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STATE BRIEFS
Florida man shot by
anthopltles dies
SAVANNAH (AP) - A
Florida man who was shot
after trying to run over a
deputy has died at a hospi
tal.
Steven J. Ervin, 53, of Fort
White, Fla., led law enforce
ment officers on a chase that
started in northern Bryan
County and ended Monday
morning on Interstate 16 in
Bulloch County.
The chase began around
2 a.m. Monday, when two
Bryan County deputies and
a Pembroke police officer
responded to a report of a
suspicious car in a neigh
borhood. The officers spot
ted and tried to pull over a
car matching the vehicle’s
description. But the car did
not stop and a chase ensued
through northern Bryan
County into Bulloch County.
At one point, Ervin’s car hit
a Bryan County cruiser, said
John Edwards, special agent
in charge of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation’s
Statesboro office.
In Bulloch County, Ervin’s
car spun to a stop. When a
deputy got out of a cruiser
and tried to make an arrest,
Ervin turned car toward the
deputy, Edwards said. That’s
when lawmen fired on the
car, Edwards said.
Ervin was transported to
Memorial Health University
Medical Center, where he
died Tuesday.
An autopsy will be con
ducted, Edwards said.
New polling system
gets high marks
ATLANTA (AP) - Only
nine of the state’s 3,000 vot
ing precincts experienced
problems serious enough
Tuesday to prompt election
officials to keep the polls
open beyond the closing
time.
All the problems were
blamed on poll workers, said
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Kara Sinkule, spokeswoman
for the Secretary of State’s
office, which oversees the
state’s elections.
Four precincts in Fulton
County, four in Gwinnett
and one in Hall County
stayed open past the 7 p.m.
voting deadline _ some for
only a few minutes.
“On a typical election
day, you have poll-worker
malfunctions that hap
pen throughout the state,”
Sinkule said. “Overall, we’ve
had a good election day,
though.”
Meanwhile, Georgia elec
tion officials gave high marks
to a new electronic system
used for the first time to
check in voters at polling
places. A handful of glitches
associated with the electron
ic poll books _ a comput
erized check-in system that
replaced paper lists of voters
that poll workers used in the
past _ also were chalked up
as poll-worker error.
While some poll workers
on Tuesday said the new
system made getting voters
to the polls quicker and easi
er, some reported slowdowns
at times.
“There were no malfunc
tions with the equipment,
but different poll workers
had different comfort lev
els with it,” Sinkule said.
“Some counties did better
jobs training their poll work
ers than others _ that’s why
you roll these things out in
a kind of light election, so
you have a little room for
poll workers to gain confi
dence.”
The new devices allow poll
workers to instantly verify
that voters are registered
and at the correct polling
place and immediately tell
the workers which ballot the
voters should receive.
In the past, poll workers
had to search for the cor
rect ballot for each voter
and crosscheck the voter’s
address for various state,
local and congressional dis
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Ga. Midshipman
testimony ending
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The former star quarterback
of the U.S. Naval Academy’s
football team offered senior
officers graphic details of
a sexual encounter he had
with a fellow midshipman
Tuesday.
Midshipman Lamar S.
Owens Jr., 22, of Savannah,
testified in his own defense
at a court-martial that
threatens to end his military
career.
“The sex was very quick
and there wasn’t a lot of
romance,” testified Owens,
who is cnarged with rape,
conduct unbecoming an offi
cer and failure to obey a law
ful order.
If convicted, Owens could
face a sentence of life in
prison. On the seventh day
of his trial, Owens told
the panel assembled at the
Washington Navy Yard that
his accuser initiated their
Jan. 29 encounter when she
sent him a computerized
instant message in the pre
dawn hours from her room
one floor below his in the
academy’s Bancroft Hall.
“She invited me to her
room,” said Owens. He tes
tified that when he went to
his accuser’s darkened room,
she tugged on his sweater
and indicated she wanted
him to join her on her bed.
While there was foreplay,
“there was no kissing,”
Owens told the court.
The encounter ended
abruptly after a few minutes
when his accuser became
still and unresponsive. “It
was the most bizarre thing
that’s ever happened to me,”
said Owens. He testified
that realizing that his accus-
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er’s roommate was sleeping
about ten feet away “just
added to the weirdness of
the situation.”
