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The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on Dec. 7, 1941. A headline on the front page Tuesday had the wrong date. The Daily News regrets the error. Itisthepolicyofthe Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you believe a factual error has been made in a news story, call 527-2151, Ext. 112. CORRECTION nomically suitable location. The board did yield to concerns over part of the plan that would close a por- tion of Madison Street. The board voted unan- imously to direct county staff to examine potential modifications to the pro- posal that would not re- quire a street closure. Still Supervisor Bob Wil- liams said he had concerns that, without a closure, of- ficer safety could be at risk. Chairman Steve Chamb- lin said, while he was con- cerned about officer safety, he was not in favor of a full closure of Madison Street. The board's decision had been put off a week for Chamblin to be present for the vote. Chamblin said he spent the past week listening to the public comments from the last week's meeting and talking to residents. He said the relocation of the Tehama County Court- house was having a domino affect and that meant some people had to make con- cessions, citing his own in respects to not having the new library built down- town. Chamblin said the exist- ing jail was not providing adequate services and that the new facility was a way to improve public safety and services for the entire county. He said, while having empathy for the down- town businesses, they also needed to consider the busi- ness they were going to lose when the courthouse did move and the new facility would at least offset some of that economic impact. Supervisor Dennis Gar- ton said if the county had the money, he would agree with those proposing to build a new jail elsewhere. Although he said something would probably interfere with that plan as well, be it flight paths or school lo- cations. "I agree with everybody's concerns, but I intend to move forward with the proj- ect, because we don't have the facility — the money — to build an entirely new fa- cility," he said. Garton said historically the jail has been in down- town Red Bluff since 1860. Carlson said while that may be true, the court has always been next to it as well. She said transporting inmates to the court, which will move to Walnut Street west of town, would be costly and a safety concern. Sheriff Dave Hencratt said he was at a loss for words if it came down to not having a place to put inmates. He pleaded with those in the attendance to stop the "we against them" at- titudes. Jail FROM PAGE 1 under a bridge and to take a problem of today and look forward to the future. Former Supervisor Bill Borror, who proposed nam- ing the bridge after Russell, described his colleague and friend as someone with a jazz in his step, a smile al- ways on his face and a joke on the tip of his tongue. Borror said the bridge would serve as an everlast- ing tribute to Russell. Supervisor Candy Carl- son, who is serving the re- maining two years of Rus- sell's term, said one of the reasons Russell was suc- cessful was his wife Sharon. Sharon said her late hus- band was in love with his- tory and the bridge's dedi- cation will mean his name will stay with Tehama County history. Daughter Kathie Russell- Stevenson said, while her father would have found the dedication unnecessary and wondered what the fuss was about, he was a man who cared about everybody. "He loved this town and this county," she said. The Red Bank Creek Bridge, just south of Red Bluff, was one of the few remaining bridges erected by Pacific Bridge Company of San Francisco in 1894 and was a rare example of a truss bridge with non- structural, architectonic decoration, Public Works Director Gary Antone said. But on Nov. 29, 2000 a ve- hicle crashed into the north- east corner of the structure with sufficient force, jarring the bridge corner from the bearing pad and resulting in its complete collapse. The road was closed as the Public Works Depart- ment removed the bridge and cleared the Red Bank Creek channel in Decem- ber 2000. A temporary one-lane bridge was installed the fol- lowing year. The county worked on a new bridge design and con- struction between 2001 and 2007 that led to Shasta Con- structors, Inc. of Redding completing the new 375- foot structure and 4,200 feet of new roadway align- ment in 2008 at a cost of around $4 million. Russell was instrumen- tal in moving forward the project, which dealt with a number of challenges from the realignment of the road- way through agricultural property to improve safety. Bridge FROM PAGE 1 Public Works Department in Gerber on 9380 San Benito Ave., in Los Moli- nos at 8715 Fox St. and at the Corning Fire Station on Fifth Street. Residents are asked to bring their own shovels. Sandbags have been pre- filled at the Cal Fire sta- tion and