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6A SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM A look back: At Fort White SUNDAY EDITION CHS swimmers library, life’s more 2nd at state. 1B than just books. 2A Teen NEARLY 40 YEARS LATER wrecks YEAR IN stolen Toyota REUNITED REVIEW Runaway, 15, led troopers on high- speed chase. JANUARY From staff reports A 15-year-old runaway, who allegedly stole a rental car from Marianna, was arrested in Columbia County Friday morning after leading authorities on a high-speed chase that ended when she crashed the vehicle north of Lundsford Road. The Florida Highway Patrol did not immedi- FILE ately release the name Jacquie Hagler (from left), Dianne Cooper, Gwen Adams of the teenager, but in a and Sharron Ballance survived a home invasion and media release noted she was from Marianna. attempted armed robbery -- all with the power of Christ. The driver was charged with fleeing and eluding a police officer, willful and Women repel gunman with wanton reckless driving, Jesus, but wrong man jailed no valid driver’s license and grand theft in con- From staff reports nection with the case. She was booked into A group of women successfully repelled an the Columbia County armed robber by telling him to “get out in the name Detention Facility. of Jesus” after he interrupted a jewelry party Jan. According to Florida 25. The story made national news. Highway Patrol reports, However, the state attorney’s office dropped all around 10:14 a.m. Friday, charges against a man suspected of the attempted a “Be On the Look Out” heist after it was revealed the Lake City Police Alert was issued for a Department jailed the wrong man. gray Toyota Camry rent- Jacquie Hagler was throwing a Premier Jewelry party for 17 other female friends when a gunman TEEN continued on 6A entered the residence and ordered all the occu- pants to empty their purses and hand over their cell phones and other valuables. However, the women denied the would-be robber Attempted and ordered him to “get out in the name of Jesus,” at which point he fled the scene without further homicide incident. Witnesses described the suspect as 5’6” with blue suspect on eyes, but could not discern any other facial features due to a bandana the suspect wore over his face. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Officer later showed a black-and-white photo the loose Lake City resident Jimmy Taylor has found his long-lost birth mother, Barbara Stevens lineup of six suspects to the women, hoping to iden- By STEVEN RICHMOND Yancey, of Acworth, Ga., after nearly 40 years — all with the help of Facebook. Taylor tify the gunman. [email protected] stumbled upon an old photograph of him, his mother and his younger brother, Michael, The women indicated Derek Jeremy Lee as the which he said was the last time he remembers seeing his mother. gunman, who was then arrested and booked into Law enforcement are county jail. on the lookout for a man However, all of the women were in the same suspected of stabbing Man finds mother; still seeking brother. room when police showed them the suspects, another person in what contradicting LCPD policy directing officers to Lake City By AMANDA WILLIAMSON introduce witnesses to photo lineups individually police are [email protected] instead of in a group. calling an Later investigation revealed video evidence show- early 40 years after attempt- ing Lee at a liquor store on US 90 around the time he was placed up for ed homi- of the attack. Lee is also 5’9” and has brown eyes, adoption and count- c i d e , contradicting earlier witness statements. less dead ends later, L C P D The state attorney’s office dropped all charges Jimmy Taylor found reports. against Lee and had him released from jail March 5, Barnes his mother — just Police ending nearly 40 days of wrongful imprisonment. before Christmas Day. responded to a call about N It has been a little over a week since a stabbing on Ironwood the two reunited, but their voices still Drive and found Tony bring tears to the other’s eyes. Taylor Matchett, 53, lying on his calls the reunion with his mother, Wing-suit skydiver goes lawn clutching his abdo- Barbara Yancy, and the new knowledge men around 10:43 p.m. COURTESY missing over Cascades of a sister in Tennessee the perfect Tuesday, according to Taylor’s younger brother, Michael, is shown Christmas present, especially since the incident report. in a photograph taken before the were sep- From staff reports he’s always wanted a little sister. Witnesses told police arated by adoption nearly 40 years ago. “You don’t know how long I had that they heard scuffling A Lake City man went missing and was never been waiting for your call,” Yancy’s outside their homes