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ByGillianFlaccus The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Policespent nearly two weeks and thou- sands of dollars searching for a missing 22-year-old art student across Southern California before she called her father from a Los Ange- les shelter after seeing news reports about her case and asked to come home. Sahray Barber was re- united with her family late Thursday. But police said Friday that her safe re- turn has raised more ques- tions than answers. The case could lead to criminal charges against two persons of interest who may have in- tentionally given investiga- tors misinformation even as crews spent days search- ing from the air and on the ground, police added. Barber's disappearance took on an added urgency because two other women have been assaulted on the California State University, San Bernardino campus in recent weeks and a suspect in those cases remained at large. But police now believe Barber's case was unrelated, and she was not held against her will, said Lt. Rich Law- head, a police spokesman for the city about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. "She had something go- ing on in her personal life. She voluntarily decided that she had some issues she felt she had to deal with in her life and decided to go miss- ing," he said. "We're not sure what her involvement is in this whole thing." Authorities are in the process of questioning two persons of interest who pro- vided the misinformation, Lawhead said. Police have not ruled out presenting a criminal case to the district attorney's of- fice against them or filing a civil case to recuperate the money spent on the search, Lawhead said. "This is kind of top of the chart right now for ... strange, especially the di- rection that we were led ini- tially in this case," he said. "I was shocked yesterday when I got the call" that Barber was safe. Barber and her family have asked for privacy and released a short statement through Facebook that thanked God for her return. She was last seen by her roommates at 6 a.m. March 9 as she left for the Art In- stitute of California, where she takes classes. She never boarded the bus she normally took, and her laptop and cellphone, both intact, were found later that day under some bushes. There were no signs of a struggle. Barber gave a statement to police on Thursday and explained to investigators why she left her electronics behind. But Lawhead said he could not disclose those details. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Mi ss in g Sa n Be rn ar di no a rt s tu de nt f ou nd a t Lo s An ge le s sh el te r By Justin Pritchard The Associated Press LOSANGELES According to a report released Friday, the Los Angeles Police Depart- ment used an invalid court order and spent $22,000 to bring a jailed killer and for- mer gang leader to speak to an exclusive dinner for pri- vate executives. The report by the inspec- tor general of the city's po- lice commission said 38 LAPD employees worked about 320 hours to pre- pare for the January event at a downtown Los Angeles building and protect Rene "Boxer" Enriquez while he was there. What's more, the de- partment didn't have au- thority to remove En- riquez from prison in the first place because it used an order from a closed murder case that only al- lowed his release to act as a witness. A deputy chief later said the event provided valuable information on the Mex- ican Mafia, the transna- tional criminal enterprise to which Enriquez once be- longed. MEXICAN MAFIA LA police spent $22,000 to get killer to fancy dinner PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thank you! Washington 64/41 New York 54/31 Miami 89/70 Atlanta 73/54 Detroit 53/27 Houston 71/63 Chicago 51/31 Minneapolis 45/28 Kansas City 72/44 El Paso 63/46 Denver 73/40 Billings 70/38 Los Angeles 73/57 San Francisco 67/56 Seattle 57/41 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: SUNDAY 68° 47° MONDAY 66° 44° Ra ther cloudy , sho we rs around Partly sunny TUESDAY 70° 48° Clouds and sun with a shower WEDNESDAY 80° 52° Mostly sunn y and warmer TODAY 73° 51° Times of sun and clouds. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 71° Low ........................................................................ 49° Normal high ......................................................... 65° Normal low ........................................................... 44° Record high ............................................. 84° in 2004 Record low .............................................. 31° in 1987 Humidity noon today ........................................ 45% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.16" Normal month to date ..................................... 2.44" Season to date ................................................ 18.32" Normal season to date .................................. 20.50" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ....................... Low Mold .........................Low Trees ...................... High Weeds ................ Absent 5 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 7:12 a.m. 7:22 p.m. 8:01 a.m. 9:21 p.m. Sunday 7:10 a.m. 7:23 p.m. 8:42 a.m. 10:31 p.m. 12 hr., 10 min. Mar26 First Apr4 Full Last Apr11 New Apr18 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.00 ....... -0.02 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.70 ....... -0.01 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.30 ......+0.01 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......237.70 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.50 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.00 .......none BlackButte ....................452.58..............60,608 .....42.2% LakeOroville..................760.74.........1,779,870 .....47.6% LakeShasta ...................992.34.........2,665,197 .....58.6% LakeTrinity..................2273.72.........1,175,390 .....44.4% Whiskeytown...............1198.29............205,063 .....85.1% Weather Trivia ™ How long are the vertical rays of the sun north of the equator? From the first day of spring until the first day of autumn. Today Sunday Anaheim 79/54/s 76/53/pc Bakersfield 79/51/s 77/51/pc Chula Vista 72/54/pc 71/55/pc Crescent City 57/48/pc 55/46/r Death Valley 93/55/s 91/51/pc Eureka 59/49/pc 56/46/r Fremont 71/51/pc 68/48/c Fresno 79/52/pc 76/52/s Glendale 79/51/s 75/50/pc Huntington Beach 75/56/pc 73/54/pc Irvine 78/54/pc 75/53/pc Lake Tahoe 60/35/pc 57/32/pc Long Beach 73/57/pc 72/55/pc Los Angeles 73/57/s 70/56/pc Mammoth Mountain 62/30/pc 60/28/pc Modesto 77/53/pc 74/50/pc Monterey 65/52/pc 62/50/c Moreno Valley 80/46/s 77/46/pc Napa 69/49/pc 64/44/c Needles 92/62/pc 90/61/s Oakland 67/54/pc 64/52/c Oxnard 68/53/pc 68/52/pc Redding 71/52/pc 66/47/pc Riverside 80/43/s 77/44/pc Sacramento 75/54/pc 70/52/pc San Bernardino 80/46/s 77/47/pc San Diego 71/59/pc 70/60/pc San Francisco 67/56/pc 65/55/c San Jose 72/54/pc 68/51/c San Luis Obispo 73/49/s 67/46/pc Santa Ana 74/58/pc 72/57/pc Santa Barbara 69/51/s 69/48/pc Santa Clarita 78/50/s 75/47/pc Stockton 76/51/pc 72/49/pc Ventura 72/50/pc 70/48/pc Yosemite Valley 66/33/pc 62/38/pc Today Sunday Albuquerque 68/41/s 73/43/s Atlanta 73/54/c 63/53/r Baltimore 57/34/pc 49/27/pc Boston 40/23/sn 32/17/pc Buffalo 43/20/sn 29/16/pc Chicago 51/31/s 40/32/pc Cincinnati 65/37/pc 54/32/pc Dallas 62/53/r 68/49/r Denver 73/40/s 70/40/c Detroit 53/27/pc 41/24/pc El Paso 63/46/r 78/49/s Fargo 36/24/pc 36/29/sn Honolulu 81/70/pc 82/69/pc Houston 71/63/r 76/55/sh Indianapolis 62/34/s 54/32/pc Kansas City 72/44/s 76/47/pc Las Vegas 85/57/s 83/57/s Louisville 69/43/pc 62/38/pc Miami 89/70/pc 87/71/pc Minneapolis 45/28/s 40/30/sn New Orleans 79/67/t 77/63/t New York City 54/31/pc 41/27/s Oklahoma City 70/53/pc 73/51/c A surge of mild air will cause melting snow in the mid-Atlantic and southern New England today. Meanwhile, a new push of cold air will send snow across northern upstate New York and northern New England with rain and snow showers near the eastern Great Lakes. Chilly air will expand over the Upper Midwest with some sunshine, as a bit of snow enters North Dakota by way of western Canada. In the South, a dry day is forecast for eastern areas, as drenching rain falls over much of Texas and expands across the lower Mississippi Valley. High .................................. 90° in Ocala, FL Low .................... -18° in Clayton Lake, ME High ............ 112° in Urandangi, Australia Low ............. -38° in Delyankirskiy, Russia Bogota 63/46/r 66/47/sh Buenos Aires 71/54/s 71/60/pc Caracas 87/72/s 87/72/s Ensenada 75/52/s 74/53/s Mexico City 75/52/pc 77/53/pc Montreal 38/8/sn 19/5/pc Rio de Janeiro 88/73/t 85/73/t Tijuana 74/53/s 72/53/s Toronto 45/17/sn 29/14/pc Vancouver 53/40/sh 53/40/r Orlando 88/68/pc 88/65/pc Philadelphia 52/33/pc 46/28/pc Phoenix 85/61/s 87/62/s Pittsburgh 55/26/pc 42/23/pc Portland, ME 38/20/sn 26/14/s Portland, OR 62/42/sh 58/45/r St. Louis 69/45/s 67/44/pc Salt Lake City 70/44/pc 69/48/c Seattle 57/41/sh 57/45/r Tucson 79/52/s 83/53/s Washington, DC 64/41/pc 54/33/pc Cairo 71/49/s 71/53/s Casablanca 63/52/sh 64/51/sh Johannesburg 78/59/t 76/59/c Kinshasa 91/74/t 89/74/t Lagos 91/79/r 92/80/t Nairobi 84/62/pc 84/62/pc Tripoli 86/64/pc 84/55/pc Baghdad 75/54/s 67/46/s Beijing 65/39/s 56/33/pc Hong Kong 80/69/c 77/68/c Jerusalem 58/41/sh 55/40/s Kabul 63/41/c 66/44/pc Manila 90/77/r 88/76/r Melbourne 72/50/s 82/65/s New Delhi 87/66/pc 88/64/pc Seoul 61/35/s 53/28/s Singapore 90/78/pc 90/78/pc Sydney 73/69/c 75/69/sh Tehran 68/51/s 65/46/sh Tokyo 53/44/r 61/41/sh Amsterdam 48/33/c 45/31/pc Athens 58/44/pc 59/51/r Belgrade 58/35/pc 57/39/pc Berlin 49/29/r 42/29/pc Budapest 58/37/s 54/31/pc Dublin 48/32/pc 53/38/pc London 48/36/pc 48/34/pc Madrid 55/42/r 56/39/r Moscow 40/26/r 33/17/sf Paris 52/38/c 49/32/pc Rome 60/47/sh 60/46/sh Stockholm 35/22/pc 38/35/sn Vienna 58/43/r 49/32/sh Zurich 51/37/r 49/31/sh 66/38 74/40 68/41 66/38 69/37 75/54 75/52 69/49 72/50 73/53 76/50 58/34 62/35 63/36 71/52 73/51 66/46 60/49 65/51 59/49 62/46 61/41 65/40 57/48 65/40 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 235So.MainSt.,RedBluff 527-1657 FurnitureDepot MON.-FRI.9:00-6:00 SAT. 9:00-5:00 • SUN. 11:00-5:00 *"no sales tax" in reference to discount given equal to the amount of calculated sales tax. 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