the Day Report- ing Center on Antelope Boulevard. Miguel Gonzalez on Tuesday was gathering sandbags outside the Te- hama County Library in Red Bluff to protect an au- tomotive and tire shop on South Jackson Street from the incoming storm. "We're trying to pre- vent flooding from the tools and the tires and the machines," Gonzalez said. He added, "We're just con- cerned about the money we have invested in all the equipment." Residents were filling sandbags outside the li- brary throughout the day Tuesday, backing pickup trucks into the library's parking lot and piercing a waist-high sand pile with shovels. One resident said he was filling sandbags for a widow who lives south of Red Bluff, and others said they were attempting to protect their property from not just from possible flooding, but also the ex- pected high gusts of wind. Richard Muench, the county's chief probation of- ficer, said AB109 inmates were filling sandbags for the community outside the Day Reporting Center on Antelope Boulevard, add- ing that the work will con- tinue Wednesday morning. Hencratt said Cone Grove Park on State Route 99E about five miles south of Red Bluff is temporar- ily closed, and he asked the public to stay away from the park. "(It's) a long-term proj- ect," he said. "There's a lot of debris and lots of days of work before it can be opened again." This week's storm fol- lows heavy rain that fell Dec. 3, flooding about 100 homes and businesses in the county. Residents on and near State Route 99E between Los Molinos and Red Bluff were hit espe- cially hard, and officials and residents said mat- ters were compounded by berm failures on private property in the area. Asked about how the county will handle situa- tions on private property, Hencratt said the county needs to balance its re- sponsibilities with those of public safety. "In emergency situ- ations," Hencratt said, "we're going to do the best we can to help them." Emergency FROM PAGE 1 bated the water shortage in the state's San Joaquin Valley. The bill would in- crease water exports to the region. The House had al- ready passed a drought re- lief measure in February. This time, GOP lawmakers pursued a bill that's much closer to what Sens. Di- anne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer helped pass in their chamber, which focused on giving government agencies more authority to move water around for irri- gation and other purposes. The GOP abandoned previ- ously-passed language that had called for agencies to move more water to the re- gion without regard to the Environmental Species Act and other protections. "The people in the Cen- tral Valley are living through a disaster, and this measure provides the tem- porary relief they need," said House Speaker John Boehner after the vote. "This relief doesn't just help Californians. It helps every business and every household that counts on California agriculture." With Boxer and Fein- stein opposing the bill, it's not expected to go any- where after Tuesday's vote. Still, the debate gives the GOP another opportunity to remind the state's San Joaquin Valley which polit- ical party has tried to take steps to help them. The wa- ter issue did not play well for Democratic lawmakers from the region during the latest election season, al- though the party's incum- bents did manage to win midterm races that turned out to be more competitive than expected. The debate took on fa- miliar arguments with law- makers from the Central Valley arguing for send- ing more water to the re- gion, and opponents from other regions arguing that their constituents would be harmed. "Everybody in this state is paying a price for this drought, but now, in the eleventh hour of this Con- gress, this group of farm- ers, these very powerful, small people ... have de- cided they are going to do it this way," said Demo- cratic Rep. George Miller in Monday's hourlong de- bate on the bill. "This is about San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles get- ting all of their water and never giving us one drop," countered Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who is from the region. Democratic congress- man Jim Costa sided with Republicans in the vote. He narrowly won re-elec- tion with many voters up- set about a lack of action in Washington on water is- sues. "We have been here be- fore, and we will be here again until Congress acts to provide authority for in- creased operational flexi- bility for California's water projects," said Costa, also from the region. "The sit- uation this year has been devastating, and if we do nothing, next year it will become catastrophic." More than 99 percent of California remains in mod- erate or worse drought de- spite recent rains and snow. Farms FROM PAGE 1 By Don Thompson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Califor- nia prosecutors said Tues- day they will seek the death penalty for a Utah man charged with