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Three different families own the location where Hamilton was injured Excavating, said Hamilton traveled to Swain County decided to vacation at the late last month to interview vate property. And his busicabin he rented because it is Sheriff Curtis Cochran, ness partner, Mark Page, a known ATV hotspot. who shut questioning down owner of Key Largo’s Page “He specifically spent a after less than two minlot of time looking for a utes. But Deputy Chief place to ride. That’s why he Jason Gardner said during came here,” Page said last the interview that stringing month after going to Swain cables across paths to keep County looking for answers people off private propinto his friend’s death. erty is common in Swain The owner of the cabin, County. Jim Clayton, said the trail Both Gardner and Upper Keys: (305) 852-3216 where the cable was slung Cochran said they don’t Marathon - Key West: (305) 743-5551 has been a popular ATV consider the wire to be a and hiking trail the past 14 booby trap. years. Clayton was up on It is not clear if any the trail just months earlier other agency is investiand never saw the cable. gating the death. Michael The 70-acre lot the Brent Culbertson, special cable borders is owned by agent in charge of the westAVERY Nina Hamberg and David ern region for the State Richard Wayne Avery, age 91, of Islamorada, FL, passed Taylor from Half Moon Bureau of Investigation, away on Sunday, August 3, Bay, Calif. Taylor could said Thursday he could not 2014. not be reached for com- answer questions from the He was born in Albion, MI on December 29, 1922 to Ida ment, and Hamberg did media. Ruth (Mitchell) and Horace not return several messag“Our current poliAvery, and served his country es seeking answers about cy does not allow us to during WWII. He has been a Pharmacist the cable. She is listed as respond to media inquifor over 40 years, and the contact on a website ries,” Culbertson said in an operated Avery’s Drug Store in called Fontanaviewnc.com, e-mail Thursday. Islamorada since 1956. Richard was predeceased by a digital brochure advertisThe North Carolina his wife, Beatrice Paula ing her land for sale. The Department of Health and Jacobitz, in 1975. phone number listed on the Human Services has yet He is survived by his partner, Angela Roberts of Islamorada, site has been disconnected. to release the results of FL; son, Doug Avery of Ocala, The Swain County Hamilton’s autopsy. FL; daughter, Diana Avery Sheriff’s Office would Myers of Chula Vista, CA; The cable still hangs daughter, Cathy Avery Cronic not provide details to the across the dirt path at the of Birmingham, AL; son, Jim Hamilton family or the top of Mountainside Drive, Avery of Wake Forest, NC; sister, Joyce Frantz; also 7 press regarding who owns a steep road that serves the grandchildren and 8 great the land where Hamilton Fontana Lake subdivision grandchildren. crashed. Services will be held at a where Hamilton, his wife abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVYXYZ<>1234567890,./-=_+:” later date in Michigan. The Reporter/Keynoter Karrissa, and his two chil• HAMILTON from 1A
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dren rented their cabin over the July 4 holiday. Shane Hamilton Jr., 10, was on the back of the ATV when it slammed into the wire. He was not hurt and ran to the cabin to get help for his father. The cable is slung a little more than 18 feet across a path, hanging about a foot off the ground. It runs between two trees located on separate properties, according to records obtained by The Reporter/ Keynoter. The white oak tree on the north side of the trail is on land owned by Charles and Francine Cavallo, who live in Jupiter, Fla. Several calls to a number listed to the Cavallos have not been returned. The poplar tree on the southern side of the path is on property owned by Christopher and Kelly Parker, who live in Canton, Ga. The Parkers also did not return a phone message from The Reporter/ Keynoter left on their voice mail Wednesday. Hamberg’s tract lies directly west on the other side of the cable. According to the Fontanaviewnc.com website, Hamberg initially wanted to sell all 70 acres of her land for $1.3 million -- or $18,500 per acre. The website goes on to say that after the recesPrinter Proof ********* sion, she lowered the overall asking price to $865,000. But as area real estate continued to suffer, Hamberg pulled the land off the market, although she holds out hope for a buyer at what she considers to be the right price. “Land is just too desirable and scarce here not to recover,” Hamberg wrote on her website.
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Another judge rules against gay marriage ban To recognize Del. marriage, after husband died BY STEVE ROTHAUS
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For the fourth time in 19 days, a South Florida judge has ruled against Florida’s gay marriage ban, this time in the probate case of a Pennsylvania widower whose husband died suddenly in Boynton Beach. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Diana Lewis on Tuesday ordered W. Jason Simpson should be personal representative in the estate of his husband, Frank Bangor, who died March 14. The two men, together 37 years, were married Oct. 23, 2013, in Delaware. In her ruling, Lewis notes that shortly after Bangor died, the state of Pennsylvania legalized gay marriage and that Florida’s anti-gay marriage laws “unnecessarily discriminate” against Simpson. The couple bought their South Florida home in 2008. To make it easier to get a bank mortgage, only Bangor’s name is on the deed, said Simpson’s attorney, Andrew “Drew” Fein of 12:22:03 PM Boca Raton. “That’s why we had to do probate,” Fein said. Florida probate law differs between residents and nonresidents. Any Florida resident can become someone’s personal representative if they are mentally and physically fit, not convicted of a felony and over age 18. Nonresidents, however, must also be “a spouse or a brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew
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or niece of the decedent” or blood relative. In 2008, about 62 percent of Florida voters supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions in the Sunshine State. Bangor’s 2005 will leaves his entire estate to Simpson and names him personal representative. Florida’s constitutional amendment prevented Bangor from being listed as married on his Palm Beach County death certificate, and Simpson from being declared his personal representative. “There is no justification in denying Mr. Simpson the privilege of acting as the fiduciary, based solely on the gender and sexual orientation of his now-deceased spouse,” Lewis wrote in her ruling. Lewis, whose opinion only applies to this case, referred to rulings in previous state and national gay marriage cases to determine the outcome. The gay-marriage battle is being waged across the nation. According to the national group Freedom to Marry, LGBT advocates have won more than 30 times in federal, state and appellate courts since June 2013, when Friday, AugustCourt 8, 2014 the U.S. Supreme ruled in favor of Edith Windsor, a lesbian widow, and threw out a key portion of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The Bangor-Simpson ruling is the first time any Florida judge has recognized an outof-state same-sex marriage, according to Daniel Tilley, a staff attorney for the ACLU of Florida, who is helping represent other married gay couples in a current federal lawsuit filed in Tallahassee. The Palm Beach case is the fourth in under three weeks to undermine Florida’s gay marriage ban.
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passed out. FHP Sgt. Pedro Reinoso dragged the 62-yearold Tavernier man out of his truck and aggressively began rendering aid and yelling at him to wake up. While on the ground, L’Hommedleu gurgled, struggled for breath and was choking on his saliva. His eyes rolled back into his head at one point. Reinoso turned L’Hommedleu on his side to clear his airway obstruction. Minutes later, medics with the Key Largo Volunteer Fire Department and the MiamiDade Fire Rescue Department arrived. The medics and Reinoso stabilized L’Hommedleu and put him into a MiamiDade ambulance, which took him to Homestead Hospital. L’Hommedleu’s condition improved once at the hospital, “in part due to the quick thinking actions of Sgt. Reinoso,” said the FHP’s Lt. Kathleen McKinney, commander of the Keys troop. “Sgt. Reinoso displayed quick thinking and reverted to his training to ensure Mr. LHommedleu’s safety,” McKinney said. “It’s the type of action we want to see from our troopers as part of their job. Sgt. Reinoso always does his best and we are fortunate to have him working in Monroe County.”
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