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Sacramento commuter rail collision injures 5 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Five people were injured Thursday after a light-rail train and a vehicle collided in downtown Sacramento, authorities said. An eastbound train collided with a BMW sedan a block south of the state Capitol shortly after 11 a.m., said Sacramento Police Sgt. Andrew Pettit. The BMW struck another vehi- cle that spun out of the way. The BMW was pushed by the train into a tree, and firefighters had to cut off the roof and doors to free the driver. The driver of the second vehicle, who was pregnant, was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Three of the six passengers aboard the two- Lost data cartridges may have exposed 800K in CA LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four data cartridges con- taining personal information for about 800,000 adults and children — including their names and Social Security numbers — have been lost by IBM and Iron Mountain Inc., California child support officials announced Thurs- day. There's hope the infor- mation from the California Department of Child Sup- port Services won't be accessible because a special- ized machine is needed to run the data cartridge, and special hardware and soft- ware are needed to read it, said Christine Lally, a spokeswoman for the state's Office of Technology Ser- vices. ''(A data cartridge) is definitely not something that you or I could just pop into our laptop,'' Lally said. The cartridges also con- tained addresses, driver's license numbers, names of health insurance providers and employers for custodial and non-custodial parents, and their children. DCSS Interim Director Kathleen Hrepich says the incident won't affect the processing of child support cases. The backup storage car- tridges had been sent to IBM's facility in Boulder, Colo., as part of a disaster simulation, so the technolo- TRIAL (Continued from page 1A) documentations surrounding the crime. Bottke is scheduled to hear the discovery motion at 1:30 p.m. April 18. Berg reminded the court Tuesday that he had not received some items of discovery to which his client was TAX (Continued from page 1A) For those not able to make it to Shasta College, the group has sites Wednesdays at the Red Bluff Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St., and Tuesdays at the Corn- ing Family Resource Cen- ter, 1488 South St. The hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through the first week of April. VITA is absolutely free and is an income-qualify program with the amount car train complained of pain and also were transported, said Pettit and Regional Transit spokeswoman Alane Masui. The BMW driver was taken to the hospital with what Pettit said were moderate and non-life threat- ening injuries. ''He's very fortunate that it did- n't kill him. And that tree may have saved pedestrians walking behind that area,'' Pettit said. He said the car otherwise would have spun into the walkway beside the tracks, though he didn't know how many bystanders were present at the time. ''It's downtown during business hours. That accident could have been a lot worse,'' he said. gy company could test whether it could run the state's child support system remotely. The cartridges are believed to have been lost in transit, somewhere between Boulder and Sacramento, Lally said. The state contracts with Iron Mountain to provide secure transportation ser- vices. But Iron Mountain doesn't fly, so the data stor- age company had FedEx transport the cartridges. ''We believe that the con- tainer was not properly secured, thus allowing the container to open and then spill out,'' Lally said. IBM did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment. Thursday's announce- ment isn't the first time mas- sive amounts of personal information entrusted to IBM has been lost. Last March, IBM informed insurer Health Net that the company could not find drives containing infor- mation for 1.9 million enrollees. The lost informa- tion included financial infor- mation, Social Security numbers and health histo- ries. The state's contract with IBM for the disaster services contract began August 1, 2008, and expires July 31, 2012. ''Obviously, the Califor- nia state agency picked IBM because it trusted its exper- tise in securing highly sensi- tive personal data,'' said Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearing- house. The San Diego-based organization tracks data breaches and estimates 550 Friday, March 30, 2012 – Daily News 9A HORSE (Continued from page 1A) It was unclear whether the BMW or the two-car train caused the accident, said Pettit and Masui. Witness accounts conflicted, Pettit said, but a camera aboard the train may shed light on blame. Masui said the train was traveling less than 20 mph as it passed through the pedestrian area. Buses transported other light- rail passengers around the accident scene until the rail line resumed operating about two hours after the accident, Masui said. The collision came two months after another crash between a Sacramento commuter train and an SUV killed three people, including a 22-month-old boy. STATE BRIEFING million personal records have been breached since it began tracking them in 2005. UC leaders cancel executive pension program SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California's governing board took steps Thursday to limit the pensions of top-earning executives who had threatened to sue the college system over what they claimed was a promise to increase their retirement packages. UC's board of regents voted to rescind a policy, adopted in 1999, that would have based the sys- tem's share of pension contributions on the exec- utives' full salaries instead of a $245,000 cap allowed under federal tax rules. UC President Mark Yudof said the university received IRS permission to apply the new formula in 2007 but never imple- mented it because the go- ahead came as its campus- es already were grappling with budget cuts and the need to increase spending on pensions for all employees. Under the canceled program, financing bigger pensions for about 200 vice chancellors and deans who make more than $245,000 would have cost the university $61 million, according to the entitled, including further details from the autopsy of Wanda Pride- more, the victim. Rodriguez is accused of drunken driving when he drove from River Park the evening of March 26, 2011, hit a parked vehicle on his way out and then ran into Pridemore at the intersection of Antelope Boulevard and Main Street. Pridemore, who was 73 years old and walking her bicycle across the street at the time of the accident, set at less than $50,000 per household, whether a sin- gle person or a family. Service in English and Spanish is available. The group does have limits in the types of returns it handles since the volunteers are not Certi- fied Public Accountants, but they do offer a wide variety of services, Bald- win said. "We do the full range of federal tax returns and State of California," Bald- win said. "Everything is e- filed. We also have an option for those who don't have a bank