and responded. seen again following a skydiving excursion in voice cracked over the cell phone saw Corey Tyrell Barnes, Yancy, at the time Barbara Stevens, Washington’s Cascade Mountains Jan 3. Friday evening. had to place both her sons — 4-year- Despite a four day manhunt conducted by rough- “You don’t know how long I had ly 350 searchers over nine square miles, volunteers SUSPECT continued on 6A been waiting to make it,” Taylor FOUND continued on 6A and law enforcement from King County, Wash. could not locate 29-year-old Kurt Ruppert Jr. According to local family and friends, Ruppert Day after Christmas a ‘large trash day’ was an avid skydiver who had worked his way up to wing suits, specialized gliding suits that mimic By TONY BRITT Ed Lontz, Columbia County Solid flying squirrel physiology and require at least 200 [email protected] Waste Director at the Winfield Solid solo skydiving jumps. Waste Facility, said the days follow- Ruppert and two other individuals were taking Christmas often translates into ing Christmas are traditionally heavy- turns doing 6,500 foot jumps from a helicopter gifts, toys and a variety of other new trash-collection days and he’s antici- hovering around Mount Si, a 4,200-foot peak in the items that are given as symbols of the pating about a 20 percent increase in Cascade Mountains about 40 miles east of Seattle. season. volume. However, Ruppert never appeared at the landing However, a side-effect due to “The day after Christmas is a large site with the other jumpers. the deluge in gifts is trash and an trash collection day,” he said. “It’s not JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter “We know that the last time we saw him, he increased amount of solid waste that quite as big as I thought it would be A garbage truck unloads on top of a was doing the thing he loved to do most in the needs to be taken to the local solid garbage heap at the Winfield Solid waste facility. GARBAGE continued on 6A Waste Facility on Friday. REVIEW continued on 3A Vol. 139, No. 234 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Opinion . 4A HEADLINES TO LOOK FOR IN REVIEW (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C LCPD receives accreditation, complies with state standards, 3A. SUBSCRIBE TO Obituaries . 5A Lady Tigers softball team completes state title run, 7A. THE REPORTER: 72 47 Advice & Comics . 5D Voice: 755-5445 District, FGC strike a deal on cost of dual enrollment, 8A. Fax: 752-9400 Thunderstorms, 10A Puzzles . 3B 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER LOCAL SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2013 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 FORT WHITE PUBLIC LIBRARY Life’s more than books for Street By AVALYN HUNTER Once Internet terminals Overseeing the book collec- Special to the Reporter became available at the library, tion remains a sizable part of Street’s job became both easier Street’s duties, and not always FORT WHITE and harder. “E-government an easy one. Shelf space is o many people, a (government services avail- limited, and Street has to bal- library is a place able over the Web) has made it ance both available space and where you borrow much easier for people in these available money while select- books. That’s still rural areas to gain access to ing books that the community true, but in the 21st services,” she said. “We usually wants and needs. When dona- Tcentury, books are only part of have to walk people through the tions are involved, the balancing a library’s services. With the first time they use a website, act can become even trickier. advent of the Internet, public but after that they can handle “People sometimes get upset libraries have become informa- most things on their own. The because their donations end up tion hubs, linking their commu- hard part is keeping up with on the Friends of the Library nities with the larger world. the expanded information and sale shelf instead of in the col- No one knows this better services that lection,” she than Patti Street, who has been we can access ‘I want people to feel said. “To tell with the Fort White branch of now.” the truth, we the Columbia County library Aside from that this is a welcome don’t need best since it opened in 1988. As the managing place to be... Some- sellers. We usu- branch manager, she has over- access to the times that means ally have those seen many changes. library’s nine already. We “When I started working public Internet overlooking the fact can’t really put here, we were about the only terminals that a person isn’t anything on the source of information for social and assisting circulation floor services in Fort White,” she users there, dressed well or seems unless it’s in recalled.