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STATE | A3 SPORTS | B1 IS GOP ON PATRIOTS BOARD WITH ROLL PAST DESANTIS’ CHARGERS REFORMS? Monday, January 14, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial 75¢ Graham: Trump should reopen government Senator suggests advising President Donald emergency. negotiator, insists that pausing shutdown Trump said he is encourag- But that may be wishful Trump reopen the govern- for a few weeks, but ing the president to reopen thinking, given that Sen. ment first. continued border talks the government for several Lindsey Graham also says The weeks-old standoff LOCAL | A3 weeks to continue negoti- Trump still wants to reach over funding led to the par- By Darlene Superville ating with Democrats over a deal for the wall before tial government shutdown NOW AND The Associated Press funding for a U.S.-Mexico agreeing to reopen shuttered that hit day 23 on Sunday border wall before the presi- government departments. without an end in sight. THEN: LAKE WASHINGTON — A dent takes the more drastic House Speaker Nancy Republican lawmaker step of declaring a national Pelosi, a leading Democratic See SHUTDOWN, A8 COUNTY’S HISTORY WITH ANIMALS Illegals in Lake County Trump says ‘weak’ Biden came off the ‘trash heap’ By Kristine Phillips The Washington Post President Donald Trump called former Vice President Joe Biden a “weak” man when asked Saturday night about a growing list of Democrats seeking to topple him in 2020. Trump - who prizes strength, attacks his enemies as weak and has often resorted to name calling - resurrected previous insults against Biden as the former U.S. senator from Delaware mulls his third The Lake County Sheriff’s Offi ce entered into an agreement with ICE in June to hold undocumented law-breakers criminals in its jail for presidential bid. He mocked deportation. [DAILY COMMERCIAL FILE] Biden’s two unsuccessful attempts for the White Undocumented can be summed up in one of illegal drugs, including Both sides have whipped House and immigrants seen oft en phrase: Battle of the border meth, heroin, cocaine and out statistics to bolster their said former by local authorities wall. fentanyl,” he said, in his arguments. President President Donald Trump speech from the White Statistics can be mislead- Barack Obama By Frank Stanfield has instituted a partial gov- House Tuesday. ing, however, and whether “took him frankstanfield ernment shutdown until he Democrats accused him the numbers are high or low, Biden off the trash @dailycommercial.com gets funding for a barrier on of “manufacturing a crisis,” Lake and Sumter counties heap” when the southern border. and say that a wall won’t have felt the impact of illegal he tapped Biden to be his vice TAVARES — The news out “Our southern border is a stop drugs and criminals president. of Washington these days pipeline for vast quantities from entering the country. See IMMIGRANTS, A6 “He’s weak. So we’ll see what happens with him... Whoever it is, I think we’re going to do just fine,” Trump told Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro. Biden’s spokesman declined Companies dodge cost hikes from trade war to comment. Trump made similar com- By Paul Wiseman to China to dodge President making fields jokes bitterly have raised metals prices in ments about Biden during an The Associated Press Donald Trump’s import taxes that he’s running “a nonprofit” the United States. interview with CBS News in — a move that threatens a and might have to cut jobs. Trump frequently boasts July, when he said that run- WASHINGTON — In Roch- handful of its 26 U.S. jobs. And west of Detroit, a metal that the taxes he’s imposed ning against the former vice ester, New York, a maker of In California’s San Joaquin stamping company that sup- on imports — steel and alu- president would be a “dream.” furnaces for semiconductor Valley, the CEO of a company plies the auto industry is minum and nearly half of all Biden, 76, unsuccessfully and solar companies is moving that makes precision parts losing business to foreign rivals its research and development for the biomedical and chip because Trump’s steel tariffs See TARIFFS, A6 See BIDEN, A8 Volume 143, Issue 14 Local & State ................ A3 Sports...........................B1 TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion .......................A9 Diversions .....................B5 Sunny Mostly sunny Partly sunny Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Weather ......................A10 Classified ..................... B7 53° / 69° 45° / 66° 43° / 68° A2 Monday, January 14, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF Mix of snow, freezing rain pummels mid-Atlantic DAVIS, CALIF. Man who killed offi cer said he was hit by ultrasonic waves The Associated Press was outside shoveling at 4:40 a.m. when an unidentified sus- The man who shot and killed RICHMOND, Va. — A pect shot him in the shoulder a rookie California police offi- winter storm that contrib- and head. The man died at a cer left a letter on the bed in the uted to at least five deaths hospital. home where he lived claiming in the Midwest pummeled The National Weather police bombarded him with the mid-Atlantic region Service reported close to ultrasonic waves, officials said. for a second day Sunday, a half-inch of ice in some Police in the college town bringing with it an icy mix sections of western North of Davis near Sacramento on that knocked out power, Carolina, leading to fallen Saturday made public the one- cancelled flights and con- trees and power lines. The paragraph letter they said was tributed to hundreds of car remainder of the state received written by Kevin Douglas Lim- accidents. mostly a cold rain or freezing baugh, 48. He killed himself Virginia State Police said precipitation that caused few Thursday after fatally shooting the driver of a military sur- problems. Officer Natalie Corona. plus vehicle was killed late By late Sunday afternoon, Police spokesman Lt. Paul Saturday after he lost con- A snow family is seen on Capitol Hill as a winter storm arrives in the the Washington, D.C. metro Doroshov said the paper was trol on Interstate 81 because region, Sunday in Washington. [ALEX BRANDON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] area, northern Virginia and found face up on the gunman’s of slick road conditions. parts of Maryland had total bed. Police said Ronald W. power for nearly 200,000 causing problems at airports snowfall accumulations “The Davis Police depart- Harris, 73, of Gaines- people in Virginia and North in the region, including more ranging from five to eight ment has been hitting me with ville, Georgia, died after Carolina on Sunday, accord- than 250 flight cancellations inches. Central Virginia, ultra sonic (sic) waves meant to his vehicle was struck by ing to PowerOutage.us. Sunday at the three main including Richmond, had keep dogs from barking,” the two tractor-trailers. The In North Carolina, Gov. airports serving the nation’s much smaller accumula- letter said. “I notified the press, two tractor-trailer drivers Roy Cooper declared a state capital. tions — as little as one inch internal affairs, and even the FBI were taken to a hospital for of emergency Sunday, seek- The storm caused a variety — but the snow was followed about it. I am highly sensitive to injuries that were not con- ing to help utility crews of cancellations and closings. by hours of sleet and freez- its affect (sic) on my inner ear. sidered life-threatening. The restore electricity more The Maryland Zoo was ing rain. I did my best to appease them, state medical examiner was quickly after power lines fell closed to the public, with only Marc Chenard, a meteo- but they have continued for expected to determine later due to freezing rain, ice and essential employees told to rologist with the Weather years and I can’t live this way whether Harris’ death was toppled trees. Areas of the report to work. The Wash- Prediction Center in College anymore.” storm-related. state’s western mountains ington Metropolitan Area Park, Maryland, said parts Virginia State Police said and foothills were hardest- Transit Authority cancelled of the region could expect RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA they responded to more than hit along with the western its planned track work for the snow to continue falling into Pompeo: Qatar diplomatic 230 traffic crashes and helped Piedmont region and nearly weekend. Sunday evening. crisis ‘has dragged on too long’ more than 100 disabled vehi- 1,000 state transportation In Baltimore, a man was “At this point, it is just cles in Virginia from midnight workers were called out to fatally shot as he shoveled going to head out to sea once U.S. Secretary of State to noon Sunday. clear ice and snow. snow early Sunday morning. it exits here this evening,” Mike Pompeo said Sunday The storm knocked out The wintry mix was also Police said a 43-year-old man Chenard said. an ongoing boycott of Qatar by four of America’s allies in the Middle East “has dragged on too long,” though he gave no sign of any coming breakthrough in the Nuclear chief says Iran exploring new uranium enrichment dispute. Stopping off in the small, energy-rich nation as part of By Nasser Karimi television appeared aimed at within the limits set by the nuclear program, accus- a Mideast tour, America’s top The Associated Press telling the world Iran would 2015 agreement with world ing Tehran of seeking diplomat made a repeated point slowly restart its program. If powers. Iran continues to atomic weapons. Iran long to say that “great things” were TEHRAN, Iran — The it chooses, it could resume comply with the terms of has said its program is for happening between Qatar and head of Iran’s nuclear pro- mass enrichment at its main the deal, according to the peaceful purposes, but it the United States.