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Monday, June 7, 2010 – Daily News – 7B Ohio tornado kills 7, wrecks cop cars, graduation MILLBURY, Ohio (AP) — A tornado unleashed a ‘‘war zone’’ of destruction in northwest Ohio, destroy- ing dozens of homes and an emergency services building as a line of storms killed at least seven people and threatened to do more damage Sunday as it hit the Northeast. Storms collapsed a movie-theater roof in Illi- nois and ripped siding off a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing a shutdown. But most of the worst was reserved for a 100-yard-wide, 7-mile- long strip southeast of Toledo now littered with wrecked vehicles, splin- tered wood and family pos- sessions. The tornado ripped the roof and back wall off Lake High School’s gymnasium about 11 p.m. Saturday, several hours before the graduation ceremony was supposed to begin there. The school board president said one of the victims was the father of the class vale- dictorian. Two buses were tossed on their sides and another was thrown about 50 yards, landing on its top near the high school’s football field. More than 10 hours later, its right turn signal was still blinking. Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer flew over the damaged area and said at least 50 homes were destroyed and another 50 severely damaged, as well as six commercial build- ings. The storm fell over an area of farm fields and light industry, narrowly missing the heavily populated sub- urbs on the southern edge of Toledo. ‘‘It’s a war zone,’’ Hum- mer said. ‘‘It’s pretty dis- heartening.’’ Rescue officials were still searching through homes Sunday and could- n’t say whether anyone else was missing, Lake Town- ship Fire Chief Todd Wal- ters said. The tornado turned a township police and emer- gency medical services building into a mishmash of 2-by-4 framing and pink insulation. Hummer was talking to a police dispatch- er by phone when the storm hit. ‘‘She started saying, ’The building is shaking,’ and then another dispatcher came on and said, ’The roof just blew off,’’ he said. The storm ripped off most of the building’s back half and wrapped part of the metal roof around a tree. At least six police Gulf oil spill may go ‘til fall NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The cap over a blown-out oil well is capturing more and more of the crude pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, but that bit of hope was tempered Sunday by a sharp dose of pragmatism as the federal gov- ernment’s point man warned the crisis could stretch into the fall. The inverted funnel-like cap is being closely watched for whether it can make a serious dent in the flow of new oil. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, oversee- ing the government’s response to the spill, reserved judgment, say- ing he didn’t want to risk offering false encouragement. Instead, he warned on CBS’ ‘‘Face the Nation’’ that the battle to contain the oil is likely to stretch into the fall. The cap will trap only so much of the oil, and relief wells being drilled won’t be completed until August. In the meantime, oil will continue to spew out. ‘‘But even after that, there will be oil out there for months to come,’’ Allen said. ‘‘This will be well into the fall. This is a siege across the entire Gulf. This spill is holding every- body hostage, not only economi- cally but physically. And it has to be attacked on all fronts,’’ he said. Since it was placed over the busted well on Thursday, the cap has been siphoning an increasing amount of oil. On Saturday, it fun- neled about 441,000 gallons to a tanker on the surface, up from about 250,000 gallons it captured Friday. But it’s not clear how much is still escaping from the well that federal authorities at one point estimated was leaking between 500,000 gallons and 1 million gal- lons a day. Since the spill began nearly seven weeks ago, roughly 23 million to 49 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf. The prospect that the crisis could stretch beyond summer was devastating to residents along the Gulf, who are seeing thicker globs of oil show up in increasing vol- ume all along the coastline. In Ruth Dailey’s condominium in Gulf Shores, Ala., floors already are smeared with dark blotches of oil, she said, and things are only going to get worse. ‘‘This is just the beginning,’’ she said. ‘‘I have a beachfront condo for a reason. With this, no one will want to come.’’ Kelcey Forrestier, 23, of New Orleans, said she no longer trusts the word of either BP or the U.S. government in laying out the extent of the spill. But it is clear to Forrestier, just coming in off the water at Okaloosa Island, Fla., that the spill and its damage will last long into the future. ‘‘Oil just doesn’t go away. Oil doesn’t disappear,’’ said Forresti- er, who just earned a biology degree. ‘‘It has to go somewhere and it’s going to come to the Gulf beaches.’’ BP chief executive Tony Hay- ward told the BBC on Sunday that he believed the cap was likely to capture ‘‘the majority, probably the vast majority’’ of the oil gush- ing from the well. The gradual increase in the amount being cap- tured is deliberate, in an effort to prevent water from getting inside and forming a frozen slush that foiled a previous containment attempt. Allen was reluctant to charac- terize the degree of progress, say- ing much more had to be done. ‘‘We need to underpromise and overdeliver,’’ he said. BP engineers must next try to close vents on the containment cap that are allowing oil to escape and preventing that water intake. Hayward told the BBC that the NJ men accused of trying to join terrorists ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey men who talked about attacking Ameri- cans and sought to fight alongside terrorists in Somalia were arrested at a gate New York’s Kennedy Airport as they were about to board a flight to leave the U.S. and join the al-Qaida-affil- iated jihadists, authorities said. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, were arrested Saturday before they could board separate flights to Egypt and then continue on to Somalia, federal officials in New Jersey and the New York Police Depart- ment said. Law enforcement became aware of the men in the fall of 2006, after receiving a tip. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said they had traveled to Jordan in 2007 and tried to get into Iraq, but were turned back by their would-be recruiters. Since then, during the lengthy investigation, an NYPD undercover officer recorded conversa- tions with the men in which they spoke about jihad against Americans. ‘‘I leave this time. God willing, I never come back,’’ authorities say Alessa told the officer last year. ‘‘Only way I would come back here is if I was in the land of jihad and the leader ordered me to come back here and do something here. Ah, I love that.’’ Alessa also was allegedly recorded telling Almonte that he would outdo Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 peo- ple at Fort Hood, Texas, last year. ‘‘He’s not better than me. I’ll do twice what he did,’’ Alessa allegedly said. Kelly said Alessa, of North Bergen, and Almonte, of Elmwood Park, are American citi- zens. Alessa was born in the United States and is of Palestinian descent. Almonte is a naturalized citizen who was born in the Dominican Republic. They are the latest of many Americans or immigrants to the U.S. accused of joining or try- ing to join al-Shabab, a violent extremist group based in Somalia and connected to al-Qaida. Al- Shabab was designated by the U.S. as a terrorist group in 2008. Investigators say they’re also among many U.S. terrorism suspects to have been inspired by two well-known U.S. citizens who have recruited terrorists through the Internet: Adam Gadahn, an al-Qaida spokesman in Pakistan, and Anwar al- Awlaki, believed to have helped inspire recent attacks including the Fort Hood shooting, the Times Square bombing attempt and the failed Christmas Day airline bombing. Both men have made public calls for smaller, single acts of terrorism and court documents show Alessa and Almonte appearing to be inspired by that idea. Alessa and Almonte face charges of conspir- ing to kill, maim, and kidnap persons outside the United States by joining al-Shabab. Teams of state and federal law enforcement agents who have been investigating the men took them into custody, authorities said. They are scheduled to appear Monday in federal court in Newark. While court documents paint a picture of two men deeply committed to terrorism, their training was apparently scattershot. They lifted weights, hiked in the snow at a local park, bought military- style pants and water bottles, played violent video games and watched terrorist videos online. They had no known connections to terrorist groups, and their trip to Somalia apparently amounted to a leap of faith that they’d be embraced by the group. Court documents do not indicate that authori- ties had other targets in the investigation. In March, Alessa was recorded telling Almonte and the undercover officer that no one else they knew in New Jersey should be included in their plan to join al-Shabab because only the three of them were ‘‘serious about their plan and were prepar- ing for it.’’ Kelly on Sunday cited the ‘‘excellent work’’ done by the undercover officer, who Kelly said was of Egyptian descent and in his mid-20s. The officer joined the department in 2005. The men said they planned to get weapons when they went abroad. The only weapons they possessed were two folding knives Alessa said he would use to kill police if they tried to get near him: ‘‘I’m-a cut them in half with it, even if I die,’’ Alessa said, according to court documents. Alessa and Almonte had planned their trip to Somalia for several months, saving thousands of dollars, officials said. Both had bragged about wanting to wage holy war against the United States both at home and internationally, accord- ing to a criminal complaint. Officials said the two men were not planning an imminent attack in the New York-New Jersey area and weren’t suspected of plotting any vio- lence on their flights. The two men knew early on they had come to the attention of law enforcement. By the end of 2006 agents had talked with Almonte and a family member, and in March 2007 the FBI conducted a consensual search of his computer, revealing documents advocating jihad against the perceived enemies of Islam, court papers show. Last November, investigators recorded Alessa telling Almonte that lots of people needed to be killed. ‘‘My soul cannot rest until I shed blood,’’ Alessa said, according to court documents. ‘‘I wanna, like, be the world’s known terrorist.’’ Almonte told the undercover officer in April that there would soon be American troops in Somalia, which he allegedly said was good because it would not be as gratifying to kill only Africans. No one answered the door at Almonte’s house and the blinds were drawn. A man who said he was Almonte’s father walked into the home shortly before 1 p.m. with another man. ‘‘I’m very confused by all this. He’s my son,’’ he said before he went inside. ‘‘I just don’t under- stand it.’’ David Castro, 56, of Elmwood Park, is an Army reservist who lives across the street from Almonte. He said he doesn’t know the suspect but knows his father and described the family as friendly. Terrorists’ recruiting techniques ‘‘almost seem better than the U.S. Army,’’ Castro said. ‘‘This is happening not just in bad neighborhoods. This is happening in good neighborhoods like this one.’’ Alessa lived with his parents in the densely populated New York suburb, said Hemant Shah, the family’s landlord. Alessa was attending Bergen County Community College, Shah said, and his father worked at a convenience store. company hopes a second contain- ment system will be in place by next weekend. Allen told CBS that the oil would stop flowing only when the leak was plugged with cement. The cap was only the latest effort by BP PLC to attempt to contain the leak since the Deep- water Horizon rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers. In the past week, greater and greater quantities of thick oily sludge began making its way farther east, washing up on some of the region’s hallmark white-sand beaches and coating marshes in black ooze. Already, cleanup crews along the coast were struggling to keep pace with oil washing up thicker and faster by the hour. The sight and smell of oil undermined any consolation offered by reports of progress at the wellhead. Instead, Gulf residents voiced frustration with the apparent holes in cleanup efforts. At Gulf Shores, Dailey walked along a line of oil mixed with sea- weed that stretched as far as the eye could see. Collecting bits of the rust-colored oil did nothing to ease her anger. Legal Notices Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 10-0018499 Title Order No. 4375734 APN No. 073-043-031 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 07/19/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER." Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by JUAN SANCHEZ AND MARIA ELENA SANCHEZ, dated 07/19/2007 and recorded 07/27/07, as Instrument No. 2007013486, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Tehama County, State of California, will sell on 06/21/2010 at 2:00PM, At the main entrance to the Tehama County Courthouse, 633 Washington Street, Red Bluff, Tehama County, CA at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully de- scribed in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street ad- dress and other common desig- nation, if any of the real proper- ty described above is purported to be: 909 COLUSA STREET, CORNING, CA, 96021. The under- signed Trustee disclaims any li- ability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with inter- est thereon of the obligation se- cured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publica- tion of the Notice of Sale is $178,561.35. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total in- debtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings asso- ciation, or savings bank speci- fied in Section 5102 of the Finan- cial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an "AS IS" con- dition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, re- garding title, possession or en- cumbrances, to satisfy the in- debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as pro- vided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and ex- penses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provi- sions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the decla- ration from the mortgagee, ben- eficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trust- ee’s Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder’s Office. DATED: 05/12/2010 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914- 01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale Offi- cer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. FEI # 1006.98807 5/24, 5/31, 6/07/2010 vehicles — half the town- ship’s fleet — were destroyed, and one car was tossed into the spot