account." San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/GYDMps ). Thirty-six senior UC managers notified Yudof in December 2010 that they expected the univer- sity system to honor its 1999 commitment. But Yudof argued at the time that the system was not obligated to implement the proposed formula because doing so required final approval from him, the board's chairman and the chair of the regents' finance committee. UC spokesman Steve Montiel said Yudof asked the board to withdraw the policy ''to close the loop and make sure everyone is clear that as far as the regents are concerned, no benefits have accrued and no benefits will accrue in the future.'' The Chronicle reported that three protesters were arrested at the regents' meeting Thursday when the chairwoman tried to end the public comment period. Several students had criticized Yudof's efforts to prevent further tuition increases and the regents for meeting during students' spring break. The board left the meeting room when the protesters refused to stop speaking, and when riot police came in to clear them, many in the crowd stripped down to spring break gear of bathing suits and flower leis, the news- paper reported. The three people arrested, all UCLA stu- dents, were booked on suspicion of obstructing an officer and failure to disperse. was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico, where she died from her injuries. Rodriguez was arrested blocks away, when other drivers blocked his truck in with their vehicles. He is being held at Tehama County Jail. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. Those without an account are able to get an onsite visa debit card, he said. The program would not be possible without the community partners involved, Baldwin said. "Northern Valley Catholic Social Services has been a huge partner," Baldwin said. "They've provided sites for the last three years." Another partner is the Tehama County Depart- ment of Social Services, which has provided space for training and occasion- ally as a site by appoint- ment, he said. Those wishing to vol- unteer can look for recruit- ment ads to show up in October or November. To make an appoint- ment or for more informa- tion, call 527-6159 and leave a message. A repre- sentative will call back to make an appointment. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service You DO have a choice in the Red Bluff area. Caring & Compassionate Service Full traditional burial service or cremation 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 Over 50 years of serving Tehama County The event kicks off at 1 p.m. with trainer Jerry Tindell in Pauline Davis Pavilion section A and Phillips Form Fitter with pack saddles in section B at 2 p.m. California Highway Patrol Officer Zim Udovich will talk about trailer safety at 2 p.m. in section D of the Pauline Davis Pavilion. Shasta-Trinity and Inyo national forest representa- tives will present a work- shop on odd load packing at 1 p.m. in area F and Jon Murray will give a presen- tation on Livestock Laws at 2 p.m. in Gem A. Wilderness First Aid for People will be at 1 p.m. in Gem B, presented by EMTs Marsha Franks and David Shalala. Peggy Goshgarian will present three ways to pack a single horse or mule at 4 p.m. in the North End Pavilion. "We have a dinner on Friday that's open to the public," Shuman said. "It's our awards ceremo- ny. There will also be cowboy poetry and a square dance." There will be a dinner and auction Saturday night with both dinners starting at 7 p.m. Cost is $25 each. "One hundred percent of the money goes back to the Back Country Horse- men of California educa- tion fund toward grants for education on trail issues and equine issues," Shu- man said. "Everything else is free and what we raise at the dinner pays for the event. There are no paid positions." The group raised about $16,000 at the 2011 event, which helped to go toward expanding this year's event, he said. "It's in our bylaws that we have public outreach DON (Continued from page 1A) responsibility to demon- strate their rejection of discrimination in all its forms. No Republican law- makers were seen wearing hooded sweat shirts on either legislative floor, but Sen. Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, addressed his colleagues in the Senate and said GOP lawmakers shared the grief over Martin's slaying. ''In communities across the country, we read about too many need- less deaths of our children. This should be a great concern to all of us,'' Huff said. ''I hope we can see this as an opportunity to come together, to find the truth, to allow justice to be served and to maybe get to the point of healing.'' Wright, who is black, came over and hugged Huff, who is white, after Huff finished his com- ments. After the legislative and this is our big public outreach," Shuman said. Saturday and some of Sunday will be packed full of kids events from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and seminar attendees earn points that they can turn in afterward for prizes, he said. "It's fun for the kids, but there are some serious ones also such as safety around horses and mules for kids and what to do if their parents are hurt in back country," Shuman said. "There's also infor- mation for parents on what to do to prepare for taking kids out into back country." There will be a beer, wine, cheese, olive and jam tastings 4-6 p.m. Sat- urday in the Pauline Davis Pavilion. Cost is $15, which includes a compli- mentary wine glass. "We have an excellent turnout of local wineries and breweries," Shuman said. About 84 vendor booths, almost double those of last year, will be on hand, including 23 agencies such as the National Forests and the Bureau of Land Manage- ment will be on hand, he said. The event drew about 2,000 people over the weekend in 2011 and Shu- man says he is hopeful more people will come out this year. While the event is heading to Norco in Orange County for the state Rendezvous in 2013, Shuman said the Northern California units are dis- cussing doing something in Red Bluff. That will be decided over the course of the three-day event. A full schedule of events is available at www.bchcalifornia.org. For more information, call Shuman at 526-0590. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115. session, Assemblywoman Linda Halderman, R-Fres- no, said she did not partic- ipate because she did not have enough information about the shootings. ''I think people are innocent until proven guilty, and no one in this room knows what hap- pened,'' she said. California lawmakers were the latest politicians to don hoodies as a way to protest the Florida shoot- ing. Earlier this week, New York state senators also wore sweat shirts in their chamber. On Wednesday, Rep. Bobby Rush, D- Illinois, spoke on the House floor while wearing a hoodie. Head coverings are prohibited in the Senate, according to Chief Sergeant-at-arms Tony Beard, but the Rules Com- mittee decided Wednes- day to allow members to briefly wear symbolic hoods. Assembly rules provide for the removal of ''inappropriately attired'' members but do not specifically address head coverings. Independently owned Telephone: (530) 824-3792