Scattered Storms Bring Hail County Sunday Evening, While Other Storm Systems from the East Skirt- Rain Gauges Read Zero Areas Saw Little to No Precipitation
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SCHOOLS IN PICTURES Team Roping Fort White is ‘Wild More photos from the Champs About Reading,’ 5A. Folk Festival, 6A. Sports, 1B. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Scattered storms bring hail County Sunday evening, while other Storm systems from the east skirt- Rain gauges read zero areas saw little to no precipitation. No ed Columbia County Sunday but to five inches across damage was reported. didn’t score a direct hit. Columbia County. “It was kind of an odd situation,” “If you saw the radar, we were kind said Shayne Morgan, the county’s of in a hole,” Morgan said. By ROBERT BRIDGES emergency management director. But places that got hit, got hit hard. [email protected] Extreme western Columbia County Linda Dowling was driving down near the Baker County line saw 2-5 Bascom Norris to her Burnett Road Widely-scattered thunderstorms inches of rain according to radar home when the hail started. dropped up to five inches of rain – estimates, Morgan said, while areas “I thought it was going to break the DAVID TANNENBAUM/Special to the Reporter and hail – on some parts of Columbia to the extreme north saw 3-5 inches. Hail fell at the Lake City home of Linda Dowling Sunday eve- HAIL continued on 3A ning. As 5 inches of rain fell insome areas, officials said. A reason to remember Winning Fantasy 5 ticket sold in county From staff reports A winning Fantasy 5 ticket worth $256,934.82 was sold in Columbia County Saturday night, Florida Lottery officials said. One player selected all five winning numbers to win the jackpot, according to an announcement Sunday. Officials did not say where in JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Columbia County the winning Local resident Cody Gray decorated his front lawn for the Memorial Day weekend to pay tribute to the soldiers who gave their lives for ticket was purchased. America’s freedom. ‘Celebrations are great, but this serves as a visual reminder to people of the cost associated with this day,’ he said. The 327 tickets matching four ‘This resonates true with the meaning of the holiday.’ numbers won $126.50 each. Another 10,227 tickets matching three numbers won $11 each, and 104,962 tickets won a Quick Pick US honors veterans over Memorial Day weekend ticket for picking two numbers. The numbers drawn Saturday Somber ceremonies, pers at the Marble Collegiate Church in so everyday citizens don’t have to worry night were 7-19-29-30-34. Manhattan Sunday, including active duty about the evils of the world.” parades were all part servicemen and women in town for the Thousands of memorial ribbons are of the celebration. annual Fleet Week celebration. tied on the storied church’s fence. There Memorial Day, she said, was a time to are gold ribbons for service members By JAKE PEARSON remind ourselves of the meaning of sac- killed in Afghanistan, green ribbons rep- Associated Press rifice and to put personal struggles and resenting prayers for peace and blue rib- Lawmakers difficulties in perspective. bons for the people of Afghanistan. NEW YORK — The U.S. Marine Corps’ Across the nation, citizens were mark- Obama arrived at Bagram Air Field in call for tight chaplain, speaking to a congregation that ing Memorial Day with somber ceremo- Afghanistan to speak with troops and visit has tied gold ribbons on the church’s nies, flag planting at cemeteries, parades soldiers being treated at a base hospital. grip on VA fence in honor of fallen soldiers since the and even barbecues — an American pas- At least 2,181 members of the U.S. mili- Iraq War began, lauded the sacrifice of time that Petty Officer 1st Class Brian tary have died during the nearly 13-year veterans around the world as President McNeal said should be enjoyed this Afghan war and thousands more have hospitals Barack Obama made a surprise visit to weekend. been wounded. Afghanistan for Memorial Day. “I’m in the service so that they can On Saturday, Democratic congress- From wire and staff reports “What they have done has allowed enjoy that,” said McNeal, 39, who is sta- woman Tammy Duckworth served as us to be here,” Rear Admiral Margaret tioned in Suffolk, Virginia, and is in town WASHINGTON — The Kibben told the roughly 200 worship- for Fleet Week. “They made the sacrifice MEMORIAL continued on 3A chairmen of House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees on Sunday decried long waits and backlogs at the nations VA hospitals but stopped short of TaxWatch urges Gov. Scott to calling for the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki. cut $121 