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ByAdrianSainzand Erik Schelzig TheAssociatedPress NASHVILLE,TENN. Asmall- town warehouse supervi- sor turned in one of three tickets splitting the world- record $1.6 billion Power- ball jackpot on Friday, and swiftly announced that he would take his money now, giving up hundreds of mil- lions of dollars in the fu- ture. But John Robinson and his wife, Lisa, said they won't stop working and won't make any wild pur- chases. They'll pay off their mortgage and their daugh- ter's student loans, but have no desire to move from their small, gray, one-story house into a luxurious com- pound somewhere. "I've never wanted that in the past. I don't really want that now," said Lisa Robin- son, who works in a derma- tologist's office. "Big houses are nice," her husband said, "But also you gotta clean 'em." Robinson said he reached out to his brother for help finding lawyers and finan- cial planners before decid- ing to take the winnings in a single lump sum of nearly $328 million, rather than let the lottery invest the prize and pay him 30 an- nual installments totaling an estimated $533 million. Why pass up on a certain income totaling more than $200 million? "We're going to take the lump sum, because we're not guaranteed tomorrow," Robinson said. "We just wanted a little big piece of the pie. Now we're real grateful we got the big piece of the pie." No one has produced the other winning tickets, which overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million to land on all six numbers at a Pub- lix supermarket in Mel- bourne Beach, Florida, and a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California. In California, any win- nings not claimed within a year automatically go to the state's schools. Florida gives winners six months to come forward before trans- ferring 80 percent of un- claimed prizes to an edu- cational trust fund, and 20 percent into a pool for fu- ture lottery prizes. The Robinsons said they have no plans to leave Mun- ford, the town of about 6,000 north of Memphis where they both went to high school. And both plan to return to work on Monday, because "that's what we've done all our lives, is work," Robin- son said. "Youjustcan'tsitdownand lay down and not do nothing anymore. How long are you going to last?" he asked. Tennessee Lottery ex- ecutive Rebecca Hargrove said the couple would get a "small check today for a few million," and collect the full lump sum in about 10 busi- ness days. Robinson said earlier Friday that they would help certain friends, give to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Mem- phis, and donate to their church. "I'm a firm believer in tithing to my church," Rob- inson said in an appearance on NBC's "Today" show. Robinson carried the precious slip of paper to New York City and back be- fore showing up at Tennes- see's lottery headquarters. Their lawyer went with the family, as did their rescue dog, Abby, who snoozed through most of the excite- ment. Lawyers who have repre- sented other winners advise against going public until they have made plans with experts in tax law, finan- cial planning, privacy, se- curity and other safeguards to protect themselves and their winnings. POWERBALL Warehouseworkertakesthirdof$1.6Bpot MARKHUMPHREY—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Rebecca Hargrove, right, president and CEO of the Tennessee Lottery, announces that the winning Powerball ticket of the John and Lisa Robinson family is authentic on Friday in Nashville, Tenn. By Audrey Mcavoy The Associated Press HALEIWA,HAWAII Two Ma- rine Corps helicopters car- rying six crew members each collided and went down off the Hawaiian is- land of Oahu while on a nighttime training mis- sion, and rescuers searched choppy waters Friday where debris had been sighted, military officials said. There was no immediate word on the fate of those aboard or what caused the accident. The transport helicopters known as CH-53Es crashed just before midnight Thurs- day, officials said. A Coast Guard helicopter and C-130 airplane spotted a debris field 2 miles off- shore early Friday. The de- bris covered an area of 2 miles, Marine Capt. Timo- thy Irish said. The choppers are part of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Known as Super Stallions, they are the U.S. military's largest helicopter, capable of carrying a light armored vehicle, 16 tons of cargo or a team of combat- equipped Marines, accord- ing to a Marine Corps web- site. Elaray Navarro, a re- tiree who lives across the street from the beach, said she heard two booms late Thursday that were loud enough to shake her house. "I threw my blanket off, put my slippers on and ran outside thinking it was a car accident," she said. She expressed concern for the crew as she watched the pounding surf from a beach in Haleiwa. "I pray to the man up- stairs to help