SEARCHS RECIPES | SPORTS OONLINE TODAY CHECK RECIPES, OR TAKEN DOWN SHARE YOUR FAVORITES | BY MISTAKES THELEDGER.COM/RECIPES BUCCANEERS FALL TO 1-8 AFTER COSTLY POLK & FLORIDA ERRORS IN MATCHUP AGAINST FALCONS C1 HIT-AND-RUN STARTS CRASHES ON I-4 THAT LEFT ONE DEAD B1 90 YEARS • 1924–2014 • POLK COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER LAKELAND, FLORIDA | MONDAY , NOVEMBER 10 , 2014 | WWW.THELEDGER.COM | 75 CENTS She is his tent buddy, his cohort and his sense of OFFICIALS: NO. 1 THREAT TO THE U.S. security. Sometimes, she can be a little like his mother, but more than anything, she is his best friend. He has her back and she has his. Cyberattacks DESCRIPTION OF GROVER FOWLER’S FRIEND, LYNNE RICE RICE Blitz Federal Agencies Workers have been lured by phishing emails, tricked into sharing information. By MARTHA MENDOZA Press analysis of records. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS They have clicked links in A $10 billion-a-year effort to bogus phishing emails, opened protect sensitive government malware-laden websites and data, from military secrets to been tricked by scammers into Social Security numbers, is sharing information. struggling to keep pace with One was redirected to a hos- an increasing number of cy- tile site after connecting to a berattacks and is unwittingly video of tennis star Serena being undermined by federal Williams. A few act intention- employees and contractors. ally, most famously former Workers scattered across National Security Agency con- more than a dozen agencies, tractor Edward Snowden, who from the Defense and Educa- downloaded and leaked docu- tion departments to the Na- ments revealing the govern- tional Weather Service, are ment’s collection of phone and responsible for at least half of email records. ERNST PETERS | LEDGER PHOTOS the federal cyberincidents re- Then there was the contract GROVER FOWLER, a friend of Lynne Rice, the school crossing guard who was struck and injured by a pickup last month, stands ported each year since 2010, next to Rice’s tent last week in a wooded area where the two live in Lakeland. according to an Associated [ PLEASE SEE HACKED, A7 ] AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ENROLLMENT Praying for a Miracle Website, Tax Issues Could Hamper Renewals By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR “Things will THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lynne Rice’s Friends Hope for Recovery From Traffic Accident not be perfect,” WASHINGTON | With a said Health and bright look to its rebuilt web- Human Ser- By STEPHANIE ALLEN | THE LEDGER site, version 2.0 of President vices Secretary Barack Obama’s health insur- Sylvia M. Bur- LAKELAND been gone. ance overhaul represents an- well, trying to is graying hair falls into a Grover Fowler prays every day that other chance to win over a set expecta- curl over the shoulder of his will change. skeptical public. BURWELL tions. “We are tie-dyed T-shirt. He braids Wanda Lynne Rice — although she But more than possible com- aiming for a it into a ponytail and pulls prefers just Lynne — was hit by a puter woes lurk as HealthCare. strong consumer experience, a rubber band off his wrist pickup just before 6:30 a.m. on Oct. gov’s second open enrollment and it will be better.” to hold it together as he talks 15 near North Socrum Loop Road at season begins Nov. 15. The Obama administration Habout her. Marcum Road. She is a school cross- The risks include an unprov- cannot afford to repeat last She is his tent buddy, his cohort and ing guard at the intersection and was en system for those renewing year’s online meltdown. Con- his sense of security. Sometimes, she dressed in uniform, preparing to start coverage and a tax hit that gress will be entirely in Repub- can be a little like his mother, but her shift, the Polk Sheriff’s Of ce could sting millions of people. lican hands in 2015, and GOP more than anything, she is his best said. Those tax issues are the result lawmakers will be itching to friend. He has her back and she has That morning, like she did almost of complications between the build the case for repeal. The his. every morning, Rice rode her bicycle health care law and income Supreme Court’s decision Fri- They don’t always get along. They out of the woods off Marcum Road taxes, and they will emerge day to hear another challenge have their spats and their friendship where she lived in a tent next to Fowl- during next year’s filing quarrels. But they always make up. er and her other friends. When she season. [ PLEASE SEE SIGN-UPS, A2 ] And they love one another — in a A TEDDY BEAR, flowers and notes rest got to the intersection, she