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6B Daily News – Friday, May 24, 2013 WORLD BRIEFING Obama defends drone strikes overseas WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no ''cure-all'' and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally killed. The president also announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, including lifting a moratorium on prisoner transfers to Yemen. However, shutting the prison will still require help from Republicans reluctant to back Obama's call to move some detainees to U.S. prisons and try them in civilian courts. Obama framed his address as an attempt to redefine the nature and scope of terror threats facing the U.S., noting the weakening of al-Qaida and the impending end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. ''Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of terror,'' Obama said in remarks at the National Defense University. ''What we can do — what we must do — is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger, and make it less likely for new groups to gain a foothold, all while maintaining the freedoms and ideals that we defend.'' Since taking office, Obama's counterterrorism strategy has increasingly relied on the use of strikes by unmanned spy drones, particularly in Pakistan and Yemen. The highly secretive program has faced criticism from congressional lawmakers who have questioned its scope and legality. Obama says attorney general will review guidelines in media leaks WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government secrets. Obama acknowledged he is ''troubled by the possibility that leaks investigations may chill the investigative journalism'' that he says holds government accountable and said he has expressed his concerns to Attorney General Eric Holder. But he said his administration would continue to try to find the government employees who are responsible for leaks. In recent weeks, the administration has acknowledged secretly seizing portions of two months of phone records from The Associated Press and reading the e-mails of Fox News reporter James Rosen in separate investigations about the publication of government secrets. The president said the government has to strike the right balance between security and an open society. He said Holder will meet with representatives of media organizations and report back to him by July 12. Obama re-stated his support for a media shield law that he said would ''guard against government overreach.'' Such a law would require a federal judge to sign off before investigators could have a look at the records of journalists. Muslim hard-liners ID suspect seen in video after British soldier killed LONDON (AP) — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday. Police raided houses in connection with the brazen slaying of the off-duty soldier, identified as Lee Rigby, of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, who served in Afghanistan. In addition to the two suspects who were hospitalized after being shot by police, authorities said they had arrested a man and a woman, both 29, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Police would not say whether it appeared Rigby had been targeted specifically because of his military service. Although he was not in uniform at the time he was killed, he was said by witnesses to be wearing a T-shirt for a British veterans' charity. Authorities have not identified either of the two wounded suspects and have not said when they would do so. Officials in Britain usually wait to name suspects until charges have been filed. Anjem Choudary, the former head of the radical group al-Muhajiroun, told The Associated Press that the man depicted in startling video that emerged after Rigby's death was named Michael Adebolajo, a Christian who converted to Islam around 2003 and took part in several demonstrations by the group in London. IRS replaces official who supervised agents involved in targeting WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday that he has selected a new acting head of the division. Ken Corbin will be the acting director of the agency's exempt organizations division. Corbin is currently deputy director of submission processing in the wage and investment division. A congressional aide said Lerner has been placed on administrative leave. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter. Boy Scout leaders vote on whether to ease ban GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday on whether to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization. Whether yes or no, the result will bitterly disappoint many. The decision expected Thursday evening could trigger defections among those on the losing side. Casting ballots were about 1,400 voting members of BSA's National Council who were attending their annual meeting at a conference center not far from BSA headquarters in suburban Dallas. At stake was a proposal drafted by the BSA's governing executive committee that says boys could no longer be excluded from Scouting solely on the basis of sexual orientation. A longstanding ban on gay adult leaders would remain in place. Whatever the outcome, the vote will not end the wrenching debate over the Scouts' membership policy. Deadly fighting between Assad backers, opponents BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years. The battles raised the five-day death toll to 16 and fed fears of the Syrian civil war spreading to Lebanon and other neighboring countries. The violence also added to the urgency to U.S.Russian efforts to bring both sides of the Syrian conflict to a peace conference in Geneva. Members of the Syrian opposition began three day meetings in Istanbul to hash out a unified position on whether to attend, while maintaining that Assad's departure from power should be the goals of the negotiations. Lebanon has been on edge since the uprising in Syria began in March 2011. The country, which is still struggling to recover from its own 15-year civil war, is sharply divided along sectarian lines and into pro and anti-Assad camps. The overt involvement by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah Shiite militant group alongside Assad's regime has sparked outrage among many Sunnis in Lebanon who identify with the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Assad. Deadly sectarian street fighting has erupted on several occasions, mostly in Tripoli, Lebanon's largest city and a hotbed for Sunni Islamists. This week's fighting there has been linked to a Syrian regime offensive against the rebel-held city of Qusair in western Syria that has included Hezbollah fighters supporting Syrian troops against the rebels. Scientists learn how some roaches evolve to avoid poison — in just 5 years NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations there kept rising. Mystified researchers tested and discarded theory after theory until they finally hit on the explanation: In a remarkably rapid display of evolution at work, many of the cockroaches had lost their sweet tooth, rejecting the corn syrup meant to attract them. In as little as five years, the sugar-rejecting trait had become so widespread that the bait had been rendered useless. ''Cockroaches are highly adaptive, and they're doing pretty well in the arms race with