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LAKE CITY REPORTER2aFriday:1-5-9-16-29Friday:2-4-11-32 8SUNDAY REPORTSaturday:Afternoon: 9-2-4Evening: N/ASUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013Saturday:Afternoon: 1-6-7-5Evening: N/APage Editor: Jim Barr, 26-34-41PB 32AROUND FLORIDAScott trumpets unemployment dropTAMPA — Gov. RickScott — who has madehis handling of the state’seconomy the main thrustof his re-election campaign— got more to boast abouton Friday.The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.2percent in April — putting Florida below thenational average for thesecond straight month.National statistics showedthat Florida had the thirdlargest jump in jobs in thenation behind Texas andNew York.Scott touted the numbers at a stop at a Tampamanufacturing firm andused it to argue that hispush for tax cuts and othermoves have helped thestate recover from theGreat Recession.“This is proof that ourplan of lower taxes andless regulation and havinga pro-business attitude.is working in our greatstate,” Scott said.The new unemploymentrate — which is a dropof 0.3 percent from theprevious month — is thelowest it has been sinceSeptember 2008. There arenow an estimated 680,000Floridians out of work.Nationwide, employers added 165,000 jobs inApril, and the unemployment rate fell to a four-yearlow of 7.5 percent.Scott on Friday signedinto law a bill that exemptsmanufacturers from having to pay state sales taxeson equipment purchasesfor three years. The taxbreak starts in April 2014against his mother.Men rescuedisabled vetASSOCIATED PRESSA black bear sits in a tree Friday morning in Tampa. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputiesand wildlife officials shot the bear with tranquilizer darts. After two darts, he fell from the treeonto pads set out to cushion his fall. The bear later was released in a wild area.and runs until April 2017,and it is expected to savemanufacturers more than 100 million a year.Man guilty ofkilling sick wifeCLEARWATER — ATampa Bay area man hasbeen convicted of killinghis ailing wife.A Pinellas County juryfound 56-year-old AlbertCrandall guilty Thursdayof manslaughter. He hadbeen facing a more seriouscharge of second-degreemurder. He will be sentenced at a later date.Authorities say Crandallsuffocated his wife, 61year-old Judith Lee Davis,with a pillow in their St.Petersburg apartment inApril 2012 and then triedto kill himself by cuttinghis wrists.In an email to his sister,Crandall explained that hiswife had been suffering formonths, and he was overwhelmed by the medicalexpenses.Deputies: Mom,86, shoots sonLAKELAND —Authorities say an 86-yearold central Florida motherhas confessed to fatallyshooting her son in selfdefense.Polk County sheriff’sofficials said NancyPennypacker ran outsideof her home, screamingfor help Friday night.She told the deputy her64-year-old son had beendrinking and hit her in theface when the fight escalated into gunfire. WilliamPennypacker was founddead inside the home.Authorities say NancyPennypacker was shotonce. The bullet traveledthrough her finger andinto her shoulder. She ishospitalized in stable condition. Criminal chargesare not expected.Nancy Pennypackersays her son suffered fromdepression and has threatened to harm himself inthe past. He has also beenarrested in the past for batter and aggravated assaultPEOPLE IN THE NEWSPBieber will have to payfor monkey businessBERLIN — Justin Bieber will facea bill for thousands of dollars forhis pet monkey’s two-month stay atan animal sheltersince it was seizedby German customs,officials said Fridayas a deadline expiredfor him to reclaimthe animal.A spokesman forMallyMunich’s customsoffice said the teenage singer haduntil midnight Friday to contactthem, otherwise capuchin monkeyMally will be transferred to a permanent home at a zoo or animal parkelsewhere in Germany.