parked her strictly friendship kind of way. near Socrum Loop and Marcum Road It’s been almost a month since she’s where Rice was injured last month. [ PLEASE SEE RICE, A7 ] Storm Remnants to Drop MONDAY PROFILE | PHILLIP STEVENS Music Ranch Provides Freeze on Plains States By BECKY BOHRER Snow was expected to move THE ASSOCIATED PRESS over the northern high plains Respite for Musicians JUNEAU, Alaska | A mas- and into the upper Great Lakes sive storm fueled by the rem- by this evening, with accumu- nants of Typhoon Nuri did not lations of close to a foot in parts By BEN BRASCH himself. do much damage in Alaska’s of Minnesota and Wisconsin THE LEDGER Stevens, 60, owns the Music sparsely populated Aleutian and up to 2 feet in the upper LAKELAND Ranch off Banana Road in Islands, but forecasters say it’s peninsula of Michigan, fore- hil Stevens lives a few North Lakeland, which has anchoring a system that will casters said. yards away from an provided a respite for musi- push a frigid blast of air into The storm peaked Friday eardrum-busting stage cians from the toil of touring the mainland United States with sustained winds of that has featured some around the country since and send temperatures plung- 70 mph and gusts up to 96 mph Pof the most historic Southern 1998. ing early this week. on Alaska’s Shemya Island. rock and country musicians Axe-wielders, cymbal-strik- Parts of the lower 48 states While it has weakened, it ever to blow out speakers — ers and ivory-ticklers from MICHAEL WILSON | THE LEDGER could see temperatures be- also is helping change the jet and he couldn’t be happier. bands such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, PHILLIP STEVENS, 60, a retired Air Force sergeant and Postal tween 20 and 40 degrees below stream ow and anchoring a That’s because he built the Service letter sorter, is owner and founder of the Music Ranch in average, the National Weather four walls of the hallowed hall [ PLEASE SEE STEVENS, A7 ] North Lakeland. Service said Sunday. [ PLEASE SEE FRIGID, A2 ] INSIDE LOW 56 | HIGH 71 TIP OF THE DAY Advice B8 Editorial A8 Obituaries B5 State B4 A shower or thunderstorm iinn Veterans Day celebration at Legoland. Vet- Business G1 Lottery B3 Polk Pulse B3 TV G2 spots this afternoon into thee erans get discount on select retail, food, Comics G4 Nation A2 Scores C10 World A4 evening. Weather B8 beverage items. Part of park admission. LAKE_DAILY A 7 THE LEDGER • MONDAY , NOVEMBER 10 , 2014 • WWW.THELEDGER.COM A 7 Rice Hacked [ CONTINUED FROM A1 ] [ CONTINUED FROM A1 ] bike and walked across to a isn’t loveless, they sa id. worker who lost equipment devices or had them stolen; Hess gas station. While she It’s not traditional, but ev- containing the con dential 12 percent who improperly was crossing back over North eryone is a family at Hope information of millions of handled sensitive information Socrum Loop, the pickup hit Center. A family that, since Americans, including Robert printed from computers; at her, the Sheriff’s Of ce said. Oct. 15 has been missing Curtis, of Monument, Colo.. least 8 percent who ran or in- She was walking with a one. “I was angry, because we as stalled malicious software; “Walk Now” crossing sign and citizens trust the government and 6 percent who were en- had the right of way, accord- HOPE AND PRAYER to act on our behalf,” he said. ticed to share private informa- ing to the Sheriff’s Of ce. It Rice has worked as a cross- Curtis, according to court re- tion, according to an annual was dark at the time and had ing guard since January 2010. cords, was besieged by iden- White House review. recently rained, and 16-year- It’s a part-time job where she tity thieves after someone Documents released to the old Grant M. Hester, the Lake makes about $17,300 a year, stole data tapes that the con- AP show how workers were Gibson High School student the Sheriff’s Of ce said. tractor left in a car, exposing lured in. driving the truck, told depu- Pamela Noles, the princi- the health records of about In one incident around ties he didn’t see Rice. pal’s secretary at Lake Gibson 5 million current and former Christmas 2011, Education Sheriff Grady Judd called it Middle School, saw Rice every Pentagon employees and their Department employees re- a tragic accident and no crimi- morning. She said they would families. ceived an email purportedly nal charges are expected. smile and wave to one another. At a time when intelligence from Amazon.com that asked But the accident left Rice On holidays, Noles said she officials say cybersecurity them to click on a link. Of - critically injured and the would bring Rice goody-bags trumps terrorism as the No.