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ByTravisLoller TheAssociatedPress NASHVILLE, TENN. The president of the historically black American Baptist Col- lege says some individuals are considering removing financial support after pas- tors criticized the school's inclusion of a lesbian bishop in a lecture series. A group of Baptist pas- tors calls the invitation to Bishop Yvette Flunder of Oakland, to be a speaker and worship leader next week "irresponsible, scan- dalous, non-biblical, and certainly displeasing to God." The pastors ask school President Forrest E. Harris in a news release to disinvite Flunder, who is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and is le- gally married to another woman, her partner of 30 years. The pastors also ask National Baptist Conven- tion, USA, President Jerry Young to declare where he stands on the issue. The pastors group and the college in Nashville, Tennessee, are affiliated with the historically black National Baptist Conven- tion. American Baptist College is known for its role in the civil rights movement. Stu- dents have included famous civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, the Georgia congressman who helped organize lunch counter sit- ins as a young man and was among the protesters beaten at Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago this month. In a phone interview, Harris noted the college's long commitment to social justice. "We will not toler- ate intolerance," he said. OAKLAND WOMAN Pastors, donors rip Baptist school over lesbian bishop's invitation By Amy Taxin The Associated Press LOSANGELES Three people were arrested Wednesday on charges of running four sham vocational schools in Southern California that is- sued fraudulent paperwork enabling foreigners to stay in the country and netted as much as $6 million a year. Hee Sun Shim, 51, of Bev- erly Hills; and Hyung Chan Moon, 39, and Eun Young Choi, 35, of Los Angeles, were arrested on a 21-count indictment, the U.S. attor- ney's office said in a state- ment. Authorities said stu- dents from South Korea and China who were pre- viously enrolled elsewhere transferred to Prodee Uni- versity and related schools but never attended classes, paying up to $1,800 for a six-month enrollment to get fraudulent paperwork in support of their student visas. Federal investigators said they were tipped off af- ter inspectors made an un- announced visit to Prodee in 2011 and saw only one class in session with three students, though records showed hundreds were en- rolled. "We had students who were hundreds, thousands of miles away," said Claude Arnold, special agent in charge of homeland secu- rity investigations for Im- migration and Customs Enforcement in Los Ange- les. "There was absolutely no education going on at the school." It was not immediately clear whether the defen- dants had attorneys who could respond to the alle- gations. They were due to make their first court ap- pearance Thursday. No one answered at two phone numbers listed for Prodee University. Federal authorities have been cracking down on schools they say solely op- erate to help foreigners pro- cure student visas. Last year alone, immigration author- ities flagged 150 of some 9,000 schools certified to accept foreign students for investigation, many of them in California. Government watchdogs have said the recent fraud cases exposed gaps in im- migration authorities' over- sight of schools that admit foreign students In this case, authorities are in the process of strip- ping Prodee and affiliated schools' ability to enroll for- eign students. Students will be allowed to return to their countries or present legiti- mate documents to support their visas, Arnold said, adding that some would re- main as material witnesses in the case. The school created fake Los Angeles-area addresses for foreigners to use on their paperwork and fabricated attendance records and transcripts on their behalf, according to a copy of the indictment. In exchange, the defendants charged "tuition" and told foreign- ers to