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104th year. No. 187, Jul. 6, 2009 75 Cents HEALTHY AND READY CITY PLANS REJUVENATION OF HI LA MAN GOLF COURSE 3A PCI I Hofoncio linomort Mncoc MrfVaw in 5tn for 15tn maJr title gained experience despite injury Sports IB Sports IB .4 Promoting democracy since 1905 MWMM Monday, July 6, 2009 Tallahasseecom 75 Cents EPIC WIMBLEDON WIN tZfimiy Roger Federer edges Andy Roddick Breaking news wmm maf State-run Citizens Property Insurance faces tough fiscal choices cheaper premiums. Its choice won't be final.

State regulators make that call for rates that go into effect in January. The state-run Citizens' Board of Governors faces competing interests: Increased financial soundness against individual rates. covered by Citizens. But lawmakers barely considered that actuar-ially-sound rates could mean reductions in some parts of the state. Now regulators and a committee of the board differ on how to put the new law into practice.

Please see CITIZENS, 2A By Paul Flemmlng FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU The Citizens Property Insurance board will decide Wednesday how to move toward greater financial soundness, including a proposal to reject rate cuts for policyholders to get there faster and cost some ratepayers thousands in Go to Tallahassee, com and keep the conversation going. For three years the Legislature has frozen rates for the state's largest property insurer. Without action, rates for Citizens policyhold Citizen-soldiers say goodbye Deployment under way for National Guard company hiih ers would have jumped up, in some cases as much as 400 percent, in January. But lawmakers passed a bill to cap annual increases at 10 percent and set out a "glide path" to rates that accurately reflect what computer models indicate is appropriate for the $415 billion risk Wii deployed with the 114th in 2005 before the birth of his 2-year-old daughter Jeanette. "If something happens to me, I am leaving something Please see GUARD, 2A send-off Downtown GetDown photos Downtown GetDown Web cam galleries Capitol Tea Party fc.

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599-2225 NEWS Ttf HOTLINE 850-5993233 TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT 104th year. No. 187, Jul. 8, 2009 75 Cents A Gannett newspaper Cupfcht 2009 Wilkin! Moment I HP JI i r. i I 9 By Amanda Nalley DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER MARIANNA "Any load, any where.

Drive it like you stole it," shouted the 67 men and women of the Florida Army National Guard 144th Transportation Company of Marianna before being released for lunch during a deployment ceremony Sunday at the Max L. Thomas National Guard Armory in Marianna. The group will be combined with the 1218th Transportation Company out of West Palm Beach, with 114 soldiers deploying, as well as several other smaller units from around Florida. Together, they are the Composite Rough Terrain Heavy-Medium Truck Company. "We are going to drive everything with wheels on it from point A to said 1st Lt.

Scott Peterson, commander of both units while overseas. Even though their yearlong deployment officially started Sunday, the group doesn't leave Marianna until Wednesday. From here it will head to Camp Atterbury, for a month of final training before heading overseas. Several members of the 144th have been overseas before when the unit was deployed the summer of 2005. The unit provided convoy security for vehicles moving troops and sup- -v ifJr y.

View a photo gallery from the ceremony. "It's a lot harder this time," said Staff Sgt. Titus Godwin, who AT. PHIL SEARSDemocrat Spc. Marcus Bruner of Quincy gets some hugs from nieces C.J.

and Bree-Anna Bruner, ages 3 and 4, after the Florida Army National Guard's 144th Transportation Company deployment ceremony ended Sunday at the National Guard Armory In Marianna. About 70 soldiers In the company will be leaving for training July 8 prior shipping off to Iraq. Democrat files Laurvetta Grlmsley-McLawrence holds a photo of her daughter, All Gllmore.who disappeared from her home Feb. 2, 2006. Search goes on for Ali Gilmore By Stephen D.

Price FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU One poster of Ali Gilmore remains in a garden in the cul-de-sac where she lived before she disappeared three years ago. The house she owned with her husband on Loraine Court was foreclosed and has new owners. Though the physical signs of Gilmore are dissipating, neighbors and family members have not forgotten and new police detectives continue to investigate the case. "Someone knows something," said Gilmore's sister, Tracy Smith. "No one just disappears.

No one wants to snitch until it happens to their family." Not much more is known now about Gilmore since she vanished on that stormy night sometime after 11 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006. Police confirmed she received a call late that night, but won't say who it was. Gilmore's car was left in her driveway, a set of work keys still in her purse in the car, but her house keys were gone.

The house was locked except for a side window in a spare bedroom. No Please see GILMORE, 2A JULY4TH! JL HURRY! IULY6! The veakenc! in photos View these and other galleries on Tallahassee.com: y-j JL' -pp. plies in Iraq. Two soldiers were awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained and 14, soldiers were awarded the Bronze Star, awarded for heroism or meritorious achievement. Photos by PHIL SEARSDemocrat -iff yv yj 7p rQ rJ Celebrate America Celebrate America fan cam Reader Fourth of July photos National Guard ri i- 1,3 "ft IT fAUMiMMt OPEN Hi Trk 1 v- WTO Jkiiilnl.rJIUlTI fH i'uB' ffins SALE ENDS Vr' amaiiTuBaaasj as mokday.