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1A SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Gators squeak Trying to rise from SUNDAY EDITION by Missouri the ashes: Couple in the Swamp. 1B struggles after fire. 1D Early voting beats ’08 mark and Columbia County set a new during the early election period Tomi Brown, assisstant super- ers cast a ballot at the Lake City More than 13,200 mark to beat. on Saturday. The total vote for visor of elections for Columbia Office and 360 ballots were count- A total of 13,217 ballots were Fort White was 410, bringing the County, encouraged all voters ed from the Fort White office for ballots cast over cast during the eight-day early grand total for the day to 1,946. to turn in their absentee ballots a total of 2,010 votes. eight-day period. voting period. The previous The absentee ballot total is before the election on Tuesday. On Friday, 1,502 ballots were record was 13,032 set in 2008, down from 2008. She said all absentee ballots cast in Lake City and 360 in Fort when Florida voters had 14 days The total 2008 absentee ballot are due by 7 p.m. on election White, for a total of 1,862. By DEREK GILLIAM to reach the polls. count was 5,494. As of Saturday, day. Earlier reports from the super- [email protected] The final tally for the Lake City the total number of absentee bal- Monday’s total saw the larg- visor of elections office had indi- office on Saturday was 1,536. Fort lots that had reached the supervi- est turnout by Columbia County cated the previous record for early The early voting period is over, White had the most votes cast sor of elections was 4,133. residents. On that day, 1,621 vot- voting had been set in 2004. COUNTY FAIR Homecoming smiles Girl, 13, helping others like her Born with bad heart, will donate money from hog sale to cardiac unit. By DEREK GILLIAM [email protected] or the Summers fam- ily, showing animals at the county fair is family tradition, but this year they’re doing Fsomething rarely done. Ansleigh Summers, a girl in a wheelchair, will show a pig at the Youth Swine Show. Ansleigh Summers, a 13-year- old, was born with a serious heart condition. “Her heart was turned back- ward,” said Janice Summers, Ansleigh’s grandmother. “She’s a JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter miracle baby.” Lake City residents Lilla Chapman (right), 4, Dancy Kendron, 5, Charleigh Brown, 3, and Luci Brown, 2, react as Lake City Police Department’s Her blood wasn’t efficiently Robbie the Robot passes them during the Columbia High School homecoming parade on Friday. See homecoming queen and court photos, 3A. pumped through her body, until surgery corrected her defective heart. Ansleigh Summers has cere- Lake City man seriously hurt bral palsy. That condition affects Area firms her ability to communicate with the world. The words struggle kick in for to get out, but her father, Rick Summers, said, don’t think she Wounded doesn’t understand what’s hap- pening. “We try and keep her as active Warriors and doing normal things so she doesn’t feel any different then By DEREK GILLIAM anybody else,” he said. [email protected] When Ansleigh Summers over- heard her grandmother talking The Lake City business about raising money for people community decided to have with cancer, she wanted to raise a little fun, and kick the ball money for other children like her. for chairty. She decided she was going to The Kicking For A Cause raise a pig and donate the money inagural kickball tourna- to Shands Children’s Heart Unit. ment raised around $8,200 The Summers family picked out a for the Wounded Warrior pig and raised it from a 60-pound Project Saturday. oinker to a 270-pound porker. The Chris Stalvey, electronic pig’s name is Bubbles. services manager for First “I said, ‘Don’t you want to keep Federal Bank of Florida, and that money for yourself,’” Janice Tad Cervantes, Columbia TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Summers said. “She said, ‘No. County Fire Department Columbia County firefighter Jeff Crawford looks over the wreckage of a crash involving two tractor trailers on Give the money to my doctor.’” shift commander, helped Interstate 75 Friday. The accident occurred when a semi hauling farm equipment slowed as traffic backed up from another crash a mile ahead, and the other semi struck it from behind. A pickup truck driven by a Lake City WARRIORS continued on 8A man then struck the second tractor trailer from the rear. See story, 3A. ANSLEIGH continued on 8A Vol. 138, No. 199 Opinion ............... 4A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 Business ............... 1C 82 56 Obituaries ............. 