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Thursday, June 27, 2013 – Daily News Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. 7A SUV hits signal post on North Main Patricia M. Lopez Patricia M. Lopez died Tuesday, June 25, 2013, in Red Bluff. She was 65. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, June 27, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. GRANT Continued from page 1A Phase two of Salado Orchards was to include 24 additional apartments in three new buildings and 12 single-family residences on individual lots fronting a proposed culde-sac. After that fell through, the developer gave the land to the city to be used with an $800,000 Community Development Block Grant to widen the segment of Blackburn between Edith Avenue and Woodson School on Toomes Avenue in 2010. Part of the grant's requirement was to provide 12 affordable singlefamily dwellings to be completed by Friday. With the bad economy, the city offered the project to several developers, including the Self Help Home Improvement Project (SHHIP). "Staff worked with several developers," Planning Consultant John Stoufer said. "The money is tied to the 12 residences and we couldn't find a developer to give it to. What hurt was that SHHIP was already committed to 40 units in Red Bluff." The grant ends in June and there has been no extension, but that does not mean the city is prevented from reapplying should a developer show up that is interested in the project in the future, Stoufer said. The subdivision is tied to the Blackburn Avenue widening project and whatever developer steps up will either have to secure funding through another grant or pay for the widening, Stoufer said. The Corning City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Murder conviction against US Marine overturned SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military's highest court overturned a murder conviction Wednesday against a Camp Pendleton Marine in one of the most significant cases against American troops from the Iraq war. The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces threw out the conviction of Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III of Plymouth, Mass., who has served about half of his 11-year sentence. According to the ruling posted on the court's website, the judges agreed with Hutchins, who claimed that his constitutional rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer for seven days during his interrogation in Iraq. Hutchins led an eight-man squad accused of kidnapping a retired Iraqi policeman from his home in April 2006, marching him to a ditch and shooting him to death in the village of Hamdania. None of the other seven members of the squad served more than 18 months. The move is the latest in a series of twists and turns for Hutchins, whose case already was overturned once by a court that ruled his 2007 trial was unfair because his lead defense lawyer quit shortly before it began. The same court that accepted Hutchins' new petition overruled that decision, saying the problem was not grave enough to throw out the conviction. Hutchins was returned to the brig after eight months working at a desk job at California's Camp Pendleton. He was set to be released in July 2015 at the earliest. Hutchins' lawyer, Babu Kaza, said he expects him to now be released in days. ''Sgt. Hutchins and his family have suffered enough with this case, and it's time for this to be over,'' Kaza said. ''Enough is enough.'' The Navy can appeal to the Supreme Court or send the case to the convening authority, who can either order a retrial or let the ruling stand. Navy officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Lawsuit filed against Monster for teen's death OAKLAND (AP) — The mother of a teenager who died from cardiac arrhythmia last year is blaming his death on Monster Beverage, alleging in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that his death was caused by habitually drinking the company's energy drink. Nineteen-year-old Alex Morris went into cardiac arrest during the early morning hours of July 1 and was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court alleges Morris would not have died if he did not drink two cans of Monster's energy drink every day for the three years before his death, including the day he died. Morris' mother, Paula Morris, is listed as a plaintiff in the case. The lawsuit comes after the family of 14-year-old Anais Fournier of Maryland also sued the company last year after she consumed two 24-ounce cans of Monster and died. ''Our allegations in the lawsuits are the same and that's the peoples deaths were caused by these energy drinks and more specifically the defendants failure to warn about the dangers,'' said Alexander Wheeler, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in both cases. Monster representatives did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. The company said previously in Fournier's case that no blood test was performed to confirm that the girl died of ''caffeine toxicity'' as the lawsuit claimed, saying she died of natural causes brought on by pre-existing conditions. Monster and other energy drinks have faced increased scrutiny in recent months. The Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports of deaths linked to energy drinks, including five that cite Monster beverages, but the agency noted that the reports don't prove the drinks caused the deaths. San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera is also suing Monster Beverage for marketing its energy drinks to children, saying the products pose severe health risks. Courtesy photo by Ross Palubeski Red Bluff Fire and a St. Elizabeth ambulance were dispatched around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday to a vehicle that crashed into a pole on North Main Street in front of Home Depot in Red Bluff. The first unit at scene reported a vehicle into a light pole with no injuries. BREW Continued from page 1A momentum is headed. Ferguson said the Round Up Saloon has had great success with cross promotional tie-ins with such events as the Downtown Farmers Market and promoting regional brews. Even the art work being used to promote the event comes from a local artist. Ferguson said the artist, his friend Michelle Hickok, also enjoys the local movement. "(She) shares the