where the building once stood. The storm knocked out emergency services for a short time, and all the emergency dispatchers and 911 operators had to be moved to a nearby town. ‘‘When the people who are supposed to help you are victims of the storm, it does take you a minute to catch your breath,’’ Hum- mer said. Legal Notices Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Double "M" Video 530-824-6450, 1216 Solano St, Corning, CA 96021 File No. 2010000174 STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Mary Lou Shreve 6055 Amador Rd Corning, CA 96021 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fic- titious business name or names listed above on 11/21/01 This business is conducted by: an individual S/By: Mary Lou Shreve Mary Lou Shreve This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 6/3/2010 Publish: June 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2010 LEGAL NOTICE BEVERLY ROSS Tehama County Clerk & Recorder NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale No. 441674CA Loan No. 0730036449 Title Order No. 381378 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UN- DER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 03- 13-2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE AC- TION TO PROTECT YOUR PROP- ERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUB- LIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EX- PLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 06-28-2010 at 02:00 PM, RECONVEYANCE COMPANY as the duly appointed Trustee un- der and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded 03-21-2007, Book , Page , Instrument 2007005254, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of TEHAMA County, California, executed by: WILLIAM ROMERO AND SHANDA G. ROMERO, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor, WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, as Beneficiary, will sell at public auction sale to the highest bid- der for cash, cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or federal credit un- ion, or a cashier’s check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings asso- ciation, or savings bank speci- fied in section 5102 of the Finan- cial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Sale will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest con- veyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter descri- bed property under and pur- suant to the Deed of Trust. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, ex- pressed or implied, regarding ti- tle, possession, or encumbran- ces, to pay the remaining princi- pal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, estimated fees, charg- es and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably esti- mated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Place of Sale: THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE TEHAMA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 633 WASHINGTON STREET , RED BLUFF, CA Legal Description: LOT 16 OF EL CERRITO HEIGHTS, TRACT NO. 83-1012, FILED FEBRU- ARY 28, 1990 IN BOOK W OF MAPS AT PAGES 98 AND 99, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RE- CORDER OF THE COUNTY OF TEHAMA. Amount of unpaid bal- ance and other charges: $232,127.02 (estimated) Street address and other common des- ignation of the real property: 1705 EL CERRITO DRIVE RED BLUFF, CA 96080 APN Number: 031-102-21-1 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other com- mon designation, if any, shown herein. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". In compliance with California Civil Code 2923.5(c) the mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent declares: that it has contacted the borrower(s) to assess their fi- nancial situation and to explore options to avoid foreclosure; or that it has made efforts to con- tact the borrower(s) to assess their financial situation and to explore options to avoid foreclo- sure by one of the following methods: by telephone; by Unit- ed States mail; either 1st class or certified; by overnight deliv- ery; by personal delivery; by e- mail; by face to face meeting. DATE: 06-07-2010 DECLARATION PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 2923.54 Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 2923.54, the undersigned loan servicer declares as follows: 1. It has obtained from the commis- sioner a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to Sec- tion 2923.54 that is current and valid on the date the notice of sale is filed; and 2. The timeframe for giving notice of sale specified in subdivision (a) of Section 2923.52 does not ap- ply pursuant to Section 2923.52 or Section 2923.55. CALIFORNIA RECONVEYANCE COMPANY, as Trustee (714) 259-7850 or www.fidelityasap.com (714) 573- 1965 CALIFORNIA www.priorityposting.com CALI- FORNIA RECONVEYANCE COM- PANY IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AT- TEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR- POSE. DEBORAH BRIGNAC, VICE PRESIDENT ASAP# 3578076 06/07/2010, 06/21/2010 or 06/14/2010,