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SPORTS | B1 SPORTS | B1 SURVIVE THE NEXT LEVEL AND ADVANCE Former Eustis soft ball standout Glover off to Mount Dora tops solid start with UCF Umatilla in Class 5A-5 tournament Tuesday, February 13, 2018 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com./daily.commercial 75¢ Trump’s $4.4T budget spikes defi cit By Andrew Taylor drop. This budget does not yet hospitals and rehabilitation and Martin Crutsinger reflect last week’s two-year centers. The Associated Press bipartisan $300 billion pact Presidential budgets are that wholly rejects Trump’s often declared dead-on- WASHINGTON — Presi- plans to slash domestic arrival in Congress where dent Donald Trump unveiled agencies. lawmakers have their own a $4.4 trillion budget for next The president’s budget ideas about spending priori- year that heralds an era of proposes dramatic cuts to ties. But the documents do $1 trillion-plus federal defi- a wide range of domestic represent the most detailed cits and — unlike the plan he agencies from the Depart- elaboration of an administra- released last year — never ments of Labor and Interior tion’s priorities. comes close to promising a to the Environmental Protec- Tax revenue would plum- balanced ledger even after 10 tion Agency and the National met by $3.7 trillion over the years. Science Foundation. Unlike 2018-27 decade relative to The budget submitted last year’s submission, the last year’s “baseline” esti- Monday shows the growing 2019 Trump plan would cut mates, the budget projects. deficits despite major cuts for Medicare by $554 billion over Trump is requesting a record President Donald Trump speaks Monday in the State Dining Room domestic programs, largely the next 10 years, a 6 percent $686 billion for the Pentagon, of the White House in Washington during a meeting with state and because of last year’s tax reduction from projected a 13 percent increase from the local offi cials about infrastructure. [CAROLYN KASTER/THE ASSOCIATED overhaul, which is projected spending, including cuts in PRESS] to cause federal tax revenue to Medicare payments going to See TRUMP, A5 LOCAL & STATE | A3 SUSPECT IN 2015 FATAL Head of the class SHOOTING FACES TRIAL Satellites show ocean warming is accelerating rate of sea level rise By Seth Borenstein Sciences. The Associated Press Sea level rise is caused by warming of the ocean and WASHINGTON — Melt- melting from glaciers and ing ice sheets in Greenland ice sheets. The research, and Antarctica are speeding based on 25 years of satel- up the already fast pace of lite data, shows that pace sea level rise, new satellite has quickened, mainly from research shows. the melting of massive ice At the current rate, the sheets. It confirms scientists’ world’s oceans on average computer simulations and is will be at least 2 feet higher by in line with predictions from the end of the century com- the United Nations, which pared to today, according to releases regular climate researchers who published change reports. in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academies of See SEA LEVEL, A8 Jason Lancy, center, is Lake County Teacher of the Year. “Students tell me that how I explain math is different and easier to understand, and that’s because I can empathize when they feel lost and confused,” he said when fi rst nominated in January. [SUBMITTED] Math teacher takes struggled with the subject. reflected on his relationship Lake County Teacher But he grew to love num- with math and how the heart- of the Year, up for bers and now is the chair burn from it made him a better state honors of the math department at teacher. Windy Hill Middle School in "Students tell me that how By Carlos E. Medina Clermont, where he teaches I explain math is different [email protected] algebra. and easier to understand, and On Saturday, Lancy earned that’s because I can empa- Seawater fl oods the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel CLERMONT — Jason a new title: Lake County thize when they feel lost Oct. 29, 2012, in New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Lancy was no math wizard Teacher of the Year. New satellite research shows that global warming is making as a youngster. In fact, he The 10-year veteran See TEACHER, A5 seas rise at an ever increasing rate. [ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO] Wind, ice and cold are making this Olympics too wintry By Graham Dunbar and of course. Just maybe not the best ski jumpers on the tested even the most seasoned it feel much colder. Organiz- Howard Fendrich THIS cold. planet dealing with swirling winter sports veterans. ers have shuffled schedules, The Associated Press Wind and ice pellets left gusts and biathletes aiming Low temperatures have and shivering spectators left Olympic snowboarders to shoot straight. hovered in the single digits, events early. PYEONGCHANG, South simply trying to stay upright All around the games, ath- dipping below zero Fahren- The raw air sent hundreds Korea — The Winter Olym- in conditions that many felt letes and fans are dealing heit with unforgiving gusts pics are supposed to be cold, were unfit for competition, with conditions that have whipping at 45 mph making See OLYMPICS, A5 Volume 142, Issue 44 Local & State ................ A3 Weather ......................A10 ©2018 GateHouse Media Health ......................... A7 Sports...........................B1 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Opinion .......................A9 Comics ........................ B4 A2 Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD DIGEST PHILADELPHIA ‘We didn’t really have a choice’ City throwing parade as it gets its ‘LOVE’ back How an iconic AP “LOVE” will be taking to photo showed toll the streets of Philadelphia of Vietnam War to ahead of Valentine’s Day. America The famous 1976 Robert Indi- ana sculpture is returning to By Dylan Lovan its home Tuesday — and will The Associated Press make a number of stops in a parade around Philadelphia FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. before its reinstallation. — Dallas Brown can still see The sculpture was removed the bullets coming for him 50 for repairs a year ago while its years later, smacking into the home, a downtown park, was dirt at his feet as north Viet- going through a renovation. namese soldiers fired on his The perennial tourist platoon during an ambush attraction and engagement deep in the jungle. photo backdrop will look a bit Minutes later, as the deadly different upon its return. It’s firefight wound down, Brown been repainted to the original and his fellow soldiers in the colors of red, green and purple 101st Airborne would be that the artist originally immortalized. used. At some point over the In one of the most searing decades the purple had been images of the Vietnam War, repainted blue. Brown grimaces as he lies on the ground with a back injury. CINCINNATI Not far away, a platoon ser- White nationalist’s planned geant raises his arms to the Ohio campus visit off heavens, seemingly seeking divine help. A white nationalist’s plan to Landing on the front page speak on the University of Cin- of The New York Times, The fi rst sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guides a medevac helicopter through the cinnati campus during spring the black and white image jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a fi ve-day patrol near Hue in April 1968. Two break has been scuttled by a by Associated Press free- soldiers in the photo, Dallas Brown, bottom, and Tim Wintenburg, far right, recently reunited to talk to legal standoff over the Ohio lancer Art Greenspon gave The Associated Press about the iconic photo and the war. [ART GREENSPON/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO] school’s demand for a secu- Americans back home an rity fee of nearly $11,000, an unflinching look at the con- Fort Campbell officials who took prisoners. Firefights see them, I mean they was attorney for Richard Spencer ditions soldiers endured in recently tracked down sol- were commonplace. coming right at me and said Monday. Attorney Kyle what would become the war’s diers in the photo. Brown recalls their battal- that’s when I got off that Bristow told AP that Spen- deadliest year. Captured on Brown, who lives near ion commander, a lieutenant rucksack,” Brown said. “I cer’s tour organizer, Cameron April 1, 1968, it was nomi- Nashville, and Wintenburg, colonel, telling them before thought, this guy, he means Padgett, is now hoping that the nated for a Pulitzer Prize and of Indianapolis, met with an one mission: “You get a body to kill me as sure as the appearance can be rescheduled appeared prominently in Ken Associated Press reporter at count, you get a prize.” world.” for summer or fall. Burns’ recent Vietnam War Fort Campbell in Kentucky “To my knowledge we Brown lunged for cover, documentary. to recount the events sur- might have taken a handful of and a bullet struck the leg of a The Associated Press But for the young Ameri- rounding the photo — their prisoners the whole time we soldier who had been behind cans who have decided to talk first news media interviews was in Vietnam,” Brown said. him. Once the ambush was about it a half-century later, ever on the war. The soldiers were hiking up put down, Brown carried the it was merely a moment in After he received his draft a slippery mountain trail after wounded man up the hill, another sweltering day in a notice in 1965, Wintenburg a monsoon when they paused injuring his back on the way. LOTTERY Southeast Asian jungle with visited a recruiting office and to eat lunch.