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C M Y K Blue Streak stampede Tubbs, 13 others head to regional SPORTS, B1 www.newssun.com News-Sun photo by SAMANTHA GHOLAR Sebring High School Assistant Principal Jim Howard was critically injured Friday when his Corvette crashed into a EWS UN Town Car driven by Victoria Grant, who died at the scene. NHighlands County’s Hometown-S Newspaper Since 1927 1 killed, 1 critical Sunday, April 21, 2013 www.newssun.com Volume 94/Number 48 | 75 cents after crash on 27 News-Sun staff ble condition Saturday morn- SEBRING — A woman ing. Grant died at the scene SFSC names was killed an a man critically of the crash, which was at injured in a crash that closed 2:44 p.m. according the the northbound U.S. 27 for sev- FHP. eral hours Friday Grant was wearing afternoon. her seat belt, the FHP new president The Florida reported, but Howard Highway Patrol said was not when his car that Victoria Grant, struck Grant’s at the The unanimous decision came after two 61, of Sebring was the driver’s door. Leitzel starts July 1 weeks of interviews and community forums driver of a Lincoln Pieces of the red where the final four candidates were Town Car that pulled Corvette were scat- By SAMANTHA GHOLAR allowed to meet employees and the Howard out of Whisper Circle tered for yards down [email protected] general public. Leitzel left quite an in front of a Corvette driven the highway. AVON PARK – South Florida State impression of the board and the by 66-year-old Jim Howard, Traffic was halted just a College Board of Trustees wasted no time choice was announced quickly an assistant principal at few yards north of the inter- making its selection for the new president Sebring High School. section of U.S. 27 and the of the college, naming Dr. Thomas C. See SFSC, A5 Howard was airlifted to Sebring Parkway near Publix Leitzel the fourth president of SFSC on Lakeland where he was and diverted around the scene Friday afternoon. Dr. Thomas C. Leitzel reportedly in critical but sta- for several hours. Forecast Relay for Life Man gets DON’T LET draws hundreds 15 years to Firemen’s A couple of T-storms, Field in Sebring in Hardee mainly later in day CANCER WIN High Low murder News-Sun photo by 83 66 SAMANTHA By BARRY FOSTER GHOLAR News-Sun correspondent Complete Forecast Breast cancer sur- WAUCHULA — A PAGE A12 vivor Aldrene Mautz Highlands County was sen- (right) and her hus- Online band Ken take the tenced to 15 years in the state first lap around prison in connection with a Firemen’s Field brutal 2008 murder. Saturday afternoon Dan Enrique Lopez was during the annual sentenced last week in a American Cancer Society Relay for courtroom in Wauchula on Life Event. The cou- charges of manslaughter in Question: Should ple wore matching the death of Dwight Clyde pink outfits repre- teachers get the Williams, whose body was senting breast can- found in a burned out car just $2,500 pay raise Gov. cer, which Mautz was diagnosed with across the Hardee-Highlands Rick Scott wants in in December of County line on Nov. 29, the state budget? 2011. After six 2008. months of treat- Reportedly, kidnapping ment, eight rounds and arson counts were of chemotherapy Yes and 33 radiation dropped against the 35-year- treatments, Mautz old defendant 63.9% was declared can- in exchange for cer free in the fall his testimony of 2012. Mautz and against a sec- more than 200 other survivors ond man were honored accused in the No Saturday. crime, 29-year- Lopez old Jose Antonio Torres, 36.1% Cancer a tough also of High- Bone lands County. The victim, Total votes: 244 fight, but it can marrow also known as Malik Addullah Torres Next question: transplant Muhammed, Should Sun ’N Lake be beaten reportedly was stuffed into have a full-time fire the trunk of his 1997 Lincoln department? By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY Continental along Old Town [email protected] Creek Road in Hardee Poll open through Friday. SEBRING — Barbara Lanning sits back in County. The car then was set Make your voice heard at her arm chair, her 12-week-old puppy curled ablaze. up at her feet, her daughter Dawn Lanning Originally, both had been www.newssun.com and son Bobby Lanning near at hand. charged with first degree She has a story to tell, especially during murder, kidnapping and Index the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life arson but in 2010 Lopez Business B5 season. apparently cut a plea bargain Chalk Talk B7 Divorced and single, Lanning was living in with prosecutors. Classifieds A9 Middlesex County, N.J. in the early autumn He also was given credit of 1991 when she developed flu-like systems. for the three years and 55 Community Briefs A2 She went to her doctor, who prescribed days he already has served in Crossword Puzzle B11 antibiotics and medications to relieve the jail. Dear Abby B11 symptoms. Torres was found guilty in Editorial & Opinion A4 Two weeks went by and Lanning felt so a Hardee County trial last Lottery Numbers A2 much worse she went to the emergency room. month on kidnapping, arson Doctors ordered a full blood work-up and and second-degree murder took a bone marrow sample. The results came counts. back in the middle of November. Lanning had Circuit Court Judge Marcus J. Ezelle has not yet 0990994 01007 See CANCER, A7 passed sentence on Torres. 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Her no avail. “It can’t be done,” By CHRISTOPHER Brooke Army Medical level of comprehension and they said. TUFFLEY Center, her first rehab stay cognizance was fully intact. By the end of September [email protected] was in a facility in Austin, Kris walked straighter and 2011, another move was AVON PARK — City Texas. From May until early longer with an upright walk- imminent. Under considera- Attorney Gerald Buhr will October, she worked very er and a physical therapy tion was a VA home. On the Courtesy photo make a presentation about hard and made great strides. staff person beside her. By day of discharge, however, a Neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Teff, MD, explains the prototype Al Green of Paragon In September, surgery was January 2011, she was given phone call from a very dis- of a skull implant to Major Kristine Ratliff just prior to the her surgery Sept. 7, 2010 at Brooke Army Medical Center. Information Services at scheduled to implant an arti- permission to have water appointed admissions direc- Monday night’s city coun- ficial cap replacing the therapy in the pool and, hav- tor there informed us, “One cil meeting. entire right side of her skull. ing been an avid swimmer, person on our board said Green is the private Since the facility in Austin she rallied further. your daughter is not official- found close to her home, and The number of military investigator hired by the was almost two hours away My husband and I had to ly a veteran because she is Kris seemed happy she knew men and women veterans city to look into the from the hospital, a move return home to Florida at the not yet retired, so she cannot two of the therapists at this since September 2011 is not charges and counter was contemplated after the end of December 2010, how- come here.” nursing rehab center. She firm. These younger veter- charges between City surgery. Kris still could not ever. Since her husband Arguing with such a nar- was making the best of a bad ans, however, must be given Manager Deleon and City speak, eat or care for herself, worked full time, his pres- row-minded viewpoint that situation and, for that, I was every chance to “come back” Councilman Garrett and it was my joy to fill the ence was minimal at best. Kris had served two tours in grateful. What I saw, howev- to their former lives. That Anderson. Buhr will need of advocate and pro- With the one-to-one aspect Iraq and given more than 20 er, was discouraging even requires greater therapy, review the background vide personal care. of care eliminated, Kris years was hopeless. By now, while I tried to be upbeat. In one-to-one care, and more leading to the investiga- On Oct. 4, 2010, she was declined terribly during the it was mid-October 2011, truth, it was a glorified nurs- funding to make it available tion.