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Deathnotices Staff Reports @redbluffnews on Twitter CORNING TehamaCounty Sheriff's Deputies arrested a Gerber man Saturday af- ter a pursuit through Corn- ing reached 100 mph. Edward Reginald Thomas, 32, was driving a stolen motorcycle out of Chico. At 1:45 p.m. depu- ties observed a motorcycle traveling southbound at a high rate of speed on 99W near Gyle Road. Deputies tried to stop the motorcycle using over- head lights and sirens but Thomas continued at a high rate of speed, ac- cording to a press release issued Monday by the sher- iff's office. Deputies and Corning Police Officers' pursued the motorcycle through the streets of Corning un- til Thomas lost control of his motorcycle in a puddle causing him to stop. It was confirmed during the pursuit the motorcycle was listed as stolen out of Chico. Thomas was arrested and booked without in- cident Saturday on the charges of evading a po- lice officer with disregard of safety, possession of sto- len property and operat- ing a motorcycle without a license. Bail was set at $68,000. The Kawasaki street motorcycle was recovered and taken from the scene upon notifying the owner it was located. PURSUIT Deputiesarrestmana er pursuit through Corning ports at the time of the in- cident. The man and his dog were both rescued from the incident. Initial reports indi- cated Cal Fire was plan- ning to do a rope rescue about 5:35 p.m., but the man told officers he had called for a tow truck and was going to wait for it inside the vehicle. Sheriff's personnel re- ported to dispatch they were concerned about swift water conditions and were planning to stand by until the man was out. The man was able to get out of the vehicle about 5:52 p.m., but left the dog inside, accord- ing to scanner reports. Soon after the dog was rescued. The crossing at Red Bank Creek and Paskenta Road is one of two that the Tehama County Public Works Depart- ment closes seasonally due to flooding issues — the other being Thomes Creek at Hall Road. Rescue FROM PAGE 1 By Sam Hananel and Laurie Kellman The Associated Press WASHINGTON In a decade as a federal appeals court judge, Supreme Court nom- inee Neil Gorsuch has crit- icized courts for giving too much power to government a g e n c i e s that enforce the nation's labor and employment laws. As a lawyer in private practice, he also backed curbs on some class-action lawsuits. His conservative ap- proach could tip the bal- ance in labor rights cases and other high court clashes that have split the court. "I think employers have a supporter with this par- ticular nominee who is un- willing to go along with agencies just because they interpret the law in a cer- tain way," said Gerald Maat- man, a labor lawyer based in Chicago who represents employers. In a closely watched case the Supreme Court is expected to hear later this year, the justices will de- cide whether companies can require workers to sign away their right to pursue class-action lawsuits. The National Labor Relations Board says such waiver agreements violate the rights of millions of work- ers who want to sue over wage disputes and other workplace clashes. Labor union critics also hope the court will revisit a case that could threaten the financial viability of unions that represent government workers. A short-handed Supreme Court split 4-4 on the issue after Justice Anto- nin Scalia's death. And the justices may eventually take up a dis- pute working its way through lower courts over whether federal law ban- ning sex discrimination in the workplace also covers bias against gays and les- bians. The legal and public pol- icy worlds are scouring Gor- such's writings and record for clues to his posture to- ward these and other is- sues. What they're finding is a lawyer, and then judge, who has lashed out against securities class-action law- suits and frowns on agen- cies that, in his opinion, overreach. In a 2005 article writ- ten when he was in private practice, Gorsuch urged the Supreme Court to curb "frivolous" class-action se- curities lawsuits. He called such cases a "free ride to fast riches" for plaintiff law- yers. On the appeals court in Colorado, Gorsuch's opin- ions have taken aim at fed- eral labor and employment agencies for going beyond their congressionally man- dated missions. He has sug- gested that the Supreme Court should overturn a 1984 ruling that says courts must defer to government agencies when it comes to interpreting laws that de- fine their mission. Gorsuch dissented in a 2011 case where Labor offi- cials wanted to fine an ex- cavating company for vio- lating federal standards af- ter one of its workers died in a Colorado electrocu- tion accident. The federal appeals court upheld the $5,500 penalty, but Gor- such wrote that the Occu- pational Safety and Health Review Commission did not interpret the rules correctly. "Administrative agen- cies enjoy remarkable pow- ers in our legal order," Gor- such wrote in dissent. "Still, there remains one thing even federal administra- tive agencies cannot do. Even they cannot penalize private persons and compa- nies without some evidence the law has been violated." He also chastised his fel- low judges for siding with the Labor Department in a 2016 case in which a driver for TransAm Trucking Co. left his broken-down trailer on the side of the road. The company