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ByPaulElias TheAssociatedPress SAN FRANCISCO Three current and former California Highway Pa- trol officers, a prominent criminal defense lawyer and five other peo- ple were arrested Friday in connec- tion with the disappearance and killing of a Central Valley man. Law enforcement officials an- nounced the arrests at a brief news conference in Modesto. The officials said the nine people played a part in the killing of Ko- rey Kauffman, 26, or helped cover it up and mislead investigators. Kauffman was reported miss- ing in April 2012. His body was found by hunters in August 2013 in rural Mariposa County near Yosemite National Park. CENTRAL VALLEY CHPofficers, others eyed in killing By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com RED BLUFF The Tehama County 4-H program has some- thing to be proud of in Bend- Jelly member Maryn Spangler, who was awarded the 4-H Dia- mond Clover Award, the high- est state achievement, on July 26 at the California 4-H State Leadership Conference held at UC Irvine. Spangler, who is a 2015 grad- uate of Red Bluff High School and graduated first in her class, is the first Tehama County re- cipient, said Tehama County 4-H Program Secretary Spring Severson. "We are pleased to announce that Maryn Spangler, has been awarded the California 4-H Di- amond Clover Award," Severson said. "This award was estab- lished to recognize exemplary effort, learning and growth of 4-H member and is the highest achievement for which a Cali- fornia 4-H youth member is rec- ognized." Spangler, the daughter of Scott and Debbie Spangler, was involved in a variety of positions during her eight years with the program. She is in her third year working with the State Ambas- sador team of which she was first an ambassador and then two more as a team leader and mentor. Spangler earned Gold Awards at the Tehama County, North Section and 4-H State Presentation Day Competi- tions in 2014 and presented at the California State Fair, said Debbie Spangler. "What I like about 4-H is he friends in 4-H feel like family and the projects are all about ex- ploratory learning and learning about a wide variety of subjects," Spangler said. "The leaders feel like mentors that truly invest time and energy into making it a rewarding and enjoyable ex- perience for the members in- volved. The majority of 4-H is non-competitive, it is only about challenging and bettering one- self. If you set goals and have a passion and self-drive to accom- plish them this program is de- signed with people to educate you, encourage you and to help you obtain them." Spangler started her county- wide leadership as a Tehama County BLAST Team member for the 2010-2011 4-H year and was a Tehama County All Star Team member for the 2011-2012 4-H year before being selected to the State Ambassador Team in May 2013. Part of Spangler's selection as a Diamond Clover recipient was her Emerald Star Project, for which, as a seventh-grader, she collected 25-30 blankets for PATH to use at its winter shel- ter and for the Red Bluff Fire Department to use at emergen- cies, Severson said. Part of it was also her food and nutrition proj- ect and her community service over all. The Foods and Nutrition Proj- ect is a monthly PATH shelter dinner during the winter shel- ter, which is open November through April, where the proj- ect members prepare a full din- ner to serve 40-50 people for the clients and the volunteers at the shelter. Spangler has been a Teen Leader for the project for three years. "Maryn should be very proud of her achievements to become a competent, confident, caring leader of character who is con- nected to others, and contrib- utes to her community," Sever- son said. "The selection com- mittee was impressed by the size and scope of all of Maryn's 4-H experiences. The roles she's taken upon herself as a State Ambassador, Club Vice Presi- dent, and Emerald Star candi- date speak to Maryn's impres- sive ability to work productively with groups and be a role model for others." In August, Spangler will be starting college and is attend- ing William Jessup University in Rocklin, where she will ma- jor in mathematics with minors in bible and theology and com- puter science. "There will definitely be a huge hole in our club next year when she is gone to school," Deb- bie Spangler said. 4-H AWARD FIRST COUNTY RECIPIENT OF DIAMOND CLOVER DAILYNEWSFILEPHOTO Bend Jelly 4-H Member Maryn Spangler of Red Bluff, right, donates blankets to the Red Bluff Fire Department in 2010. She is pictured here with Capt. John Campbell. Spangler received the 4-H Diamond Clover award on July 26at the California 4-H State Leadership Conference at UC Irvine. She is the first Tehama County recipient. By Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com @editorchip on Twitter CORNING A federal judge ruled Friday that the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, has jurisdiction over a lawsuit filed in March by the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians against former tribal officials and senior employ- ees accused of defrauding the tribe of tens of millions of dollars. The court rejected claims by defendants that the lawsuit, filed under the federal Racketeer Influ- ence and Corruption (RICO) Act and other state and federal laws, is an intra-tribal dispute and there- fore the court had no jurisdiction to hear any of the tribe's claims. "We are gratified by the court's decision," said the Tribal Council in a statement. "The tribe brought this action to hold responsible a group of individuals who, for well over a decade, conspired to steal tens of millions of dollars from the tribe." The tribe owns and operates Rolling Hills Casino just off of In- terstate 5 near Corning. The lawsuit comes after four members of the Tribal Council were ousted by tribal member- ship in April 2014, which culmi- nated in a prolonged armed stand- off at the casino in June 2014, the destruction of computer records and the disappearance of a pri- vate jet owned by the tribe. The suit names defendants Les- lie Lohse, the tribe's former trea- surer; Larry Lohse, the former tribal environmental director; John Crosby, the tribe's former economic development director; and Ines Crosby, the former tribal administrator, among 15 other de- fendants. Subsequently, the two factions came to an agreement to hold an election in September 2014 "to al- low the members of the tribe to determine the tribe's governing body," according to a July 2014 Daily News article. The election re- sulted in the tribe siding against the ousted members. Judge Garland Burrell, Jr. also denied the defendants' attempt to dismiss the tribe's restitution claims,includingthosefiledagainst banks, retirement funds and a gold and silver broker, which conducted business with the ousted members during the period the alleged theft of funds took place. 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