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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — These days, when an officer is killed in the line of duty, there’s national headlines and typically thousands of people show up for the officer’s funeral to honor someone who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect their community. In most cases, the killer of the officer is convicted and sentenced to death. But, a century ago when St. Lucie County lost its first law officer in the line of duty, the situation was a far cry from the above. When Daniel S. Carlton, the second sheriff of St. Lucie County -- the county’s first elected sheriff -- was gunned down in downtown Fort Pierce, the assailant wasn’t a thief or a robber. He was D.J. Disney, a night marshal in Fort Pierce. And Disney wasn’t sentenced to death. He ended up serving half of a five-year sentence. And if that isn’t surprising enough, even more unusual by today’s standards is that he was
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Diego Garcia, former Fort Pierce Central Cobra, came home from Saint Leo University in support of The Aaron Project’s annual golf tournament named after Aaron Beauchamp. Garcia and other members of the Cobras soccer team booted a soccer ball on the 18 hole of the Legacy course at PGA in St. Lucie West for the golfers to tee off wherever the soccer ball landed. Beauchamp, 9, who died in a school bus accident in 2012, was known to the soccer team as one of their youngest volunteers.
TREASURE COAST — Tod Mowery made an anticipated announcement that he’s running for the 18th Congressional Seat now occupied by Patrick Murphy. The district covers St. Lucie and Martin counties, along with a sliver of Palm Beach County’s northern side. “The idea of being a public servant isn’t something that I woke up one day and said, ‘Hey, I’d like to try this (public service),” he said. Mowery is a second-term St. Lucie County commissioner. He has degrees in business management and urban and regional planning. He’s worked in municipal management in Michigan and on the Treasure Coast and boasts that he’s done every government service from plowing snow to checking out books at the library. Additionally, Mowery spent public career time at the Mission of the United States Geneva, United Nations, and in Zambia. The pilot is a board member of Missionary Flights International, Fort Pierce. “For me, public service is a part of my DNA,” he said. Mowery said he’s in listening mode and unwilling to offer specific plans yet. However, he said the most important issue facing
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