them. To bring them home safely," she said. The search included Air Force units, as well as a Ho- nolulu Fire Department res- cue boat and Coast Guard cutters, officials said. Two Navy ships, the USS John Paul Jones and the USS Gridley, were also par- ticipating, along with a Navy squadron of SH-60 helicopters, Navy spokes- woman Agnes Tauyan said. About two dozen Marines gathered Friday morning on the beach at Waimea Bay, a popular surfing spot a few miles from the rescue operation. A steady rain was falling on the North Shore just be- fore daybreak, and rough water conditions were fore- cast. A swell approaching the area was to bring danger- ous 30- to 40-foot waves to beaches and 10- to 20-foot seas near the rescue opera- tion, National Weather Ser- vice meteorologist Matthew Foster said. Winds were ex- pected to be relatively calm at 10 mph or less. The crash comes less than a year after a Marine Corps tilt-rotor aircraft crashed during a training exercise in Hawaii, killing two Marines. The MV-22 Osprey went down last May with 21 Marines and a Navy corpsman on board. In 2011, one serviceman was killed and three others injured when a CH-53D Sea Stallion chopper crashed in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. HAWAII Marine helicopters collide off Oahu, search underway AUDREY MCAVOY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A search vessel cruises the waters off the beach at Haleiwa, Hawaii, on Friday. The Associated Press OAKLAND Some security cameras aboard San Fran- cisco Bay Area commuter trains are fake and do not record the activity of pas- sengers, a transit agency acknowledged after being pressed on whether there is footage of a weekend killing on a train. Bay Area Rapid Transit Director Gail Murray told the Oakland Tribune in a storyFridaythatsomecam- eras are decoys and others record images. The story was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. The transit agency has not released any footage of the shooting and refused to say if the killing Satur- day was captured by secu- rity cameras. The Alameda County Coroner's Office on Friday identified the man as Car- los Misael Funez-Romero, 19, of Antioch, California. He was shot as a San Francisco-bound train rolled into the West Oak- land station. No arrests have been made. The transit agency also has surveillance cameras on station platforms and at fare boxes. Police have distributed images of the suspected gunman taken by one of those cameras. Cameras were installed in train cars beginning in 1988 as a way to stop van- dals. The newspaper looked at 140 camera lights in 35 BART cars on six trains moving between San Francisco and Oakland on Thursday. Only 24 of the cameras displayed a green light. The remaining 116 cameras displayed ei- ther a red light or no light at all. TRANSIT Ag enc y: S om e ca me ra s on SF trains are fake By Don Thompson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO An Iraqi- born man living in Cali- fornia swore that "Amer- ica will not isolate me from my Islamic duty" as he used a social media ac- count associated with the Islamic State group to plot a return to Syria, accord- ing to court documents made public Friday. Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab was indicted in Sacramento Thursday on one federal charge that he lied to investigators about traveling to Syria to fight against the government there. He was arrested last week and remains jailed, though prosecutors and his attorney say there is no in- dication he intended harm within the United States. Authorities say Al-Jayab fought in Syria as a teen- ager before coming to the United States and went to Syria again in late 2013 and early 2014, joining a group later affiliated with the Is- lamic State. He faces up to eight years in prison if he is convicted of falsely telling investigatorshewasvisiting his grandmother in Turkey. The investigation of the 23-year-old apparently be- gan with information from the search of a Virginia- based Facebook account in April 2014, shortly af- ter Al-Jayab returned to the United States from his second stint fighting in Syria, according to the search warrant affidavit. The Virginia account "appeared to be used to distribute propaganda (for) the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," say the court filings. 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Food drive participants included: Los Molinos Elementary and High School Lassen View • Gerber • Vina Elementary Umpqua Bank • NuWay Market • Jill's Market Crosslands • Central Tehama Kiwanis Dr. Strawberry Weber • Psycho Gym Los Molinos Chamber of Commerce Our United Methodist Church congregations 100% of all donations go directly to the families served. All work and travel is volunteered and donated. No donations were used to pay for this thank you ad. | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 8 A