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ByJasonDearen The Associated Press LIVE OAK, FLA. Onasticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum walked through the "col- ored entrance" of a doc- tor's office in the small north Florida town of Live Oak and fatally shot a white doctor, state Sen.-elect Clif- ford Leroy Adams. Prosecutors told the all- white, all-male jury that McCollum shot the doctor after an argument over a $116 bill. Yet she was the wife of a prominent busi- nessman who ran a gam- bling outfit, and she was carrying around $1,800 in her purse on the day she shot him. She testified that Adams, the son of a powerful polit- ical family who was known around town for caring for the poor, had forced her into a long sexual relation- ship that resulted in an un- wanted child, and that she shot him in self-defense. The case is the focus of a new documentary ti- tled "You Belong To Me," which compiles a decade of research and interviews with family members, re- opening old wounds in this small Southern town nes- tled amid farm country. The slaying stirred racial tensions in Jim Crow-era Suwannee County, when robed Ku Klux Klansmen regularly marched through Main Street in a show of force and lynchings were common in the Deep South. "Both families were neg- atively affected by this trag- edy. A doctor and a wealthy powerful couple in town were gone in a flash," said Eric Musgrove, a local his- torian and court clerk who give talks on the case to schools and other groups. McCollum was found guilty and sentenced to death at her first trial but later avoided execution by winning an insanity plea. She was eventually moved to a state mental hospital, and then freed in 1974 after the state's high court found her legally insane. She died in 1992. The sordid tale of sex, race and violence has in- spired others to tell McCol- lum's story, with different conclusions about her mo- tivations. William Bradford Huie's book "The Crime of Ruby McCollum" inspired the new documentary. In his telling, McCollum's rela- tionship with Adams was consensual, and she be- came a drug addict and killed him after losing her mind. McCollum had been receiving injections of some kind of intoxicating sub- stance from Adams, but it was unclear whether she sought them out or he used the drugs to take advantage of her. Huie's conclusion didn't seem right to the documen- tary's producer Jude Hagin, a Florida film commissioner who discovered Huie's book 14 years ago. Family members told Hagin and the film's re- searchers that McCollum was well-educated and prosperous and that the family believed the doctor had used drugs to control her. "I could not wrap my head around the story, that a woman of Ruby McCol- lum's stature ... would see anything that could be a good future for her to have a sexual relationship with a white doctor," Hagin said. "I wanted to get family members on both sides to tell their side of the story," Hagin said. Trial transcripts from 1952 show that Ruby told jurors that she felt pres- sure to do what Adams told her to do, though the jury was told to disregard much of her testimony after the judge allowed dozens of ob- jections from prosecutors. "I was just so worried, I had to either yield or maybe die, I suppose that was what would happen," Ruby Mc- Collum testified, according to trial transcripts. The film's researchers also found that Adams had a dark side that jurors never saw. In Live Oak, he was a respected doctor who helped the poor — but re- cords show he forged let- ters of recommendations to get into medical school. Also, McCollum testified that Adams had a friend de- liver the baby they had to- gether and that she never received a birth certificate. He needed to hide the baby because it was around the time he was running for state senate. Sam McCollum Jr., one of McCollum's children, told the filmmakers that a white doctor in the Jim Crow-era South was akin to a "God in the community." In the black community, the McCollum case was spo- ken of only in whispers, said Tameka Hobbs, a history professor at Florida Memo- rial University who grew up in Live Oak. "With Ruby there was so much shame in the black community because of the sexual liaison, they really did not want to talk about it," Hobbs said. "You Belong to Me" doesn't give viewers a de- finitive conclusion, but it sheds new light on the case and has sparked new dis- cussions about race. Mus- grove, the local historian, is receiving more requests for presentations on the case. Hagin hopes the documen- tary helps inspire funding for a feature film, which ac- tor James Brolin has signed on to direct, should they get the money. Live Oak today is a much different town than the one where Adams was slain, but the ornate 1904 courthouse where the McCollum trial took place is still the larg- est building around. And issues of race still make headlines. The South- ern Poverty Law Center in 2012 filed a federal civil rights complaint after a study found black children in Suwannee County and four other Florida school districts were punished or arrested at a higher rate than other students. Some in Live Oak's black community say that the case is still something older generations won't talk about but that they see hope in new generations. "Younger kids here do have better relationships with whites today," said Alonzo Philmore, former president of the NAACP's local chapter. "But with older folks there's still a great divide." CIVIL RIGHTS JimCrow-erashootingdeath revisited in new documentary JASONDEAREN—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Alonzo Philmore, le , Harry Campbell, center, and Suwannee County NAACP president Leslie White stand in front of their church in Live Oak, Fla. FIRDIA LISNAWATI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Relatives lower the coffin containing the body of Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, one of the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, during her burial at a cemetery in Surabaya, East Java, By Eileen Ng and Robin Mcdowell The Associated Press SURABAYA, INDONESIA A passenger aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 became the first victim of the crash to be returned to her fam- ily Thursday, one of many painful reunions to come, as search crews struggled against wind and heavy rain to find more than 150 people still missing. Hayati Lutfiah Hamid's identity was confirmed by fingerprints and other means, said Col. Budiyono of East Java's Disaster Vic- tim Identification Unit. Her body, in a dark cas- ket topped with flowers, was handed over to fam- ily members during a brief ceremony at a police hospi- tal in Surabaya, the Indo- nesian city where the plane took off. A relative cried as she placed both hands against the polished wood. The coffin was then taken to a village and low- ered into a muddy grave, following Muslim obli- gations requiring bodies to be buried quickly. An imam said a simple prayer as about 150 people gath- ered in the drizzling rain. The Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea on Sunday with 162 people on board. Nine bodies have been recovered so far, in- cluding two on Thursday. Remains are being sent initially to Pangkalan Bun, the closest town on Borneo island, before being trans- ported to Surabaya, Indo- nesia's second-largest city, where Flight 8501 had taken off. In the thick of Indo- nesia's rainy season, the weather has frequently prevented helicopters and divers from operating while strong sea currents have kept debris moving. Singapore's navy sent an unmanned underwa- ter vehicle capable of sur- veying the seabed to try to pinpoint the wreck- age and the