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ByKenThomasand Julie Pace The Associated Press UNITEDNATIONS Breaking her silence, Hillary Clinton conceded Tuesday that she should have used govern- ment email as secretary of state and acknowledged she had destroyed tens of thou- sands of emails in her pri- vate account that she de- scribed as personal in na- ture. In the face of a growing controversy over her use of a private email address and server, Clinton was defiant in insisting she had not vi- olated any federal laws or Obama administration rules. "I fully complied by ev- ery rule I was governed by," Clinton said in a 20-min- ute news conference that marked her first comments on the matter. The controversy has upended Clinton's care- ful blueprint for the roll- out of her 2016 presiden- tial campaign. The clear front-runner for the Dem- ocratic nomination, Clin- ton had planned to spend March touting her work on women's issues and giving a handful of paid speeches before announcing her can- didacy in early April. Clinton tried to stick to that plan in the days after details of her email use be- came public. But as crit- icism from Republicans mounted and Democratic allies started publicly push- ing Clinton to address the matter, her team hastily ar- ranged Tuesday's brief news conference. The former secretary of state described her decision to rely exclusively on her pri- vate account as a matter of convenience and a way to avoid carrying two devices. Shesaidshehadnotusedher personalemailtodiscussany classified information. Clinton said her server would remain private. She said she had exchanged 60,000 emails, half of which were personal and were dis- carded. "I had no reason to save them," Clinton said of the personal emails. She de- scribed the destroyed com- munications as ones re- lated to her daughter's wed- ding, her mother's funeral, her yoga routine and other matters. "Everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the pos- session of the State Depart- ment," Clinton said. Some of those emails have been turned over to a congressional committee investigating the deaths of four Americans at a U.S. fa- cility in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. Rep. Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican leading the committee, said Clinton's comments Tues- day left him with more questions than answers. "There remain serious questions about the secu- rity of the system she em- ployed from a national secu- rity standpoint," Gowdy said. Clinton spoke shortly af- ter delivering remarks at a women's empowerment event at the United Nations. She then made her way to a nearby hallway where doz- ens of reporters and pho- tographers were awaiting her first formal news confer- ence since leaving the State Department in early 2013. Before the question-and- answer session, Clinton's only comment on the matter had been a late-night tweet last week saying she wanted the State Department to the release her emails. Clinton served as the na- tion's top diplomat through- out President Barack Obama's first term. In late 2014, nearly two years af- ter she left the administra- tion, she turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department in response to an agency request. The department says it will take several months to review the material. Spokes- woman Jen Psaki said Tues- day that once the review is complete, the emails will be posted online for the pub- lic to see. Passages reveal- ing anything from trade se- crets to sensitive national security information could be redacted, in keeping with Freedom of Informa- tion Act guidelines. The email disclosures have raised questions about whether she fully complied with federal laws requir- ing government officials to preserve written commu- nications involving official business. By using her own email server, traced to an Internet connection regis- tered to her hometown in Chappaqua, New York, she gained more control over her email than she would have had using a govern- ment server. At the very least, Clinton appears to have violated what the White House has called "very specific guid- ance" that officials should use government email to conduct business. Clinton said she emailed her State Department col- leagues on their govern- ment accounts and there- fore expected her communi- cations would be archived. Her office says the material turned over to the State Department last year rep- resents 90 percent of her communications. But because Clinton was operating her own email server, only she and her closest aides know that for sure. NEWS CONFERENCE Cl in to n co nc ed es s he s ho ul d ha ve used government email account SETHWENIG—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Hillary Clinton speaks to the reporters at United Nations headquarters, on Tuesday. By Julie Pace and Erica Werner The Associated Press WASHINGTON Relations between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans have hit a new low. There has been little di- rect communication be- tween Obama and the GOP leadership on Capitol Hill since Republicans took full control of Congress in Janu- ary. Obama has threatened to veto more than a dozen Republican-backed bills. And House Speaker John Boehner infuriated the White House by inviting Is- raeli Prime Minister Benja- min Netanyahu to address Congress without consult- ing the administration first. But the dispute over Obama's high-stakes nu- clear negotiations with Iran has put the relation- ship perhaps beyond repair. The president and his advisers are seething over Republican efforts to un- dermine the sensitive dis- cussions with Iran, most re- cently by sending an "open letter" to the country's lead- ers warning that any nu- clear deal could expire the day Obama walks out of the Oval Office. "I cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country — much less a longtime for- eign adversary — that the president does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful under- standing with them," Vice President Joe Biden, who spent nearly four decades in the Senate, said in an unusually harsh statement. For their part, Republi- can lawmakers call their outreach to a hostile na- tion a reasonable response to an administration they say has spurned Congress and ignored its preroga- tives at every turn. It's the starkest sign yet that Re- publicans see an adversary, not a potential partner, in Obama's White House — even on foreign policy is- sues where partisan dif- ferences have traditionally been somewhat muted. "The mutual efforts to work together under this administration have just disappeared, so I think there's a sense now that ex- traordinary things occa- sionally need to happen to be sure that the president understands how strongly the Congress feels," said Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. The dismal state of the relationship has largely sunk the slim prospects for bipartisan cooperation in Obama's final two years in office, with one exception being work on international trade agreements that the White House and Republi- cans have long supported. And with Obama firmly ey- ing his legacy, even his own advisers have conceded that a president who took office vowing to bridge partisan divides is virtually power- less to influence his politi- cal opponents. Not surprisingly, each side blames the other for letting things get so bad. To hear Republicans tell it, Obama has eroded their trust by going around Con- gress time and again with executive actions, partic- ularly on health care and immigration, where he took steps as far back as 2012 to extend deportation stays and work permits to hundreds of thousands of younger immigrants in this country illegally. Instead of easing up on the strategy after Demo- crats took a beating in the November midterm elec- tions, Obama doubled down with a raft of new immi- gration directives affecting millions more immigrants. At the same time, Re- publicans complain he has made few overtures to work with them since the election. The presi- dent and GOP leaders last met face-to-face on Jan. 13 during a meeting at the White House, and Boehner and Obama have not spo- ken since a phone call later that month. There has been scant contact between the president and Senate Ma- jority Leader Mitch McCo- nnell, R-Ky., and a so-called "bourbon summit" that the president and majority leader had lightheartedly talked about arranging is on neither party's calendar. "They don't want to work with us, they don't want to do anything with us," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. POLITICS Obama's relations with congressional GOP hit new low By Alicia A. Caldwell The Associated Press WASHINGTON Amid an onslaught of criticism, the Obama administration has dropped plans to ban a popular type of rifle am- munition that can pierce a police officer's protective vest if fired from a hand- gun, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Ex- plosives said Tuesday. More than 80,000 peo- ple have commented on the proposal to ban certain types of 5.56 mm, or .223 caliber, ammunition since the agency announced its proposal last month. An ATF spokeswoman, Ginger Colbrun, said the vast ma- jority of comments were critical of the proposal. Objections also came from 291 members of Con- gress — majorities of both the House and Senate. The ATF had proposed banning some types of am- munition used in the pop- ular AR-15-style rifles. The rule change would have af- fected only "M855 green tip" or "SS109" rounds with certain types of metal core projectiles. In a letter to ATF Di- rector B. Todd Jones last month, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., objected to the plan. On Tuesday, he applauded the reversal, saying he was "pleased that the Obama admin- istration has abandoned its attack on the Second Amendment." ONSLAUGHT OF CRITICISM ATF drops plan to ban popular rifle ammunition By Sean Murphy The Associated Press NORMAN, OKLA. The Uni- versity of Oklahoma's pres- ident expelled two stu- dents Tuesday after he said they were identified as leaders of a racist chant captured on video during a fraternity event. University President Da- vid Boren said in a state- ment the two students were dismissed for creat- ing a "hostile learning en- vironment for others." Their names were not released. The video posted on- line shows several people on a bus participating in a chant that included a ra- cial slur, referenced lynch- ing and indicated black students would never be admitted to OU's chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Boren acted swiftly af- ter the video surfaced late Sunday, severing ties with the fraternity and ordering its house shuttered Mon- day and announcing the expulsions Tuesday. "I hope that students involved in this incident will learn from this expe- rience and realize that it is wrong to use words to hurt, threaten, and exclude other people," he said. Boren said the univer- sity is working to identify other students involved in the chant, who may also face discipline. Windows at the frater- nity were boarded up and moving vans were parked outside Tuesday. Members have until midnight to re- move their belongings. Markeshia Lyon, a junior from Oklahoma City and one of about 1,400 black students who attend the university's Norman cam- pus, said the mostly segre- gated Greek culture at OU is partly to blame for creat- ing an environment where racism can thrive. "That's something that's passed down, and that's something that needs to change," Lyon said. She also said the video has sparked intense inter- est in addressing racial tensions on campus. The