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THURSDAY JANUARY 3, 2013 Shriners in Rose Parade Corning Shootout Community Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 2A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 55/29 Weather forecast 8B TEHAMA COUNTY DAILY 50�� 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 Tu rf trashed Pair arrested in casino melee A pair of belligerently drunk Redding men were arrested late Friday night at Rolling Hills Casino after they started a fight with security guards and responding law enforcement. One man spit on a sheriff���s deputy. Shortly before midnight, Joshua Webb and Arron Harvey, both 24, had been asked to leave the casino due to their level of intoxication according to a Tehama County Sheriff���s Department press release. Casino staff had stopped serving their group alcohol and they became belligerent. Corning Police responded to find multiple subjects fighting with Casino security at the entry door. Webb resisted an officer���s attempts to restrain him. He kicked one officer in the leg, bit a security guard on See CASINO, page 7A LaMalfa eager to start first term as congressman By LARRY MITCHELL Daily News photo by Rich Greene Red Bluff Little League���s Hobart Field behind Jackson Heights School was vandalized by 4wheelers Saturday and Sunday night leaving it unplayable and not safe for the upcoming season. By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Red Bluff���s Field of Dreams was left a field of nightmares over the holiday weekend. On Saturday and Sunday night vandals ripped up the outfield sod at Red Bluff Little League���s Hobart Field with 4-wheelers leaving unplayable conditions just weeks before tryouts are scheduled. ���I feel like someone vandalized my home,��� Red Bluff Little League President Korri McMahan said. McMahan said she went to the field Sunday morning after hearing someone h ad driven a 4-wheeler around the field. The damage done that night was mainly to the infield. McMahan said she thought about camping out that night to see if the responsible parties would return, but didn���t because it was too cold. Sunday night two more 4-wheelers returned leaving huge divots in the grass as well as damaging sprinkler lines and heads. ���The first day I thought that���s not that bad. The second day I was devastated. I was heart-broken,��� McMahan said. Little League tryouts for the upcoming season are scheduled to begin as soon as Feb. 6 with practices to follow beginning the next week. March 9 is the traditional opening ceremony beginning a spring and summer of the field being filled every Saturday with ball players and their families. McMahan said tryouts, practices and even some games might have to be moved to other locations depending on the timetable. She said she hoped the opening ceremony could still be held at Hobart Field even if it���s not ready for games to be played on it. The other two fields at the complex behind Jackson Heights School were not vandalized. Little League organizers were trying to determine how to tackle the problem Wednesday afternoon. They hope to find a landscaper who can formulate a plan. ���Right now we���re flying blind, we don���t know what to do,��� McMahan said. Officials are planning to roll the field and then fill it in with top soil and seed. McMahan said donations of top See TURF, page 7A Committee on N a t u r a l Resources. Staff Writer He'll be put on R I C H subcommittees VALE ��� On of those two his calendar, panels, as well. CongressmanHe's planelect Doug ning on attendLaMalfa may ing an orientawell have a red tion in circle drawn Williamsburg, LaMalfa around today. Va., for new That's the members of day he'll be sworn in as Congress. It will cover the north state's new con- historical aspects of his gressman. new job. ���The closer it gets, the He has been assigned a more excited I become,��� fifth-floor office and plans he said in an interview last to sleep in it for the time week. being. LaMalfa, a rice farmer ���A lot of guys use the and a Republican, suc- office that way,��� he said. ceeds Rep. Wally Herger, ���There are showers and a R-Chico, who served in gym in the basement.��� the House for 26 years. LaMalfa said he plans LaMalfa said he's been to make frequent trips working out the details of between Washington and his upcoming term in Butte County. office. ���I'll channel myself He has chosen some into having very producstaff members and is tive plane time,��� he said. selecting others. ���I'm not afraid I'll be He's been assigned to bored.��� the House Committee on The congressman-toAgriculture and the House See EAGER, page 7A Fiscal cliff deal New Year���s baby born Wednesday brings some relief By JULIE ZEEB to California DN Staff Writer SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� The deal in Washington to avoid the ������fiscal cliff������ will bring a reprieve to California���s slowly rebounding economy, but uncertainty remains in part because Congress delayed action on federal spending cuts. The agreement helps California avoid sliding back into recession, H.D. Palmer, finance spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, said Wednesday. But economic forecasters said the two-month delay on the sequestration cuts could lead businesses to delay hiring or investments. ������To the extent that this agreement averts a national recession ��� and the revenue loss associated with it ��� then we will have dodged a bullet,������ Palmer said a day after Congress reached the deal. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 One immediate benefit of the agreement is about 400,000 jobless Californians will receive extended unemployment benefits. The legislation also stops a 27 percent reduction in Medicare fees paid to doctors, and keeps in place a higher child tax credit as well as tax credits for college tuition, clean energy and small businesses. While it raises taxes on the wealthy, the deal prevents most tax increases on the middle class. All taxpayers will be subject to an additional 2 percent Social Security payroll tax because Congress allowed that tax holiday to expire. Individuals making $400,000 or more and couples making $450,000 or more will see an increase in their tax rate to 39.6 percent, up from 35 percent. About 144,000 of the state���s 14.6 million tax returns, or 1 percent, See CLIFF, page 7A The First Baby of Tehama County may have been nine days late, but she was right on time to claim the honor of coming in first. Everly Virginia Tuttle, born to Meredith and Topher Tuttle of Red Bluff, arrived at 6:08 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. She was seven pounds and 19.5 inches long. She was originally due to arrive on Dec. 23, Topher said. The second child for the couple, which has been married for five and a half years, she will be welcomed home by brother Bronson, 3. Meredith and Topher, who recently graduated from UC Davis law school, met while attending Brigham Young University in Utah. ���We���re really excited,��� Topher Tuttle said. ���It was tough to wait the extra days, but it worked out great.��� She was surprised to find that when she arrived at the OB ward she was the only occupant, said Meredith Tuttle, a lifelong Red Bluff resident. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Meredith and Topher Tuttle of Red Bluff show off their daughter, Everly Virginia Tuttle, who was the first baby of 2013 to be born in Tehama County. She was born at 6:08 a.m. Wednesday. ���I can���t believe it was us (having the first baby),��� Meredith said. ���It���s awesome.��� As of deadline on Wednesday, there still was not even a prospect for the first boy, let alone another Tehama County born child, arriving at St. Eliz- abeth. Both the first boy and first girl born at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital receive gifts, totaling about $2,000 for 2013, according to hospital staff. Each year, business people in the community donate toward the gift baskets. 2013 donors include: Applebees, Baskin Robbins, Cornerstone Community Bank, Countryside Cafe, Dandy Lions Children���s Shop, Discover Earth, Firehouse Pizza, See BABY, page 7A