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NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE - The

state has launched more than 900 investigations into deaths in Florida prisons over a fi ve-year span, with causes ranging from overdoses to homicides, a

Florida Department of Law

Enforcement o? cial said

Wednesday.

More than 50% of the

investigations - 488 out of

924 - involved deaths from

natural causes or accidents, according to Jennifer

Cook Pritt, an assistant

commissioner with the

Florida Department of Law

Enforcement.

"Most inmate accidental deaths were due to drug overdoses," Pritt told the Senate Criminal and Civil

Justice Appropriations

Subcommittee on Wednesday.

But Pritt noted a steep

decline in the number of inmates who died from natural or accidental causes.

By SCOTT LAWSON

VENICE GONDOLIER EDITOR

VENICE - A hand sticking

out from a passenger window almost completely submerged in a Venice waterway got the attention of two strangers heading out to relax on Roberts Bay.

Inside the car, an 81-year-old

Sarasota resident struggled

with hypothermia, disorienta- tion and dwindling oxygen.

She slowly splashed her hand

from side to side against the few inches open of the passen- ger window - which she also used to breathe - until she was rescued.

She"d been in there, ap-

parently, since about 10 p.m.

Wednesday night. She was

pulled out about 7:30 a.m.

Thursday morning.

And she didn"t have much

time left. "Her odds were against her," Venice Fire Chief Shawn

Carvey said Thursday after-

noon. "The tide was coming in ... that 6-8 inches of water was going to be underwater pretty quickly."

Carvey praised the two men

who noticed the situation and "did all the right things" when it came to mounting a rescue without emergency o? cials involved.

It helped that both of them

had experience as previous emergency workers.GOOD SAMARITANS

Rob Goodman, of Venice, was

hoping to go fi shing from his kayak near Higel Marine Park when he noticed the form of the white Volkswagen GTI peeking By DAVE COLLINS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARTFORD, Conn. - Colleges

are becoming a battleground in the confl ict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies.In states where medical marijuana is legal, students disciplined for using it are taking their schools to court.

College o? cials argue they

could lose federal funding for failing to follow federal law that labels cannabis an illegal drug with no accepted medical use.

Sheida Assar said she was expelled from GateWay

Community College in Phoenix

last month for violating the school"s drug policy after she tested positive for marijuana, which she uses to treat chronic pain from polycystic ovary syndrome.

She was studying diagnostic

medical sonography, Assar said, and an instructor had told her she wouldn"t have any problems if she presented her

Arizona medical marijuana

card. She typically uses marijuana to help her sleep and had never been under the infl uence in class, she said.

How are our

prisoners dying?

Most inmate

accidental deaths are from drug overdoses

By ANNE EASKER

STAFF WRITER

PUNTA GORDA - The

Florida Department of

Corrections recently told

lawmakers overdoses make up the majority of "accidental" deaths in Florida prisons.

Those numbers also hold up

locally.

Charlotte Correctional

Institution, south of Punta

Gorda, has seven inmate deaths

classifi ed as accidental since

2013, all of which are known to be drug overdoses. Most

recently, Jason Nawara, 40, died from synthetic cannabinoid toxicity on Aug. 18. The cause of the most recent death of Donnell

Johnson, 53, on Sept. 26 has not

yet been released due to the ongoing investigation.

In that same time frame,

Desoto Annex had two

accidental deaths, both of which were overdoses.

Kathy Dalton, the mother of

Patrick Dalton, a prisoner at

INSIDE

Our View: State must

eliminate drugs in prisons.

See page 7CPrison overdose trend

happening regionally

SEE DYING, 4ASEE REGIONALLY, 4A

Medical pot on campus:

Colleges say no and face lawsuits

Conflict between federal and state marijuana laws playing out

AP PHOTO

In this photo, college student

Sheida Assar poses for a

photo in Chandler, Arizona.

SEE LAWSUITS, 4A

'She had very little air left" Good Samaritans help save Sarasota resident trapped in water-filled car for hours

PHOTO PROVIDED

Venice Fire Department took a photograph of a Volkswagen in the water at Roberts Bay in Venice on Thursday morning. The woman in the vehicle was trapped from about 10 p.m. Wednesday until 7:15 a.m. Thursday.