PUPPY Continued from page 1A cies took up the cause as the number of pet owners telling heartbreaking stories of illness, death and costly vet care swelled. The sale of puppy mill dogs has been banned in some cities, including Los Angeles. Stores can sell shelter animals or hold adoption events on weekends. The ASPCA and other animal welfare groups claim the way dogs are kept at some breeders — where they are producing hundreds of puppies at a time — cause chronic physical ailments, genetic defects or fear of humans. Breeding females are overbred, kept in unsanitary, crowded cages without vet care, adequate food or water. When they can no longer breed, they usually are killed, experts say. When the puppies are sold, they often are stuffed into crowded trucks and hauled thousands of miles, sometimes getting sick from the trip itself, arriving in bad shape and unable to bounce back from illness or parasites. ''Not all breeders run puppy mills,'' Menkin said. ''Breeders without violations typically won't appear in the database, but if they're only meeting USDA standards, and not exceeding them, then we would same vision and she has the quality of skill to go anywhere with her talent," he said. As for the building the festival will benefit, as a tenant Ferguson knows first hand of the repairs it needs and its local importance, "It's one of the great consider their operation a puppy mill.'' The database photos go back to 2010, and the number for each breeder varies. ''I have not studied it because it's a waste of time,'' said Karen Strange, a lobbyist for the Missouri Federation of Animal Owners. ''Much of the information is old, and it's a publicity stunt for the ASPCA ... and other radical animal rights groups to garner money from the unknowing public.'' USDA records show a third of the 2,205 licensed dog breeders in the country are in Missouri. Republican state Sen. Mike Parsons of Bolivar, Mo., recently told the Legislature there that commercial dog breeding in Missouri was a $1 billion industry that employs thousands and spends millions every year on dog food, veterinarian services and utilities. Strange said some breeders contacted her when they heard about the photos, wondering how they should react. She said they were told to conduct business as usual and if they were in compliance with state and federal law, they had nothing to worry about. Menkin disagrees, citing legal loopholes. For example, she said, federal law says a breeder must have an attending veterinarian, but it doesn't say dogs have to be handled historical things, right there in juxtaposition to the State Theatre coming off I-5 — it's a great statement for everything Red Bluff has to offer." Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. by the vet. Tanya Espinosa, a legislative and public affairs spokeswoman for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said the agency would not comment on the website. The ASPCA obtained the photos through the Freedom of Information Act and plans to continue posting pictures, Menkin said. Heather Nyein in Syosset, N.Y., bought a Shiba Inu at a pet store in January. She said Kiku, now 7 months old, came from an Iowa puppy mill. It had kennel cough, and the store reimbursed Nyein $160 for two vet visits and medicine. Kiku survived. ''I completely lucked out with her,'' Nyein said after looking at some of the photos on the website. If she had seen the pictures before getting Kiku, ''I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't do it again.'' She's getting another dog, ''but this time it will be from a Shiba rescue.'' ——— Online: — ASPCA website: www.NoPetStorePuppies.com — Jack's breeder: http://nopetstorepuppies.com/dog-breeder/evergreen-designer-llc — Jack's store: http://nopetstorepuppies.com/stores/petland-245aka-novi-pets Judge orders BLM to sell more timber GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to sell more timber in Southern Oregon, and vacated a tool used to avoid harming the northern spotted owl. The ruling Wednesday out of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia came in a case filed by the timber industry against the Department of Interior. Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that BLM has failed to consistently offer as much timber as called for in its resource management plans for the Medford and Roseburg districts. And he found that a method used for estimating spotted owl numbers was adopted without input from the public. The timber industry called it a clear win, but conservationists said BLM will have a hard time offering more timber without violating environmental laws. Kaiser Permanente fined $4 million by Calif agency SACRAMENTO (AP) — State officials fined Kaiser Permanente $4 million, saying the health care giant failed to provide adequate mental health services, a newspaper reported. The fine issued on Tuesday by the California Department of Managed Health Care is the second-largest in the history of the agency, the Sacramento Bee said. Investigators said Kaiser failed to see mental health patients fast enough and that the company's description of its mental health services was so complicated and misleading it ''could dissuade an enrollee from pursuing medically necessary care.'' Kaiser Permanente said it is making improvements. ''The amount of the proposed penalty is unwarranted and excessive, and is unnecessary to ensure our corrective actions,'' said John Nelson, vice president for Kaiser Permanente. ''We will review this with the DMHC.'' The department issued a report three months ago listing numerous deficiencies that noted a ''Frequently Asked Questions'' sheet for Kaiser in Northern California said the company did not offer long-term individual psychotherapy. The department also pointed out a website for Kaiser's Northern California Department of Psychiatry that said the company did not ''begin treatment with individuals whose problems are of such longstanding nature that short-term treatment would probably not be helpful.'' It went on to say the psychiatry department would refer such people elsewhere, although the treatment would not be covered by Kaiser. Officials with the managed health care agency said advising patients that long-term psychotherapy is unavailable violates a state law that says mental illness must be treated on par with physical illnesses.