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ByJoshLederman The Associated Press WASHINGTON Defyingthe Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wielding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency. Obama offered no indica- tion of whether he'll eventu- ally issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construc- tion has become a flash- point in the U.S. debate about environmental pol- icy and climate change. In- stead, Obama sought to re- assert his authority to make the decision himself, rebuff- ing GOP lawmakers who will control both the House and Senate for the remain- der of the president's term. "The presidential power to veto legislation is one I take seriously," Obama said in a brief notice delivered to the Senate. "But I also take seriously my responsibility to the American people." Obama vetoed the bill in private with no fan- fare, in contrast to the tele- vised ceremony Republican leaders staged earlier this month when they signed the bill and sent it to the president. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans were "not even close" to giving up the fight and derided the veto as a "national embarrassment." The move sends the po- litically charged issue back to Congress, where Repub- licans haven't shown they can muster the two-thirds majority in both cham- bers needed to override Obama's veto. North Da- kota Sen. John Hoeven, the bill's chief GOP sponsor, said Republicans are about four votes short in the Sen- ate and need about 11 more in the House. Although the veto is Obama's first since Repub- licans took control on Cap- itol Hill, it was not likely to be the last. GOP lawmak- ers are lining up legislation rolling back Obama's ac- tions on health care, immi- gration and financial reg- ulation that Obama has promised to similarly reject. "He's looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don't have the votes to override," Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal oppo- nent of Obama's climate change agenda, said. First proposed more than six years ago, the pipeline project has awaited a per- mit required by the govern- ment because it would cross an international boundary. NO FANFARE President vetoes oil pipeline bill By Tom Krisher and Dee- Ann Durbin The Associated Press DETROIT It's a case of buyer beware, with poten- tially dangerous conse- quences. More than 46 million cars and trucks on the road in the U.S. — about one-fifth the total — were recalled because of safety defects but never repaired, according to a study by Car- fax, a company that sells ve- hicle history reports. Some of those defects have the po- tential to cause a crash, in- jury, even death. Last year, around 5 mil- lion of those cars were sold to new owners. That's because there is no legal requirement for deal- ers or individual sellers to get the repairs done before a used car is sold. They are not even obligated to tell buyers if a car is subject to a recall. "It's a very major public safety problem," says Chris Basso, a used-car specialist for Carfax, which analyzed state registration data to de- termine that one-fifth of the 238 million cars on the na- tion's roads has an unre- paired problem that was the subject of a recall. "When those recalled cars go un- fixed, they compound over theyears,anditincreasesthe chanceofthosepartsfailing." Federal regulators are pushing for legislation that requires dealers to fix re- called used cars. Indepen- dent dealers oppose such a measure but say they might go along with a require- ment to disclose recalls to buyers because a new gov- ernment database makes it easier to tell if a car on their lot has been recalled. The number of unfixed cars is certain to rise be- cause automakers recalled nearly 64 million vehicles nationwide last year, double the old record set in 2004. Government data show that 25 percent of car owners never get recall repairs done. No one is sure how many crashes or injuries happen because of unheeded recalls. But buying an unrepaired car cost Carlos Solis his life. The 35-year-old father of two died Jan. 18 when shrapnel from the driver's air bag in his 2002 Honda Accord tore into his neck after a minor accident near Houston. Solis' Accord had been recalled in 2011 to fix a faulty air bag inflator made by Takata Corp. that can ex- plode with too much force. But neither the two previ- ous owners, nor the inde- pendent dealer in Houston who sold Solis the car last April, had the repair done. Solis had no other inju- ries, says Rob Ammons, an attorney representing his family in a lawsuit against Takata, Honda and the dealer. "You fix the defec- tive air bag and he doesn't die," Ammons says. Federal law requires car companies to notify owners of a recall within 60 days of finding a safety defect, which Honda did in 2011. But there's no legal require- ment that companies con- tact the new owner if a car changes hands. John Castro, 36, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, traded a pickup truck for a 2011 Toy- ota Prius in March of last year at Koons Ford in Bal- timore. Shortly after he took the car home, he read a dealer- provided Carfax report and found that his car had been recalled in February 2014 to fix a hybrid component that could malfunction and cause stalling. Koons had not done the repair, and no sales person mentioned the recall, Castro says. A number of attempts to pass laws requiring dealers to fix recalled cars or dis- close problems have stalled under opposition from car- makers, auto dealers and the U.S. Chamber of Com- merce. Mark Rosekind, the new head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad- ministration, and Trans- portation Secretary An- thony Foxx are making an- other push. 'MAJOR PUBLIC SAFETY PROBLEM' Used cars o en sold with defects, despite recalls By Christopher Weber and Tami Abdollah The Associated Press OXNARD A commuter train slammed into a truck stuck on the tracks early Tuesday, sending three rail cars tumbling onto their sides and in- juring 28 people in the fi- ery crash. The accident occurred around 5:45 a.m. about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Four people, in- cluding the train engineer, had critical injuries. The truck driver was found disoriented 1 or 2 miles away, said Jason Benitez, an assistant chief of the Oxnard Police De- partment. The crash occurred at a spot where the tracks cross an avenue just before an intersection. The driver was making a right turn from the avenue onto the cross-street but ended up on the tracks, Benitez said. The driver, identified only as a 54-year-old from Arizona, was cooperating and was not under arrest, Benitez said. The driver was hospitalized in stable condition. Glenn Frisbie was driv- ing to work and sitting at an intersection about a block away when the train struck the truck. "I saw a bright flash, a big fireball and flames, flames going pretty high," he