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Saturday, December 29, 2012 ��� Daily News Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper���s website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Willie Frances Aebischer Willie Frances Aebischer died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at Lassen House in Red Bluff. She was 89. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Hurley Lee Barber COPS Continued from page 1A dence. An area check was made, but officers were unable to locate the suspects. Officers contacted a 44year-old woman who said ABUSE Continued from page 1A Hurley Lee Barber died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 80. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Raymond Ledford Raymond Ledford died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 84. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Mary S. Underwood Mary S. Underwood died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at her residence in Corning. She was 84. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Forest offices to be closed Lassen National Forest offices will close at 1:30 p.m. on New Year���s Eve and be closed on New Year���s Day. Forest offices will resume normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. the celebration of Halloween by Chico State students and others. Zingg noted his predecessor, Manuel Esteban, also had a report done on the campus alcohol-abuse problem. The new initiative on drinking has been spurred in part by the recent deaths of students and also the findings of a report on alcohol abuse made by Deborah Stewart, chief medical officer of the Chico State Student Health Service. One of the questions her report asks is ���are things better or worse (in Chico) in 9A Atkins said. One man is about 6 feet tall with a medium build and the second man is about 5 feet 8 inches with thin build. The woman said she opened the door from the house to the garage and found two people inside the garage who ran out when she yelled at them, Atkins said. The suspects, who had gained entry through the opened garage door at the driveway, went east on North Street, he said. The suspects stole a can of pepper spray and three knives, total value of $85. The men are described as white men in their 20s, ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. terms of national rates,��� Zingg said. ���Her conclusion is things are worse here.��� She also surveyed incoming freshmen and found that 35 percent had engaged in ���binge drinking��� before coming to Chico State. ���Binge drinking��� is defined is ���consuming more than four or five drinks in a very short time.��� Zingg said the finding on new freshmen and binge drinking points to a serious problem. An element of that is 99 percent of them are under 21, he said. ���Are they coming here because (they think) this is a place that will support that kind of behavior?��� he asked. ���That's a hard question to ask.��� He said Stewart suggests the answer is yes, that ���students do come here because they think they can drink a lot and drink cheaply.��� There are many bars near the campus, and many of them offer special bargains on drinks at certain times, he said. Of the five students who died, one was pledging a fraternity, two were guests of fraternities, and two were not attending Chico State. In November, Zingg suspended all 26 of Chico State's fraternities and sororities after one of the student deaths. The students were told they had to cover up the Greek letters on their houses and that they couldn't hold social events nor accept new members during the rest of the fall semester. So far, Zingg said, the Greeks have complied with the campus administration's requirements. He said he's had conversations with local and national fraternity and sorority leaders and that ���they all say the right things. ... We're hopeful they are serious and truthful.��� Zingg said Drew Calandrella, Chico State's vice president for student affairs, and his staff are working on a set of conditions under which the fraternities and sororities can be reinstated. The president said it's paradoxical that Chico State has a student body that excels in many ways but at the same time has such serious issues with drinking. she had been in her residence when she heard noise coming from the garage, Chief Don Atkins said. Check ���n Go settles lawsuit for $4.3 million SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Californians charged interest rates of up to 400 percent by the loan company Check ���n Go could be eligible for refunds after a $4.3 million legal settlement agree- ment. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera told the San Francisco Chronicle that anyone who obtained a loan from the company between November 2006 and June 2008 could qualify for the refunds. Herrera���s office in 2007 sued payday lenders MoneyMart, Loan Mart and Check ���n Go for their unlawful interest rates. More than $8,100 refunds from Money Mart and Loan Mart were doled out earlier this year after a legal settlement. People have until March 29 to claim a $20-to$4,675 refund for the latest Check ���n Go settlement. WORLD BRIEFING Obama hoists congressional lawmakers WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The end game at hand, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders made a final stab at compromise Friday to prevent a toxic blend of middleclass tax increases and spending cuts from taking effect at the turn of the new year. Success was far from guaranteed in an atmosphere of political mistrust ��� even on a slimmed-down deal that postponed hard decisions about spending cuts into 2013, and pessimism vied with optimism in a Capitol where lawmakers grumbled about the likelihood of spending the new year holiday in the Capitol. ������The clock is ticking,������ Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in remarks on the Senate floor as Obama and congressional leaders were meeting several blocks away at the White House. ������My message to them is simple. We can do this. We can get this done, and we must,������ added the Montana Democrat. Congressional Democrats said Obama was ready with a revised offer to present. But that drew a denial from a person familiar with the talks, who said the president would review his proposal from a week ago, when he urged lawmakers to preserve tax cuts for most while letting rates rise above incomes of $250,000 a year. At the same time, Obama said lawmakers should extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless. The person was unauthorized to discuss the private meeting publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Rape victim���s dies in hospital NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Doctors say a young Indian woman who was gang-raped and severely beaten on a bus in New Delhi has died at a Singapore hospital. A statement by Singapore���s Mount Elizabeth hospital where the 23-year-old victim was being treated said she ������died peacefully������ early Saturday. The horrific ordeal of the woman galvanized Indians, who have held almost daily demonstrations to demand greater protection from sexual violence, from groping to rape, that impacts thousands of women