NBA: Spurs look to deliver knockout blow to Heat /B1 MONDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning HIGH 91 Partly cloudy, LOW 50% chance of p.m. storms 69 PAGE A4 www.chronicleon- JUNE 16, 2014 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 119 ISSUE 313 QUESTION OF THE WEEK Casey Kasem dead at 82 Associated Press adult children from his first wife whose work epitomized the gentler, fought a bitter legal battle with romantic side of pop culture, of a LOS ANGELES — In pop culture, Kasem’s second wife, Jean, over time when stars were admired for Casey Kasem was as sweet and de- control of his health care in his final their celebrity and worshipped for pendable as a glass of warm milk months. their talent. and a plate of chocolate chip cook- That made Kasem a fixture on “American Top 40,” with Kasem’s ies, which only made the ugliness of news outlets that feed on the soft, homey voice counting down the his last few years of life seem more sleazier side of celebrity life at hits, was a refuge from shock jocks Contribute! bizarre and tragic. a time when it wasn’t clear he or the screaming big-city radio The radio host of “American Top was aware of it or even able to voices. It was dependable, broad- Associated Press Like us at 40” and voice of animated television understand. cast on some 1,000 stations at its Casey Kasem, pictured facebook.com/ characters like Scooby-Doo’s side- This wouldn’t seem all that re- peak, so if you were driving in Con- Oct. 27, 2003, died citruscounty kick Shaggy died Sunday morning markable for a bad-behaving pop necticut or Kansas, California or Sunday, according to chronicle and at a hospital in Gig Harbor, Wash- star or actor who shed spouses with Kentucky, you could always take a Danny Deraney, publicist respond to our ington. He was 82. He suffered from the frequency of changing charac- for Kasem’s daughter, Question of the a form of dementia, and his three ters. But this was Casey Kasem, See KASEM/ Page A2 Kerri. He was 82. Week. CONVERSATION Hillary Clinton is Monday everywhere these days. If she runs for president in Back 2016, do you think she’ll get the nomination Cycles of life and if so, do you to think she’ll win? Tricia M. Marble I pray she doesn’t! If she does it would be Iraq? tempting to move. She has no respect for the office. She can’t even answer truthfully what happened in Benghazi. Obama says Scott Brooks She will run and she will win. no troops Stephen L. Teaster II I hope she does, and on ground then Ben Carson and Jeb Bush can clobber her. Associated Press Mark Watson With the Republicans BAGHDAD — The Is- going so far to the lamic militants who over- right Yeah, I can see her ran cities and towns in Iraq winning. last week posted graphic Heidi Kenyon photos that appeared to I think she will get show their gunmen mas- nominated but I don’t sacring scores of captured think she will succeed. I know she doesn’t have my vote. Iraqi soldiers, while the prime minister vowed Jennifer Lin Jacobs Sunday to “liberate every Wow talk about inch” of captured territory. opening the flood gates for a debate! I do believe The pictures on a mili- she will run and win! Just wish tant website appear to my generation would have show masked fighters of more insight and people willing to change the way our country the Islamic State of Iraq is headed now! Politicians are and the Levant, or ISIL, all liars! Hello, nothing new there! Lol loading the captives onto flatbed trucks before forc- Brent Franker STEPHEN E. LASKO/For the Chronicle ing them to lie face-down She lived in Local author Ed Youngblood sits on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle as he discusses his first book, “The in a shallow ditch with government housing for eight years with a near John Penton Story,” which was made into a movie and recently premiered in Ohio. Youngblood has written their arms tied behind $400,000 yearly income from seven books about motorcycles, from “Century of Indian,” 100 years of Indian motorcycles, to “Dirt Track their backs. The final im- just her husband. She claimed ages show the bodies of the other day that when she left Racing,” the history and highlights of the rider and machine. her government paid housing the captives soaked in she and Bill were “dead broke.” blood after being shot at Now, she wants to control the United States budget?! I don’t Ed Youngblood: Motorcycle historian to movie muse several locations. think so! I hope America isn’t Chief military spokes - dumb enough to elect her! NANCY KENNEDY plus seven books on motorcycle the Cleveland premiere to talk man Lt. Gen. Qassim al- Staff writer history, motorcycle design or about how the heck a biker guy Moussawi confirmed the POLL the biographies