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Community.....A3 Health..............A4 Lifestyles........A5 Obituaries.......A7 Opinion............A6 Sports..............B1 INDEX The Tehama County Sanitary Landfill Agency will be holding a free passenger tire collection April 11. PAGEA3 COMMUNITY Freepassengertire collection event set The Red Bluff Spartans boys and girls track and field teams competed Saturday in Redding. PAGE B1 SPORTS Spartans compete at Hornet Invite University of Virginia group was subject of explosive but now discredited Rolling Stone article on rape. PAGE B5 RAPE STORY Fraternity pursues 'legal action' against magazine An unusually cold spring storm is expected to bring more snow to mountains, but little help for the drought. PAGE A8 WEATHER Rain and winds headed to parts of California By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter RED BLUFF TheTehamaCounty Sheriff's Office received a federal award Monday for its handling of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki In- dians dispute at Rolling Hills Ca- sino in Corning last year. United States Attorney Ben- jamin Wagner presented Sheriff Dave Hencratt the Eastern Dis- trict of California Law Enforce- ment Award for Outstanding Law Enforcement Agency in the Sacra- mento Division. Wagner said the award usually goes to a law enforcement agency whose work leads to a prosecu- tion, but in this situation the ef- fort the of the department was able to prevent a case from de- veloping. "It really could have been a vi- olent and tragic incident," Wag- ner said, adding all of the ingre- dients that can lead to a tragedy were present. "It's the kind of vic- tory, I'd like to see more often." Hencratt accepted the award on behalf of his employees, some of whom worked 20-hour days when the armed standoff heated up in June. "This is law enforcement at its finest," Hencratt said, adding it was an example of a law enforce- ment agency that played it down the middle, gathered facts and didn't judge. Hencratt thanked the District Attorney's Office, County Counsel Arthur Wylene, California High- way Patrol, Corning Police De- partment, Butte County Sheriff and the Red Bluff Police Depart- ment for their assistance. The award is one of four pre- sented annually to a law enforce- ment agency in the Eastern Dis- trict of California's Sacramento and Fresno divisions to recognize the outstanding collaboration be- tween federal, state and local law TEHAMA COUNTY FedshonorSheriff'sOffice By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter RED BLUFF Jessie Lee Robison was sentenced Monday to 22 years in state prison for the voluntary man- slaughter death of 27-year-old Red Bluff resident Joshua Verry. Tehama County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Skillman sentenced Robison to the maximum amount of time allowed under the circum- stances, 11 years, which was dou- bled because Robison had a previ- ous strike. Robison pleaded guilty to volun- tary manslaughter Feb. 27. On the afternoon of June 9, 2014 Red Bluff police responded to a re- port of a fight and stabbing at a Mina Avenue apartment off Gilmore Road. Officers found Verry had been stabbed several times in the chest and back. He was taken to St. Eliza- beth Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Robison was arrested a few days later on suspicion of murder. At Monday's sentencing Robison's attorney argued the killing was done in self-defense and that Robison had shown remorse for his crime since SUPERIOR COURT Robisonsentencedto 22 years in state prison MaximumallowableforstabbingdeathofJoshuaVerry RED BLUFF Riders saddled up Sat- urday for the seventh annual Nor Cal Hope Equestrian Relay Organization (HERO) Ride for Life — an annual fundraiser held at the Tehama Dis- trict Fairground to benefit cancer programs and research. The event, which started as a 4-H project in 2009, has raised more than $180,000 over the years, bringing in about $30,000 last year to benefit the American Cancer Society. The Ride for Life resembles the popular Relay for Life walks held to benefit cancer research. Teams on horseback take laps around the main arena at the fairgrounds in solidarity with cancer survivors and in honor of those lost to the disease. RED BLUFF Teams on horseback participated Saturday in the seventh annual Nor Cal HERO Ride for Life held at the Tehama District Fairground. ANDRE BYIK — DAILY NEWS DAILY NEWS PHOTOS BY ANDRE BYIK Jolene Kemen, a volunteer at the second annual Mardicraw Festival hosted by Rolling Hills Casino on Saturday, le , serves up some smoked crawfish. By Andre Byik abyik@redbluffdailynews.com @andrebyik on Twitter CORNING More than a thou- sand festival-goers descended on Rolling Hills Casino on Saturday for a day of Louisi- ana-inspired food and fun. The casino off Interstate 5, near Corning hosted the sec- ond annual Mardicraw Festi- val, which served up healthy portions of boiled and smoked crawfish, southern corn bread, fried hushpuppies and alligator on a stick, to name a few plates prepared by the casino's chefs. Taking place under the shade of outdoor event tents, people enjoyed the roughly four tons of crawdads on hand for the festival as live Cajun music filled the air. The festival, which ran 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., also benefit- ted the Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Com- merce. The net proceeds from the event, which cost $30 to at- tend, were to go to the cham- ber. "It's great because we're getting people from Orland, Chico, Redding — obviously Red Bluff, Los Molinos, com- ing to this," said Dave Gowan, CEO of the chamber. Last year, in the casino's first go-round at hosting the festival, thousands of dol- lars were raised to benefit the chamber, according to the ca- sino's website. CORNING MARDICRAW FEST ANOTHER SUCCESS Hundreds attend annual crawdad festival at Rolling Hills Agency kept peace during Rolling Hills Casino standoff The event drew more than a thousand festival-goers and also benefitted the Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Commerce. SHERIFF PAGE 7 ROBISON PAGE 7 MARDICRAW PAGE 7 RIDE PAGE 7 Annual Ride for Life benefits cancer research More than $180,000 raised since 2009 If there's a "photo op," have someone take digital photos with their phone or camera. Folks doing something make the most interesting photos. Make note of the names of the individual people in the photo, unless it's a big crowd. Then send photos with an email describing "WHO, WHAT, WHY WHERE and WHEN" to editor@redbluffdailynews.com, and include a phone number where staff can reach you for more information, if needed! We'd like to see more of YOU in The Daily News! 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