fired the driver for defying a supervisor's or- ders to stay with the vehi- cle despite freezing temper- atures. The Labor Depart- ment ruled that the driver's actions were protected un- der federal law and he was to be reinstated, and the ap- peals court concurred. But Gorsuch wrote in his dissent, "It might be fair to ask whether TransAm's de- cision was a wise or kind one. But it's not our job to answer questions like that. Our only task is to decide whether the decision was an illegal one." In another case last year, Gorsuch grumbled in a dissent that the National Labor Relations Board had overreached when it or- dered back pay for hospi- tal employees whose hours had been unlawfully re- duced. Despite those and other writings, some labor leaders have held their fire on Gor- such's nomination, perhaps in the interest of choosing battles against the unpre- dictable Trump adminis- tration. But AFL-CIO Pres- ident Richard Trumka said Gorsuch doesn't seem like a friend to employees. JUDGE Gorsuch seen as business-friendly on labor and workplace issues Gorsuch By Darlene Superville The Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. President Donald Trump has long expressed a desire for improved relations with Moscow, but his latest com- ments about Russian Presi- dent Vladimir Putin and the U.S. are leading some fellow Republicans to take a step back from the president — on this issue at least. Told by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly during an interview that the Russian leader is "a killer," Trump said the U.S. has killers, too. "What do you think? Our country's so inno- cent?" Trump said during the taped interview broad- cast during Sunday's Super Bowl pregame show. Trump has praised Pu- tin and signaled that U.S.- Russia relations could be in for a makeover under his leadership, even af- ter U.S. intelligence agen- cies concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to help Trump defeat Demo- crat Hillary Clinton. During Putin's years in power, a number of promi- nent Russian opposition fig- ures and journalists have been killed. Trump says in the inter- view that he respects a lot of people, including Putin "but that doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him. He's a leader of his country. I say it's better to get along with Russia than not. And if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a ma- jor fight, and Islamic ter- rorism all over the world — that's a good thing," Trump said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. "Will I get along with him? I have no idea." O'Reilly then said about Putin: "But he's a killer, though. Putin's a killer." Trumpresponded:"There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so in- nocent?" When O'Reilly says he doesn't know any U.S. gov- ernment leaders who are killers, Trump said "take a look at what we've done, too. We've made a lot of mistakes" and then he ref- erenced the Iraq war. The Kremlin voiced an- ger over O'Reilly's charac- terization. Dmitry Peskov, a spokes- man for President Vladimir Putin, refused to comment on Trump's reply but lashed out at Fox, calling O'Reilly's remarks "unacceptable and offensive." "We would like to receive an apology to the president from this respected organi- zation," Peskov told report- ers on Monday, referring to Fox News. At home, Republicans and Democrats took excep- tion to Trump's comparison of Russia and the U.S. "Putin's a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible elec- tion," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told CNN's "State of the Union. "The Rus- sians annexed Crimea, in- vaded Ukraine and messed around in our elections. And no, I don't think there's any equivalency between the way the Rus- sians conduct themselves and the way the United States does." Added Sen. Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, one of Trump's Republican critics: "There is no moral equivalency be- tween the United States of America, the greatest free- dom-loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in Putin's defense of his cronyism. O'Reilly also asked Trump to back up his claim that some 3 million to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the election. Trump didn't answer directly, but shifted to assert that immi- grants in the U.S. illegally and dead people are on the voter rolls. "It's really a bad situa- tion, it's really bad," Trump said. GOP Re pu bl ic an s se ek d is ta nc e fr om T ru mp 's P ut in c om me nt s By Deb Riechmann and Eileen Sullivan The Associated Press WASHINGTON Donald Trump's unpredictable for- eign policy could hamper longstanding U.S. intelli- gence-sharing partnerships as countries react to a pres- ident who seeks closer ties to Russia and is unafraid to offend American allies by cracking down on im- migration or getting angry with friendly leaders. Veteran spies say intel- ligence relationships are built to weather storms between political lead- ers. Even in the worst of times, allies share intelli- gence to thwart threats. But the lack of understand- ing about Trump's foreign policy direction and his po- tential new friendship with Moscow are creating jitters across the Western world. "We are facing an un- precedented level of un- certainty today," said John Blaxland, a former Austra- lian intelligence official and professor at Australian Na- tional University. He said there is mutual benefit to these "broad, deep" intelli- gence sharing relationships, but added: "It is hard to cal- culate just how much dam- age the new president's ap- proach may have." "It will be felt," Blaxland predicted, "and it won't be good." Russia is a main concern. If Trump moves forward with efforts to improve U.S.