of famous peo- winds up on the red carpet. photos’ authenticity and INVERNESS ple in the world of motorcycles. CHRONICLE: So, what comes said he was aware of ONLINE POLL: t’s safe to say the job market He has also offered on-screen first — love of writing or love of cases of mass murder of Your choice? for motorcycle-obsessed expert commentary for “CBS motorcycles? captured Iraqi soldiers in English literature majors is Sunday Morning with Charles YOUNGBLOOD: Motorcycles. areas held by ISIL. He As the Iraqi government told The Associated Press and forces Islim, but Ed Youngblood Osgood,” the Travel Channel’s I became obsessed with them that an examination of the continue to managed to carve a career out “Revolution on Wheels,” Speed when I was a little boy. One of images by military ex- give ground of his love for words and bikes, Channel’s “American Thunder” my earliest memories — we to militants, spending 40 years in the motor- and “Bike Week.” lived on a corner and every perts showed that about what should cycle publications business, ed- His book, “John Penton and morning a man would ride by 170 soldiers were shot to the U.S. iting cycle magazines as well as the Off-Road Motorcycle Revo- on a green Indian Chief, and I death by the militants response be? nearly 20 years as president and lution,” was made into a docu- would stand on the corner after their capture. A. Stay out of it, we’ve CEO of the American Motorcy- mentary, “The John Penton transfixed. I would stand there Captions on the photos sacrificed enough. clist Association. Story,” which recently pre- until he would disappear over showing the soldiers after they were shot say “hun- B. Provide limited air He has authored scholarly pa- miered in Cleveland, Ohio, near the horizon on the road, and I’d dreds have been liqui- assistance but no pers on such topics as the birth the home of 89-year-old Penton, stand there until I couldn’t hear ground troops. of the dirt bike, comparative and will be premiered June 17 it anymore. dated,” but the total could histories of Indian and Harley- in Los Angeles. CHRONICLE: What went not immediately be C. Let the United verified. Nations handle it. Davidson motorcycles and mo- The Chronicle caught up with torcycles of Eastern Europe, U.S. State Department D. Send in troops Youngblood as he returned from See MONDAY/ Page A5 immediately and stop See IRAQ/ Page A6 the insurgency. To vote, visit www. chronicleonline.com. Click on the word “Opinion” in the menu Rally set for veterans’ nursing home to see the poll. Results will appear next Monday. Find last Editor’s note: To determine the U.S. Department of Veterans. week’s online poll what is happening locally and Five other counties are also in results./Page A3 find out the issues and concerns the running. VA health care has large impact on of veterans, VA officials and vet- Early this year, the Florida VA INDEX erans’ advocates; Chronicle announced results of an inde- reporters Nancy Kennedy, pendent study showing the need veterans, residents of Citrus County Blood Drives ............A6 Buster Thompson and Pat Fa- for additional veterans’ nursing PAT FAHERTY in Citrus County? Classifieds ................B8 herty have investigated the status homes in Florida and ranked Staff writer A. Currently, there are an esti- Comics ....................B7 of VA health care in Citrus areas with the greatest need. mated 26,283 veterans in Citrus Crossword ................B6 County. This is the second day of Six counties — Marion, Put- The U.S. Department of Veter- County, about one out of every Editorial....................A8 coverage. nam, Polk, Collier, Manatee and Entertainment ..........A4 ans Affairs announced last week six residents. The number has PAT FAHERTY St. Lucie — submitted sites for it will meet with health industry been growing at about 1 percent Food Programs ........A6 consideration. Money toward Horoscope ................A4 Staff writer leaders to discuss improving vet- a year and is expected to peak in construction was included in the eran access to both short- and 2022 at about 27,515 veterans Lottery Numbers ......B3 2014 state budget. Lottery Payouts ........B3 On Friday, there will be a site long-term health care. subject to county growth rates. selection tour and community The state’s network of existing With thousands of residents All of them, who served in the Movies ......................B7 veterans’ nursing homes has an Obituaries ................A6 rally to show support for a state using VA health care at local and active military and have any dis- occupancy rate averaging 99 per- TV Listings................B6 veterans’ nursing home in Mar- regional facilities, any changes charge other than dishonorable, ion County.