1A SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Ichetucknee Florida Folk SUNDAY EDITION tubing season Festival off under way. 6A and running. 7A Murder suspect’s daughter charged Grandison is the daughter nails done. Sheena Marie Grandison of Ernest Larry Grandison, She said she was in the arrested for alleged role in the man authorities say salon for about an hour killed Patel. She is also and 30 minutes when April 2012 fatal robbery. the wife of James Leonard she received a call from TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Johnson, who allegedly Johnson asking her for a By DEREK GILLIAM ran into the business and ride. According to the affi- Honoring sacrifice [email protected] S.M. Grandison snatched the money from E.L. Grandison davit, Sheena Grandison Sheriff Mark Hunter, left, and Lake City underneath the cash regis- picked Johnson up at the Nearly 13 months after Rajnikant Patel ter during the robbery. School Board Administrative Complex on Police Department honor guard mem- was murdered inside the business he Johnson was arrested in Jacksonville U.S. 90 about half a mile from the store ber Sgt. Robert Milligan lay a wreath in owned, the daughter of the alleged gun- about a month after the April 27, 2012, after the robbery occurred. front of the American Flag in honor of man has been charged in connection with murder and robbery at the A&M Discount She told investigators she was not inside fallen troops during Memorial Day cer- his death. Beverage, 394 E Duval St. Larry Grandison the A&M Discount Beverage the day of the emonies Friday. See story, Page 3A. Sheena Marie Grandison, 24, 165 is still at large. robbery. Jacksonville Loop, was arrested at her Sheena Grandison told investigators Third Circuit State Attorney investiga- home Friday on charges of aiding and abet- she was at Passion for People, a beauty tor Ryan Nydam interviewed an employee ting first-degree murder and armed rob- salon about a block east of A&M Discount of Passion for People, who said Sheena bery. She was booked into the Columbia Beverage, when the robbery occurred. She Girl dead, County Detention Facility with no bond. told them that she was having her hair and MURDER continued on 6A 3 injured in wreck Power knocked out Seniors march on for wide area following crash on State Road 47. By DEREK GILLIAM [email protected] A young girl died at the scene of a crash at the intersection of State Road 47 and SW King Street at 8:42 p.m. Saturday, Florida Highway Patrol officials said. Sgt. Tracy Hisler-Pace, public affairs officer for FHP Troop B, said a silver car heading east on King Street failed to stop at the stop sign, entered the intersection and collided with a pickup truck carrying three people. “The silver car went off (the road) in an northeast direction striking one of the utility poles,” Pace said. WRECK continued on 6A Third-grade scores here beat state on reading By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] Throughout the Columbia County School District, 14 percent of third- grade students risk being held back based on the Florida Department of Education FCAT reading scores released Friday. Students can be retained if they scored an Achievement Level 1 on the reading test taken in April. For the mathematics and reading sec- tions of the FCAT, the test is scored on an Achievement Level 1 to Level 5, with Level 3 and above being JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter satisfactory. Columbia High School senior Paolo Gene Balza waves to family members during commencement exercises at CHS on Friday. A total of 416 stu- dents graduated from CHS, with more than 380 students walking during Friday’s ceremony. See story, more photos, Page 8A. SCORES continued on 7A Vol. 138, No. 344 OpinionPeople. .. 4A2A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 9188 6457 BusinessOpinion . 5A4A PEOPLE TUESDAY SUBSCRIBE TO T-StormMostly ChanceSunny ObituariesAdvice. .. 5D6A THE REPORTER: PuzzlesAdvice &. .Comics . .. .2B, . 8B3B High school Local news Voice: 755-5445 Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER,WEATHER, 10A 2A PuzzlesBusiness . 1C2B band concert. roundup. You’re closer than ever to nationally ranked health care for your child. To fi nd out about all the services at Wolfson Children’s Specialty Center, call 386.758.1811 (option 1). 