Today's News

The former Levy County Sheriff's lieutenant who attacked and held his ex-girlfriend prisoner for 10 hours, beating and raping her, will spend 30 years in prison followed by 15 years sex offender probation with electronic monitoring.

It was an ordeal that the victim told the court had left her filled with shame, guilt, self-loathing; unable to look at a 9-mm gun and unable to be around crowds; robbed of her spark and desire in life.

“I feel I cannot trust anyone,” she said.

He’s a voracious reader, with 348 unread books on his Kindle; a consummate traveler; a man of deep faith–and as a side note, the original Amityville Horror.

Or at least that’s what Scott Lippmann laughingly called himself last week as he detailed growing up in Amityville, N.Y.–a town infamous because of the mysterious phenomena that occurred there–but also his home for the first semester of his life.

Mike holds three graduate degrees and today operates a successful farm.
Anna comes from a loving family, has traveled extensively and is self-employed.
Margo led a privileged life as the daughter of an Air Force colonel. Articulate and charismatic, she is currently disabled.
The three are different personalities, all with different life experiences and stories to share.
Truth be told because of their varied interests and lives, the odds of the trio forging friendships might be rare, but today they are.

 By Mike Capshaw