The Levy County Citizen in November 2021 combined two longstanding newspapers — the Chiefland Citizen and Williston Pioneer — to become a newspaper that serves the entire county.
is believed stolen. i m back to the pain medicine now. i m fighting it. i m fighting it. i don t want to take it. reporter: two weeks ago she had a spinal cord stimulator surgically inserted just above her hip. the device sends electrical impulses up her spine to block the pain messages before they reach her brain. two days ago her doctor s programmed that stimulator and gave her a hand-held controller that looks like this. wednesday she was sitting on a bench next to the shady grove adventist emergency center in germantown when it disappeared along with her purse. her daughter had come to pick her up. she had some bags in her hands that she had gotten from the pharmacy and i thought that she had her purse in with the bags. so we got in the car. reporter: minutes later she realized her purse was missing. they returned, searched both inside and out, alerted security, but the purse was not found. because the stimulator was on a high sitting wilkins said she had no choic
shape now than it was about an hour and a half ago when the inner loop was closed. that situation has been fixed. glad you re with us. it s friday morning. i m steve chenevey. i m maureen umeh. the inner loop was shut down overnight just prior to georgia avenue after a deadly crash. police say a car slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer. we are going to get an update on the situation from julie wright in just a moment. but first, we want to get a look at your weather with mr. tony perkins. good morning to you. good wering, everybody. we ll tell you about some changes that we had for today. there are no surprises. this is all expected. take a look at vipir. there are some rain showers out there. they are all to our south as expected. there is some heavy rain in south and central portions of virginia, some very heavy rainfall down there. even richmond has seen some heavy rain already this morning. so if you are traveling south towards richmond or particularly beyond ri
now to today s top story. the best d.c. teachers could be in line for thousands of dollars in perks. that s a new plan to encourage high level teachers to transfer to poor performing schools. maureen umeh has details. up to $10000 a year for some teachers. a city council chairman proposed the idea, but some are wondering if it could hurt schools that already producing great results? the proposed program would focus on four low performing schools in d.c. some teachers considered highly effective would be offered a package to pack up their classrooms and head for schools in need of help. council brown is helping to get city leaders to sign on to the deal. the teachers union commends his efforts, but they want to make the incentives fair and available to the highly effective teachers already in low performing schools. meantime, some parents who have their kids in high performing schools worry the plan may not be the best move. once you do have good teachers in place, i fee
largo, upper moral bro, south of 50 in prince george s county we have a few sprinkles. a little bit warmer. look out to west. clear skies. plenty of time to cool down. 37 in cumberland. not as cold as yesterday morning. temperatures very similar to yesterday afternoon. 57 for the high. a lot of sunshine. tomorrow sunshine, upper 50 s. low 60 s and sunny by thursday. lisa, how is our commute so far? so far so good. we do have wet pavement and wet and slippery leaves. be careful. on the belt way, we take you live on the geico traffic center camera. they are doing some paving so you cannot exit from 495 west, the outer loop on to 29. you either exit early or take the next exit, georgia avenue. we will take you next to virginia where things are quiet. 95. 6 nothing complicated. we ll 66, nothing complicated. appreciate it, lisa. 4:32. we begin a developing story from d.c.. that s where police are searching for suspects after a shooting in georgetown. police say a man was sh