all-important "black boxes" — flight data and cockpit voice record- ers. More than 50 ships, mostly from Indonesia, were scouring the area with high-tech detection equipment. Aircraft with metal detectors also were deployed. We are "focusing on finding the body of the plane," Indonesia air force spokesman Rear Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto told re- porters. "There was some- thing like a dark shadow once seen from a plane, but it cannot yet be proven as wreckage." Sonar images have iden- tified what appeared to be large parts of the plane. "It's possible the bod- ies are in the fuselage," said Vice Air Marshal Su- narbowo Sandi, search and rescue coordinator in Pangkalan Bun. "So it's a race now against time and weather." Aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas in Australia said there's a good chance the plane hit the water largely intact, and that many pas- sengers remain inside it. He added that bodies recovered so far would have come out with a breach in the fuselage. "But most passengers still should have had their seat belts on, particularly as the plane was going into weather. The captain would have still had the seat belt sign on." First bodies from ai r cr as h id en ti fie d INDONESIA By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. More than five dozen giant tur- bines erected on a remote mesa in western New Mex- ico began churning out power for the state's larg- est electric provider on New Year's Day. Tapping into the mul- timillion-dollar Red Mesa Wind Energy Center marks the latest effort by utility PNM to add more renew- able energy resources to its portfolio. From New Mexico and Texas to Montana and New York, PNM and other in- vestor-owned utilities are facing higher renewable energy standards start- ing this year as numerous states and the federal gov- ernment push for a reduc- tion in the use of fossil fuels for generating electricity. Nearly 30 states, the Dis- trict of Columbia and two U.S. territories have ad- opted renewable energy portfolio standards dur- ing the past decade, while several others have estab- lished goals. New Mexico's standard increased from 10 percent to 15 percent with the start of the new year, while New York's new re- quirement remains one of the highest in the nation at 29 percent, according to a federal database that tracks state incentives for renew- able energy and efficiency. Most states are on track to meet their standards, en- ergy experts said. New Mexico's program has been working, said Steven Michel, chief coun- sel for Western Resources Advocates' energy program. "In fact, utilities are now finding that in many in- stances renewables such as wind and solar are the most economic resource ad- ditions available to them," Michel said. PNM, which serves more than 500,000 customers, said it will meet the 2015 re- quirement thanks to several new solar arrays, renewable energy certificates generated through its customer solar program, and the power it's now buying from the Red Mesa wind farm. The utility has plans to build for four more solar generating plants, and re- newable sources will pro- vide enough electricity for 150,000 average residential customers by the end of the year, spokeswoman Susan Sponar said. But some utilities are fall- ing short when it comes to meeting requirements that call for certain percentages to come specifically from solar, wind or other sources. Xcel Energy, which serves parts of New Mexico, is on track to exceed the 15 per- cent renewable target. But it has asked state regulators to suspend the diversity re- quirements in 2015 and 2016 because the renewable resources already acquired have exceeded a threshold designed to keep costs rea- sonable for ratepayers. Ohio lawmakers in 2014 froze requirements to keep monthly utility bills from increasing and businesses from having to trim their use while the issue is studied. In Arizona, regulators are reconsidering require- ments that utilities get a portion of their renewable energy from distributed sources such as customer solar systems rather than large, centralized plants. There are also industry concerns in New Mexico, where PNM has proposed charging solar customers a fee to help pay for maintain- ing the overall electric grid. FOSSIL FUELS REDUCTION States work to meet new renewable energy standards LEGALNOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-14-613258-BF Order No.: 140037008-CA-API YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 5/2/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bid- der for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal sav- ings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and author- ized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warran- ty, expressed or implied, regard- ing title, possession, or encum- brances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) se- cured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges there- on, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest there- on, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total (at the time of the initial amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENE- FICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): FREDFRICK C. SCHULKE AND CHRISTINE L. SCHULKE, HUSBAND AND WIFE Recorded: 5/10/2005 as Instru- ment No. 010200 in Book 2702 Page 335 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of TEHAMA County, California; Date of Sale: 1/26/2015 at 1:00PM Place of Sale: At the Main Entrance to the Tehama County Superior Court, 633 Washington St., Red Bluff, CA 96080 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $228,659.25 The purported property address is: 14352 MCCOY ROAD, RED BLUFF, CA 96080 Assessor's Par- cel No.: 022-530-10 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should under- stand that there are risks in- volved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not auto- matically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, be- fore you can receive clear title to the property. You are encour- aged to investigate the exis- tence, priority, and size of out- standing liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a ti- tle insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be post- poned one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that in- formation about trustee sale postponements be made availa- ble to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 for infor- mation regarding the may mation regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.co m , using the file number as- signed to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14-613258-BF . Infor- mation about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immedi- ately be reflected in the tele- phone information or on the In- ternet Web site. The best way to verify postponement informa- tion is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any in- correctness of the property ad- dress or other common designa- tion, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficia- ry within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and ex- clusive remedy shall be the re- turn of monies paid to the Trust- ee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any rea- son, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Pur- chaser shall have further deposit paid. chaser shall have no further re- course against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee's Attorney. If you have previously been dis- charged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intend- ed to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. 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