said. Little was left of the truck except scorched and mangled wreckage, with some debris found in a nearby intersection and some close to the tracks. "When the crews ar- rived on scene, it was in flames, the vehicle, and it was pretty much cut in half," Oxnard Fire Battal- ion Chief Sergio Martinez said. The Metrolink train carrying 48 passengers and three crew members was heading from Ven- tura County to Los An- geles. The injured people were taken to several hos- pitals. The locomotive, which was pushing the train from the back, was up- right. The stretch of track is straight and that al- lowed the conductor to see the truck and begin brak- ing, Martinez said. The train typically would be accelerating out of the Oxnard station at about 55 mph, Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson said. With braking, he es- timated it would have hit the truck at between 40 mph and 55 mph. The crossing had arm gates, signal lights and a center median, said Fran- cisco Castillo, a spokes- man for Union Pacific Railroad, which owns the tracks. Johnson said initial re- ports from the scene indi- cated the arms and lights were working. The National Transpor- tation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Ad- ministration were sending investigators to the scene of the crash. None of the rail cars crumpled, and that likely explains why there weren't more serious injuries. That's the aim of "crash energy management tech- nology," which disperses energy from the impact, instead of allowing it to concentrate inside the cars, Johnson said. 3 CARS DERAILED Truck stalls on track before fiery train crash, 28 injured MARKJ.TERRILL—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A firefighter hands a bicycle to a passenger at the wreck of a Metrolink passenger train Tuesday in Oxnard. The Associated Press BEIRUT Islamic State militants struck before dawn, staging house-to- house raids in a cluster of villages nestled along the Khabur River in north- eastern Syria. They ab- ducted at least 70 Chris- tians — many of them women and children — while thousands of others fled to safer areas. The captives' fate was unclear Tuesday, a day after they were seized, and relatives said mobile phone service was cut off and land lines also were not going through, add- ing to the fear and uncer- tainty about their loved ones. Heavy fighting was reported in the area. The Islamic State group has a history of killing captives, including for- eign journalists, Syrian soldiers and Kurdish mili- tiamen. Most recently, mil- itants in Libya affiliated with the extremist group released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyp- tian Christians. The group's bloody cam- paign in Syria and Iraq, where it seeks to form a self-styled caliphate, has repeatedly targeted reli- gious minorities since it took control of a third of both countries. The United States and coalition of re- gional partners are con- ducting a campaign of air- strikes against the group. The militants struck near the town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh province, an area predominated by As- syrian Christians. Most of the captives came from Tal Shamiram and some from Tal Hurmiz. Nuri Kino, the head of a group called A Demand For Action, said between 70 and 100 Assyrians were taken captive. About 3,000 people fled and have sought refuge in the cities of Hassakeh and Qamishli, he said, adding that his ac- tivist group based its in- formation on conversa- tions with villagers who fled the attack. HOUSE-TO-HOUSE RAIDS Dozens of Christians abducted by IS LEGALNOTICE T.S. No.: 2014-01583-CA Loan No.: 7130695674 A.P.N.:025-090-69 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE § 2923.3(a), THE SUMMARY OF IN- FORMATION REFERRED TO BE- LOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCU- MENT BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPER- TY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 05/09/2005. 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. Trustor: James L. Mills, AN UN- MARRIED MAN Duly Appointed Trustee: West- ern Progressive, LLC Recorded 05/25/2005 as Instru- ment No. --- in book 2713, page198 and of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Tehama County, California, Date of Sale: 03/09/2015 at 02:00 PM Place of Sale: AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE TEHAMA COUNTY COURTHOUSE 633 WASHINGTON STREET, RED BLUFF, CA Estimated amount of unpaid bal- ance and other charges: $384,339.27 WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN AS- SOCIATION, A SAVINGS ASSOCIA- TION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECI- FIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FI- NANCIAL CODE AND AUTHOR- IZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: All right, title, and interest con- veyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter descri- bed property under and pur- suant to a Deed of Trust descri- bed as Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is right than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt More fully described in said Deed of Trust Street Address or other common designation of real property: 10910 Carey Ln, Red Bluff, CA 96080-9221 A.P.N.: 025-090-69 The undersigned Trustee dis- claims any liability for any in- correctness of the street ad- dress or other common designa- tion, if any, shown above. The sale will be made, but with- out covenant or warranty, ex- pressed or implied, regarding ti- tle, possession, or encumbran- ces, to pay the remaining princi- pal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reason- able estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $384,339.27. If the Trustee is unable to con- vey title for any reason, the suc- cessful bidder's sole and exclu- sive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust has executed and deliv- ered to the undersigned a writ- ten request to commence fore- closure, and the undersigned caused Notice of Default and closure, undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real prop- erty is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved 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 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 this property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this no- tice of sale may be postponed 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 and the public, postponements 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 (866)-960-8299 or visit this Internet Web site http://ww w.altisource.com/MortgageServ ices/DefaultManagement/Trust eeServices.aspx using the file number assigned to this case 2014-01583-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that oc- cur close in time to the sched- uled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone in- formation or on the Internet Web site. 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