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ByAndreByik abyik@redbluffdailynews.com @andrebyik on Twitter REDBLUFF ARedBluffman was arrested Saturday on suspicion of raping and sod- omizing a 17-year-old girl, ac- cording to a Red Bluff police press release. Troy Gannom, 38, allegedly raped and sodomized the girl in a motel room in Red Bluff, according to the release. Gannom, who was released from a California state prison in May and placed on post release community supervision in Te- hama County, was booked into Te- hama County Jail with bail set at $150,000. Friends of the victim reported the alleged rape to police Friday, according to the release. The victim told police she was raped in a motel room by a "male acquaintance," who was identified as Gannom. Gannom was located, interviewed and arrested Saturday. PUBLIC SAFETY Man arrested on suspicion of raping minor Little League play. Corning will play Ne- vada state champion Mountain Ridge Little League at 6 p.m. Thursday. The team will play Montana state champion Boulder Arrowhead Little League at 3 p.m. Friday and end pool play at 6 p.m. Sunday against southern California state champion Manhattan Beach Little League. The other pool consists of Arizona's Nogales Na- tional Little League, Ha- waii's Central East Maui Little League, Washing- ton's Lewis River Little League and the hosts Up- land National. The top two teams in each pool will play a single elimination tournament for the West Regional title. Corning is the third Tehama County Little League program to reach the West Regional since 2008. Red Bluff's 11- and 12-year-old softball team reached the West Re- gional title game in 2008 and in 2011 Red Bluff's 11- and 12-year-old boys did the same. The best local accom- plishment came in 1974 when Red Bluff reached the Little League World Series championship game. C or nin g 's Senior League team is largely made up of players from Corning Union High School's junior varsity baseball team. The team includes Ry- lan Casey, Trent Conoly, Seth Danielson, Wyatt Haydon, Isaiah Jones, Chad McFall, Brady Meeds, Dustin Messmer, Noah Miller, Chance Nelson, Nolan Peterson, Ryan Waldon, Michael Wold and Devin Wunsch. The team is coached by Evan White and Jer- emy Ross. Champions FROM PAGE 1 Gannom Beatty:CynthiaBe- atty, 56, of Red Bluff died Thursday, July 24in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Affordable Mortuary. Pub- lished Tuesday, July 29, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. French: Gary Glenn French, 79, of Red Bluff died Saturday, July 26at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Crema- tions and Burial Service. Published Tuesday, July 29, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be pro- vided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obitu- aries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituar- ies may be placed by mor- tuaries 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 mul- tiple days and offer wide latitude of content, includ- ing photos. Death notices and was seen struggling at the surface and went un- der. Several people went into the water after him, but he did not resurface. Law enforcement in- cluding a sheriff's boat and a California Highway Pa- trol helicopter responded to the rescue effort, but af- ter an hour the incident was changed to a recovery effort. A dive team located Singh's body around 7:20 a.m. Monday. The body was recovered from the scene by sheriff's coroner's investigators. At this time the incident is considered an acciden- tal drowning, according to a department press re- lease issued late Monday by Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston. Drowning FROM PAGE 1 Rylan Casey, Nolan Peterson, Dustin Messmer and Colton Conoly wash a Corning Police car as part of a fundraiser effort to raise money for Corning's Senior Division Little League team's trip to Ontario for the Western Regional tournament. PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thank you! By Darlene Superville The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is practi- cally weepy at the thought of his daughter Malia going off to college, a milestone many months away that is already on his mind. Malia barely reached up to her father's shoulders when they moved to the White House nearly six years ago with her mother, little sister and grandmother. At 16, she stands nearly as tall as her 6-foot-1 dad and is visiting college campuses in preparation for that bittersweet day in the fall of 2016 when she trades her White House bedroom for a dorm. She has been seen touring the University of California at Berkeley and the Palo Alto, California, campus of Stanford, where another president's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, attended college. In a commencement address to high school graduates in Worcester, Massachusetts, Obama said he's practicing for what's coming in two years. "So I'm trying to get used to not choking up and crying and embarrassing her. So this is sort of my trial run here." Obama said during a question-and-answer session with the chief executive of Tumblr, a social media site, that his daughter, like young people in general, should shop around for a college. "We tell her, 'Don't assume that there are 10 schools that you have to go to, and if you didn't go to those 10, that somehow things are going to be terrible,'" he said. "There are a lot of schools out there." Malia goes into the 11th grade this fall at the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington. The Sidwell parent's guide to college counseling suggests that juniors take the PSAT test in October, visit colleges as time allows, take the SAT exam in March and set up a family meeting with a college counselor in late spring, among other steps. Michelle Obama is also thinking about her daughter's departure. In a commencement-eve address to Topeka, Kansas, high school seniors, the first lady said: "Days like this make me think of my own daughters, so forgive me if I get a little teary." FIRST FAMILY ALEX BRANDON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama, le , kisses his daughter Malia Obama, 11, as his daughter Sasha Obama, 7, and his wife Michelle Obama stand right, during a Fourth of July party on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in this 2009file photo. Obama gets emotional over Malia going to college "To my people from Te- hama County, especially from Gerberly Hills, even though I'm gone, I'm never really gone," Munoz read from his album notes. "I hope I've been a worthy rep- resentative." He added: "I was told not to dream many times from people that didn't have dreams. So, rather than not do anything about it, I can be an influence. I can tell kids, You can do it." Munoz said he hopes to develop scholarships, in- ternships, and his own re- cording studio, which could