The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • B3

Orlando Sentinel FINAL FRIDAY, B3 Regional Report best bet Around Central Florida A Leesburg man, Vincent Grosser, is the first $10 million winner in the Florida Billion Dollar Blockbuster scratch-off game. OrlandoSentinel.com/mrlucky 10 million reasons to scratch for cash During Winter Park Paint Out, Albin Polasek Museum Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola plans a 10 a.m.-noon watercolor demonstration and a 1-3 p.m. pastel demonstration Free. 407-647-6294. 27 seek Seminole bench seat 2 Twenty-seven people have applied for the circuit court seat in Seminole County left vacant when James E.C.

Perry was named to the Florida Supreme Court last month. Among the applicants are Jeffrey Deen, Michael Gotschall, Susan Prine Pierce, Winston Anthony Randolph McClean Jr. and Melanie Chase, daughter of retired Circuit Judge Thomas G. Freeman of Altamonte Springs. A committee, the Judicial Nominating Commission, must now narrow the list and recommend finalists to Gov.

Charlie Crist. Stutzman Man killed during home invasion 3 Deputies said two suspects armed with a long-barrel weapon burst into a south Orange County home Thursday morning and shot one of the residents to death. Orange County Office investigators said the victim is a 38-year-old man who lived in the residence on Rose Boulevard. They have not released his name. Preliminary reports show the suspects knocked on the door and yelled open the sometime after 1 a.m.

The suspects rushed inside and fatally shot the victim, reports show. Several men live at the residence. Prieto and Walter Pacheco Jurors convict pharmacy operator The Internet-pharmacy owner who represented himself in federal court in Orlando on drug and money-laundering charges was convicted Thursday. Jurors found Jude LaCour, 36, formerly of Volusia County, guilty of dozens of counts of distribution of controlled substances and transactional money laundering. LaCour and four codefendants three doctors and one pharmacist each were accused of playing a criminal role in the Volusia County-based Jive Network, which LaCour owned.

During closing arguments this week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Gabledescribed LaCour as the whose plan was to make as much money as possible. Investigators said Jive Network took in more than $77mil- lion in a few years. LaCour said it about the money. L.

Edwards Winter Springs cop injured 4 AWinter Springs police officer was hit in the neck with shrapnel Thursday evening as he trained at a gun range in Geneva, authorities said. The officer, whose name was not released, received a minor injury during live-fire training, said Lt. Dave Williams of Seminole County Fire Rescue. He was taken to South Seminole Hospital in Longwood as a precaution. The injury stop the class from continuing.

Seminole County spokeswoman Kim Cannaday said such injuries are not unusual at the range, operated by Seminole Community College. Jacobson Gun found school locked down 5 Memorial Middle School in west Orlando was put on lockdown Thursday after a sixth-grader took a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun to class. An officer learned from another student about the gun and separated the suspect from other children about 9 a.m. A gun was found in the backpack, and detectives determined it was stolen. The teen was taken to the juvenile-assessment center and faces several firearms charges.

Mariano Woman now says man rape her 6 The woman who was said she was raped by a man she met on MySpace.com now says the sex was consensual, Orlando police said Thursday. The woman, 21, told officers this week that the man raped her when she went to his apartment on Westgate Drive. The woman told officers she met the man, 25, on the popular social-networking site April 20 and began talking to him on the phone and via e-mail. When she met him at his apartment Tuesday, she said he raped her. Prieto Lifer indicted in prison slaying 7 Astate prisoner accused of stabbing another prisoner to death April16 at the Tomoka Correctional Institution, west of Daytona Beach, was indicted Thursday on a first-degree murder count by a Volusia County grand jury.

Dexter L. Bridges, 46, who was serving a life sentence for attempted first-degree murder, was stabbed with a makeshift knife in a dorm at the facility. Taylor 1 MILES 50 4 4 95 95 SANFORD A jury Thursday evening concluded Lynx did nothing wrong and, thus, awarded no money to the family of a 71-year-old man who suffered a brain injury when he was hit by a bus. Robert Lee Jones, 71, a former factory worker from Sanford, never recovered from the crash, according to family attorneys. He died 15 months later of unrelated causes, but after the crash, had to live in hospitals, a rehabilitation center or nursing home.

He was on foot Sept.26, 2003, when he was hit about 9:40 p.m. in Midway, a predominantly black community just east of Sanford. His daughter, Gwendolyn Gill, sued Lynx, Central regional transit agency, demanding more than $100,000 in damages. Her attorney, Christopher Reed, on Thursday told jurors that bus driver Andres Rosado a stop sign as he turned from Midway Avenue onto Granby Street and struck Jones at about 20 mph. But defense attorney Joseph Amos Jr.

said there was no evidence the driver failed to stop. According to the Florida Highway Patrol crash report, there was no evidence he did anything wrong. He was not ticketed. Jurors deliberated four hours Thursday before returning their verdict about 8:30 p.m. Rene Stutzman can be reached at or 407-650-6394.

