A4 + PLUS >> Home invasion attempt reported, Story below CHS SOCCER CHS WEIGHTLIFTING Girls down Girls best in Suwannee 3-way meet See Page 1B See Page 1B FRIDAY EDITION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM EXCLUSIVE FLEES SCENE, SAY COPS Live Oak’s Braun Out on bail, suspect in goes with Gators fatal crash Friday has another FGC graduation Highly-touted SPORTS Florida Gateway College is holding a fall graduation lineman gives wreck ceremony today, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Howard 1B By TONY BRITT Center. Family, friends UGA the boot [email protected] and all other attendees will A Lake City teen awaiting require a ticket to enter trail on DUI manslaughter the Howard Center for charges for his role in 2018 the ceremony. Additional fatal crash was arrested viewing will be available Monday for his alleged involve- via live video in the Levy ment in a Nov. 21 single vehicle Performing Arts Center. hit-and-run. The event will be broad- Rail spur: 20-year Canyon cast live on FGCTV (local River Rae Arganbright, Comcast Channel 8) and 18, was rear- live-streamed at www.fgc. quest near an end rested by the edu and on the Florida Columbia Gateway College Facebook County Task page. By CARL MCKINNEY Force for the [email protected] Arganbright DUI man- Film screening The historic moment slaughter The film “Suppressed: marked Thursday morn- charge and was also charged The Fight to Vote” will ing amidst grassland and with leaving the scene of a be screened tonight at pines was two decades in crash with property damage 7 p.m. at Rum 138, 2070 the making. and knowingly driving with a suspended license. His bond SW County Road 138 The North Florida for the fatal crash was revoked in Fort White by North Mega Industrial Park, a privately owned site on Dec. 4 after the second crash. Central Florida Indivisible. He was booked into the Admission is free. U.S. Highway 90 east of Lake City, hosted Columbia County Detention a crowd for a ground- Center without bond. Saturday breaking ceremony to continued on 2A commemorate the start TEEN Wreaths Across America of work on a rail spur Saturday at noon at the described as a way to Veterans Memorial across connect Lake City to from City Hall there will the global economy and Home invasion be a wreath-laying cere- make the property more mony, honoring those who attractive to prospec- attempt report served in every war. The tive tenants. Columbia public is invited. County and Lake City filed by LCPD ABOVE: State Rep. Chuck officials helped secure Brannan (third from left) and a $3.1 million grant for From staff reports Breakfast with Santa BOCC Chair Ron Williams (fifth the project, but County Holiday Inn & Suites is from left) were among local Commission Chairman A home invasion attempt on holding a holiday event officials at the ceremony. Ron Williams, who acted SE Reva Place was reported by Saturday from 8 a.m. to RIGHT: Brannan hammers a as the master of ceremo- city police Thursday. 11 a.m., featuring a break- golden spike into a section nies for the event, said According to an LCPD news fast buffet complete with of model railroad as part of a the county didn’t directly release, officers responded to scrambled eggs, pancakes, ceremony Thursday afternoon. spend any tax dollars on a report of someone trying to bacon, sausage, biscuits Golden spike ceremonies are the rail spur. kick open the door of an occu- “This is an opportunity and gravy, juice, coffee, traditionally done at the end of pied home. and hot chocolate. Enjoy for all of us to be proud The woman inside told police construction, but Weyerhaeuser of,” Williams said. holiday music, fun, and fel- she heard her front screen door said it was warranted early here State Rep. Chuck lowship, complete with a due to this project being 20 Brannan appeared on a open, followed by “hard and visit from Santa! Adults: years in the works. loud” kicks at her front door. 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The victim An argument between Kia Soul. edly told Carmody to pull had two pocket knives on two men during their ride The vic- over and get out of his car. him during the argument, Thought for Today home from a bar escalat- tim owns Carmody did pull over, but they were removed It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any sur- ed into a violent carjacking the vehicle but didn’t immediately exit when a deputy gave him a vival value. — Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008, English near Fort White last week, but gave the vehicle. ride home and neither had writer (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Star) Columbia County deputies Carmody Instead, the victim said signs of blood. say. permis- Carmody started pummel- Century Ambulance Michael Arthur Carmody sion to get ing him in the face. responded to the scene to Jr., 41, of Fort White, was Carmody behind the Carmody then got out check on Carmody. The Winning Lottery Numbers arrested on battery, grand wheel. of the car, walked to the wound was superficial but Pick 3: (Wednesday p.m.) 7-2-5 theft auto and robbery Deputies responded to passenger door, pulled the warranted stitches, accord- Pick 4: (Wednesday p.m.) 9-6-3-7 charges last Friday after the scene around 11 p.m. victim out and stole the car, ing to the report. Fantasy 5: (Wednesday) 8-15-17-24-31 he repeatedly punched his The victim had a bloody lip according to the report. Medics determined the 62-year-old traveling com- and grass in his hair, consis- A deputy gave the vic- injury was self-inflicted. panion and stole his car, tent with the story he told tim a ride home, where Carmody was taken to See an error? according to a Columbia law enforcement, according Carmody was found bleed- Lake Shore Hospital, then The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news County Sheriff’s Office to the report. ing from his right hand, the to jail, where he is being items. 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