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If the measure doesn't pass on June 7, the city will face having to conduct mul- tiple layoffs and will have to contract out for its dispatch services. This is something, as heard at many public hearing meetings on the topic, the community is not in favor of. "I hope my fellow Rotar- ians give a strong consider- ation to passing this mea- sure," said Rotarian Steve Kimbrough. He told a story about a time first respond- ers, including dispatch per- sonnel, we're so helpful in his own experience, and expressed how he doesn't want to see anyone laid off. The city staff is looking for other ways to generate revenue and to avoid hav- ing to make layoffs to peo- ple who are so loyal to the community, Miller said. Retail sales tax, which counts for roughly 15-20 percent of the sales tax rev- enue for the city, was also brought up at the meeting. One way Miller is working on this is by looking at what new businesses can come to Corning, which would only further the success of the sales tax increase if passed. Another factor contribut- ing to the general fund de- crease is the fact that Or- land has built a Pilot Travel Center gas station, taking consumers away from the Corning gas stations. Many purchases in the town come from people who aren't res- idents of Corning and who stop off Interstate 5 to get gas and other items. The hit to the city because of this is upward of $300,000 a year, Miller said. Several residents have expressed concern over the city's Solano Streetscape project and why it is being done when there is a con- cern regarding the city's budget, Miller said. The project does not come from the city's general fund, but is entirely funded by grants. Sales tax FROMPAGE1 It is expected this part of the street will experience in- creases in vehicle and pedes- trian traffic when the court- house opens. The hope is a posted 25 mph speed desig- nation will decrease vehicle speed, reducing safety haz- ards, Public Works Director Bruce Henz said. A traffic survey on this area of Walnut Street was completed in 2012 set the present speed limit of 35 mph, Henz said. Walnut FROM PAGE 1 "Normally, the ballots are out 29 days before the election, but due to print- ing demands there has been a vendor delay," Vise said. "The ballots should be at our office by Thursday, May 12, and the vote by mail in the mail, going out by Tues- day, May 17." The vote-by-mail bal- lots have seen increasing popularity and made up about 24 percent of the votes in the Nov. 2014 elec- tion, she said. A box, which is checked twice a day, has been put out for people to drop their vote-by-mail bal- lots off at the corner of Pine and Madison streets, be- tween the Tehama County Library and Dennis Al- bright's office. Their is not postage cost for putting bal- lots in the vote-by-mail box. "We hope the vote-by- mail number will be higher this election," Vice said. For those who have not registered or have moved and need to make changes in their voting address of record or their party of pref- erence, the last day to do so is May 23. There are 30,085 registered voters as of Tues- day of which there are 8,361 Democrats, 13,277 Repub- lican and 6,327 no-party preference. The election depart- ment is always in need of poll workers, especially in the Bowman and Los Mo- linos areas. Interested par- ties can contact the office at 527-8190. Ballots FROM PAGE 1 CONTRIBUTEDPHOTO The official Tehama County Elections Vote-By-Mail box has been put up in the area of the Tehama County Library parking lot. The ballots for vote by mail have been delayed, but should be mailed out by May 17. "N or mall y, t he ba ll ot s a re o ut 29 d ay s b ef or e th e e le ct io n, b ut du e t o p ri nt in g de ma nd s t her e ha s b ee n a vend or d el ay . Th e b all ot s sh ou ld b e a t ou r o ffi ce b y Th ur sd ay , M ay 12 ... " —J en ni fe r V is e, T eh am a Co unt y C le rk a nd R ecor de r By Jennifer Mcdermott and Denise Lavoie The Associated Press TAUNTON, MASS. Two by- standers and an off-duty deputy sheriff were hailed as heroes Wednesday for intervening when a men- tally disturbed man went on a stabbing rampage at a home and a mall hours af- ter leaving a hospital, kill- ing two people and injur- ing at least five others. Arthur DaRosa's destruc- tion, authorities say, in- cluded entering a random home where he stabbed two people eating dinner, sev- eral attempted carjackings, driving a car into a Macy's, beating several people in- side the department store and then stabbing two peo- ple in a restaurant. The 28-year-old was shot and killed by Plym- outh County Deputy Sher- iff James