be used to jump start inde- pendent artists like himself. "I want it here," Munoz said. "I don't want it in Hol- lywood. I don't want it any- where else. I want it here, because there's a lot of kids that are interested in the recording industry, and there's a lot of sound engi- neers that don't even know they're sound engineers." When Munoz takes the stage, his nerves slip away. "I always said I was going to do this," he said. "Even when I was in high school, when I was little. I always said that I want to be a star. I may not be the most fa- mous person, but the fact that I'm doing something that I — ever since I was lit- tle — I wanted to do, after all the nerves go away, the fact that I'm doing this is — yeah, this is great." After he ripped through a few of his songs at the Pauline Davis Pavilion, ending with "Yellow Ca- maro," Munoz promised he'd be back. Release FROM PAGE 1 By Garance Burke The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Top Cal- ifornia regulators commu- nicated often and enthusi- astically with executives at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., even offering unsolicited advice on handling the me- dia while they presided over a case to decide how much the utility should pay for a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area sub- urb, according to a trove of emails released Monday. The 7,000 pages of emails between leaders at PG&E and California Public Utilities Commission Pres- ident Michael Peevey and his staff were released as the result of a lawsuit filed by the city of San Bruno. The commission is re- sponsible for punishing PG&E in the wake of the 2010 pipeline blast that claimed eight lives, injured dozens of people and laid waste to a suburban neigh- borhood — a disaster fed- eral investigators said could have been averted. In an April message from Peevey to Brian Cherry, PG&E's vice president of regulatory relations, Peevey offered the executive advice about improving public re- lations surrounding the federal criminal indictment of the utility. "PG&E's decision to is- sue a press release last week anticipating all this only meant that the public got to read two big stories rather than one. I think this was inept," Peevey wrote. San Bruno officials called Monday for Peevey to step down from the com- mission and sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown asking for Peevey to be fired. "There is a very cozy relationship between the PUC and PG&E, and the results of that cozy rela- tionship killed eight peo- ple," San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane said at a news con- ference on the commis- sion's steps. The emails show "it was illegal, im- proper and has to change." The city's attorney Britt Strottman filed two mo- tions with the powerful state agency calling for Peevey to be removed from the proceedings regarding the utility and saying San Bruno should be penalized for the communications. The city also reserves the right to pursue the matter in state court, she said. PG&E President Chris Johns said in a statement the company is required to communicate regularly with the commission. "The company is com- mitted to the highest ethi- cal standards," Johns said. The commission is fo- cused on resolving nu- merous internal legal pro- ceedings aimed at issuing fines against PG&E and improving pipeline safety, said commission spokes- woman Terrie Prosper. "The CPUC takes seriously all allegations of bias and rule violations and will evaluate the motions," she said in a statement. EXPLOSION Ci ty : Em ai ls sh ow ' co zy ' ti es o f PG &E, r eg ul at or The Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE Offi- cials at a South Lake Tahoe resort say they fired three employees who improperly drained 15,000 to 20,000 gallons of chlorinated pool water into a storm-water basin. State environmental regulators said they started an investigation last month after the Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort self-reported the June 25 incident. Alan Miller, senior water resource control engineer for the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, said there doesn't appear to have been any immediate environmental impact. He said it's unlikely the resort will face fines because it has taken internal steps to prevent similar incidents. " I t ' s d e f i n i t e l y something we would not authorize because of the chlorine, which is toxic to aquatic life," Miller told The Tahoe Daily Tribune. ENVIRONMENT Pool water dumped in South Tahoe RICHARDM.DOPKINS Richard Marshall Dopkins passed away on Friday July 18th, 2014 in Redding CA. Richard was born to Marshall and Helen Dopkins on May 16, 1942 in the old Woodland Clinic in Woodland, CA. His primary education was in Arbuckle, California and Medford, Oregon and he gradu- ated from Pierce Joint Union High School in Arbuckle in 1960. In high school, he excelled in track and field. He earned his Degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, majoring in Public Administration with a minor in Business Administration with emphasis on Re- al Estate Economics and Law. Richard obtained his Cali- fornia Real Estate Broker's License at the age of twenty years, and practiced real estate brokerage in Red Bluff, and as a Certified General Appraiser from 1965 - 2006, when he retired in Redding. During the 1960's, Mr. Dopkins was instrumental and participated in founding the Tehama County Multiple List- ing Service. In 1988, he programmed the Tehama County Multiple Listing Service computer program which printed the bi-weekly MLS Book for the region. During his active career he was a member of the Tehama Assessment Ap- peals Board from 1972 - 1979, was President of the Tehama County Board of Realtors in 1971. He was presi- dent of the Tehama County Board of Realtors in 1971 and was also President of the Tehama County Chamber of Commerce in 1975. He served eleven years on the Tehama County Planning Commission and two years on the Red Bluff Planning Commission. In 1976, he was named Tehama County "Citizen of the Year". He was most proud of serving as a member of the Red Bluff Ele- mentary School Board for twenty years (1972-1992). Mr. Dopkins is survived by his wife, Jocylene Dopkins of Redding and his six living children, Douglas of West Sacramento, Greg of Modesto, Eric of Austin, Texas, Jocel of Redding, Jason Bunting and Nathan Bunting of Red Bluff, and numerous grandchildren. He was proceeded in death by his only sister, Sharon Dopkins Young in 1990 in Red Bluff and one son, Richard Dopkins, Jr. in 2010 in West Sacramento. No services are being held and cremation has been re- quested. In lieu of floral arrangements, please send con- tributions to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, headquartered at 26 Broadway, New York, NY. Obituaries TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A