Scrimp and Save Crash in Goliad Hammers County, About 150 Miles Northeast of the Border with Mexico
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On the diamond: Miami Marlins take on Atlanta Braves /B1 TUESDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning HIGH 91 Isolated storm, LOW showers . 78 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com JULY 24, 2012 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOLUME 117 ISSUE 352 NEWS BRIEFS Age at issue in sex case sentencing 14 dead after truck crashes Nineteen-year-old to be labeled sex offender for life; witnesses said girl lied about age in Texas McALLEN, Texas A.B. SIDIBE ated girl he met at a “loco- Prosecutor Brian Trehy left it she was 16 and that the girl — A pickup truck Staff Writer fueled” house party when he to the discretion of Howard for freely flirted and participated in overloaded with ille- was 18. Loco is teen vernacular the “appropriate” sentence. The consensual sex with Coimbre. gal immigrants INVERNESS — Depending for a mix of liquor, juice and deal was for no more than three Another friend of the victim re- veered off a highway on your perch on the legal scale, sometimes energy drinks. years in prison and two years portedly corroborated the girl’s and crashed into the case of Anthony Coimbre is He is now a sex offender for life. probation. assertion that she was 16 to Coim- pretty open and closed. The state dropped the more Defense attorney Dale Merrill bre, who was in charge of door trees in rural South Circuit Judge Ric Howard serious charge of sexual battery said the girl lied to Coimbre duties at the party. The party or- Texas, killing at least sentenced Coimbre, 19, to 15 with a person incapacitated in a about her age, telling him she ganizers did not want anyone 14 people and leav- Anthony Coimbre months in prison and two years plea deal with Coimbre, who re- was 16 and getting ready to turn younger than 16 at the party. ing nine injured, au- sex-offender probation Monday portedly had a clean back- 17. Merrill also presented a teen According to information thorities said Monday. sentenced to 15 months in for lewd and lascivious conduct ground until his arrest in June witness who was at the party Federal immigra- prison. with a 13-year-old highly inebri- 2011. who said he heard the girl say See AGE/ Page A4 tion agents were looking into the human smuggling as- pect of the case, while public safety NCAA authorities investi- gated the cause of the Sunday evening Scrimp and save crash in Goliad hammers County, about 150 miles northeast of the border with Mexico. Penn The pickup crammed with 23 im- migrants from Mexico and Central America State crashed less than an hour’s drive from the site of the nation’s 14 years erased most deadly immi- grant smuggling from record books case, where 19 immi- grants died in 2003 Associated Press after being placed in a sweltering trailer. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A po- The driver was tential exodus of star athletes. No among the 11 found hope of playing in the postseason. dead at the scene. In- More than a vestigators were trying decade of accom- to confirm his name. plishments erased from the — From wire reports record books. And Joe Pa- INSIDE terno’s legacy in shreds. HEALTH & LIFE: Penn State football, a long- Joe time powerhouse Paterno that was once one NCAA took of the cleanest, away 111 wins, most admired ending his programs in col- status as winningest lege sports, es- coach. caped the so-called death penalty from the NCAA on Monday but was dealt a heavy blow that will cripple it for years to come. Cholesterol The university agreed to an un- Should children get precedented $60 million fine, a tested for high four-year ban from postseason cholesterol? Experts disagree./Page C1 See PENN STATE/ Page A5 ASK THE EXPERTS: Sally Ride dead at 61 First U.S. woman in space MATT BECK/Chronicle Associated Press Stover Witte, who turns 3 next month, took part in a play session Monday at Citrus Springs Community Cen- Health & Life ter, where he taught himself about frugality, a quality sought in the county’s preliminary budget workshop. WASHING- Doctors Bennett, The proposed 2013 budget would spend the $3.3 million litigation fund set aside to defend a 2004 challenge TON — Sally Gandhi, Grillo and to the funding of the community center. Ride, who blazed Kumar share their trails into orbit as expertise./Page C1 the first Ameri- can woman in COMING UP Facing leaner revenue sheet, county tackles budget space, died Mon- TOMORROW: CHRIS VAN ORMER The Citrus County Board of day of pancreatic ■ cancer. She was Water ways Staff Writer County Commissioners (BOCC) WHAT: Preliminary budget Sally will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday workshop. 61. Ride About 30 Citrus County Ride died at The typical homeowner for a preliminary budget hear- ■ WHEN: 9 a.m. Wednesday. incoming sixth-graders should pay $20.49 less in prop- ing. Thorpe said the purpose of her home in the San Diego sub- spent a week this sum- ■ erty taxes in the new budget the meeting is for the board to WHERE: Commission Chamber, urb of La Jolla, said Terry McEn- mer learning about pro- Suite 100, 110 N. Apopka Ave., tee, a spokeswoman for her tecting water. The year, according to county plug in the millage rate so Cit- figures. rus County Property Appraiser Citrus County Courthouse, in company, Sally Ride Science. She school district part- Inverness. was a private person and the de- nered with Florida State “We reduced the budget this Geoffrey Greene can calculate tails of her illness were kept to University for the pro- year by $12 million,” said TRIM notices. ■ ONLINE: www.bocc.citrus.fl.us/ gram at Inverness Mid- County Administrator Brad TRIM, which stands for Truth managebudget/budget_12_13/ just a few people, she said. dle School./Wednesday Thorpe, when he released the budget_12_13.htm. proposed budget last week. See BUDGET/ Page A11 See RIDE/ Page A5 INDEX Comics . .C8 Community . .C6 Crossword . .C7 Election 2012: STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 34 Editorial . .A10 Entertainment . .B4 ■ WHAT: State Representative District 34. Horoscope . .B4 ■ Lottery Numbers . .B3 WHO: Democrats Lynn Thomas Dostal and Robert Dostal: I’m the real deal Lottery Payouts . .B4 Raymond Goocher; Independent Nancy Argenziano; Republican incumbent Jimmie T. Smith. Movies . .C8 MIKE WRIGHT campaign for state House of Repre- ■ Obituaries . .A6 TERM : Two years. Staff Writer sentatives District 34 when Inde- Classifieds . .C9 ■ COVERS: All Citrus County and small portion of pendent Nancy Argenziano entered TV Listings . .C7 Hernando County. CRYSTAL RIVER — Lynn Dostal the race. ■ PAY: $29,052. knows he said it, but he wishes he He then decided to rejoin the Lynn ■ ON THE BALLOT: Democratic primary Aug. 14; hadn’t. race when an unknown Democrat, Dostal Nov. 6 election. Dostal, a Homosassa Democrat, said he’s in it said in early June he suspended his See DOSTAL/ Page A4 to win it. A2 TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2012 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE OVER 60 YEARS SERVING YOUR HEARING NEEDS WALK-INS WELCOME SEARS MIRACLE EAR HAS MOVED! 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