1 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM 13 DEAD IN NAVY SHOOTING building at the heavily secured Washington complex and children were let out of their not been ruled out. No motive established Navy Yard, spraying bullets at office work- locked-down schools. It was the deadliest shooting rampage for Navy Yard rampage ers in the cafeteria and the halls, authori- Investigators said they had not estab- at a U.S.-based military installation since by former reservist. ties said. Thirteen people were killed, lished a motive for the rampage, which Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and including the gunman. Authorities said unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of wounded more than 30 others in 2009 at BRETT ZONGKER, they were looking for a possible second the nation’s capital, less than four miles Fort Hood in Texas. He was convicted last ERIC TUCKER and attacker who may have been disguised in from the White House and two miles from month and sentenced to death. LOLITA C. BALDOR an olive-drab military-style uniform. the Capitol. President Barack Obama lamented yet Associated Press But as the day wore on and night fell, As for whether it may have been a ter- another mass shooting in the U.S. that the rampage increasingly appeared to be rorist attack, Mayor Vincent Gray said: he said took the lives of American patri- WASHINGTON — A former Navy man the work of a lone gunman, and Navy Yard “We don’t have any reason to think that at opened fire Monday morning inside a employees were being released from the this stage.” But he said the possibility had SHOOTING continued on 6A Art for the ages ‘Spirit’ singer hitting it big X Factor judges were ‘Blown Away’ by area music park regular. By STEVEN RICHMOND [email protected] HOLLYWOOD, Calif. tanding under the spotlight and singing for an audience of millions is no easy feat, but 13-year-old X SFactor contestant Rion Paige has overcome much more than stagefright to be where she is today. Paige, a Jacksonville native, is a regular performer at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, having participated in multiple competitions and concerts. She was the winner of the 2012 WQHL North Florida Texaco Country COURTESY G. PEAVEY Showdown Rion Paige and sang at the Suwannee River Jam music festival. “She is a great entertainer,” Spirit of the Suwannee’s media relations director Sue Lamb said. “She has a voice that is beyond a normal 13-year-old. We feel she’s going to make it all the way.” As she took the stage, the RION continued on 6A Suwannee incinerator Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER and JEANNE VAN ARSDALL TOP: Yvette Kiss and her daughter, Kailey, 13, share what they see viewing Dottie List’s mixed media sculpture titled ‘Generations’at the Ninth Annual subject of Art League of North Florida Fall Art Show at the Florida Gateway College’s Alfonso Levy Performing Arts Center on Friday. ‘I like how it is 3-D,’ Kailey said. ‘I like how it shows how electronics have changed throughout the years.’ ABOVE LEFT: Lake City Reporter staff photographer Jason Matthew town hall Walker stands next to his photograph titled ‘Newborn Passenger’ at North Florida Fall Art Show. Walker’s photograph won first place in the photography category. ABOVE RIGHT: Rex Feagley (from left), Ed Houry and Wayne Grendahl admire several pieces of art on display at the FGC Alfonso Levy By STEVEN RICHMOND Performing Arts Center. [email protected] LIVE OAK–The company behind a proposed medi- cal waste incinerator facility Search begins anew for assistant chief for Suwannee County will be holding a town hall meeting the position and we are still Patrol and is vice lieutenant at South Seminole Thursday to field questions Police officials pass searching for candidates,” said an adjunct fac- Hospital. He is a graduate of the from concerned citizens about on finalists for LCPD Steve Shaw, Lake City Police ulty member FBI National Academy. the environmental and public Department public information at the Institute “It’s my understanding that at health implications of the proj- 2nd-in-command. officer. “We are still accepting of Police this time they are not being con- ect. applications and we’ll continue Technology and sidered,” Shaw said. Pennsylvania’s Integrated By TONY BRITT to do so until the position is Management at Last month LCPD Chief Waste Management Systems [email protected] filled.” the University Argatha Gilmore said the police Inc. has proposed building a Gilmore Last month the Lake City Police of North Florida department has not set a deadline new medical waste incinera- After narrowing their list of Department held interviews and in Jacksonville to fill the position. tor facility at the intersection potential assistant police chief were able to narrow a list of more and who was also director of the “We’re going to be taking appli- of 175th Road and 50th Street candidates to two, officials at the than 50 applicants to two final- FHP Academy. cations until the position is filled,” about nine miles northwest of Lake City Police Department have ists. The other candidate was a Shaw said. “So we’re basically Live Oak. The facility will con- decided to renew their search to One was a former chief of police former deputy chief of police taking applications and interview- sist of four hospital, medical, fill the position. in St. Albans, W. Va. who retired as in Altamonte Springs, who cur- ing, like we did to get to those “We have re-advertised a major from the Florida Highway rently works as a protective ser- two.” WASTE continued on 3A Vol. 139, No. 164 People. 2A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 91 70 Opinion . 4A PEOPLE WEDNESDAY SUBSCRIBE TO T-Storm Chance Obituaries . 5A THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics . 5B New racquetball Local news Voice: 755-5445 Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A Puzzles . 3B courts shaping up. roundup. 2AWEATHER 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 Page Editor: Jason M. Walker, 754-0430 Celebrity Birthdays n Lakers, Bulls head coach n ‘Friday Night Lights’ actor Saturday: Monday: Monday: Phil Jackson is 67. 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