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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 43
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015
Criminal ‘messed with the wrong Momma’
Welcome Home (Goods) to SLW
Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
ST. LUCIE WEST — The dogs were barking, it was about 4:30 a.m. and Janice Prieto, a massage therapist at Fusion Aveda Salon & Spa in St. Lucie West, was half asleep, when the evening turned into pure horror. “I thought they were barking at the cat or something,” she said. “I let them in my room and they got on the bed, and they were growling a really low growl.” Half asleep or not, Prieto then knew someone was in her home. Instinct kicked in. The mother of two daughters immediately headed toward their bedroom. Along the way she saw a sliding-glass door open. She had a pretty good idea who was in her family’s home — Jacob Looney, her daughter’s 17-yearold ex-boyfriend. Prieto had just filed a protective order against him the day before. He’d been harassing Arielle, Prieto’s 15-yearold daughter. “He came up to her at school and had been harassing her, physically as well,” said Prieto. “He had been harassing her all summer and it got worse in the last few weeks.”
See ATTACK page A10
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer The opening of Home Goods in St. Lucie West was celebrated with a ceremonial ribbon cutting with Ahmed Savage, assistant manager, Mark Tremblay, St. Lucie County Chamber of Commerce, Carol Orage-Cooper, store manager and Kym Armstrong of Tradition. Armstrong was the first official customer to enter the store at 8:30 a.m. after her getting there two and a half hours earlier Sunday, Aug. 23. Additional images on pages A26 and A27.
‘Outsider candidates’ taking politics into their own hands Bruno Moore
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TREASURE COAST — With presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump’s recent antics, the outsider candidate (a political candidate with no political pedigree) has taken center stage on the national
scene. Media attention given to his recent comments on immigration, women and the state of the country in general has brought him considerable attention. The apparent “outsider candidate” trend seems to have a local impact as well. With the 2016 primary elections just a year away, political hopefuls with
little political experience might be adding to the ballot. Peppered among names like U.S. Senate hopeful Patrick Murphy and popular St. Lucie County Commissioner Chris Dzadofsky may be candidate for Commissioner Patrick Campion and congressional hopeful John Xuna.
See POLITICS page A4
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