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WEEKEND APRIL 13-14 2013 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Cattlemen's Field Day Results Ag Page 5A DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 76/48 Weather forecast 10A TEHAMA COUNTY $1.00 T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Police release name of man shot on balcony Future On Track By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The 25-year-old man shot and killed Thursday in an officer-involved shooting on a balcony at the Red Bluff Meadows Apartments has been identified by police as Adam James Stevens. Red Bluff Police Chief Paul Nanfito said in a press conference Thursday that Stevens, who was a wanted parolee at large with a no bail warrant out for his arrest, was considered suspicious because he did not belong on the balcony. Scanner reports between 7:45 and 8 a.m. indicated shots had been fired and that a man was down. Witnesses estimated anywhere from 5 to 10 shots were fired. See NAME, page 9A Corning High looking at solar By JULIE ZEEB Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff Union High School's Lily Brose pulls away during the 2012 section championship 200 meters. Below: Brose displays her acceptance letter into the Naval Academy along with her parents Todd and Karen, siblings Daisy and Marshal and Athletic Director Rich Hassay. By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer As the 2009 winter sports season approached I wrote a column listing questions I had about the upcoming prep schedule. Among them was whether a freshman, Lily Brose, would be as good as the hype she was receiving. Until then I only had been able to cover Brose through stats. She seemingly came out of nowhere to finish second at the league cross country championships. She led the varsity Red Bluff Lady Spartans basketball team in scoring through its first three games. I was told she had Division I collegiate talent. How good will she be four years from now, I wrote at the time. A couple of weeks later I finally got to see Brose at the annual Holiday Classic. In person she lived up to all those stats on paper. People in the stands were leaning out of their seats whenever she touched the ball. Their eyes popped. They hooted and hollered at her 3-point range, speed and court vision. That's something I had rarely witnessed for any high school athlete — let alone a 14-year-old girl. Four years from now I'm going to be writing a story about her picking out which D-I program she wants to play for, I thought to myself. Four years later I'm writing that story, but it's not the one I thought. It's not so much about See TRACK, page 9A DN Staff Writer CORNING — The City Council Tuesday approved checking into leasing land to Corning Union High School District for solar panels and extra parking. The city owns two 10acre parcels on Blackburn Avenue across from the campus, City Manager John Brewer said. One parcel has a house owned by the city and occupied by a city employee and the other has a city-owned water well. If the city approves a lease, the high school would like to put in solar panels to generate electricity for the school and possibly use some of the area for parking. "(District Superintendent) John Burch had talked to John Brewer and I and asked the city to entertain the thought of if we go forward," Mayor Gary Strack said. "He's not asking for anything but that we agree to look at a plan." Strack want to explore the cost and who would responsible for the liabili- ty that comes from having students having to cross the road there, he said. The city was going to use that area for a corporation yard or the animal shelter at one point and that will need to be included in the discussion, Councilwoman Darlene Dickison said. It had also been discussed as potentially being used for a Corning Fire Department training area. Potential conflicts to be looked at should include the airport operations and safety zones and could require approval of the Tehama County Airport Land Use Commission, Brewer said. It is also important to have the Airport Commission weigh in. Another area to consider is whether there will be an increased need for security since solar panels could attract vandalism and graffiti, Brewer said. While pedestrian traffic could potentially increase, a parking lot might reduce the number of cars parked curbside on the north side of BlackSee SOLAR, page 9A Mendocino County to Contempt threat against Brown a rare move signaled in the ruling that SACRAMENTO (AP) release its pot — A federal judicial panel's ''It's more of a symbolic they toare willing to force him comply. threat to place Gov. Jerry ''They made clear in Brown in contempt of court program records punishment' yesterday's order that if he fails to comply with a UKIAH (AP) — Mendocino County has reached a deal with federal prosecutors in a dispute over the release of financial and other records from the county's medical marijuana program, officials said. The county said it will release the records but not the names of people who applied for permits under the program, the Ukiah Daily Journal reported Thursday. The deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office was announced Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors. The county's ordinance allowed for certain marijuana growers to cultivate as many as 99 plants if they agreed to regular inspections and met operating conditions. The program ended in See POT, page 9A mandated prison population reduction is a rare move, legal observers said Friday. The ruling came more than three years after the state was ordered to reduce its inmate population to improve medical and mental health care. The three-judge panel acknowledged on Thursday that the state has taken significant steps to reduce its inmate population but said it still expects the state to be 9,000 prisoners over the court-mandated cap by the end-of-year deadline. Despite the threat, the federal court may have little — Mary-Beth Moylan, University of the Pacific power to enforce its judgment against state officials because it's not unheard of for a governor to defy court rulings, Mary-Beth Moylan, a professor at the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, said in an email Friday. Contempt orders are rarely used as an enforcement mechanism because ''it's more of a symbolic punishment,'' she said. Naming Brown, the ruling said state officials must take whatever steps are necessary to comply or face the consequences. Otherwise, ''they will without further delay be subject to findings of contempt, individually and collectively,'' it said. Don Specter, who is suing the state over prison crowding, said the judges have shown extraordinary patience with Brown but they've just had it,'' Specter said in an interview Friday. ''It's clear from the court's opinion they view the governor as the main person who's involved in setting the strategy for the state.'' In response to Thursday's ruling, the Democratic governor told California reporters traveling with him in China that he will appeal the decision. ''We have, I believe from what I'm being advised, among the best health care in America and probably in the world.'' Brown told The Sacramento Bee.