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10A Daily News – Thursday, January 24, 2013 Obituaries Women, man arrested in scrap metal theft Two Red Bluff woman and a Gerber man were arrested Friday after they tried to sell stolen scrap metal to a Richfield Recycling. A witness saw three people loading scrap metal into a white pickup from behind a barn located on the corner of River Road and Olive Avenue, owned by a 45-year-old Corning man. The witness then followed the pickup to the recycling yard and called the property owner, according to a department press release. Deputies arrived at Richfield Recycling and the victim was able to identify $165 worth of scrap metal the three suspects were trying to sell. Julie Marie Dewitt, 31 and Danielle Joyce Pennell, 25 were arrested along with 23-year-old Blake Larsen and charged with possession of stolen property. Bail for each was $15,000. Calif. man in ax attack pleads not guilty JANNIE ELIZABETH CASEY May 24, 1936 - January 21, 2013 Jannie Elizabeth Casey, born May 24, 1936 in Wichita Falls, TX, went to be with her Lord and Savior on January 21, 2013. Jannie was a member of the Red Bluff community for over 25 years, taking loving care of many patients at Red Bluff Medical Group as well as St. Elizabeth Hospital ICU in the 1980's and 90's. She also attended Cornerstone Community Church of God where she generously served in many capacities during those years.She was loved, treasured, and adored by her patients, her church family, and mostly by her children, grandchildren, and her great granddaughter. Her siblings, nieces and nephews and all extended family were loved very much by her, and she by them. Jannie was a miraculous breast cancer survivor for 41 years. She knew that she was "fearfully and wonderfully made." Services will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at the church of God in McKinney, TX. Donations may be made to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in tribute to Jannie Elizabeth Casey. LOW Continued from page 1A ficult to find bargains in picking up distressed properties under market value,'' said Gary London, president of The London Group Realty Advisors in San Diego. ''For the most part, that party's over.'' ''What characterized the recession were distressed sales,'' London said. ''They were dictating the market. It was the market. It was the only market.'' Short sales — when a sale price is below what is owed on the property — rose as lenders sought to avoid foreclosures as part of agreements they made with the government, DataQuick said. Short sales accounted for 26 percent of existing-home sales during the fourth quarter, up from 25.7 percent a year earlier. Foreclosure activity remained concentrated in lower-priced areas, according to DataQuick. ZIP codes with median sales prices below $200,000 saw 5.5 default notices filed for every 1,000 homes, while ratio stood at 3.5 default notices in areas sales prices between $200,000 and $800,000 and 1.3 default notices in areas with sales prices above $800,000. Default notices are the first step in the foreclosure process and a leading indicator. DataQuick said California had 21,227 residential foreclosures completed during the fourth quarter, down 32.4 percent from 31,260 a year earlier. In another leading indicator that suggests foreclosures will continue to wane, the Mortgage Bankers Association recently reported that 6.56 percent of California home loans were at least one payment behind at the end of September, down from 7.68 percent a year earlier. Court tells prison to stop race-based punishment SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An appeals court on Wednesday ordered California's Pelican Bay State Prison to halt race-based punishment except during riots and other dire emergencies. The California Court of Appeal ruled that Pelican Bay authorities were wrong to deprive certain ethnic groups of privileges such as family visits, outside exercise and religious services during lengthy periods of heightened racial tensions. The unanimous threejudge panel upheld a lower court ruling in favor of Jose Morales, a Hispanic inmate from Southern California. The court said the prison could find means of controlling violence other than long-term restrictions placed on ethnic groups. Morales filed a lawsuit in 2010 alleging that he was denied certain privileges afforded other inmates because of his ethnic classification. Pelican Bay authorities had barred Hispanic inmates from certain privileges from three years after a major riot between Northern California and Southern California Hispanics. Prison officials said the two groups were at ''war'' and attacked each other on sight. Prison officials argued unsuccessfully that they targeted ''validated'' gang members rather than ethnic groups. They also argued unsuccessfully that even if they were classifying inmates by race, ''partial lockdowns'' of certain ethnic groups is a vital tool in combating racial violence. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation could ask the state Supreme Court to review the case. CDCR spokeswoman Terry Thornton said department lawyers had not yet reviewed the ruling and declined comment. MOUNTAIN GATE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man charged with hacking two men to death with an ax used to split logs has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Thirty-five-year-old Thomas McDonald entered the plea in Shasta County Superior Court through his attorney on Tuesday. The Record Searchlight of Redding reports that the GAS Continued from page 1A That was something he said was important to avoid for a small town with high unemployment. The greenhouse gas inventory tries to account for all the carbon dioxide created within the city of Red Bluff. The year 2010 was used, because it's recent, but had more available records than the past two years. Timboe used PG&E formulas and information to determine the carbon footprint for each acre of land in Red Bluff based on how its power needs are supplied. Another portion to determine the overall carbon footprint was taken from California Highway Patrol and Caltrans data to account for the city's transportation usage. Airport data examining the length of time planes spend coming in for a landing or taking off was also incorporated. Timboe said he then used aerial photography and surveying techniques to determine the number of 10- to 20-year-old trees within the city that could be used to offset carbon data. That age was chosen because they will still be around throughout the length of the 20-year plan. With that information he wrote performance standards for future projects that would require use of the already-passed Green Building Code as well as tree planting mitigation. Timboe said those two requirements alone were easy enough to comply with, but would result in a 15 percent reduction of greenhouse CRASH Continued from page 1A CHP veteran Officer Zimm Udovich who was traveling between 40-50 mph down the on-ramp prior to the collision. Udovich was taken by another CHP officer to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital for minor injuries where he was treated and judge appointed a psychologist to evaluate him. McDonald is facing first-degree murder, aggravated mayhem and other charges in the February 2012 attack on 54-year-old Karl Bradshaw and 84- emissions. "We're not trying to force the community to change how it lives its lives," Timboe said. Tehama County Air Pollution Control Officer Alan Abbs said the plan still needs work if it's going to hold up legally. Abbs said he had concerns with how much emission information was left out of the inventory, citing wood, propane, heating oil and nontransportation diesel fuel use as not being accounted for. That led to a discussion to how far a study should go to determine emissions. Timboe said when it came to propane gas, for instance, he had no way to determine whether someone uses a barbecue to make two hamburgers or a whole pack of hot dogs. Abbs said Red Bluff's draft inventory was drastically lower than national average models or a similar study conducted by the city of Fort Bragg. He suggested the city compare its inventory and standards with other cities and questioned the urban forestry model built in for mitigation. "It's really not about who has barbecues, it's about taking this document and having it peer reviewed," Abbs said. Timboe said he has spent four years on the document and used every detail of information he found realistic. "I want the best document that we can have," he said. But at the end of the day, Abbs said the first question the city of Red Bluff has to ask itself is what does it want the purpose of the document to be? Is it just to be used to waive released, Bushey said. Four Redding residents, including Bennett who was taken as a precautionary measure, were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Haschke, 45, had major injuries and his passenger Hazel Haschke, 30, had minor injuries. Ackerman, 48, had minor injuries. All involved vehicles had major damage. CHP officers from the year-old Ralph Gearhart Torborg in the town of Mountain Gate. Authorities say McDonald randomly attacked the two men with a splitting maul after a disturbance at his house. CEQA work or is develop real policies? While that question will ultimately be determined by the City Council, which makes policy, the planning commission took its time at Tuesday's hearing to weigh in. Commissioners Andrew Christ and Doug Dale each questioned how a city with budget troubles would balance further staff time to expand the study as Abbs had suggested. "Regardless if you believe in global warming or the other gobbily gook, this is to protect the people of Red Bluff," said Commissioner Vern Raglin Jr., who was earlier elected chairman for the calendar year. Newly elected Vice Chairwoman Jean Moran said it was important to keep an open mind when reading the inventory. She said what the city was trying to accomplish was take a snapshot of the year 2010 that could be provided as the basis for future analysis. "I think we have the beginning of a very good product," she said. Raglin asked rhetorically what the end result of emission studies and regulations were and whether it was simply to create new rules and regulations. "I don't see anything we do here in Red Bluff that would affect the Earth," he said. Commissioner Kevin Fitzpatrick compared Red Bluff's emission problems to a grain of salt. "But if you have a bunch of grains it makes a difference," he said. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, Ext. 109 or by email at regreene@redbluffdailynews.com. Red Bluff, Redding and Cottonwood Commercial Inspection Facility responded to assist the MAIT team in the investigation, which is on-going. Alcohol and drugs were not a factor in the collision. According to the CHP website, traffic was backed up about 7:30 a.m. almost to the Gas Point Road Exit in Cottonwood. The left lane of south- bound I-5 was closed for several hours to allow further investigation. The website indicated traffic breaks were run from the Cottonwood hill to slow traffic. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Trader Joe's raises price of 'Two-Buck Chuck' SANTA ROSA (AP) — The popular wine known as ''Two-Buck Chuck'' will need a new name after the bargain beverage's price was raised. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that over the past decade shoppers at Trader Joe's California stores paid $1.99 for a bottle of Charles Shaw shiraz or cabernet sauvignon. The new $2.49 price tag had shoppers searching for new names. Some customers joked that the brand should now be called ''Inflation Chuck'' or ''Upchuck.'' Trader Joe's sold about 5 million cases of the wine last year. The maker, Bronco Wine Co., said it was able to keep the price so low because it owns 45,000 acres of vineyard, which insulated it from large fluctuations in grape prices. But bad crops in 2011 and 2012 impacted the price. Fontana, Calif., schools get high-powered rifles FONTANA (AP) — The high-powered semiautomatic rifles recently shipped to school police in this Southern California city look like they belong on a battlefield rather than in a high school, but officials here say the weapons could help stop a massacre like the one that claimed the lives of 26 students and educators in Connecticut just weeks ago. Fontana Unified School District police purchased 14 of the Colt LE6940 rifles last fall, and they were delivered the first week of December — a week before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Over the holiday break, the district's 14 school police officers received 40 hours of training on the rifles. Officers check them out for each shift from a fireproof safe in the police force's main office. Fontana isn't the first district to try this. Other Southern California districts also have rifle programs — some that have been in operation for several years. Fontana school police Chief Billy Green said he used money from fingerprinting fees to purchase the guns for $14,000 after identifying a ''critical vulnerability'' in his force's ability to protect students. The officers, who already wear sidearms, wouldn't be able to stop a shooter like the one in Connecticut, he said Wednesday. ''They're not walking around telling kids, 'Hurry up and get to class' with a gun around their neck,'' the chief said. ''Parents need to know that if there was a shooter on their child's campus that was equipped with body armor or a rifle, we would be limited in our ability to stop that threat to their children.'' Some parents and students, however, reacted with alarm to the news that school resource officers were being issued the rifles during their shifts. The officers split their time between 44 schools in the district and keep the rifles in a safe at their assigned school or secured in their patrol car each day before checking the weapon back in to the school police headquarters each night. ''If the wrong person gets ahold of the gun, then we have another shooter going around with a gun. What happens then, if that situation occurs?'' said James Henriquez, a 16year-old sophomore who just enrolled at Fontana High School this week after moving from Texas. Other students said they felt disillusioned that officials would spend money on semiautomatic rifles while the district eliminated its comprehensive guidance counseling program two years ago. ''They should get guns, but not as many and not spend so much money on them,'' said student Elizabeth Tovar. ''They should use the money to get back our counselors because a lot of us really need them.'' The district saved millions by restructuring guidance services, said Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks. ''I understand that people are looking at the layoffs, but $14,000 and $7 million is a huge disparity,'' she said.