“If no further documents arrivethen the seizure order comes intoeffect and the animal becomes theproperty of the German state,” customs spokesman Thomas Meistertold The Associated Press. Thedeadline fell after offices closedfor a three-day holiday weekendMan convicted inson’s deathJACKSONVILLE — A24-year-old man faces upto 30 years in prisonafter being convicted ofmanslaughter and childneglect in the death of his5-month-old son.Cordero AnthonyWebber will be sentencedin July.Jurors chose not toconvict him of first-degreemurder. Defense attorneyJim Hernandez said theDeputy chargedwith growing potCAPE CORAL — Asheriff’s deputy and hisgirlfriend have beencharged with growingmarijuana at their home.The Lee CountySheriff’s Office reportsthat Deputy Piotr Urbanskiand Shannon Clancey werearrested Friday morningand charged with producing marijuana, possessionof marijuana more than 20grams and possession ofdrug paraphernalia.The sheriff’s officereports that it receivedinformation Thursday thatUrbanski was cultivatingmarijuana at his CapeCoral home. The narcotics unit executed a searchwarrant and reported finding dried marijuana in thekitchen area, two pipes forsmoking marijuana and 23live plants on the lanai.n Associated PressCelebrity BirthdaysPaul McCartney kicks off tourORLANDOaul McCartney is kickingoff the North Americanleg of his “Out There” tourin Orlando.The massive production,which requires 31 trucks worth ofequipment, includes lasers, hugepyrotechnics, and state of the artvideo displays, according to the website of the former Beatles star.McCartney performed the showto a sold out crowd of 55,000 peoplein Brazil earlier this month, performing “Band on the Run”, “Hey Jude”,“Yesterday” and “Let It Be.”He was scheduled to performat Orlando’s Amway Center onSaturday and tonight. The OrlandoSentinel reports it is McCartney’sonly performance in Florida.At one point during the show,McCartney is raised 20 feet abovethe stage on a special riser as heperforms “Blackbird” and “HereToday” acoustically, according to hiswebsite.LEALMAN— Two goodSamaritans are beingpraised after authorities say they rescued adisabled veteran whosewheelchair rolled into asouthwest Florida pond.Lealman Police say 79year-old Robert Lunay wassitting in his wheelchairoverlooking a pond Fridaynight when his wheelchairslipped and he fell into thewater. Lunay is a doubleamputee.Robert Fields andNorman Steers happenedto be nearby and heardLunay calling for help.They jumped into thewater and pulled him toshore.Lunay was not injured.Lealman Fire Capt.Larry Thompson says“this could have endedtragically” if the two menhad not rushed to action.child’s mother, KierraMonet Hayes Laird, isresponsible for the abuse.He says she’s blaming hisclient to get a lesser sentence. Laird pleaded guiltylast year to child neglectcharges. She testifiedagainst Webber.Testimony suggestedthe Cordero AnthonyWebber Jr. suffered abusefor weeks before his deathin November 2011. Anautopsy showed he hadbroken ribs that were inthe process of healing andthat he had suffered multiple head injuries.n PBS newscaster JimLehrer is 79.n TV personality DavidHartman is 78.n Actor James Fox is 74.n Actress Nancy Kwan is 74.n Actor Peter Mayhew is 69.n Rock singer-composerPete Townshend (The Who)is 68.n Concert pianist DavidHelfgott is 66.n Rock singer-musicianDusty Hill (ZZ Top) is 64.n Singer-actress GraceJones is 61.n Rock musician Phil Rudd(AC-DC) is 59.n Actor Steven Ford is 57.n Rock musician Iain Harvie(Del Amitri) is 51.n Actress Polly Walker is 47.“ ”Daily Scripture“God is not unjust; He will notforget your work and the loveyou have shown Him as youhave helped his people andcontinue to help them.”— Hebrews 6:10Lake City ReporterASSOCIATED PRESSBritish musician Paul McCartney kicked off the North American leg of his “OutThere” tour in Orlando on Saturday. The massive production, which requires 31trucks worth of equipment, includes lasers, huge pyrotechnics, and state of the artvideo displays, according to the website of the former Beatles star.in Germany, and it won’t be clearbefore Tuesday whether the documents arrived.Mally was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failedto produce required vaccinationand import papers after landing inMunich while on tour.The now 20-week-old animalwas quarantined and cared for atMunich’s