164 NW Madison Street • Historic Downtown • Lake City, FL 32055 • wolfsonchildrens.org/columbiacounty 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER SUNDAY REPORT SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2013 Page Editor: Jim Barr, 754-0424 Friday: Friday: Saturday: Saturday: Saturday: Saturday: 7-8-28-32 5 1-2-10-25-28 Afternoon: 9-5-1 Afternoon: 1-2-3-3 21-24-33-37-43-46 9-31-35-41-57 Evening: N/A Evening: N/A x5 PB 26 AROUND FLORIDA State third-graders’ FCAT scores static MIAMI — Third-grade child care providers for math and reading scores installing alarms that alert on Florida’s standardized a driver when a child has test remained static this been left in the car. school year, with fewer The Broward County than two-thirds of students Board of County demonstrating grade-level Commissioners recently proficiency, according to passed an ordinance results released Friday by requiring child care cen- the state Department of ters and family child care Education. homes to install safety The scores show 57 alarms in vehicles carry- percent of third-grade stu- ing six or more passen- dents performed at grade gers. The ordinance goes level in reading on the into effect July 1. Florida Comprehensive Officials will also unveil Assessment Test, up 1 a “Look Before You Lock” percent from the previous billboard campaign next school year. Fifty-eight per- week. cent achieved at or above grade level scores in math, TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter the same as last year. 22 dead cats “Frankly, I think the flat High school band performs found in home performance in reading is Fort White High School band director Ed Amaya conducts the school’s concert band during its spring concert Tuesday night TAMPA — A Tampa something we should take in the school gymnasium. man has been charged special notice to, given with animal cruelty after our emphasis on reading,” authorities discovered 22 Education Commissioner next marking point. office filed the petition enough information about when it began to wrap dead cats at his home. Tony Bennett said. The test has undergone in March on behalf of what physical evidence around his legs. He The Hillsborough He said the department a number of changes in Dr. Michael Hunter, the was likely to be found. reported his find to the County Sheriff’s Office will “drill into the data” recent years, including appointed medical exam- Florida Fish and Wildlife reports deputies were exe- with districts and come up higher performance stan- iner for the area. Conservation Commission. cuting an eviction at the with improvement plans. dards. Bondi wanted permis- Man gets to keep Wildlife officials have home of James Hopkins He also said he expects sion to exhume bodies returned a roughly 18- python skin when the cats were discov- implementation of the Judge rejects from “Boot Hill Cemetery” foot-long snakeskin to ered Thursday. Common Core standards, and surrounding areas, PALMETTO BAY Leon. The snake’s skel- exhumation where it is believed there — The South Florida man eton is being preserved Deputies say the cats a set of uniform bench- were stored in two freez- marks Florida is currently TALLAHASSEE — A may be unmarked graves who caught and killed the by University of Florida circuit judge is rejecting a and unaccounted bodies longest Burmese python researchers. ers. putting in place, to raise Investigators also dis- scores as well. request to exhume human of boys who died. The ever found in Florida gets Leon said that he plans school, formally known to keep the skin. to have the snakeskin covered more than two The results for writ- remains on the site of a as the Arthur G. Dozier Jason Leon of Palmetto preserved so that he can dozen live cats at the resi- ing showed significant now-defunct Panhandle School for Boys, was Bay saw a few feet of the mount it on a wall. dence. Hopkins allegedly improvement: Fifty-eight reform school where an closed in 2011, largely for snake sticking out of some went outside as the evic- percent of students in untold number of bodies budget purposes. bushes alongside a rural tion was being conducted grades four, eight and 10 were buried over a period Wright stated that the Miami-Dade County road and forced 31 cats into scored at a 3.5 or above, of 60 years. Kids left in cars case did not meet the on May 11. When Leon four small carriers. He the standard used for Judge William Wright, “threshold” needed to pulled the snake out into campaign starts then allegedly hid them schools grades. That’s a 4 who is based in Jackson grant the order and that the open, it turned out to FORT LAUDERDALE in two nearby foreclosed percent increase over the County, ruled Friday researchers affiliated with be 18 feet 8 inches long. — South Florida officials properties and along a previous year. against the request made the University of South Leon killed the 128- are partnering with a wood line. Eighty-two percent by Florida Attorney Florida did not provide pound snake with a knife charity to help reimburse scored a 3 or higher, the General Pam Bondi. Her n Associated Press Celebrity Birthdays PEOPLE IN THE NEWS n Actor Alec McCowen is 88.