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MONDAY DECEMBER 13, 2010 Breaking news at: Holiday of Healthy Gifts Vitality www.redbluffdailynews.com See 4A RED BLUFF Wrestling Wrap SPORTS 1B Isolated rain 62/50 Weather forecast 8B Girl reunited with parents; uncle in custody SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Shasta County teen reported missing a little more than a month ago was found safe in San Francisco Saturday after- noon, authorities said. Fifteen-year-old-old Jean Marie Berlinghoff was found in the city’s Mission District, San Francisco police spokesman DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Missing Redding teen found safe in SF Albie Esparza said. Officers were called to the area when the girl’s adult cousin, who lives in the city, just hap- pened to see her, along with their uncle, around 1:44 p.m. Saturday, according to Esparza. The uncle, 34- officers, said Esparza. But the cousin, who has not been named, con- firmed their actual identity. ‘‘She was at the right place at the right time and very observant,’’ Esparza. said Jean Berlinghoff year-old Charles Berlinghoff, and a second adult male, gave phony names to the Berlinghoff was taken into custody on a Shasta County warrant charging him with keeping his niece from her par- ents. The teen was in protective custody. Esparza described her as in ‘‘good physical condition.’’ According to a press release issued Sunday by the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, Jean Berling- hoff was reunited with and released to her parents around 8 a.m. Sunday and Charles Berlinghoff will be Hope for the unwanted transported to Shas- ta County Jail at a later date. He was in custody in San Francisco as of late Sunday. Charles Berlinghoff Authorities had been looking for the girl since she disap- peared from her Redding home on Nov. 10. Shortly after her disappearance, offi- cials sought help in See TEEN, page 7A Many families face a sparse Christmas It is not too late bring the magic back to needy fam- ilies this Christmas season. In Tehama County, there are 67 families participat- ing in the Adopt-A-Family Program through North Val- ley Catholic Social Services, Program Manager Carol Curry said. As of Friday morning, there were still fam- See SPARSE, page 7A Gang moms and dads sent to parenting classes LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s a Saturday morn- ing and a half-dozen adults are sitting in a high school classroom, staring at grim photos of sickly drug addicts and hearing about the deadly conse- quences of gang crime. They’d rather not be here, but a judge made them come. Courtesy photo This 6-year-old horse was castrated at the August clinic and now getting his much needed training to make him much more likely to find a good home. Special to the DN Shipwrecked Farms is desperate- ly trying to help struggling horse owners with training and marketing of horses. Some owners are aware that giv- ing a horse away or selling too cheaply will only entice the kill- buyers that are so prevalent in the area; the only alternative is to have a well-trained horse that is ready to work, because that is the only type of horse that sells in today’s mar- ket. Others unwittingly hand their horses over to kill-buyers posing as a happy new home or those who love horses. Many horsemen were caught by the economic crash. During better times it was easy to sell a horse; today it takes a well-trained and tried horse and a great deal of mar- keting strategy. The majority of horses being hauled to Mexico for slaughter are Calif. report: Nearly 60 percent voted Nov. 2 SACRAMENTO (AP) — The secretary of state’s office said Friday that 59.6 percent of Cal- ifornia’s eligible voters cast ballots Nov. 2, the highest for a state gubernatorial election since 1994. Secretary of State Debra Bowen certified the statewide results Friday, making the out- come official. In the governor’s race, Democrat Jerry Brown beat Republican former eBay CEO Meg Whitman 53.8 percent to 40.9 percent. In the closely fought contest for state attorney gener- al, Democrat Kamala Harris beat Republican Steve Cooley, 46.1 per- cent to 45.3 percent, according to the official results. And incumbent Democratic Sen. Bar- bara Boxer easily beat GOP challenger Carly Fiorina in the U.S. Sen- ate race, 52.2 percent to 42.2 percent. Proposition 19, a measure that would have legalized marijua- na, lost 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent. California 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See VOTED, page 7A either young, untrained, not castrat- ed or brood mares with no former training. Most of these horses could benefit from training or mar- keting, but the owners are in a situ- ation where they cannot afford to do so. By offering training and low- cost castration, Shipwrecked Farms hopes to make a difference for these horses. “It’s not just the people who are See HOPE, page 7A The moms and dads were ordered to attend the class under a new Califor- nia law giving judges the option of sending parents for training when their kids are convicted of gang crimes for the first time. Assemblyman Tony Mendoza, the lawmaker behind the Parent Accountability Act, said it is the first state law to give judges the power to order parents of gang members to school, though other court-man- dated classes exist at the local level. ‘‘A lot of parents do not know how to handle teenagers,’’ Mendoza said. ‘‘Now more than ever, parents need a guide.’’ The new law went into effect in January and eventually will be in place across California. Budget cuts in Sacramento meant implementation of the classes was delayed and only in the past month or so have they been rolled out on a limited basis in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Several of those first classes were canceled due to low attendance, some- thing organizers blamed on judges’ ignorance of the new law. But the sput- tering start also speaks to the difficulties of trying to engage parents who may be too busy or apathetic to take a more active role in their kids’ lives. Authorities say Los Angeles County has about 80,000 gang members, though those estimates vary. Parents in gang neighborhoods often struggle to make ends meet and find themselves working more than one job. The long hours mean they can’t spend much time with their kids and some youngsters say they are tempted into gang life by a sense of companion- ship missing from their own family. ‘‘The most difficult See GANG, page 7A Domestic violence group receives grant Red Bluff residents affected by domestic vio- lence will benefit from a $5,000 grant to support organizations that focus on domestic violence prevention and aware- ness. Alternatives to Vio- lence will receive the grant from the Verizon Wireless HopeLine phone recycling program to help expand communi- ty awareness to include outreach and prevention education with its more rural and hard-to-reach members. The grant is part of a program that puts wire- less services and equip- ment to work to assist victims of domestic vio- lence. Verizon collects used wireless phones, batteries and accessories in any condition from any wireless service provider. The phones are then refurbished or recy- cled in an environmental- ly sound way. Refurbished phones, each complete with 3,000 minutes of wireless ser- vice, are provided to local domestic violence organizations and gov- ernment and law enforce- ment agencies, for use with domestic violence clients. Since launched in 2001, the program has collected more than 7 million phones, awarded more than $7.9 million in grants, distributed more than 90,000 phones and properly disposed of nearly 1.6 million used wireless phones, keeping more than 200 tons of electronic waste and bat- teries out of landfills. Wireless phone dona- tions are accepted at all Verizon Wireless Com- munications Stores across the nation. Veri- zon Wireless encourages everyone who plans to give a phone to make sure service on that device has been discon- tinued and to erase any personal data. 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