Creed when he re- fused to drop a knife inside the Bertucci's restaurant in the Silver City Galleria Mall in Taunton, about 40 miles south of Boston, the Bris- tol County prosecutor said. DistrictAttorneyThomas Quinn III gave this account: DaRosa's rampage be- gan at about 6 p.m. Tues- day, when he suddenly left his daughter's soccer prac- tice in a Honda Accord owned by the girl's mother and struck a pickup truck. DaRosa then tried un- successfully to get into several houses before en- tering a home where Pa- tricia Slavin, 80, and her daughter, Kathleen Slavin, 48, were eating dinner. Da- Rosa stabbed both women, who he didn't know, then ran from the house. Patricia Slavin died of multiple stab wounds, while her daughter was taken to a hospital, where she was in the intensive care unit Wednesday. DaRosa tried to carjack multiple people driving or stopped nearby, but finally got back into the Honda, then drove to the mall a few miles away and crashed the car into the front entrance of Macy's. Inside the store, he assaulted at least three women. One remained hos- pitalized Wednesday. A Macy's employee in- tervened and tried to stop DaRosa, but he left and walked to the Bertucci's, where he grabbed a knife and stabbed a 26-year-old waitress, Sheenah Savoy, multiple times. George Heath, a 56-year- old visual design teacher at the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Tech- nical High School, was at the bar at Bertucci's with his wife, Rosemary. Rosemary Heath said they had just ordered a drink when they heard a scream and saw DaRosa stabbing a young woman, "He had the back of her shirt and kept stabbing her, and by the time she got to me, she was screaming, 'Help me! Help me! Help Me!'" she told WCVB-TV. Rosemary Heath said she pushed the woman out of the way and grabbed the back of DaRosa's shirt. "My husband was strug- gling with him to get the knife away," she said. "I think he went down low on him to get him around the elbows so he couldn't raise his arm up, and then he pulled his arm back and then stabbed my husband in the head." George Heath later died. Savoy remained hospital- ized in serious condition Wednesday. "Mr. Heath is certainly a hero. ... He stepped up. He prevented a tragic situation from getting worse," said Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. Rosemary Heath said Creed — who was off-duty and at Bertucci's eating din- ner — repeatedly ordered DaRosa to drop the knife. Quinn said that when DaRosa refused, Creed fired one shot at DaRosa's abdo- men, killing him and pre- venting "further carnage." Quinn said DaRosa had checked himself in to Mor- ton Hospital Monday after his sister observed him be- having erratically. He was released Tuesday morning and went on the rampage hours later. "This appears to be an irrational series of ac- tions," Quinn said. "It's be- yond comprehension what the man did." DaRosa's sister and fa- ther said he had claimed that the devil was trying to make him do things, the Boston Herald reported. The sister, Kerri Devries, said her younger brother had battled depression for years. "He told them how de- pressed he was and how he didn't want to live anymore and they still let him leave (the hospital)," Devries told the Herald. Morton Hospital de- clined to comment on what type of treatment he re- ceived, citing patient pri- vacy laws. DaRosa's father said he visited his son in the hospi- tal Monday night and was surprised when he showed up at the family's home Tuesday morning. "He needed help, so we tried very much to help," the elder Arthur DaRosa told the newspaper. "Why did they release him this morning? That's the ques- tion. He came over to get his keys to go to work. He was good. Normal. No atti- tude. He was calm." Scott Blackwell, 36, who has known the younger Da- Rosa since he was a child, saidhewasshockedbecause DaRosa was "a really good kid, never a troublemaker." "I wouldn't expect him to do something like this," he said. RAMPAGE Man behind mall stabbings called mentally disturbed JACK FOLEY — THE HERALD NEWS OF FALL RIVER Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr., right, speaks about Tuesday's stabbings at a Taunton home and shopping mall, Wednesday in Fall River, Massachusetts. By Kevin Burbach The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS If Prince was seeking help for a problem with prescription drugs, it would make sense for him to turn to a Cali- fornia addiction special- ist known for new ideas on treatment. Less clear is why he sought care from a local family care physician with an unassuming re- sume who met with Prince twice in the weeks before his death and prescribed him