U.S. HIGHWAY 19 OPEN TO THROUGH TRAFFIC IN CITRUS COUNTY
The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office has announced that U.S. Highway 19 has been opened to through traffic in the area of today’s early-morning shooting near the Sonic drive-thru in downtown Crystal River.
The agency’s investigation into the shooting incident continues.
A man who was wandering into traffic was fatally shot by Citrus County Sheriff’s Deputies this morning. After being asked to get out of the road deputies sent their K9 Mito to convince him to. The man then stabbed Mito and charged at the officers. That is when he was fatally shot.
The details are still coming in but you can follow the story on our main Citrus County News pages
Senator Charles Dean (R) didn’t like people questioning his authority when he was Citrus County Sheriff. Now as our Senator people will question him.
Enough people raised questions this week that County Commissioner Anthony Schembri has decided to have the state look into the matter of Sen. Dean’s New Barn.
Schembri said of the action he was taking, “In response to the questions being raised about the agricultural exemptions on Sen. Charles Dean’s barn, given the issues that have come up, I am taking what I consider an appellate step, and I am asking the Secretary of the Department of Community Affairs, Tom Pelham, to give us an opinion on the case.” County officials will forward details of the case to Pelham for review but do not expect an immediate response.
It’s about time that lawmakers found out that they are not above the law and can’t do whatever they like. If the state rules that this is not a barn but a residence I hope that they make him pay all of the fines that everyday citizens would have too.
Crystal River, Fla. – The Florida Lottery said Thursday that there were three winners in the Fantasy 5 Game Wednesday March 4th . Each of them will collect $81,727.67 each, the Florida Lottery said Thursday.
The winning tickets were bought in Crystal River, Miami and Telogia, lottery officials stated.
Other winners were as follows:
Wednesday night’s numbers were 1-15-17-23-32.
Is quiet Citrus County turning more violent? Is the crime rate going up? Is this all just a sign of the times?
Wednesday morning around 4:40 am an Inverness man reported being shot in the shoulder by an unknown assailant. Then just before 5:00 am on the other side of Inverness, a man reportedly stumbles into an all night restaurant on Hwy 41.
He had been slashed in the neck and wrist with a knife or some kind of cutting instrument and was airlifted to Tampa Bay’s St. Joseph’s Hospital for treatment. In the man’s own words, he told authorities he’d been the victim of a robbery on the Withlacoochee State Trail in the vicinity of the Mossy Oak mobile home park nearby.
Please reply below with your comments and opinions of the crime in Citrus County.
Wow, it’s cold out.
How did I teleport north? I thought Citrus County was in Florida. Last night in Homosassa the temperature was 32° at 8:45 pm. Right now at 6:30 am the temperature is 19°!
Originally I am from Michigan and I could very easily get used to this weather. However, if we are going to have to put up with it we might as well get snow. Hey now, you should call me those things, it’s not nice.
Seriously it has been really cold the last couple of weeks, but they say it is going to warm up by the weekend. We should see temps in the mid 70′s Saturday and Sunday. Which personally I think that kind of weather is perfect.
After having these sub freezing conditions it will be nice to get out of the house this weekend. Maybe visit a park or wander around the flea markets. Just to get out and enjoy yourselves while it lasts. I don’t think that we have seen the last of the cold weather yet.
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Compact fluorescent light bulbs can be disposed of during the Household Hazard Waste Collection site on Saturday January 24, 2009 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am at the Citrus County Central Landfill.
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Hazardous Materials Awareness Week Promotes the Safe Use and Disposal of Compact Fluorescent Lamps
Compact fluorescent lamps are small fluorescent light bulbs that can be screwed into a regular light socket. They use about 75 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. However, these money and energy saving lamps contain a very small amount of potentially hazardous mercury. Read the rest…
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