animal shelter, where manager Karl Heinz Joachim said Mallyhad fared well and gained weight.Longtime CBS analystKen Venturi dies at 82Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Openand spent 35 years in the booth forCBS Sports, died Friday afternoon.He was 82.His son, Matt Venturi, said he diedin a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif.Venturi had been hospitalized thelast two months for a spinal infection,pneumonia, and then an intestinalinfection that he could nolonger fight.Venturi died 11 days after he wasinducted into theWorld Golf Hall ofFame.He couldn’t makeit to the induction.His sons, Matt andTim, accepted onhis behalf after anVenturiemotional tribute byJim Nantz, who worked alongsideVenturi at CBS.“When dad did receive the election into the Hall of Fame, he had atwinkle in his eye, and that twinkleis there every day,” Tim Venturi saidthat night.Venturi captured his only major inthe 1964 U.S. Open at Congressional,the last year the final round was 36holes. 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Page Editor: Jim Barr, 754-0424LAKE CITY REPORTERNEWSSUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013 aVoting district changes up for final voteBy DEREK GILLIAMdgilliam@lakecityreporter.comProposed changes to Lake City’s votingdistricts could be finalized at the city council meeting Monday.The council will meet at 7 p.m. Mondayat City Hall and will vote for the final timeon proposed changes to the voting districtsthat would push District 12 south of U.S. 90and District 10 east of Marion Avenue.Districts 13 and 14 stand to lose somevoters, but the city’s voting districts havebecome unbalanced, with more registeredvoters in those two districts than in Districts12 and 10.At Monday’s Community RedevelopmentAgency meeting 6:45 p.m. at City Hall, aninvitation to bid on construction the WilsonPark Multi-use Pavilion is on the agenda.The scope of work and requirements forthe pavilion call for a 20-by-60-foot enclosedarea. The intended use of the pavilion is tohold community events under the coveredarea of the pavilion.In other business, city council: Will recognize the Columbia HighSchool softball team for winning the 6Astate championship. Could approve a contract to build fourracquetball courts for 175,960 at Young’sPark near Memorial Stadium.IRS: GOP sees openingContinued From Page 1AAMANDA WILLIAMSON/Lake City ReporterCommon Core conferenceColumbia High School Teacher of the Year Carrie Cooper is pictured in a breakout session during the C ommon CoreStandards conference at Florida Gateway College on Saturday. The conference included nine counties and four colleges,offering the teachers a chance to learn how to transition from Next Generation Standards to the nationwide Common CoreStandards. ‘I never look at Common Core as something new. I look at Common Core as something I should already bedoing,’ said Michele Peters from Forest High School in Ocala, instructor for Cooper’s session. ‘We need to go back to thephilosophy: If you can raise the bar, they’ll jump higher.’Oversight panel head gets toughwith Benghazi attack investigatorBy MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressWASHINGTON—The head of the HouseOversight and GovernmentReform Committee hassubpoenaed the co-chairman of the independentreview board that investigated last year’s attack onthe U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya,to answer questions aboutthe panel’s findings behindclosed doors.Rep. Darrell Issa, RCalif., said in a statementFriday that he had issuedthe subpoena to retiredveteran diplomat ThomasPickering to force himto appear at a depositionnext week. Pickering, whoco-chaired the BenghaziAccountabilityReviewBoard with a former JointChiefs of Staff chief Gen.Mike Mullen, has offeredto testify before Issa’s com-mittee in public. But Issasaid a closed-door meeting is needed first in orderfor the committee to fullyunderstand how the reviewboard conducted its investigation.