-Russian relations, Eu- ropean allies in particular will probably question how safe their intelligence is in American hands. Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and threatening move- ments near the borders of NATO members in Eastern Europe have contributed to the perception of Moscow as a threat to national sov- ereignty. If American intelligence agencies are instructed to enhance cooperation with Russia, U.S. allies see "sig- nificant counterintelligence threats that come with that," said Steven Hall, a re- tired CIA chief of Russia op- erations. He said they "will be much more careful in the future." As candidate and pres- ident, Trump has sparked widespread international unease by questioning the value of U.S. military alli- ances, if not necessarily in- telligence partnerships. He called NATO "obsolete" and challenged countries such as South Korea and Japan to assume greater self-de- fense responsibility. In the last weeks, however, Trump advisers have gone out of their way to stress the dura- bility of such arrangements and America's commitment to its friends. Detente between Wash- ington and Moscow is no sure thing, despite Trump's intentions. Under President Barack Obama, relations between the former Cold War foes strained dramat- ically over Syria, Ukraine and alleged Russian med- dling in the U.S. presiden- tial election after initially improving under a "re- set" policy. In recent days, Trump's administration has reverted to criticizing the Kremlin after a flare-up of violence involving Russian- backed separatists in east- ern Ukraine. Regardless of Trump's new direction, Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, a former CIA officer and new member on the House Intelligence Committee, said American intelligence professionals recognize the need to pro- tect information they re- ceive. "The point at which our allies will get concerned is if they believe that our in- telligence professionals do not view Russia as an ad- versary," he said. Trump's sometimes im- pulsive style and lack of ex- perience handling classified information also have for- eign officials concerned. FOREIGN POLICY US spy alliances may be tested by Trump GREGMICHAELPARKER October 1, 1946 ~ January 30, 2017 Greg Michael Parker of Red Bluff, California born on October 1, 1946, passed away on January 30, 2017. Greg is survived by his wife Julie, son Seth, three daughters Janay Elliott, Amanda Neil, and Alissa Mhoon. Grandsons Hunter, Cole, Brennen, Liam, Aiden and Kelan. Sister Patrice Owens and brothers Steve and David. He was preceded in death by father and mother Orville and Mar- ie, and grandson Theren Elliott. Greg joined the Army in 1965. He was assigned to the 7th Armored Division, Gelnhausen, Germany for 18 months. In 1967 he was assigned to the 9th Infantry Divi- sion in the Republic of Vietnam, as a Long Range Recon Patrol (LRRP) Team Leader, operating in the Mekong Del- ta. Greg received a severe knee wound and was honored with the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medals for his heroism. After recovering from his wounds, Greg finish- ed his Army service as a Drill Sargeant at Fort Campbell, KY. He loved his life in agriculture, specializing in almond trees and hay. He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. He will be greatly missed. Greg will be laid to rest with a graveside service ar- ranged by Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Wednesday February 8, 2017, 2:00pm, at Oak Hill Cemetery. KENNA MARTINE BECK July 22, 1995 ~ January 25, 2017 Kenna Martine Beck, 21 of Corning, passed away Janu- ary 25th, 2017 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, CA, surrounded by his family. Kenny was born July 22, 1995 in Chico, CA to John Beck and Tara Brady. He attended Corning and Red Bluff schools and grew up attending Corning churches with his siblings and cousins. Kenny was an avid skateboarder who loved to be outdoors with friends. He taught himself how to play the guitar and be- came a very talented musician. His music and humor brought smiles to many. Kenny was a caring, kind, funny and loving person who touched many lives and had many friends. Kenny is survived by his father and step-mother John and Dena Beck of Red Bluff, sisters Megan Beck, Allison Beck, Adrienne Smith and Jaymie West, brothers Tyler Brady-Beck and Bradley West, step-siblings Stephanie Ferreira, Sydney Jones and Quinton Jones, grandparents Jack and Suzanne Beck of Corning and Patti Brady of Santa Cruz, and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Kenny is preceded in death by his mother Tara Brady and close friend Kendra Langham. Celebration of life will be held Saturday, February 11th, at 11:00 a.m. at New Life Assembly, 660 Solano St. Corn- ing, CA. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Corning Community Foundation for a memorial at the Corning Community Skateboard Park in memory of Kenny Beck at P.O. Box 135 Corning, CA 96021. 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