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Thomas Lake |
Thomas Lake is a preacher's son from Georgia and one of six children home-schooled by a mother who never went to college. He wrote his first newspaper story at age 17 for The (Little Falls, N.Y.) Evening Times. It was a profile of a subscriber on his paper route. Lake was cut from both his college basketball teams -- first from Herkimer County Community College in Herkimer, N.Y., and then from Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. -- but he walked on to Gordon's cross-country team as a senior and set the school record in the five-mile run.
He graduated summa cum laude from Gordon in 2001 with a degree in communication arts and a future wife named Sara. Lake spent a year as a reporter-photographer-columnist at The Press-Sentinel, a twice-weekly in Jesup, Ga., and two years at The Salem (Mass.) News before jumping to The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville in 2004. In the spring of 2006 he moved to the St. Petersburg Times, where he covers law enforcement in the paper's Port Richey bureau.
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