million in ‘turkeys’ “You’ve got an entrenched By JIM TURNER lawmakers approved early this month. bureaucracy that exists out The News Service of Florida The TaxWatch list includes one there that is not held account- project, construction of a performing able, that is shooting for goals, TALLAHASSEE — A dog park in arts center at Pasco-Hernando State goals that are not helping the Jacksonville, a fountain in Palm Beach College worth $10 million, from House veterans,” said Rep. Jeff Miller, and money to help people get to the Speaker Will Weatherford’s district. R-Fla., chairman of the House planned 1,000-foot-tall SkyRise Miami Another 10 projects, at a combined panel were among $121 million in budget cost of nearly $6 million, are recom- “I think some people may projects that Florida TaxWatch says mended to be slashed from the coun- by cooking the books” to sug- JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Gov. Rick Scott needs to strike with ties fully or partially included in the gest waiting times are short- A splash of the springs his line-item veto. Panhandle district of Senate President er that they actually are, said In releasing its annual list of budget Don Gaetz. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Live Oak resident Lyndze Jandle, 20, braces for a wave of “turkeys” Friday, TaxWatch officials Gaetz, a Niceville Republican, cold water to hit her as she enjoys the Ichetucknee Springs urged Scott to veto 107 projects from HOSPITALS continued on 3A with Duane Piet, 27, on Friday. a 431-page, $77.1 billion fiscal plan that TAXWATCH continued on 3A Vol. 140, No. 81 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER SCHOOLS SPORTS (386) 752-1293 Schools . 5A Summers Richardson SUBSCRIBE TO Calendar . 3A THE REPORTER: 91 68 Advice & Comics . 3B places 3rd at Middle School Voice: 755-5445 Egg Drop, 5A. scrimmage, 1B. Fax: 752-9400 Chance of storms Puzzles . 2B 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 3 victims, pilot from plane crash identified FOUNTAIN Authorities say the pair targeted hree people killed and a pilot gas stations and hotels along I-95 from critically injured when their Melbourne to Jupiter. In February T small plane crashed on a rural 2013, they went on a five-hour spree road in Florida’s Panhandle were all in which they robbed two gas stations relatives, authorities said. and two hotels at gunpoint. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office One man fired his gun during a rob- identified the victims of Sunday’s bery at a Holiday Inn Express in Vero crash near Fountain as Kathleen Beach, but no one was injured. Shultz, Nancy Moore and Nicholas Sentencing is set Aug. 27 in Fort Hoang. Authorities said pilot Patrick Pierce. Shultz was taken to a burn unit. Their hometowns were not released. Man asks for family The Piper PA 28 crashed shortly after taking off from a small grass air- photos of his victims strip, authorities said. DAYTONA BEACH — In a letter “There’s not much of the aircraft dated May 2 to a Deltona couple, Luis that remains,” Maj. Tommy Ford told Toledo wrote in Spanish that he sent The News Herald. three boxes to Laredo, Texas. A bystander, a Jackson County first “I have a big surprise for the world. responder who also is related to the I have lots of friends that owe me people on the plane, pulled Shultz favors. Between you and me, I sent from the wreckage, Ford said. three boxes to Laredo Texas. One large Florida Forest Service crews had to and two small. The large was already use bulldozers to clear a path to the sent to Veracruz, Mexico and the two remote crash site for investigators. (others) are doing well. Now you know The National Transportation Safety why I don’t care what they do with me Board is investigating. because my things are well,” the letter states, translated from the Spanish. 2 men facing prison The bodies of Yessenia Suarez and her children, Thalia and Michael Otto, stays in I-95 robberies have never been found. Toledo is FORT PIERCE — Two men are being held at the Volusia County jail on facing lengthy federal prison sentenc- charges of second-degree murder in es after pleading guilty to committing the death of his wife and first-degree a string of armed robberies along murder in the deaths of the children. Interstate 95 in Florida. In the same letter, Toledo wrote that Yubran Alvarez Vasquez of Bluffton, he never hurt the children, but he was South Carolina, and Matthew hurt that Suarez had been having a Emmanuel Vasquez of Savannah, relationship with a co-worker. COURTESY Georgia, admitted last week they used Toledo also wrote Suarez’s mother, Epiphany Catholic students place at Science Fair a firearm in furtherance of a violent Felicita Perez, to ask her for pictures crime.