A3 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2017 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM >> SUNDAY + PLUS In today’s Reporter: FROSTY Look at all n Big names vie for LSHA post FUN options for new admin n Bitterness follows airport suit Snow Day 1D building, festivities n FEASTING Opinion/4A City manager’s ouster sought set, 1C IN FARGO STORIES BELOW Teen safe, as story takes a dark turn Explicit texts surface; Caitlyn ‘didn’t know how to get out of it’ By CARL MCKINNEY Caitlyn appeared to have left [email protected] the house through her bedroom window, the parents told investi- A school resource officer pre- gators. viously dismissed rumors of a There were footprints lead- sexual relation- ing from the property to nearby ship between Markham 17-year-old Fort MORE Road, White student INSIDE according to Caitlyn Frisina n What lies the warrant. and 27-year-old ahead for Caitlyn’s soccer coach Rodriguez, 3A. mother, Caitlyn Rian Rodriguez, Scarlet the pair at the Frisina, said she and other family center of the five-day nation- members called all of her daugh- wide search that ended Friday in ter’s known friends. upstate New York. One of the contacts, Brason The officer may or may not Caley, sent a message say- have been right at the time, ing Caitlyn “hooked up” with COURTESY SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD but explicit messages found by Rodriguez and he “worked his Caitlyn’s par- way into her ents suggest life,” the war- ABOVE: Rian Rodriguez is such a relation- According to an rant states. taken into custody after a New ship did even- Rodriguez York State Police major crimes tually develop, arrest affidavit, asked Caitlyn investigator spotted him and according to an Caitlyn feared to “leave the Caitlyn Frisina near Syracuse. arrest warrant country with Rodriguez was arrested on for Rodriguez, Rodriguez ‘would him and other a charge of interfering with who faces a mess up her life’ crazy stuff,” the custody of a minor. LEFT: charge of inter- Caley wrote. Scarlet and Ward Frisina reunite fering with the if she ended their Caitlyn with their daughter at the custody of relationship. said she and office of the New York State a child after Rodriguez Police Saturday morning after authorities were “leaving what Scarlet Frisina described found him traveling with the teen the next weekend and she didn’t as a five-day “emotional roller girl near Syracuse, New York. know how to get out of it” and coaster.” The mother said she By the time deputies respond- feared he “would mess up her has many questions for her ed to the Frisina home last life” if she didn’t go, according to daughter, such as why she didn’t Sunday to investigate Caitlyn’s Caley’s account in the warrant. reach out to family to let them disappearance, the family had “She said she was scared and know whether she was safe, already uncovered evidence of a she didn’t know what to do,” but she remained confident the sexual relationship between the Caley said, the warrant states. family is capable of working 17-year-old and Rian, the warrant through any problem. states. TEEN continued on 3A COURTESY MARCY FRISINA Councilman to again Federal airport suit ends, Big names vie for seek Johnson’s ouster but bitterness remains top spot at LSHA By TAYLOR GAINES Monday night after the By TAYLOR GAINES ing a lawsuit over access By CARL MCKINNEY The hospital authority [email protected] addition of an agenda item [email protected] to the Lake City Gateway [email protected] is done accepting appli- calling for a vote of confi- Airport. cations for the position Lake City Councilman dence by the council. Aircraft mechanic Schretzmann initially Notable names are lin- being vacated by Jack Jake Hill’s crusade against “I want Wendell gone, William Schretzmann will filed the lawsuit in August ing up to replace the Lake Berry, who announced his City Manager Wendell receive a $13,000 settle- Shore Hospital Authority’s Johnson will continue HILL continued on 2A ment from the city follow- SUIT continued on 2A outgoing executive director. 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ShandsLakeShore.com 92151_SHLAK_ERpldg_10_625x1_5c.indd 1 6/21/16 8:54 AM A3 2A SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2017 DAILY BRIEFING LAKE CITY REPORTER Tax bill clears Senate by 2 votes QUICK HITS Associated Press passed by both chambers, a behind- projection of a $1 trillion, 10-year flood Scripture of the Day closed-doors process that is expected of deeper budget deficits couldn’t dis- "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ WASHINGTON — Republicans to move swiftly. Trump is aiming to suade GOP senators from rallying hath made us free, and be not entangled again with muscled the largest tax overhaul in sign the tax package into law before behind the bill. the yoke of bondage." — Galatians 5:1 (KJV) 30 years through the Senate early Christmas. “Biggest Tax Bill and Tax “Obviously I’m kind of a dinosaur Saturday, taking a big step toward Cuts in history just passed in the on the fiscal issues,” said Corker, who giving President Donald Trump his Senate,” he tweeted inaccurately. The battled to keep the bill from worsen- Thought for Today first major legislative triumph after overhaul is significant but far from the ing the government’s accumulated months of false starts and frustration largest. $20 trillion in IOUs. As a man changes his own nature, so does the on other fronts. Presiding over The Republican-led House attitude of the world change towards him. We need “Just what the country needs to the Senate, Vice approved a similar bill last month in not wait to see what others do. get growing again,” Senate Majority President Mike Pence what has been a stunningly quick trip — Mahatma Gandhi Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said announced the 51-49 through Congress for complex legis- in an interview after a final burst vote to applause from lation. Democrats derided the hastily of negotiation closed in on a nearly Republicans. Sen. Bob written, scribbles-in -the-margin craft- $1.5 trillion package that impacts the Corker, R-Tenn., was ing of the bill in the final hours Friday Winning Lottery Numbers breadth of American society. the only lawmaker to McConnell night. Pick 3: (Saturday evening) 5-7-9 He shrugged off polls finding scant cross party lines, join- After spending the year’s first Pick 4: (Saturday evening) 9-8-8-7 public enthusiasm for the measure, ing the Democrats in opposition. The nine months futilely trying to repeal Pick 5: (Saturday evening) 7-2-3-0-9 saying the legislation would prove its measure focuses its tax reductions on President Barack Obama’s health care worth. “Big bills are rarely popular,” businesses and higher-earning indi- law, GOP leaders were determined he said. “You remember how unpopu- viduals, gives more modest breaks to to move the measure rapidly before See an error? lar ‘Obamacare’ was when it passed?” others and offers the boldest rewrite opposition Democrats and lobbying The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news Trump on Saturday tweeted of the nation’s tax system since 1986. groups could blow it up. The party items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, his thanks to Senate and House Republicans said the package would views passage as crucial to retaining please call the editor. Corrections and clarications will Republicans as they now begin trying benefit people of all incomes and its House and Senate majorities in run in this space. Thanks for reading. to reconcile differences in legislation ignite the economy. Even an official next year’s elections. Submissions The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption staff to the fullest potential.” In a list of accomplish- tor of the Third Circuit State information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would LSHA Outside the realm of ments, he wrote that he Attorney’s Office from 1980 like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture Continued From 1A politics, Porter’s resume saved local taxpayers $1.25 to 1986 and was an LSHA and information to associate editor Justin Caudell at lists her as the owner and million annually by privatiz- purchasing agent from 1972 [email protected]. resignation in October. CEO of a medical company, ing emergency medical ser- to 1976. Among the contenders are MedPro, from 2009 to 2015. vices and reduced the coun- Douglas is asking for an Lake City-based Republican Williams had been coun- ty’s debt from $11.75 million hourly wage of $38.41 to fill Lake City Reporter State Rep. Elizabeth Porter, ty manager for more than in 2009 to $9.78 million in the LSHA executive director HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS..............754-0419 former County Manager three decades when he 2015, all while “carrying position on either a full or Main number ........(386) 752-1293 CIRCULATION Dale Williams and David retired from that job in 2015.