+ PLUS >> Ballot measures under review, Opinion 4A. COMMUNITY LOCAL SPORTS Altrusa’s Meet your From Tiger Diva Day new best to second coming up friend lieutenant See Page 8A See Page 8A See Page 1B THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Opt out of ‘Core,’ ‘Common law’ figure tea party tells local faces felony charges Claimed to ‘indict’ state attorney, Dixie County school board. districts By ROBERT BRIDGES purporting to charge Third Circuit obstruction of justice and tamper- [email protected] State Attorney Jeff Siegmeister, the ing with a grand jury was arrested NCFTP sends letter to Dixie County School Board as well at his Old Town home Tuesday. CROSS CITY — A Dixie County as national and international fig- Columbia, Suwannee Trussell man who filed court documents here ures with crimes including treason, TRUSSELL continued on 6A school district officials. By SARAH LOFTUS [email protected] ON THE BALLOT: AMENDMENT 1 The North Central Florida Tea Party has sent superintendents and school board members in Columbia and Suwannee counties a letter requesting the districts opt out of state testing and reject Common Core. NCFTP said it believes the new state testing is harmful to students, par- ents, teachers and the overall education system. In the letter, the organization urged the districts to follow the lead of Lee County in southwestern Florida, which voted to opt out of Florida’s new standardized testing. However, on Tuesday, after NCFTP sent its letter, the Lee County school board rescinded its previous vote and in a 3-2 vote decided to resume testing. NCFTP board members who signed the COMMON CORE continued on 6A A vote for conservation Amendment 1 COURTESY would fund major As of Wednesday, CVS has been renamed CVS Health and has stopped selling tobacco restoration efforts. in an effort to expand its health care center. By EMILY BUCHANAN [email protected] Florida residents can ded- CVS stores icate funds to help restore Florida’s springs, rivers, farm lands and other natu- TOP: In this May 2014 file photo, Live Oak resident Lyndze end sale of ral resources, by voting for Jandle, 20, braces for a wave of cold Ichetucknee Springs the Florida Water and Land tobacco Conservation Initiative, water to hit her from Duane Piet, 27. ABOVE: A swimmer Amendment 1, in the Nov. 4 snorkels over the blue hole in this May 2014 file photo. general election. By EMILY BUCHANAN Amendment 1 would ded- recreational trails and parks, tieth year. [email protected] icate 33 percent of net reve- urban open space, rural State Rep. Elizabeth Porter, nues from the existing doc- landscapes, working farms R-Lake City, backs the mea- All CVS locations, now renamed to CVS umentary stamp tax on real and ranches, historical and sure. Health, ended tobacco sales at 7,700 retail estate transactions and finan- geological sites, land pro- “For so long tax dollars from pharmacies on Wednesday in an effort to cial documents to the Land tecting water and drinking North Florida have flowed expand CVS’s health-care center during Acquisition Trust Fund for water resources and lands in south to pay for Everglades a carefully calculated business decision 20 years. Taxes would not the Everglades Agricultural restoration,” she said. “With for the nation’s second-largest drug store be raised and no additional Areas and the Everglades the passage of Amendment chain. funds would be required. Protection Area. 1, all of Florida will have a According to the ballot The Financial Impact vested interest in the res- With more than 700 locations in Florida, summary, the trust fund will Estimating Conference said toration of our springs and CVS began taking steps to emphasize its acquire and improve conser- within the first year the rivers here in North Florida. health care business seven months ago vation easements, wildlife amendment is passed, the This amendment should when it announced it would end tobacco management areas, wetlands, state revenue is estimated to assure that no legislative sales on Oct. 1. Nearly a month early, CVS forests, fish and wildlife hab- be $648 million and will grow took tobacco products off the shelves and itats, beaches and shores, to $1.268 billion by the twen- AMENDMENT continued on 3A CVS continued on 6A Vol. 140, No. 151 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER LOCAL (386) 752-1293 Local . 8A LOCAL Obituaries . 5A Fort White SUBSCRIBE TO New member honors ‘Triple THE REPORTER: 92 70 Advice & Comics . 3B joins CCSO, 7A. Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 2B Crown,’ 5A. Fax: 752-9400 Storm chance, 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Deadly dolphin virus shows up in Florida lagoon MELBOURNE was stabbed to death by a homeless man McDonald’s was using a laptop to order scrutiny because of the front-runner sta- cientists say a virus that has killed outside a Florida McDonald’s while he an attack on him. tus of State Sen. John Thrasher. bottlenose dolphins along the spoke on the phone with his girlfriend, Police Chief David Currey said Cruz Among those jumping into the contest S East Coast has spread to central authorities said. had called 911 from a spot near the were FSU interim president Garnett Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. Kevin Adorno, 28, of Unionville, McDonald’s on Sunday night, saying he Stokes, University of South Carolina Megan Stolen, a research scientist at Connecticut, stumbled into the restau- was afraid someone would try to hurt him. provost Michael Amiridis and Michael the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute, rant Monday after the attack, witnesses When Adorno stumbled into the restau- Martin, chancellor of the Colorado State says 18 dead bottlenose dolphins were told police. He had been talking on the rant, someone started administering aid University System. found in the area in August. cellphone with his girlfriend, to whom he while another called 911. He was taken to Deans and professors from several uni- Florida Today reports that 70 dolphins planned to propose at the end of the trip, a hospital and pronounced dead a short versities have also applied for the position typically die in the lagoon region annually. Treasure Coast Newspapers reported. time later. He had stab wounds to his that became vacant when Eric Barron left So far this year, 67 dolphins have died. Adorno’s girlfriend told investigators chest and arm. to take the top spot at Penn State University. Past surveys have found about that she didn’t hear any sounds from a con- Currey said investigators learned that They are joining a field that includes 660 bottlenose dolphins spend their lives frontation. But she did hear the phone Adorno began cycling from Maryland Thrasher, who is a former House speaker almost exclusively in the lagoon area. drop, then silence, and eventually sirens in August. Currey said officers found an and current chairman of the re-election Testing is pending, but scientists say in the background. engagement ring in Adorno’s backpack. campaign of Gov. Rick Scott. Supreme dolphins in the lagoon are showing signs Patrons told police they saw the assail- Court Justice Ricky Polston and a state of morbillivirus, such as skin and oral ant run across the street to a Burger Top officials jump into legislator from Tallahassee have also lesions. Those infected can appear skinny, King. Police found Rene Herrera Cruz, applied for the position. swim erratically and make sounds as if 59, there and arrested him. He is charged race for FSU president Thrasher is an FSU alumnus but he they are coughing. with first-degree murder. It was not TALLAHASSEE — Professors, deans lacks academic credentials. Supporters immediately clear whether Cruz, whom and top officials at several universities are of Thrasher have contended he would Police: Homeless man police say is homeless, has an attorney. now vying to become the next president be able to help the university seek addi- Cruz told officers he thought Adorno at Florida State University. tional financial support from the Florida fatally stabs biker was directing people by cellphone to FSU attracted 39 candidates for its Legislature. VERO BEACH — A graphic designer attack him, according to police. He also top job by a Tuesday deadline, despite a on a biking trip from Maryland to Miami said he thought someone inside the topsy-turvy search that has come under n Associated Press QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.” — Isaiah 48:17 Thought for Today Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. — John Muir, Scottish-American early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States (1838-1914) Winning Lottery Numbers Cash 3: (Tuesday) 9-0-5 Play 4: (Tuesday) 8-6-2-9 Fantasy 5: (Monday) 3-5-10-14-32 TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter See an error? ‘Fill the Boot’ fundraiser starts this weekend The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news Stephen Witt (third from right), Lake City mayor, stands next to Dustie Davis, regional coordinator for the Muscular items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, Dystrophy Assocation, and Lake City Fire Department firefighters as he presents the group with a proclamation declaring please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will Sept. 6 - 12 as “Fill the Boot Days” for the annual MDA fundraising drive. See story on Page 3A.