unknown medications. The day Prince died, he was scheduled to meet with the son of Dr. How- ard Kornfeld, the Califor- nia specialist in addiction treatment and pain man- agement. But in the weeks before Prince's April 21 death, he met twice with Dr. Michael Todd Schulen- berg, who worked at a Min- netonka clinic a few miles from Prince's Paisley Park studio and home, accord- ing to search warrant doc- uments released Tuesday. Prince's cause of death is still unknown, as the autopsy results haven't been released. But a law enforcement official said investigators are looking into whether he died from an overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before his death. The official has been briefed on the investi- gation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he wasn't autho- rized to speak to the media. Investigators inter- viewed Schulenberg the day Prince died and searched a suburban Minneapolis hos- pital that employed him. The warrant documents didn't specify what medi- cations were prescribed or whether Prince took them. Thewarrantdetailscame out the same day investiga- tors returned to Prince's es- tate and stayed for several hours without saying why. The official who spoke to AP said investigators are seeking to identify ev- ery doctor and pharmacy that may have supplied the singer prescription drugs, including online sources, and that the search in- volves examining computer drives from Prince's home. It remains unclear why Prince, a world-famous musician worth millions, would seek the help of an experienced but seemingly ordinary local physician instead of first turning to world-class health care. The Star Tribune, citing a source with knowledge of theinvestigation,previously reported that Prince had been receiving treatment for withdrawal symptoms from a doctor who previ- ously worked with Prince's longtime friend Kirk John- son. MUSICIAN Questions linger about Prince's doctor The third area was far- ther east where a red sub- stance was found near a snow cone syrup bottle. This substance also tested negative for blood. During cross examina- tion, Bealer's attorney Shon Northam asked Vasquez about a pair of men's blue underwear found near the scene. "I didn't look at them that closely myself, but I was told they were soiled," Vasquez told the court. Daly asked Vasquez whether the underwear was related to the area where Nichols' body was found. Vasquez said that they he didn't think the under- wear had anything to do with the incident. "The area where they were found was undis- turbed, it looked like they were thrown there and just landed," Vasquez said. "There was nothing to indi- cate a struggle in that loca- tion or any kind of distur- bance." Vasquez explained there was a series of tire tracks and stroller tracks around the area. "The closest ones were about 15 to 20 yards from where her body was found," Vasquez said. Vasquez noted that none of them led to the bush where her body was found. "One of the sets of tracks were going sideways pri- marily east and west," Vasquez said. "I couldn't tell how old the tracks were." When Daly asked if these tracks could be from law enforcement vehicles, Vasquez said that he didn't think so because those ve- hicles don't usually have worn out tires. Vasquez also said there were some footprints found near the area. "The prints weren't spe- cific enough to match to any one person's shoes, but could have been matched to a class or type of shoe," Vasquez said. Vasquez noted that as far as he knows there was never any request to match them to the shoes Nichols was wearing the day she disappeared. Another criminalist, Rebecca Gaxiola, took the stand Wednesday. She was asked to explain her part in collecting evi- dence where the body was found. Gaxiola said she was tasked with taking photos and helping to collect evi- dence. She explained that there was already crime scene tape around the area when she arrived. The team worked their way into a large bushy area where the body was found. "When the body was rolled over, there was blood on her face and her left arm was under her side," Gax- iola said. "Her shirt was off and her bra was pulled down." Gaxiola said she was responsible for taking oral swabs from Nich- ols' mouth. She explained the process of collecting the swabs and processing them for a lab. "It appeared that the left side had more of a darker red color on the swab like there was more blood on that side," Gaxiola said. Gaxiola's testimony will continue Thursday when she is expected to explain the process of extracting DNA from the samples she took from Nichols. 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