We pulled her out

and I held her until rescue got here.Ž

Rob Goodman

Venice resident

"She had very little air left ... I got down there and thank God the door was open."

Ed Coster

Venice resident,

retired ? re? ghter "The tide was coming in ... that 6-8 inches of water was going to be underwater pretty quickly."

Shawn Carvey

Venice Fire Department chief

SEE GOOD, 4A

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from the Venice

Fire Department

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Today is Friday, Oct. 25, the

298th day of 2019. There

are 67 days left in the year.

Senate sends Patriot

Act to President Bush

On Oct. 25, 2001, a day

after the House signed on, the Senate sent President

Bush the U-S-A Patriot Act,

a package of anti-terror measures giving police sweeping new powers to search people"s homes and business records secretly and to eavesdrop on telephone and computer conversations.

On this date

In 1760, Britain"s King

George III succeeded his

late grandfather, George II.

In 1812, the frigate USS

United States, commanded

by Stephen Decatur, captured the British vessel

HMS Macedonian during

the War of 1812.

In 1854, the "Charge of the

Light Brigade" took place

during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men charged the

Russian army, suffering

heavy losses.

In 1910, "America the

Beautiful," with words by

Katharine Lee Bates and

music by Samuel A. Ward, was first published.

In 1954, a meeting of

President Dwight D.

Eisenhower"s Cabinet was

carried live on radio and television.

In 1962, during a meeting

of the U.N. Security

Council, U.S. Ambassador

Adlai E. Stevenson II

demanded that Soviet

Ambassador Valerian

Zorin confirm or deny the

existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba;

Stevenson then presented

photographic evidence of the bases to the Council.

In 1983, a U.S.-led force

invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald

Reagan, who said the

action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.

In 1994, Susan Smith of

Union, South Carolina,

claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in

John D. Long Lake, and was

convicted of murder).

In 1999, golfer Payne

Stewart and five others

were killed when their

Learjet flew uncontrolled

for four hours before crashing in South Dakota;

Stewart was 42.

Today"s birthdays

Actress Marion Ross is 91.

Basketball Hall of Famer

Bob Knight is 79. Pop

singer Helen Reddy is 78.

Author Anne Tyler is 78.

Rock singer Jon Anderson

(Yes) is 75. Singer Taffy

Nivert (Starland Vocal

Band) is 75. Rock musician

Glenn Tipton (Judas

Priest) is 72. Actor Brian

Kerwin is 70. Actor Mark

L. Taylor is 69. Actress

Nancy Cartwright (TV:

"The Simpsons") is 62.

Rock musician Chad Smith

(Red Hot Chili Peppers;

Chickenfoot) is 58. Actress

Tracy Nelson is 56. Actor

Michael Boatman is 55.

Actor Kevin Michael

Richardson is 55. Actor

Mathieu Amalric is 54. Rock

musician Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies) is 49.

Actress Persia White is 49.

Actor Craig Robinson is 48.

Actor Michael Weston is 46.

Actress Mariana Klaveno

is 40. Actor Ben Gould is

39. Actor Josh Henderson

is 38. Rhythm-and-blues singer Young Rome is 38.

Pop singer Katy Perry is 35.

Singer Ciara is 34.

Bible verse

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."

PROVERBS 20:1.

Alcohol specializes in

making fools. Be wise and keep your life pure from this mocker that destroys homes, jobs and lives.

By JILL LAWLESS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON - British

Prime Minister Boris

Johnson has finally

abandoned his promise of an October Brexit and pinned his hopes on a

December election.

Two days after lawmak-

ers stymied Johnson"s latest attempt to pass his

European Union divorce

deal, he said Thursday that the only way to break

Britain"s Brexit impasse

was a general election.

Johnson said he would ask

lawmakers to vote Monday on a motion calling a national poll for Dec. 12.

To hold an election

Johnson must win a vote

- by a two-thirds major- ity - among lawmakers.

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