us,'' said North Carolina State University entomologist Jules Silverman, discoverer of the glucose aversion in that Florida kitchen during a bait test. The findings illustrate the evolutionary prowess that has helped make cockroaches so hard to stamp out that it is jokingly suggested they could survive nuclear war. McDonald's offers Ohio kidnap case hero free food for a year, donates $10K CLEVELAND (AP) — The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for years in a Cleveland house will get free McDonald's for the next year, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. Local franchisees in Charles Ramsey's neighborhood have offered him free food at their restaurants, said Heidi Barker, a spokeswoman for Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's Corp. Ramsey was called a hero after helping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight break out of the house May 6. Homeowner Ariel Castro faces charges. His defense team has said he will plead not guilty. Ramsey had noted in an interview with a local TV station that he was eating McDonald's when the scene unfolded. He also spoke of it in a 911 call. Both the interview and the call quickly became popular online, and McDonald's caught wind of Ramsey's mentions. The world's biggest hamburger company had said a day after the rescue on Twitter: ''We salute the courage of Ohio kidnap victims & respect their privacy. Way to go Charles Ramsey — we'll be in touch.'' Jerry Lewis still not laughing at females CANNES, France (AP) — Ladies? Don't make him laugh. Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. He then added: ''I don't have any.'' In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy ''sets me back a bit'' and that he has trouble with the notion of would-be mothers as comedians. Asked Thursday if he had changed his mind at all because of performers like Melissa McCarthy and Sarah Silverman, the 87-year-old Lewis said of women performing broad comedy: ''I can't see women doing that. It bothers me.'' YOUR CLASSIFIED WILL APPEAR ON OUR WEBSITE www.redbluffdailynews.com Classified 530 527-2151 HOW TO PLACE YOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements CLASSIFIED AD Lost & Found CALL: 1-855-667-2255 MAILING ADDRESS PO Box 220, Red Bluff, CA, COME AND SEE US 545 Diamond Ave., Red Bluff, CA 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. SEND A FAX 530-527-5774 Don't forget your name, address & phone number WE ACCEPT MOBILE HOMES Notices Personals Apts. For Rent Buildings & Offices Houses For Rent Rooms, Roommates Want to Rent/Housing Banking/Lending Child Care SProfessional Services Schools, Inst. Trng. 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Supplies Farm Pasture, Rent/Lease Feed, Fertilizer, Firewood Horses, Livestock, Poultry Nursery Stock, Seed Pets DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY 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 Office Hours: MON.-FRI. 8:00-5:00 Closed Saturday, Sunday & major holidays LEGAL NOTICE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF TEHAMA PETITION OF: Laura Ramirez FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 67933 ______________________/ TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner, Laura Ramirez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Itzel Ramirez Mendoza to Itzel Ramirez Avila THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: June 10, 2013 Time: 1:30 p.m. Dept.: 1 The address of the court is 633 Washington St., Rm 17, Red Bluff, CA 96080. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Red Bluff Daily News a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county. Actual notice to minors father shall not be required. Notice to his legal conservator shall be sufficient enough notice. DATE: 5-1-2013 S/By: C. Todd Bottke JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Publish: May 10, 17, 24 & 31,2013 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JOSEPH JOHN RODRIGUES CASE NO. 14930 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOSEPH JOHN RODRIGUES A Petition for Probate has been filed by Rocky Rodrigues in the Superior Court of California, County of TEHAMA THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Rocky Rodrigues be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 3, 2013, at 1:30 pm in Dept. 1 located at 633 Washington Street, P.O. Box 310, Red Bluff, CA 96080. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledge in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you a person of interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Reuest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. 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LEGAL NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013000169 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GIRLY GUN SAFETY 530 5170989, 19628 Feather Falls Place, Cottonwood, CA 96022 Stephaine Drake 19628 Feather Falls Place Cottonwood, CA 96022 Daniel Drake 19628 Feather Falls Place Cottonwood, CA 96022 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A This business is conducted by: Married Couple S/By: Stephanie J. Drake Stephanie J. Drake This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 5/6/2013 BEVERLY ROSS Tehama County Clerk & Recorder Publish: May 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE # 2009000328 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the following fictitious business name: Fountain Of Health, 1415 Solano Corning, CA 96021 The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on: 9/1/2009 in the County of Tehama Original File #2009000328 This business is conducted by: General partnership Lisa Johnson 763 El Verano Corning, CA 96021 Patti Fountain 1208 East St. Corning, CA 96021 S/By: Lisa Johnson Lisa Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 5/6/13 Beverly Ross Tehama County Clerk Publish: May 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013000159 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: D & R LAWN CARE 530-737-7032, 530-840-1104, 9879 Ashurst St., Proberta, CA 96078 Daniel Barber 9879 Ashurst St Proberta, CA 96078 Riley Edwards 1405 Miller Way Red Bluff, CA 96080 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A This business is conducted by: General Partnership S/By: Riley Edwards Riley Edwards, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 4/29/2013 BEVERLY ROSS Tehama County Clerk & Recorder Publish: May 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE TEHAMA COUNTY REQUEST FOR BIDS FIELD SURVEYING EQUIPMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT bids shall be received until 3:00 p.m., June 6, 2013, in the Administration Office, 727 Oak Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080 for the purchase of Field Survey Equipment to be utilized by the Department of Public Works. All bids must be in the custody of the Purchasing Department at the designate time. Bids shall be submitted on the form provided ONLY. Specifications are available by contacting the Purchasing Department at the 727 Oak Street, Red Bluff, California, or by calling (530) 527-4655. The Board of Supervisors reserves the right to waive informalities and irregularities in any bids received. ______________________ Julie Sisneros Purchasing Agent Publish: May 24, 2013