lie to immigration of- ficials and say they attended classes, court papers said. Authorities said Moon and Choi worked for Shim. All three face conspiracy and fraud charges. Shim is also charged with en- couraging illegal residence and money laundering, the statement said. Associated Press writer Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco contributed to this report. SHAM SCHOOLS Vocational school owner indicted on fraud charges PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thankyou! Washington 58/37 New York 49/33 Miami 83/72 Atlanta 66/49 Detroit 45/30 Houston 64/54 Chicago 55/37 Minneapolis 64/47 Kansas City 72/46 El Paso 70/47 Denver 64/36 Billings 64/36 Los Angeles 86/61 San Francisco 70/52 Seattle 62/45 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans: 0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. Source: Airnow.gov City Today'sairquality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast s-sunny,pc-partly cloudy,c-cloudy,sh-showers,t-thunderstorms,r-rain,sf-snow flurries,sn-snow,i-ice City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Summary National Extremes World Extremes North and South America Asia, Australia Africa CarsonCity Hawthorne Reno Herlong Lovelock Sacramento Yuba City Napa Ukiah Chico Corning Lakeview Alturas Susanville Redding Red Bluff Laytonville Fort Bragg Point Arena Eureka Redway Mount Shasta Yreka Crescent City Ashland Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Shown are today's noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. ALMANAC Precipitation Temperatures ALLERGY REPORT Pollenlevels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: FRIDAY 78° 49° SATURDAY 75° 56° Mainly cloudy; ra in at night Partly sunny and warm SUNDAY 76° 53° Mostly cloudy and wa rm MONDAY 75° 52° Pa rtly sunn y and wa rm TODAY 79° 48° Mostly sunny and warmer. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 60° Low ........................................................................ 56° Normal high ......................................................... 64° Normal low ........................................................... 43° Record high ............................................. 86° in 2007 Record low .............................................. 30° in 2006 Humidity noon today ........................................ 42% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.01" Month to date ................................................... 0.01" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.47" Season to date ................................................ 18.17" Normal season to date .................................. 19.53" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ............. Moderate Mold .........................Low Trees ...................... High Weeds ................ Absent 4 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 7:26 a.m. 7:12 p.m. 1:04 a.m. 11:23 a.m. Friday 7:25 a.m. 7:13 p.m. 2:01 a.m. 12:13 p.m. 11 hr., 46 min. Mar13 Last Mar20 New First Mar26 Full Apr4 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.00 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.84 ....... -0.01 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.41 ....... -0.01 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......237.70 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.50 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.07 ....... -0.01 BlackButte ....................452.39..............60,076 .....41.8% LakeOroville..................759.34.........1,766,287 .....47.3% LakeShasta ...................991.34.........2,644,368 .....58.1% LakeTrinity..................2272.17.........1,159,964 .....43.8% Whiskeytown...............1198.64............206,094 .....85.5% Weather Trivia ™ What gives weather systems their spin? The Earth's rotation. Today Friday Anaheim 87/59/s 88/57/s Bakersfield 75/50/s 83/53/s Chula Vista 79/56/s 83/57/s Crescent City 59/46/s 57/50/c Death Valley 89/62/s 90/59/s Eureka 61/45/pc 60/49/pc Fremont 76/50/s 77/52/pc Fresno 74/50/s 80/53/pc