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Permit No. 14
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Squawk Box
Cell Phones Back
In the News
With Doug Johnston
I
hate  my  cell
phone. I don’t leave home
without it and feel lost if
for some reason I forget to
take it with me or for some
reason it isn’t working. But I
detest the fact that I have let
this instrument become so vital to my daily
life.
When cell phones first came out
I told my friends and family that I would
never own one. Seems like I recall tell-
ing people something like, “I managed to
live my life without one up until now and
I think I can make it to the finish line just
fine without one”. But as time passed and
all of my family bought one I began us-
ing their phone at events we were at and
I needed to contact someone: or someone
was trying to reach me, I gave in. Now I
am a frequent, if reluctant, user.
Last week the World Health Or-
ganization announced that cell phone use
“might” increase chances for certain types
of brain cancer. Don’t get too excited folks.
Gary Ellis of Gulf Archaeology Research Institute looks over an old handmade flintlock full stock Kentucky 36 caliber squirrel rifle at his booth
The W.H.O is the same organization that
set up at Yulee Day in Old Homosassa Saturday. The intriguing gun belongs to re-enactors Earl De Bary and his wife Bettie pictured with Ellis in
advised us to quit drinking coffee a few
their native Seminole Indian Regalia. The Yulee Sugar Mill Historic State Park is named for David Levy Yulee, Florida’s first U S Senator. Yulee
years ago and neither the American Cancer
once owned a 5000 acre plantation on the Homosassa River and was owner of the oldest sugar cane mill in Citrus County.
Society nor National Cancer Institute has
Citrus County crash Man arrested on drug charges after
Newscaster Photo/Sally Price
backed that study.
I will say this, if the study proves
to be correct, a lot of people I know and
search of Citrus Springs home
kills 80 year-old
see are in trouble. I see people with a cell
phone pressed against their ear every-
man
Continued on page 4- Squawk Box
did it only to earn extra money to get by.
From the Citrus Co. Sheriff Dept.
He said he was aware
Custom
Jonathan Ray Slaughter, 24, 9921
From Florida Higway Patrol
that deputies would be
N. Elkcam Blvd., Citrus Springs, was ar-
coming to his home,
Wood Products
A crash in Inverness, around 9:15
rested by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office,
because someone had
a.m., June 3, resulted in the death of 80 year-
May 25, when the Citrus County Sheriff’s
informed him about
old Edwin William Cobb of Inverness. The
Office’s Tactical Impact and Vice Narcot-
Home - Industry - Marine
the search the previous
crash occurred at the intersection of Harvard
ics Unit executed a search warrant at his
evening. When depu-
St. and Highlands AVe. According to a pre-
residence. During the search, several people
ties asked Slaughter
Your plans or ours
liminary investigation by the Florida High-
were inside the home, including Slaughter,
if he’d gotten rid of
way Patrol, Mr. Cobb was driving a 1994
Brandell Gates, and two minor children.
what he had because he
Chevrolet pickup truck, traveling east on
Slaughter agreed to be interviewed
50 years experience
knew the deputies were
Slaughter
E. Harvard St. Mikki Dale French, 30, also
on a back screened porch, while Yates sat
coming, Slaughter said,
of Inverness, was driving a 2011 Chevrolet
in the living room. Slaughter said deputies
several times with a smile, that he had noth-
pickup truck, traveling north on S. Highland
Wood Products Division
would not find anything in his home during
ing in his home.
St.
the search, that he only smokes marijuana,
Deputies next interviewed Gates
Mr. Cobb failed to stop for a stop
occasionally, and had no other drugs in his
Enviro Group of Florida, Inc.
on the back screened porch. Gates said he
sign on E. Harvard St., and the front of his
home. Later in the interview, Slaughter said
does not live in Slaughter’s home, and he is
vehicle struck the left side of Ms. French’s
he’s sold small amounts of cocaine in the
352-586-9598
past, but he’d not sold any recently, that he
Continued on page 8 - Drug Charges
Continued on page 3 - Fatal Crash