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Cahoon:DavidJamesCa- hoon, 79, of Red Bluff died Monday, Jan. 4in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Jan. 8, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Everett: Dennis Lee Ever- ett, 65, of Los Molinos died Wednesday, Jan. 6in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of Neptune Society in Chico. Published Friday, Jan. 8, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Geijsbeek: Neva Louise Geijsbeek, 100, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Jan. 6in Red Bluff. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Jan. 8, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Gridley: Patti G. Gridley, 50, of Corning died Thurs- day, Jan. 7in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Jan. 8, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Deathnotices officials, he lied about his travels and ties, the com- plaint alleges. Ben Galloway of the fed- eral defender's office is the suspect's attorney. He did not immediately return telephone and emailed messages Thursday. The U.S. Attorney's Of- fice in Sacramento said Al- Jayab was arrested Thurs- day morning in Sacra- mento. Meanwhile, the governor and lieutenant governor of Texas praised the arrest in Houston of what Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called a terror suspect. "Based on the facts, as we know them, today's ac- tion may have prevented a catastrophic terror related event in the making and saved countless lives," Pat- rick said in a statement. Federal officials in Hous- ton did not immediately provide more details. Federal officials say a separate arrest in Milwau- kee that grew out of the Sacramento investigation is not related to national security. Terrorism FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press LOS ANGELES A utility company said it has spent about $50 million because of a massive leak from an underground natural gas storage well near Los An- geles. The parent company of Southern California Gas Co. filed papers Thursday with the Securities and Ex- change Commission with the estimate for costs as- sociated with trying to stop the leak and to re- imburse people who have been displaced by a sicken- ing stench. The company said in the filing that it expects to keep running up similar costs at least until the well is capped. It said, however, that it has four types of in- surance that should cover the costs, along with the expense of litigation stem- ming from the leak. The leak has been out-of- control since late October and has driven thousands of people out of the upscale Los Angeles community of Porter Ranch. A SoCalGas executive says it is paying to relo- cate 2,800 households and is trying to find temporary homes for 1,700 others. The revelation came a day after California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency over the leak. Also Thursday, Demo- cratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washing- ton wrote seeking answers from the heads of the U.S. Department of Transporta- tion and the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency, which share jurisdiction over the leak. The leaders ask that they be briefed in the next week on what is being done to mitigate the leak and its "potentially disastrous ef- fects," they said in a state- ment. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Ma ss iv e ga s le ak h as c os t utility company $50 million By Christine Armario The Associated Press SAN GABRIEL Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton Thursday courted Asian American voters, telling members of the nation's fastest grow- ing racial minority that she disagrees with the "hateful rhetoric" of her Republican challengers. "They forget a fundamen- tal lesson about our great country," she told several hundred people gathered a hotel ballroom in subur- ban Los Angeles. "Being an open and tolerant society does not make us vulner- able. It's at the core of our strength." Clinton's campaign stop in the San Gabriel Valley, an enclave home to more than a half million Asian Ameri- cans, marked the launch of her grassroots outreach to the growing pool of Asian Americans and Pacific Is- landers. Those voters have trended Democratic in re- cent presidential elections, though they are still consid- ered up for political grabs. Their influence is consid- ered critical in some swing states. But California is not one of those, having voted for a Democrat for president every election since 1992. Republicans suggested Clinton's visit is more about raising campaign cash. Clinton made her appeal to Asian American and Pa- cific Islander voters in a Southern California region where a number of cities are now majority Asian-Ameri- can and store signs line the streets in Mandarin and Cantonese. "Their party identity is not cast in stone," said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy and political science at the University of California, Riv- erside. "There's still poten- tial for persuasion there." In a half-hour speech, Clinton told constituents she would be the one to fix the nation's broken immi- gration system, improve access to higher education, and increase wages — all is- sues considered top priori- ties for the Asian American electorate. She vowed to re- duce the visa backlog and help unauthorized immi- grants with deep commu- nity ties that "deserve the chance to stay." "Ultimately this is more than an economic or polit- ical issue," she said. "It's a family issue." Nearly 4 million Asians voted in the 2012 presiden- tial election, a 547,000 in- crease over 2008. According to exit polls, nearly three- quarters of Asian Ameri- can voters favored Presi- dent Barack Obama in the 2012 election. They com- prised about 3 percent of the total electorate. The Asian American community has been the subject of relatively little discussion in the Demo- cratic and Republican pri- maries. POLITICS Clinton woos Asian Americans, slams 'hateful' GOP rhetoric DAMIAN DOVARGANES — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is welcomed by Asian American and Pacific Islander supporters in San Gabriel on Thursday. By Michael Hill The Associated