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THURSDAY Bull Sale Winning Ways Section JANUARY 24, 2013 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Pages 6A-9A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 57/36 Weather forecast 10B 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 Planning commission eyes greenhouse gas emissions By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer A public hearing on the city of Red Bluff's draft greenhouse gas inventory Tuesday stretched from questions regarding how much carbon dioxide common cats give off to whether anything done locally will realistically make a global difference. In between Planning Direc- tor Scot Timboe's work on the 2010 Greenhouse Gas Inventory and CEQA Greenhouse Gas Performance Standards was widely credited as being a sensible and realistic model to work from by both the public at large and the planning commission. "The benefit of this document is it provides guidance for builders and contractors," Tim- 'We're not trying to force the community to change how it lives its lives' — Planning Director Scot Timboe boe said. create the inventory and resulting performance standards came as the result of state legislation aimed to curb emissions. He said he hoped if the city adopted the inventory and standards, future discretionary building projects would not be subject to costly and timely environmental impact reports. Timboe said the project to CHP head-on crash See GAS, page 10A Man, 93, walks in on burglars A 93-year-old Cottonwood man returned to his Laurel Avenue residence Tuesday to find two burglars in his home. Earl Parker told the Tehama County Sheriff's Office that the two suspects kicked open his locked front door sometime between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Parker returned home and found the two men inside. When confronted the two men ran from the house leaving behind a bag of items they had collected from inside the residence. They left with about $200 in cash. There was about $500 in damages from the ransacking of the home. Corning man shot in apartment, no suspect identified By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Daily News photo by Doris Hoagland An early morning crash on Interstate 5 near Cottonwood slowed traffic coming to Red Bluff Wednesday. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A California Highway Patrol Officer and two other drivers were injured Wednesday in a collision involving five vehicles at 6:33 a.m. on southbound Interstate 5 at Bowman Road. The Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT) was onsite Wednesday looking into the matter, a CHP Public Information Officer Jake Bushey said. Initial investigation has deter- mined the collision started when a 2005 Toyota Scion XB driven north on I-5 by Taylor Bennett, 18, of Redding collided with an unknown semi truck, according to a CHP press release. Bennett was driving in the far left lane about 80 mph when for unknown reasons she allowed the Toyota to veer into the right lane, colliding with the semi. Bennett collided with the semi a second time, causing it to veer across the center divider and into the southbound lanes where it hit a Foreclosure activity hits 6-year low SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rising prices sent California home foreclosure activity to a six-year low in the fourth quarter, a real estate research said Wednesday. There were 38,212 default notices on houses and condominiums in the state from October through December, down 37.9 percent from 61,517 notices during the same period of 2011, DataQuick reported. It was the lowest tally since 37,994 notices were filed during the fourth quarter of 2006. Declines were steep across geographic regions and price categories, offering the latest evidence that the threat of foreclosure was fading fast. California's median 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 home sales price in December rose 20 percent from a year earlier, with the San Francisco Bay area gaining 32 percent for its steepest increase in more than two decades. John Walsh, DataQuick's president, said the rising values meant fewer homeowners owed more than their properties were worth, allowing them to sell to pay off mortgages or refinance at low interest rates. It is a sharp turnaround from three years ago, when foreclosed homes flooded the market. According to DataQuick, properties that were foreclosed upon during the previous year accounted for 16.6 percent of existing-home sales during the fourth quarter, down from 33.6 percent a year earlier 57.8 percent in the first quarter of 2009. ''My investor clients are finding it far more difSee LOW, page 10A 2008 Nissan Titan driven by Eric Haschke and a 2012 Subaru Impresa driven by Serena Ackerman. Both vehicles were hit in the far left lane of southbound I-5 at speeds of about 70 mph with the impact resulting in Haschke's pickup to lose control, traveling onto the southbound on-ramp where it collided with the CHP patrol vehicle. The CHP Mobile Road Enforcement vehicle, a 2005 Dodge Ram 2500, was being driven by 21-year See CRASH, page 10A An 18-year-old Corning man was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico late Tuesday after being shot twice in the back at a South Street apartment. Corning Police were dispatched at 11:36 p.m. to the 1200 block of South Street for reports of shots fired and someone yelling in the apartment. Officers found an apartment door open and the man, identified as Billy Thomvongkham, who was lying on the living room floor. During the initial investigation, officers learned the suspects had kicked in Thomvongkham's front door and shot him in the back while he was laying or sitting on the couch in the living room. Neighbors told police they heard two gunshots and a vehicle driving away at a high rate of speed. The charge of attempted murder is pending as no suspects or suspect vehicle had been identified as of Wednesday, according to a Corning Police release. As of Wednesday a f t e r n o o n , Thomvongkham was listed in critical condition. Nothing further was available. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews .com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Ground smolders near college Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb CalFire continues mop up Wednesday of the area next to Shasta College that still smokes following the July 4 fire that burned down the Tehama County Child Support Services office before spreading toward Shasta College.