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Good News! Missing Mentally Disabled Florida Woman Found Safe

Marsharie Lemons-Garrett (pictured), a 22-year-old Florida woman whose clothes were found in a wooded area, has been found safe after almost three weeks.

Police in Palm Bay, Fla., are still unsure of how Lemons-Garrett was able to avoid being found despite intensive searches.

According to police, Lemons-Garrett was found draped in a white sheet sitting in the middle of the road  in the town of Malabar.

“She was found to be covered with ant bites,” Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Palm Bay Police Department told Florida Today.

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“She was dehydrated and covered with insect bites but she’s otherwise in good condition,” Martinez told The Huffington Post. “She’s not talking very much. She said she ate berries and drank creek water, which is rankish [sic] water. It’s amazing that she did not get sick.”

It’s great to see the actions of the community who came together to search for Lemmons-Garrett. Horner who probed the young woman and then followed up with police also deserves praise. And let’s not forget the deputy who hiked through the woods to find her.

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Beware! Don’t Fall Victim To Utility Payment Scam!

MADISON, Wis. — As much as President Barack Obama wants your vote, he’s not actually offering to pay your monthly bills.

But thousands of Americans have been persuaded otherwise, falling victim to a fast-moving scam that claims to be part of an Obama administration program to help pay utility bills in the midst of a scorching summer.

The scheme spread quickly across the nation in recent weeks with help from victims who unwittingly shared it on social media sites before realizing they had been conned out of personal information, such as Social Security, credit card, and checking account numbers.

“No one knows who is behind this,” said Katherine Hutt, spokeswoman for the Council of Better Business Bureaus in Arlington, Va. “We’re pretty concerned. It seems to have really taken off.”

People from all corners of the country report being duped, from New Jersey to California, Wisconsin to Florida and all parts in between.

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The scam quickly grew as victims shared the word on social media, “thinking it was a legitimate federally sponsored program,” Sheppard said. “And of course, that can become confusing because there are legitimate federally sponsored programs.”

There have been numerous other reports:

- Entergy Corp. said in May that about 2,000 of its customers had been affected, mainly in Louisiana but also in Texas.
- Another 2,000 people, customers of TECO Energy, which covers the Tampa area, fell victim earlier this month.
- About 1,500 Duke Energy customers in the Carolinas and a few in its Midwestern states were duped, company spokeswoman Paige Layne said.
- Atmos Energy, one of the country’s largest natural gas distributors, issued a warning in May to its 3.2 million customers in 12 states after about 300 customers in Mississippi reported being conned, company spokeswoman Jennifer Ryan said. Atmos sent out a second warning in July.

“It’s gaining some ground,” Ryan said of the ruse.

- Between 90 and 100 bogus payments came into Alliant Energy Corp., which serves about 1 million people in southern Wisconsin, most of Iowa and southern Minnesota, spokesman Scott Reigstad said.

The Better Business Bureau and others are warning people not to share personal information unless they have initiated the contact and are confident in other person.

“We try to make this as easy and quick to grasp for anyone,” said Janet Hart with the BBB in the Carolinas.

“Never give out your personal information to someone who calls you.”

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