“While I am very muchcommitted to having youtestify publicly and appreciate your newfound willingness to do so, I wasdisappointed that you areattempting to limit thecommittee’s understanding of the AccountabilityReview Board by refusingto participate in a voluntarytranscribed interview priorto testifying publicly,” Issasaid in a letter to Pickering.“In light of your continuing refusal to appear voluntarily for a transcribedinterview, however, I havefound it necessary to issuea subpoena to compel yourappearance at a deposition.”Issa’s letter, which wasreleased by his office, saidhe would consider liftingthe subpoena for nextThursday’s deposition ifPickering agreed to showup on his own. Issa complained that prior to a public hearing about Benghazithat he chaired last week,Pickering had refused tospeak with him and othermembers of the committee.Pickering said Sundaythat he had sent a requestthrough the White Houseto testify at Wednesday’shearing, but, “we were toldthe majority said I was notwelcome at that hearing. Icould come at some othertime.” He made his comment on NBC’s “Meet thePress.”Issa is one of severalGOP lawmakers who havesuggested the Obamaadministration is trying tocover up the circumstances and aftermath of theJOBLESS: Local rate drops in AprilContinued From Page 1Arate is slightly below thenational average of 7.5 percent.“The Sunshine State isa great place to do business, and recent legislationis ensuring that Floridawill be a top pick for siteselectors, particularly inmanufacturing industries,”Wynne said. “Job postings have increased, andwe are seeing an increaseinSTEM(Science,Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics) job postings throughout the state.”UnemploymentinFloridahassteadilydeclined since hitting 9.2percent in January 2012,according to Departmentof Economic Opportunitystatistics. However, Marchwitnessed a huge declinein the labor force fromFebruar y and a furtherdecline in the workforcefrom March to April.April’s statewide workforce totaled 9,411,000compared to 9,412,000 inMarch and 9,429,000 inFebruary.“In 2011, the BabyBoomers started to turn65,” Wynne said. “Thishas a dramatic impact onMURDER: Suspect caughtContinued From Page 1Aitems of clothing worn byBeltran, as well as the knifebelieved to have been usedin the murder.Beltran was bookedinto Hillsborough CountyJail. No bond was set, theworkforce numbers, asevery single day since Jan.1, 2011, more than 10,000people each day turned65, typically considered tobe retirement age. Thosewho are no longer seeking employment are notconsidered to be part ofthe workforce, and that hasa considerable impact onthose workforce numbers.”Sept. 11, 2012, attack onthe Benghazi outpost thatkilled the U.S. ambassadorto Libya and three otherAmericans.The review board convened by then-Secretaryof State Hillary RodhamClinton was harshly criticalof the State Department,blaming systematic leadership and managementfailures at senior levelsfor inadequate security inBenghazi. It made 29 recommendations to improvematters, and the StateDepartment has vowed toimplement all of them.Issa said numerousquestions about the reviewboard’s report remainunanswered, including itsmethodology. He notedthat the ARB conducted itswork in secret and appearsnot to have recorded ortranscribed its interviewswith witnesses.it’s that the IRS needs lesspower, not more,” Harrissaid. “As matter of fact, itturns out that the IRS official who oversaw the operation that’s under scrutinyfor targeting conservativesis now in charge of theIRS’s Obamacare office.You can’t make this stuffup.”Earlier in the week,debating the latest GOP billto try to repeal the healthcare law, Rep. MicheleBachmann, R-Minn., alsoreached for a link. Citingthe IRS role in administering the law, she said:“Under Obamacare, theaverage American will paymore, they’ll get less, andnow they have to worrythat their government maypunish them because oftheir beliefs.”Nonsense, says Rep.Sander Levin, D-Mich.,ranking Democrat onthe Ways and MeansCommittee, which oversees the IRS.