every day, but which often goes unreported. She and a male friend were traveling in a public bus on Dec. 16 evening when they were attacked by six men who raped her and beat them both. They also inserted the rod in her body, stripped both naked and threw them off the bus on a road. the July-September quarter, the industry���s earnings reached $37.6 billion, up from $35.3 billion a year earlier. It was the best showing since the July-September quarter of 2006, long before the financial meltdown. By contrast, at the depth of the Great Recession in the last quarter of 2008, the industry lost $32 billion. there���s a huge difference between a trained law enforcement officer who becomes part of the school family ��� and a guard with a gun. The NRA���s proposal has sparked a debate across the country as gun control rises once again as a national issue. President Barack Obama promised to present a plan in January to confront gun violence in the aftermath of the killing of 20 Sandy Hook Elementary School students and six teachers in Newtown, Conn. US banks closing NRA envisions year with strong armed volunteers WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The profits student���s attack began with a shot- Bush remains in WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. gun blast through the windows of banks are ending the year with a California high school. Rich intensive care their best profits since 2006 and fewer failures than at any time since the financial crisis struck in 2008. They���re helping support an economy slowed by high unemployment, flat pay, sluggish manufacturing and anxious consumers. As the economy heals from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, more people and businesses are taking out ��� and repaying ��� loans. And for the first time since 2009, banks��� earnings growth is being driven by higher revenue ��� a healthy trend. Banks had previously managed to boost earnings by putting aside less money for possible losses. Signs of the industry���s gains: ��� Banks are earning more. In Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive. People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn���t hear. He experienced ������a tunnel vision of concentration.������ While two teachers and three students were injured when the glass shattered in the 2001 attack on Granite Hills High School, Agundez confronted the assailant and wounded him before he could get inside the school and use his second weapon, a handgun. The National Rifle Association���s response to a Connecticut school massacre envisions, in part, having trained, armed volunteers in every school in America. But Agundez, school safety experts and school board members say HOUSTON (AP) ��� Former President George H.W. Bush remained in intensive care at a Houston hospital on Friday but his condition continues to improve, a spokesman said. ������The President is alert and, as always, in good spirits ��� and his exchanges with doctors and nurses now include singing,������ family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a brief statement. The 88-year-old Bush, the nation���s oldest living former president, was admitted at Methodist Hospital in Houston on Nov. 23 because of a bronchitis-related cough, after spending about a week there earlier in November for the same condition. Stocks tumble as ���fiscal cliff��� deadline nears NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks fell for a fifth day on concern that Washington lawmakers will fail to reach a budget deal before a selfimposed year-end deadline. The five-day losing streak for the Dow Jones industrial average was the longest since July. The Dow dropped 158.20 points to 12,938.11 points, with losses accelerating in the last 20 minutes of trading as reports circulated that President Barack Obama would not be making a new budget proposal in a meeting with congressional leaders. The Standard & Poor 500 index fell 15.67 points to 1,402.43, its longest losing streak in three months, and the Nasdaq dropped 25.59 points to 2,960.31. ������The reality, late in the Wall Street day, is that a deal is just not going to get done,������ said Ryan Detrick, a senior technical strategist at Schaeffer Investment Research. ������We could be greeted by a big sell-off at the start of January.������ President Barack Obama returned from a Christmas break in Hawaii to meet with congressional leaders at the White House to try thrash out the terms of a deal that would prevent across-the-board tax increases for millions of Americans as well as simultaneous government spending cuts beginning Jan. 1. Those measures, if implemented, could push the economy back into recession, economists say. Stocks closed lower Thursday but erased most of an early loss after Republicans said they would reconvene the House of Representatives Sunday in hopes of piecing together a lastminute budget deal. Traders have been focusing on Washington, and the budget negotiations, since the Nov. 6 presidential election returned a divided government to power. ������I can���t wait till this is done, so we can start talking about markets again and not just about politics,������ said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at ING Investment Management. Cote doesn���t expect lawmakers will manage to reach a deal before the deadline and says that when people assess the extent of tax increases on the way, ������the market is going reel.������ Cote also expects slowing earnings growth to hit stocks. Despite the fiscal gridlock in Washington, major stock indexes are holding on to gains for the year. The Dow is up 5.9 percent, the S&P 500 index is 11.5 percent higher and the Nasdaq is up 13.6 percent. Stocks rose in 2012 on optimism that a housing market recovery, coupled with an improving job market, will support economic growth. The Federal Reserve has also extended its bond purchasing program, which is intended to lower borrowing costs and encourage spending and investment. Stocks declined despite reports that suggested the Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service You DO have a choice in the Red Bluff area. Caring & Compassionate Service Full traditional burial service or cremation 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 outlook for the economy is improving. A measure of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes increased last month to its highest level in two and a half years, the latest sign of improvement in the once-battered housing market. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index rose to its highest since April 2010. The Institute of Supply Management���s Chicago- $ 6,509 in Discount Coupons were published last week in the DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY ��� And that does not Count all the ads offering percentage discounts, two-for-ones and Free-with-Purchase offers! Don���t miss a Day of it! Subscribe Today 527-2151 It pays for itself. area purchasing managers index for December came in at 51.6, beating estimates for a gain to 51. Bond prices rose as investors moved money into defensive investments. The yield on the benchmark rise 10-year Treasury note, which falls when bond prices rise, dropped to 1.70 percent from 1.75 percent late Thursday.