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Citrus digestBy Times staff reports
© St. Petersburg Times, Search continues for missing womanINVERNESS -- There's still no sign of 19-year-old Linda Marie Howes, six days after she was last seen at a friend's house in the Highlands area of Inverness. Citrus County sheriff's spokeswoman Ronda Hemminger Evan said investigators are continuing to search but had no new information to release Thursday. Family members spent the day making posters with Howes' picture to hang in the windows of Inverness stores, said friend Joanne Murphy. Howes, a waitress at J.A. Garfield's, attended a party Aug. 17, then went to her friend's house in the Highlands. According to people at the party, she accompanied a friend who was driving someone home between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The driver told deputies he dropped Howes off on E Joyce Lane, just behind her house on Iona Lane. She said she would take the wooded path to her house, the driver said. It was the last time Howes was seen. Deadline to move decrepit boat passesCRYSTAL RIVER -- As of Thursday evening, the owner of the Bonner Lee had failed to remove the decrepit boat from Kings Bay. County Judge Mark Yerman had asked Paul H. Purdum to remove the vessel by Thursday. Failure to do so would mean Purdum would remain on probation until the boat is removed. A previous court action gave him until mid October. Purdum did not return several phone calls Wednesday and Thursday. The Leesburg resident was arrested in late July for violating terms of the April court order to remove the Bonner Lee. He failed to pay about $300 in fines and court costs and did not report to probation officers by mail and in person.
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