Jury: Lynx not at fault for fatal pedestrian crash By Rene Stutzman SENTINEL STAFF WRITER WKMG-Channel 6 said Thursday that it will shake up the way it presents local news, starting Monday. The CBS affiliate will drop its 4, 5 and 5:30 p.m. newscasts and shift to an hour of news at 6 p.m. weekdays. CBS Evening News With Katie Couric will move ahalf-hour later, to 7 p.m.

Dr. Phil will be seen at 5. WKMG also cut staff. Several sources put the number between 15 and 20, but WMKG General Manager Skip Valet said he confirm any number. department had some staff he said.

The changes come in the wake of a hit the station took earlier this year when a new ratings system went into effect. Valet said a 6 p.m. one-hour newscast has the potential to reach more viewers who are arriving home from work or are delayed by traffic. done research. Viewers are not available at 4.

Before 6, very tough to actually bring the news to WKMG will market the new newscast as 6:00 News Get the Whole a hard-news Valet said. cutting out all the repetition, all the Valet said there would be major anchor He said anchors change time periods, and he knocked down speculation that morning anchor Lauren Rowe might return to evenings. Valet said he would not be both general manager and news director. news-director job is more than a full-time Valet said. have adynamic, smart news he said of Steve Hyvonen.

Hal Boedeker can be reached at or 407-420-5756. Read TV Guy blog at OrlandoSentinel.com/tvguy. WKMG cuts staff, plans 1-hour 6 p.m. newscast Starting Monday: 3 p.m.: The Doctors 4: Extra 4:30: Inside Edition 5: Dr. Phil 6: The 6:00 News 7: CBS Evening News With Katie Couric 7:30: Inside Edition New lineup By Hal Boedeker SENTINEL TELEVISION CRITIC For more than 20 years, Judith Leekinlied to New York child-welfare workers so that she could adopt and abuse special-needs children, eventually moving the kids to Florida and subjecting them to house of while pocketing $1.68 million meant for their care.

Now, with Leekin sentenced to 20 years in prison, attorneys for 10 of those children are suing the city of New York and various child-welfare agencies, claiming that they failed to monitor the children and verify the most basic information, including identity. is the most horrific case of child abuse ever seen, and seen a said Fort Lauderdale civil-rights attorney Howard Talenfeld, who is representing the plaintiffs. 20 years, those kids go to school; they go to a doctor; they grow normally; they have a life. They were The suit, filed Thursday, seeks unspecified damages and says the plaintiffs will require for the rest of their lives due to severe psychological They are in their late teens and early 20s. One, who lived briefly in Orlando after arrest, is now homeless, Talenfeld said.

According to the suit, the children were placed in care from 1986 to 1994 under a variety of aliases and Social Security numbers. Of 22 children who came and went over the years, 10 were adopted the sole purpose of collecting the special-needs subsidies provided for their The children were beaten, handcuffed, zip- and kept locked in a basement or garage, the suit says. Several lost most of their teeth to decay and were near starvation when they were discovered. Sharman Stein, a spokeswoman for the Administration for Services in New York, said the city to vigorously defend this She said her agency did to aid in prosecution. Leekin, now 64 and in prison for fraud and child abuse, was arrested in July 2007 after police found one of her malnourished children wandering around.

Wire services were used in this report. Kate Santich can be reached at 407-420-5503 or 10 adopted kids suing over years of abuse by mom now in prison By Kate Santich SENTINEL STAFF WRITER For more information, call 850-921- 7529or visit flalottery.com. 296-19-36-50-59 Powerball13 Power Play jackpot multiplier5 (does not apply to top jackpot; is always 5X for $200,000 jackpot) Florida Powerball winners: 0with 5 1with 5 4with 4 125with 4 203with 3 3 2 1 291-3-9-11-22-26 0with 6 numbers ($3 0with 6 numbers ($2 2with 6 numbers ($1 157with 5 4 3 $3 Play jackpot May $2 Play $1 Play Fantasy 3010-11-28-33-35 Fantasy 296-8-10-19-22 6with 5 427with 4 3 2 numbersticket Mega 284-5-16-20 Megaball4 Cash afternoon0-6-6 Cash night5-9-5 Play afternoon0-1-4-9 Play night5-7-4-2 Lottery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Product: OSZZBS PubDate: 05-01-2009 Zone: MET Edition: ROP Page: User: wmiller Time: Color:.