on 3A TENNIS continued on 6A Vol. 140, No. 177 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER LOCAL SPORTS (386) 752-1293 Local . 7A Obituaries . 5A Skeet Shoot No road woes SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER: 90 65 Advice & Comics . 3B winners take for CHS against Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 2B home prize, 8A. Ed White, 1B. Fax: 752-9400 Morning fog, 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Suspect sought in police dog death ST. AUGUSTINE is wanted on a separate felony warrant, began over Oulson texting during movie “really skyrocketed.” uthorities are looking for a man drowned the dog. previews before a showing of “Lone suspected of killing a St. Johns Survivor.” Feds crack down on A County Sheriff’s Office dog after Defense will be allowed to The trial will begin sometime in 2015. the animal chased him into the woods. farmworker abuses Deputies were searching a wooded area recreate theater shooting Bear struck, killed by car JACKSONVILLE — Federal authorities Tuesday along Florida Highway 207 near DADE CITY — Attorneys for a former say they’ve recently cracked down on St. Augustine for 26-year-old Brandon Tampa Police captain accused of shooting along Panhandle road farmworker abuses in central and North Allison after neighbors in the Twin Lakes a man to death during an argument in FORT WALTON BEACH — A bear Florida. subdivision reported a disturbance. a movie theater can recreate the crime was struck and killed along a highway in The U.S. Department of Labor said Allison was being tracked by sheriff’s scene for the jury at his second-degree Florida’s Panhandle. Tuesday that it recently has won $100,000 Cmdr. Chuck Mulligan and his K-9 Baron murder trial. The Florida Highway patrol says the in back wages for almost 280 agricultural early in the morning when the dog sensed Pasco County Judge Pat Siracusa ruled crash occurred Tuesday along State Road workers and imposed $25,000 in penalties the suspect was close and took off. Wednesday that attorneys for 72-year-old 189 near Fort Walton Beach. against farms and farm labor contractors. Mulligan said he could hear noise from Curtis Reeves can reconstruct the scene Wildlife officials told The Northwest The violations included failing to pay the woods and a man yelling. inside the Cobb CineBistro theater in Florida Daily News the bear was a 195 proper wages, providing substandard When authorities got to the scene the Wesley Chapel. pound female. housing and transporting workers with- dog was found floating dead in a swampy Reeves is accused of killing 43-year-old Spokesman Stan Kirkland says the out sufficient vehicle insurance. area nearby. Chad Oulson in January after the two numbers of bear-related calls in Okaloosa, Mulligan says he believes Allison, who became embroiled in an argument that Walton and Santa Rosa counties have n Associated Press QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “‘I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior. 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