5A PEOPLE TUESDAY SUBSCRIBE TO Partly cloudy THE REPORTER: Advice................. 5D Stars come out City council Voice: 755-5445 WEATHER, 10A Puzzles ................. 5B Fax: 752-9400 after Sandy. coverage. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER SUNDAY REPORT SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012 Page Editor: Jim Barr, 754-0424 Friday: Friday: Saturday: Saturday: Wednesday: Wednesday: 3-4-11-37 8 23-24-30-33-34 Afternoon: 8-0-5 Afternoon: 4-7-0-2 2-17-34-36-43-52 1-27-31-45-48 Evening: N/A Evening: x-x-x-x x2 PB 5 AROUND FLORIDA AG reaches deal in mortgage settlement case TALLAHASSEE — After but legislators for months change the name of a months-long feud, had quietly insisted that Hernando County Airport Florida’s attorney general the state constitution pre- to Brooksville-Tampa and the state Legislature vented Bondi from spend- Regional Airport. reached a deal Friday ing the money indepen- On Thursday, the intended to clear the way dently without legislative Hillsborough County for $300 million in mort- approval. Aviation Authority gage settlement money responded by filing a law- to finally start flowing to Woman diagnosed suit in U.S. District Court homeowners and commu- in Tampa against the nities hurt by the foreclo- with dengue fever Hernando board. sure crisis. KISSIMMEE — An The lawsuit alleges, The money is the state’s Osceola County woman among other things, trade- direct share of a mas- has been diagnosed with mark infringement and sive $25 billion national dengue fever as health false advertising. settlement with five of the officials investigate a sec- The Hillsborough nation’s largest mortgage ond suspected case. Aviation Authority lawsuit lenders. The Health Department said consumers are likely Attorney General Pam told the Orlando Sentinel to be confused between Bondi relented to the it was not immediately services offered by the idea that state legislators known how the 41-year- Hillsborough Aviation will get to vote on where old woman contracted the Authority and the airport the money winds up. The disease. Health officials in Brooksville. new deal also calls for $74 are investigating a second million to go straight into suspected case in a 73- Robbery suspect the state’s main budget year-old man. ASSOCIATED PRESS account where lawmakers Last month a 19-year-old NASA officials and former astronauts gather around space shuttle Atlantis as it is hauled killed by deputies can use it any way they Seminole County man was to its new home at the Visitor Complex at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday in Cape POMPANO BEACH — want. diagnosed with dengue Canaveral. Atlantis, the last space shuttle to orbit the world, will be on permanent displa at Authorities say a bank rob- Bondi said in a joint fever based on his symp- the Visitor Complex. bery suspect is dead fol- statement with the two toms and lab tests. lowing a vehicle chase that incoming leaders of the Dengue fever is a viral A Hillsborough County injured the boy. as a 19-year-old interested left one deputy injured. Legislature that it will disease transmitted by judge sentenced 27-year- in having sex with Coyle The Broward Sheriff’s grant “much-needed assis- mosquitoes. It’s sometimes old Charles Scoble on Teen gets life and then robbed and stran- Office reported that tance” and “ensures that called “break bone fever” Friday after a jury found for fatal robbery gled the older man. deputies responded to the the settlement funds are because of the severe him guilty of first-degree Pompano Beach robbery spent with the transpar- joint pain it can cause in murder and aggravated TAVARES — A central Suit filed over Friday morning. ency, accountability and extreme cases. child abuse. Florida teen has been sen- airport name Later, Detective German flexibility that comes from The illness once disap- Authorities said 3- tenced to life in prison for Bickbau was chas- the legislative process.” peared from the United month-old Nicholas Scoble a fatal robbery. TAMPA — The ing the suspect’s truck Florida received $334 States, but cases were was in his father’s care in A Lake County judge Hillsborough County on Interstate 95 when million directly as part of reported in the Florida 2007 when he was found sentenced Ryan Ray on Aviation Authority has Bickbau executed an the national settlement Keys in 2009 and 2010. not breathing in his crib. Friday. A jury found him filed a lawsuit against immobilization maneuver, reached among the lend- He was taken to a Tampa guilty in July of first- the Hernando County causing the suspect to ers and 49 states. The hospital, where he was degree murder. Commission because the crash. settlement represents Man gets life pronounced dead.