During more than 90 min
utes of testimony he repeat
edly described the incident
as “sex gone bad.”
The Associated Press is
not identifying the woman
because she is an alleged vic
tim of a sexual assault. She
testified last week that she
resisted Owens’ advances,
and protested that she had
a boyfriend. But Owens has
insisted the sex was consen
sual.
Both midshipmen have •
testified that they had sever
al drinks at separate clubs in
Annapolis and Baltimore in
the hours before returning
to their dormitory. Owens
first met his accuser during
the summer following his
freshman year as she pre
pared to enter the academy
as a plebe.
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DOROTHY NELL EGGLER :
EGGLER - Dorothy Nell Eggler, 78, of Orange Park
passed away suddenly July 2. She was pieceded in death by
her husband, Fred L. Eggler. She had been an active mem
ber of the Women of the Moose in Warner Robins for over
30 years and had retired from Civil Service as a military
court reporter at Robins Air Force Base. She was also a
member of O.P United Methodist Church. She was a loving
mother and grandmother who cared deeply for her friends.
She was a talented, witty, caring lady who enjoyed cooking,
playing piano, traveling, and meeting people. She is sur
vived by her son and his wife, Freddie and Sherry Eggler
of Las Vegas, Nev.; granddaughters, Capt. Lindsay Eggler
of Little Rock, Ark., and Jerrica Allen and her husband,
Lamar of Perry; sisters, Renee Atkinson of O.P and Millie
Taylor of Carthage, Mo., and numerous nieces and neph
ews. A memorial service in celebration of her life was held
Monday at Jacksonville Memory Gardens Funeral Home,
111 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, Fla. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to Orange Park United Methodist
Church, 2063 Park Ave., Orange Park, FL 32073.
Doctors: Seniors will
suffer if Medicare
spending is slowed
By PHIL DAVIS
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, .Fla. - A fed
eral mandate to trim
Medicare payments will
force more doctors to stop
seeing elderly and military
patients, the American
Medical Association warned
Tuesday.
AMA Vice Speaker Jeremy
Lazarus said 45 percent of
the group’s physicians plan
to decrease or stop taking
new Medicare and military
Tricare patients if Congress
allows a planned 5 percent
decrease in Medicare pay
ments to physicians to go
into effect as planned in
2007.
“Over the next nine years,
Medicare will cut physi
cian payments 37 percent
unless Congress acts before
January 1, 2007,” he said
at a news conference at a
Tampa hospital. “At the
same time, the cost of car
ing for those patients will
increase 22 percent _ and
that math just doesn’t add
up.”
Since 1999, the AMA
has made the rounds to
160 cities to rally support
against decreases in the
Social Security Act’s physi
cian fee schedule. Federal
law requires the schedule be
updated annually.
Medicare trustees have
said the program’s finan
cial future is dire if spend
ing continues at the current
rate.
Health care costs are sky
rocketing and the program
is facing the looming retire
ment of 78 million baby
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boomers.
Congress delayed a last
year’s planned decrease for
a year.
On Monday, 80 mem
bers of Congress, including
Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.,
and Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton, D-N.Y., sent a let
ter encouraging Senate
leadership to again take up
the issue before Congress
adjourns in October.
“These projected cuts will
destabilize the Medicare
program and put at risk all
patients’ access to health
care,” the letter said.
The Medicare debate
has created deep divides in
Washington.
President Bush has
called on Congress to trim
Medicare spending by $35.9
billion over five years.
Under that scenario,
Medicare spending would
grow at a rate of 7.7 percent
- instead of 8.1 percent, as
currently projected.
The plan generated bipar
tisan backlash.
“People call it a cut in
Medicare. It’s not a cut,”
Bush said of the plan in
February. “It’s slowing down
the rate of growth.”
Some analysts say the
debate is too polarized and
it is unlikely serious discus
sion will occur until after
the 2008 presidential elec
tion.
Dr. David Becker, a
gastroenterologist from
Clearwater, said a lack of
action could be devastating
to practices like his where
more than half the patients
are on Medicare.
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