Press LANSING, N.Y. Seven- teen miners trapped in one of the world's deepest salt mines were rescued Thursday morning, end- ing a 10-hour ordeal that began when their elevator broke down 900 feet un- derground. The workers were de- scending to the floor of the 2,300-foot-deep Cayuga Salt Mine — nearly deep enough to fit two Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other — to start their shift when the elevator malfunctioned at around 10 p.m. Wednesday, said Mark Klein, a spokes- man for mine owner Car- gill Inc. With temperatures in the elevator shaft in the teens — the same as the surface — the miners were cold but otherwise un- harmed, said Shawn Wilc- zynski, the mine manager. "Their spirits are tre- mendous. I'm inspired by them, to be quite hon- est with you," Wilczyn- ski said. "The first four that came out of the mine waited until the last two came out." Emergency workers communicated via radio with the miners, who had blankets, heat packs and other supplies lowered to them. The rescued workers ranged in age from 20 to 60, and their mining expe- rience ranged from a few months to four decades, Wilczynski said. A crane hoisted the first four to the surface in a basket around 7 a.m. at the mine in Lansing, about 40 miles outside Syr- acuse. Another four were rescued about 30 minutes later, and seven more were brought to the surface by 8:30 a.m., Klein said. The last two were rescued a few minutes afterward. Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised the emergency per- sonnel who carried out the rescue, adding that a team of investigators from sev- eral state offices will be looking into what caused the miners to become stranded. The mine, which Klein said is the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemi- sphere, produces road salt that is shipped throughout the Northeastern United States. The mine is lo- cated on the shore of Ca- yuga Lake and extends be- neath its waters. Minneapolis-based Cargill bought the mine in 1970 and employs 200 workers there, Klein said. The mine processes about 2 million tons of road salt annually, making it one of the biggest producers in the U.S., Cargill said. Mining operations will be shut down for the rest of the week as company officials and federal mine safety inspectors investi- gate the malfunctioning, Klein said. "We want to take a step back, check things out," he said. The crane used to res- cue the workers had to be brought in by a rigging company in Auburn, 30 miles away. According to the state Department of Environ- mental Conservation, a wide swath of upstate New York stretching from the Syracuse area to the western Finger Lakes re- gion is underlain by what's known as the Salina for- mation, which contains about 3.9 trillion metric tons of rock salt ranging in depth from 500 feet to 4,000 feet. The Cargill mine is the larger of two salt mines operating in the region. The other is American Rock Salt's mine, located 35 miles south of Roches- ter. NEW YORK SIMON WHEELER — THE ITHACA JOURNAL VIA AP The fourth group of workers emerge from an elevator Thursday a er they were stuck overnight in a sha at the Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, N.Y. By Manuel Valdes The Associated Press BURNS,ORE. Three Oregon sheriffs met Thursday with leaders of an armed group occupying a federal wild- life refuge in southeastern Oregon and asked them to leave, after residents made it clear they wanted them to go home. Harney County Sher- iff David Ward, accompa- nied by two other sheriffs, asked Ammon Bundy and his group to respect the wishes of residents and end their occupation. "I'm here to offer safe es- cort out," Ward told Bundy, according to The Orego- nian. "Go back and kick it around with your folks." "There are some positives than can come out of this," Ward said in the meeting, which occurred at the inter- section of two remote roads. Bundy told Ward he and his group were peaceful and were occupying the refuge because their complaints about federal land manage- ment policies have been ig- nored. He and Ward agreed to talk again on Friday. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday called the oc- cupation "unlawful" and said it had to end. "It was instigated by out- siders whose tactics we Or- egonians don't agree with. Those individuals illegally occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge need to de- camp immediately and be held accountable," she said. On Wednesday night, residents attended a com- munity meeting to air their views about the two dozen or so armed men holed up at the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns. Locals said they sym- pathized with the armed group's complaints about federal land management policies but disagreed with their tactics. At that meeting, Ward said he hoped residents would put up a united front to peacefully resolve the conflict with the group. "I'm here today to ask those folks to go home and let us get back to our lives," Ward said. Schools were closed fol- lowing the seizure of the refuge because of safety concerns in the small town in eastern Oregon's high desert. Bundy's group, call- ing itself Citizens for Con- stitutional Freedom, says it wants an inquiry into whether the government is forcing ranchers off their land. Participants came from as far away as Arizona and Michigan. Bundy came to Burns to rally support for two lo- cal ranchers who were sen- tenced to prison on arson charges. The ranchers — Dwight Hammond and his son Steven Hammond — distanced themselves from Bundy's group and reported to prison Monday. OREGON STANDOFF Sheriff meets with armed group, asks them to leave All 17 miners tr ap pe d in s al t mine rescued BETH NAKAMURA — THE OREGONIAN Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward meets with Ammon Bundy at a remote location outside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday near Burns, Ore. MICHAEL OWEN BAKER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Porter Ranch Estates sit at the foothills near a Southern California Gas Co. gas well that has been leaking methane daily near the community Porter Ranch on Thursday. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A