SPORTS | B1 LOCAL & STATE | A3 THE DAY AFTER ATTORNEY: DEPUTY Pyeongchang breathes, THOUGHT GUNFIRE bids Olympics farewell WAS FROM OUTSIDE SCHOOL Tuesday, February 27, 2018 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com./daily.commercial 75¢ Wildwood all business for title game Defending state Funding Center. IF YOU GO champions look to “Our work is not done,” repeat today against said Kari Niblack, who scored What: FHSAA Class 1A state Port St. Joe 13 points and grabbed 20 championship rebounds for the Wildcats in Teams: Wildwood vs. Port St. the win. “Our goal is to win Joe By Frank Jolley a state championship and we When: today at 2 p.m. [email protected] haven’t done that yet. We’ll Where: RP Funding Center in celebrate (if we win the state Lakeland LAKELAND — All business. championship.” That’s why the Wildwood Wildwood will play Port St. Middle High School girls bas- Joe, which beat Paxton 57-41 have approached the entire ketball team — the defending in Monday’s first semifinal season. Since practices first Class 1A state champions game, at 2 p.m. today for the began, this year’s team has Wildwood parents and fans cheer at the Class 1A state semifi nal — didn’t celebrate after Mon- state title. been focused on establishing basketball game between Wildwood High School and Mayo Lafayette day’s 48-35 win against Mayo Head coach Richard Hamp- its own identity. High School at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland on Monday. [PAUL Lafayette in the FHSAA Class ton said the businesslike RYAN /CORRESPONDENT] 1A state semifinals at the RP attitude is how the Wildcats See WILDWOOD, A5 Local residents voice opinions Trump: Willing to From left, Linda Kwiatt, June O’Conner buck NRA and Cara Luchsinger over guns wait for the Lake County School Board By Lisa Mascaro meeting and Matthew Daly in Tavares The Associated Press on Monday evening. The WASHINGTON — Presi- board was to dent Donald Trump declared discuss the Monday he’s willing to take idea of arming on the National Rifle Asso- teachers and ciation over gun legislation, administrators. but Republicans who control [CARLOS Congress aren’t so sure. They MEDINA / DAILY prefer to consider only modest COMMERCIAL] changes to firearms limits in response to the mass shooting at a Florida high school. 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B4 A2 Tuesday, February 27, 2018 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF Fate of ‘Dreamers’ still in limbo WASHINGTON Trump Org. donates foreign profi ts but won’t say amount Justices send matter to lower courts; eff orts The Trump Organization in Congress show no said Monday it has made good signs of momentum on the president’s promise to donate profits from foreign By Jessica Gresko government spending at its The Associated Press hotels to the U.S. Treasury, but neither the company nor WASHINGTON — The the government disclosed Supreme Court on Monday the amount or how it was rejected the Trump admin- calculated. istration’s highly unusual bid Watchdog groups seized on to bypass a federals appeals the lack of detail as another court and get the justices to example of the secrecy sur- intervene in the fate of a pro- rounding President Donald gram that protects hundreds Trump’s pledges to separate of thousands of young immi- his administration from his grants from deportation. business empire. The announcement means “There is no independent the case affecting “Dream- oversight or accountability. ers” will have to work its way We’re being asked to take their through the lower courts word for it,” said Noah Book- before any Supreme Court binder, executive director of ruling is possible. The case Citizens for Responsibility and could also become moot if Ethics in Washington. Congress takes action in the meantime. Right now, how- CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ever, efforts to address the President Donald Trump delivers remarks Friday to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Trash collector injured in crash issue in Congress have hit a Oxon Hill, Md. exist. The Supreme Court has decided for now to stay out of the case on the Obama-era with train out of hospital stalemate. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. [EVAN VUCCI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] The Supreme Court’s A trash collector who was decision for now to stay out announced he was ending in Washington on that day Becerra said during a phone injured when his truck was hit of the case on the Obama-era the program effective March in part to continue to pressure call with reporters. “It’s a by a train carrying Republican Deferred Action for Child- 5 and gave lawmakers until Congress to act. victory for the rule of law congressmen through rural hood Arrivals program, or then to come up with a leg- The Senate two weeks and it’s a victory for our Virginia has been released DACA, wasn’t surprising. islative fix. ago blocked a bipartisan bill economy.” from a hospital after weeks of It’s highly unusual for the But in recent weeks, fed- offering Dreamers potential The Ninth Circuit has set treatment. Supreme Court to hear a case eral judges in San Francisco citizenship and providing $25 no date to hear arguments A spokesman for the Uni- before a lower appeals court and New York have made billion for President Donald but has given lawyers dates versity of Virginia Medical has considered it. Trump’s deadline temporar- Trump to build his proposed by which they must file Center said Monday after- But DACA supporters ily moot for people who have border wall with Mexico. A briefs that run through April. noon that the man had been hailed the decision as a sig- sought and been granted more conservative House Andrew Pincus, an attorney released. nificant — if only temporary renewals; the rulings do not proposal that sharply who represents more than The other trash collector — win. Trump said the case extend to people who are reduces legal immigration 100 businesses that inter- who was aboard the truck was would now be heard by an applying for the first time. and imposes other restric- vened in support of DACA, killed in the collision Jan. 31. appeals court and “we’ll see Judges issued injunctions tions has languished short of said June is probably the The truck’s driver sustained what happens from there.” ordering the administra- the GOP votes it would need earliest that the court would minor injuries. “You know, we tried to tion to keep DACA in place to pass, leaving its fate in rule. get it moved quickly because while courts consider legal question. Trump on Monday didn’t NEWFOUNDLAND, PA. we’d like to help DACA. I challenges to Trump’s ter- The Supreme Court’s seem to hold out much hope School to close for church think everybody in this room mination. As a result, U.S. announcement Monday that of winning at the Ninth ceremony using AR-15 rifl es wants to help with DACA,” Citizenship and Immigration it wouldn’t step in to the case Circuit, criticizing the lib- he said to visiting governors. Services resumed accept- now means the U.S. Court of eral-leaning court by saying A Pennsylvania school “But the Supreme Court just ing and processing DACA Appeals for the Ninth Circuit “nothing’s as bad as the district will cancel classes ruled that it has to go through renewals in January, just as will likely be the first appeals Ninth Circuit.” at an elementary school on the normal channels.” it had before Trump’s Sep- court to weigh in on the topic, “I mean, it’s really sad Wednesday because a church DACA has provided pro- tember announcement. the step before the case would when every single case filed down the street is hosting a tection from deportation The Trump administra- return to the Supreme Court.