Glendale 86/61/s 89/60/s Huntington Beach 80/62/s 82/61/s Irvine 83/58/s 88/58/s Lake Tahoe 57/26/s 63/37/pc Long Beach 87/58/s 89/58/s Los Angeles 86/61/s 90/62/s Mammoth Mountain 59/24/s 64/28/pc Modesto 75/48/s 79/52/pc Monterey 69/50/s 68/52/pc Moreno Valley 84/52/s 89/51/s Napa 72/43/s 72/47/pc Needles 85/65/s 88/61/s Oakland 69/49/s 68/51/pc Oxnard 82/56/s 86/56/s Redding 80/48/s 77/50/pc Riverside 84/46/s 90/45/s Sacramento 77/48/s 77/52/pc San Bernardino 83/52/s 88/49/s San Diego 78/59/s 83/60/s San Francisco 70/52/s 68/54/pc San Jose 74/50/s 75/53/pc San Luis Obispo 77/49/s 86/50/pc Santa Ana 87/64/s 91/62/s Santa Barbara 77/50/s 77/52/pc Santa Clarita 83/56/s 90/55/s Stockton 76/46/s 79/49/pc Ventura 80/57/s 84/56/s Yosemite Valley 69/41/s 76/41/pc Today Friday Albuquerque 65/42/pc 63/39/t Atlanta 66/49/r 55/51/r Baltimore 55/29/s 51/42/c Boston 37/21/s 40/32/s Buffalo 35/24/s 49/40/s Chicago 55/37/pc 58/46/r Cincinnati 61/46/pc 55/52/r Dallas 61/51/pc 65/51/pc Denver 64/36/pc 58/34/sh Detroit 45/30/s 54/44/r El Paso 70/47/pc 71/48/t Fargo 66/40/c 48/35/pc Honolulu 79/62/c 76/64/s Houston 64/54/r 72/53/c Indianapolis 59/43/pc 56/49/r Kansas City 72/46/s 67/44/c Las Vegas 77/58/s 79/56/s Louisville 63/51/pc 61/57/r Miami 83/72/pc 82/73/pc Minneapolis 64/47/pc 57/37/pc New Orleans 74/64/r 71/56/r New York City 49/33/s 47/42/pc Oklahoma City 68/47/s 65/46/pc A pocket of chilly air will settle into upstate New York and New England today with sunshine. Mild air will hold from the mid-Atlantic to the Midwest with unseasonably warm conditions continuing over the Plains with sunshine. An area of drench- ing rain is forecast to expand from the Gulf Coast to the middle Mississippi and Tennessee valleys. Some of the rain will be heavy enough to cause flash and urban flooding. As the rain moves into the Ohio Valley and central Appalachians late this week, more widespread stream and river flooding could occur. High .............................. 90° in Orlando, FL Low .............................. 9° in Leadville, CO High ........... 109° in Burketown, Australia Low ... -54° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 70/48/t 68/50/sh Buenos Aires 85/68/s 86/68/s Caracas 89/74/s 89/74/pc Ensenada 79/60/s 84/61/s Mexico City 65/46/sh 68/49/pc Montreal 25/15/s 31/28/c Rio de Janeiro 90/76/t 90/76/t Tijuana 79/52/s 85/54/s Toronto 37/26/pc 44/38/s Vancouver 55/41/sh 56/45/c Orlando 85/65/pc 82/64/c Philadelphia 51/32/s 52/42/pc Phoenix 87/63/c 87/64/pc Pittsburgh 50/34/s 55/46/r Portland, ME 34/15/s 36/28/s Portland, OR 67/45/pc 68/51/c St. Louis 67/50/pc 62/51/r Salt Lake City 60/38/c 63/41/pc Seattle 62/45/pc 66/52/c Tucson 81/55/c 81/58/pc Washington, DC 58/37/s 49/46/c Cairo 70/53/s 71/55/pc Casablanca 68/46/s 65/44/c Johannesburg 77/57/t 81/59/s Kinshasa 95/73/s 91/73/t Lagos 92/79/t 92/78/t Nairobi 87/59/s 86/57/pc Tripoli 69/49/s 63/45/s Baghdad 80/60/c 78/52/s Beijing 55/28/pc 55/31/s Hong Kong 68/64/r 73/67/c Jerusalem 52/42/sh 58/46/s Kabul 56/35/c 58/32/pc Manila 88/74/pc 88/74/pc Melbourne 66/53/c 69/47/pc New Delhi 83/61/pc 82/62/c Seoul 43/30/s 44/27/s Singapore 88/77/t 89/77/pc Sydney 81/66/pc 73/64/c Tehran 57/38/s 60/46/pc Tokyo 54/39/pc 55/42/s Amsterdam 52/34/pc 48/34/pc Athens 57/45/c 52/46/r Belgrade 45/39/sh 46/36/sh Berlin 45/34/pc 44/36/pc Budapest 47/37/sh 51/34/sh Dublin 51/33/r 47/35/pc London 54/44/c 49/36/r Madrid 70/41/s 63/36/s Moscow 39/29/c 39/27/s Paris 56/35/pc 50/36/sh Rome 58/40/s 59/40/s Stockholm 45/26/s 42/26/s Vienna 46/36/c 46/34/pc Zurich 49/27/pc 50/29/s 62/35 64/36 65/35 63/35 64/29 77/48 76/46 72/43 77/44 76/48 79/48 60/25 64/27 63/34 80/48 79/48 73/42 62/47 64/49 61/45 74/43 65/37 66/36 59/46 68/39 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 N EWS D AILY RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY Bestof Tehama Count y 2015 Winners Saturday, March 28, 2015 www.redbluffdailynenews.com Willbeannouncedinaspecialsectionon Digital Edition will stay online through March, 2016 235 So. 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