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Update - Forty-nine year old Dora Steed was found Friday morning by a Sea-Tow

crew on a small island about a mile and a half from where she disappeared Thursday. The

U.S. Coast Guard said she was found on Green Key, a small uninhabited island. She ap-

peared to be okay, but was taken to a local hospital to be checked out.

Original story - Search crews were continuing their search near St. Martin s Key,

Homosassa for a woman that went missing while scalloping with her husband. The call

came into the U.S. Coast Guard just before 6 pm. Thursday after the husband reported being

separated from the couple s boat while diving for scallops. He said when he returned to the

boat, his wife was no where to be found. Units from the Citrus County Sheriff Dept., FWC,

U.S. Coast Guard and others continued their search at dawn Friday.

Man drowns in Yankeetown Gulf, July 4th

A festive holiday ended tragically when an area resident drowned in the Gulf of

Mexico, July 4th, near the Yankeetown boat ramp. At 8:45 pm, 43 year-old Allen L. Strick-

land of Homosassa drowned while swimming from the boat ramp to one of the nearby small

islands in the gulf.

According to Lt. Scott Tummond with the Criminal Investigation Division of the

Levy County Sheriff s Office, "Strickland had a habit of drinking excessively and going

swimming. This is not the first time. He wasn t able to swim to his destination point and,

K P Hole County Park on the Rainbow River north of Dunnellon has been a favored swimming

unfortunately, drowned." Lt. Tummond said no foul play is suspected.

hole for over 60 years. K P was all that was needed to identify the spot at 9435 SW 190 Ave

Rd. When this memorial was added it gave history to the name. K P stands for Knights of

Pythias, a fraternal organization and the local Lodge 41 occupied the property for recreation

until it sold to Marion County in 1952 and dedicated as a public park Dec. 5, 1953. FCB on

the monument stands for the Pythan motto Friendship, Charity and Benevolence. In one year

48 Hwy. 19 S. at Hickory Island

70,000 people visited the park and almost 35,000 floated down river from the K P Hole the 6

mile trip just under 1 mph. Photo/story by Sally Price.

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christ and Alachua Counties, Gray and Turner were identified as suspects. Victims were able

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to identify their property from photographs taken by investigators. Detectives also found

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a location in Otter Creek where the couple had been stashing some of the stolen property.

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