university, located in the southern Oklahoma City suburb of Norman, has about 27,000 students, about 5 percent of whom are black. On Monday, a top high school football recruit withdrew his commitment to attend the university af- ter seeing the video. North Mesquite High School football star Jean Delance, a top offen- sive lineman prospect, told KTVT television and KRLD-AM in Dallas-Fort Worth that he spoke Sun- day night with coach Bob Stoops, but wasn't told about the incident. "I'm very disappointed in the coaches not letting me know," Delance told KRLD. "But that was just heart- breaking right there." The Oklahoma football team decided to protest rather than practice Mon- day. At the team's indoor practice facility, coach Bob Stoops led the way as play- ers, joined by athletic di- rector Joe Castiglione, walked arm-in-arm, wear- ing black. Boren attended a pre- dawn rally organized by students Monday morning and lambasted the frater- nity members involved as "disgraceful" and called their behavior "reprehen- sible." "This is not who we are," Boren said at a mid- day news conference. "I'd be glad if they left. I might even pay the bus fare for them." National leaders of Sigma Alpha Epsilon said an investigation confirmed members took part in the chant and announced they would close the local chap- ter. The national group said it was "embarrassed" by the "unacceptable and racist" behavior. The fraternity also said in a statement late Monday that the chant was not a part of fraternity tradition. UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2 students expelled over racist video LEGALNOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015000050 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JWJ SERVICES 530-736-6243 1625 Aloha St. Red Bluff, CA 96080 Jason Jimenez 13544 Trinity Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 Nicole Jimenez 13544 Trinity Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fic- titious business name or names listed above on 2/10/2015 This business is conducted by: married couple S/By: Jason Jimenez Jason Jimenez S/By: Nicole Jimenez Nicole Jimenez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 2/10/2015 JENNIFER A. VISE Tehama County Clerk & Recorder Publish: February 25, March 4, 1q & 18, 2015 LEGAL NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015000049 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SPRING MOUNTAIN APARTMEN HOMES 303-250-7712 240 EDITH AVE. CORNING, CA 96021 SPRING MOUNTAIN LP 6300S. Syracuse Way #430 c/o John Jaffe Company Centennial, CO 980111 Company Centennial, CO 980111 ALS MERIDIAN CORPORATION as General Partner 6300S. Syracuse Way, #430 c/o John Jaffe Company Centennial, CA 80111 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fic- titious business name or names listed above on 05/25/2006 This business is conducted by: a limited partnership S/By: Spring Mountain LP John Jaffe, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 2/9/2015 JENNIFER A. VISE Tehama County Clerk & Recorder Publish: February 25, March 4, 11 & 18, 2015 LEGAL NOTICE T.S. No. 14-31527 APN:49-112-15 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 7/6/2005. 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 PRO- CEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cash- ier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or fed- eral savings and loan associa- tion, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Sec- tion 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the du- ly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and in- terest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and by described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust de- scribed below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the re- maining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, inter- est thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total 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. Trustor: FAYDRA A. RECTOR, A MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY Duly Appointed Trustee: LAW OFFICES OF LES ZIEVE Deed of Trust recorded 7/14/2005 as In- strument No. 015817 in book 2748, page 208 of Official Re- cords in the office of the Record- er of Tehama County, California, Date of Sale:3/25/2015 at 2:00 PM Place of Sale: At the main en- trance to the Tehama County Courthouse 633 Washington Street Red Bluff, CA Estimated amount of unpaid bal- ance and other charges: $281,202.42 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less 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 owed. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 13505 Patricie Street Red Bluff, California 96080 Described follows: Bluff, Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust. A.P.N #.: 49-112-15 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. 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. 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 the property. 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 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 (714) 848-9272 or visit this Internet Web site www.elite postandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 14-31527. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be re- flected in the telephone infor- mation or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Dated: 2/24/2015 Law Of- fices of Les Zieve, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For Non-Automated Sale Infor- mation, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (714) 848- 9272 www.elitepostandpub.com Natalie Franklin, Trustee Sale Of- ficer THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY IN- FORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 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