“There really isn’t a tie,”said Levin. “This is anothereffort by the Republicansto essentially try to scorepolitical points.”The head of the IRShealth care office, SarahHall Ingram, was in chargeof the tax exempt divisionwhen agents first startedimproperly targeting conservative groups over theirapplications for tax-exemptstatus. The fallout hasalready led to the ouster ofacting IRS CommissionerSteven Miller, followed bythe announcement thatthe current head of thedivision will retire.But the IRS said Ingramwas re-assigned to helpthe agency implementthe health care law inDecember 2010, about sixmonths before a Treasuryinspector general’s reportsaid her subordinate, thedirector of exempt organizations, learned about thetargeting.“There isn’t any evidence that Sarah Ingramhad any inkling of theproblems,” said Levin.In contrast, Levin continued, ousted commissionerMiller failed to adequatelyinform Congress after helearned.At a congressional hearing on the IRS scandalFriday, Miller was grilledby Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio,about Ingram’s shift torunning the IRS healthcare office.Tiberi: “Why would youpromote somebody to thatposition who was in chargeof the exempt organizationdivision, which certainlyhas had some controversyover the last couple years,under an investigation?Miller: “Because she’sa superb civil servant, sir.”Tiberi: “So she had nothing to do with this?”Miller: “I wouldn’t imagine so.”GOP lawmakers aresmart to be lookingfor a connection, saidTom Davis, a formerRepublican congressmanfrom Virginia, but mustbe careful not to overplaytheir hand.The health care law “is50-50 with the public ona good day,” said Davis.“You put that togetherwith the IRS and it’s combustible. For Republicans,I think they need to go alittle slower and get somefacts in.”“I don’t think it’s just acouple of underlings, butthey don’t have any smoking gun yet,” he added.TAXES: Time to pay upContinued From Page 1Adeed has been issued, theowner will lose title to theproperty.Brannon said his officeprocessed 39 tax deedapplications in April. Theoffice processed 49 inMarch. Tax deed applications can be stopped atany time by the propertyowner paying the taxesdue, along with penalties,fees, costs and interest.A listing of the unpaidtax properties will alsoappear in the Lake CityReporter on Thursday andagain on May 30.For additional information regarding unpaidproper tytaxes,call758-1080.1IZTJDJBO "3/1 1IZTJDJBO "TTU 'BNJMZ 1SBDUJDF 1IZTJDJBO /FFEFE#BLFS PVOUZ )FBMUI %FQBSUNFOUM-F 8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.Current Florida LicenseBoard CertifiedNo on-call / hospital visitsSalary determined by experienceMalpractice Ins. covered by SOFBenefits package includedQIZTJDJBO BTTJTUBOU BSOQ OFFEFE#BLFS PVOUZ )FBMUI %FQBSUNFOU“After Hours Clinic”5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Tues. & Thurs.1 yr. Primary Care experience requiredHourly rate determined by experienceNo benefits availablePrint state of Florida Employment Application athttps://PeopleFirst.myflorida.com and send to:Baker County Health Dept., Attn: Patricia K. Conner480 W. Lowder St. Macclenny, Fl. 32063 or call (904) 653-5234934 NE Lake DeSoto Circle, Lake City, FL(Next to Courthouse)release said.Baker’s last knownemployment was as ahousekeeper at TampaGeneral Hospital, according to the HillsboroughSheriff’s Office.

OPINIONSunday, May 19, 2013OU R4Awww.lakecityreporter.comOPI N I ONLaw enforcementagencies movingin right directionNational Police Week, whichended yesterday, was wellobserved here with ceremonies and commemorationshonoring those who gave allin defense of their community.It also coincided with the annualrelease by the Florida Department of LawEnforcement of the agency’s UniformCrime Report, which measures criminalactivity throughout the state – as well aslocal agencies’ response to it. Normallythe UCR is released in late April, but thisyear it went publi

May 19, 2013 · pyrotechnics, and state of the art video displays, according to the web-site of the former Beatles star. McCartney performed the show to a sold out crowd of 55,000 people in Brazil earlier this month, perform-ing “Band on the Run”, “Hey Jude”, “Yesterday” and “Let It Be.” He was scheduled to perform at Orlando’s Amway Center on