killing two deputies during an hours- long rampage that also left a motoristand anotherdep- uty wounded. Prosecutors in Placer and Sacramento counties decided after consulting with the victims' families that the death penalty is appropriate for defendant Luis Enrique Monroy Bra- camontes, Placer County Supervising Deputy Dis- trict Attorney David Tell- man said. He did not elaborate on the decision during a brief court hearing. Bracamontes, who was shackled and handcuffed in court, did not comment as he was informed of the decision through a Spanish language interpreter. Assistant Public De- fender Jeffrey Barbour de- clined comment, saying he and fellow defense attorney Norm Dawson were still in the process of reviewing in- formation. No inmates have been executed in California since 2006, and no execu- tions are currently sched- uled because of ongoing le- gal challenges. Bracamontes, who was booked into jail under the nameMarceloMarquezand whose name previously was spelled Bracamonte by fed- eral immigration officials, was also charged Tuesday with a count of attempting to kill Sacramento County Deputy Scott Brown during the Oct. 24 shooting spree. Brown was the partner of slain Deputy Danny Oli- ver. Placer County Sheriff's Detective Michael Davis Jr. was killed hours later. Bracamontes' wife, Janelle Marquez Monroy, also is charged in the case but does not face the death penalty. Prosecutors allege her husband fired the fatal shots. Her attorney, Peter Kmeto, declined comment after a separate hearing. The pair is scheduled to re- turn to court Feb. 4. Neitherhasenteredpleas to multiple charges of mur- der, attempted murder, car- jacking and attempted car- jacking. RAMPAGE Death penalty sought in deputy killings By Kristin J. Bender and Paul Elias The Associated Press BERKELEY Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking a major high- way and stopping a train as activists in this ultra-liberal bastion protested grand jury decisions not to in- dict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men on the other side of the country. Protesters blocked traf- fic on both sides of Inter- state 80 in Berkeley, while another group stood and sat on train tracks, temporarily forcing an Amtrak train to stop Monday night. The California Highway Patrol said a large group of demonstrators destroyed highway perimeter fenc- ing, flooded lanes and threw rocks and other objects at officers. It took about an hour and a half to clear the interstate, and no major in- juries were reported. The agency arrested 150 people on suspicion of re- sisting arrest, obstructing police and other charges. The Berkeley Police De- partment arrested an addi- tional nine people, includ- ing a juvenile, Officer Jenni- fer Coats said early Tuesday. She described the latest protests as mostly peace- ful, with no injuries and no reports of looting or dam- aged property. Police esti- mated the crowd at about 1,500 people. The protesters began peacefully marching Mon- day through downtown Berkeley. The first stop for demonstrators shout- ing, "Who do you protect? Peaceful protest" was the Police Department, where a line of officers in riot gear blocked them from get- ting close to the building. The group then headed to a Bay Area Rapid Transit train station and sat out- side, prompting authori- ties to shut down the sta- tion briefly. But as the night went on, the protesters divided into smaller groups who dis- rupted traffic and train pas- sengers. "The cops need to know, the world needs to know, people of color are subjected to a brutal police state ev- ery day," Berkeley resident Johnny Nguyen told the Oakland Tribune on Mon- day evening. Although many activists in other parts of the coun- try have gone home, pro- tests in Berkeley and Oak- land are still active, reflect- ing the area's long history of protest dating to the 1960s. The crowds that came out to protest are not col- lege students or residents so much as full-time dem- onstrators who protest any- thing — war, prison condi- tions and economic inequal- ity — and sometimes use demonstrations as a pretext for violence and vandalism. GRAND JURY DECISIONS 159 arrested in third night of protests The Associated Press SACRAMENTO A North- ern California man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for helping to beat a white man and a black woman in what prosecutors say was a racially motivated attack. Thirty-four-year-old Anthony Merrell Tyler of Yuba City was sentenced to 46 months in prison Tuesday. He is one of three men who pleaded guilty to the 2011 attack at a conve- nience store in Marysville, 40 miles north of Sacra- mento. Tyler has the words "white pride" and a swas- tika tattooed on his arms and has acknowledged being a member of a lo- cal white supremacist group. Prosecutors say he smashed a windshield and helped beat the male vic- tim. 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