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Daughtery:Michael Daughtery Sr., 78, of Red Bluff died Thursday, Aug. 4 at his residence. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Friday, Aug. 5, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Dunn: Traci Dunn, 60, of Corning died Thursday, Aug. 4at St. Elizabeth's Community Hospital. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Blair's Crema- tion & Burial. Published Friday, Aug. 5, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Einer-Neal: Eric Eugene Einer-Neal, 48, of Vina died Wednesday, Aug. 3in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Newton-Bracewell Funeral Homes in Chico. Published Friday, Aug. 5, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Girard: Richard Ring Girard, 59, of Red Bluff died Saturday, July 30in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Aug. 5, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Gray: Jean Forrest Gray, 93, of Red Bluff died Sat- urday, July 30at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Aug. 5, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Morris: Gilbert Ray Mor- ris, 85, of Red Bluff died Monday, Aug. 1at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Aug. 5, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. St. John: Jacklyn Ululani St. John, 78, died Wednes- day, Aug. 3at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Aug. 5, 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 timeofhisarrest. During the operation, a total of 7,467 plants were eradicated from the cul- tivation site, the release said. Agents removed some 700 pounds of trash, 200 pounds of fertilizer, five 5-gallon propane tanks and a car battery. The growers had been living in the area for about three months. The mari- juana cultivation site was being irrigated via Kill Dry Creek, which had been di- verted to a holding pond that was used for irriga- tion purposes. The cultivation site cov- ered about 2 acres and about 10 acres of land was affected by the site with the potential to pollute the waterway. Potential street value of the marijuana eradicated is $7 million. Reyes was arrested and booked into the Glenn County jail on felony charges of cultivation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale. Bail for was set at $210,000. Bust FROM PAGE 1 through treatment for co- lon cancer when Tirnanic was nine years old. Not long afterwards her fa- ther died of lung cancer, she said. "Each day we dedicate the ride to someone and we rode into Chicago on Father's Day, dedicating the ride to my father," Tir- nanic said. "There were a lot of emotions. The stories we collect go on the web- site and those stories are to help those going through cancer, but they also push us to ride harder or to keep going when we want to quit." The journey has been difficult at times from the areas where there was nothing to look at to the more mountainous loca- tions, but Tirnanic said she has enjoyed it, particularly Mt. Shasta, which was her favorite spot so far. The stories gathered are put onto a website: www. portraitsproject.org. Information, including how to donate, is avail- able on the group's web- site www.illini4000.org. You can follow the group's progress on Facebook at / illini4000. Ride FROM PAGE 1 JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Bicyclists from Illini 4000, a non-profit raising funds for and awareness of cancer, ride down Main Street Thursday a ernoon on their 4,600mile trip from Central Park in New York to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTOS Family and friends of Gunner Langenderfer release balloons in his memory at the 2015so ball tournament. The 2016 event is today and tomorrow with a balloon release set for 2p.m. Saturday. A player hits the ball at the 2015Gunner Langenderfer Memorial Tournament. being split amongst the First Church of God Pre- school, where Gunner at- tended for two years and had graduated from one month before the acci- dent, and the Red Bluff Lit- tle League, where he had been a player for two years. All proceeds for the 2016 event will go to the preschool and little league programs in Gunner's memory, Ramsey said. Entry fees for the dou- ble-elimination tourna- ment are $150 per team and first place winners will receive a tournament shirt. The public is invited to come out and watch and there is no charge for ad- mission. For more information on the tournament, call Tara Snider at 200-1062. For more information on fundraising or donations, call Breanna Houchins at 366-1827. So ball FROM PAGE 1 By Kevin Freking and Alicia A. Caldwell The Associated Press WASHINGTON After a slow start, it appears increasingly likely that the Obama ad- ministration will hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States before the end of Sep- tember. State Department totals show that 2,340 Syrian ref- ugees arrived last month in the United States. That's more than what occurred during the entire sevenmonthsafterPresident Barack Obama directed his team to prepare for 10,000 admissions from the war- torn country. Total admis- sions for the current bud- get year now come to about 7,900, and the vast majority of them are Sunni Muslims, records show. If the pace from June and July continues this month, the target should be reached with a couple weeks to spare before Obama heads to the UnitedNationstourgeworld leaders to admit more refu- gees and to increase fund- ing for relief organizations. The U.N. General Assembly is holding a summit to ad- dressthelargemovementsof refugees and migrants that stems primarily from con- flicts in the Middle East and Africa. Obama would have been hard-pressed to make the caseforothercountriestodo more with the U.S. failing to reach a goal that amounts to only about 2 percent of the 480,000 Syrian refugees in need of resettlement. Organizations that help relocateSyrianrefugeessaid the White House and other administrationofficialshave grown increasingly confi- dent of hitting the target. "They put more resources onit,whichisallowingmore individual's to be processed and therefore able to travel," said Stacie Blake, a spokes- woman for the U.S. Commit- tee for Refugees and Immi- grants, one of nine groups that help resettle Syrian ref- ugees. Obama's call for 10,000 entries this year was criti- cized by most Republican governorsandtheGOPpres- idential candidates, who ar- gued that the government lacked an adequate screen- ing system to prevent sus- pected terrorists from slip- ping into the U.S. Extremist attacks in Eu- rope and the U.S. have in- creased concerns about im- migration. An Associated Press-GfK poll conducted in early July showed that 69 percent of Republicans say they favor the temporary banonMuslimimmigration. Overall, Americans opposed such a ban by a margin of 52 percent to 45 percent. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R- Fla., sent a letter to Obama on Thursday calling on him to stop accepting Syrian ref- ugees as a matter of national security. "We are seeing a clear pattern in which a number of recent attacks have been carried out by ISIS terrorists withtiestoSyria,"Buchanan said, using one of the acro- nyms for the Islamic State group. He cited the killing of a French priest, the murder of a German woman with a machete and a bombing at a German music festival as examples. The White House has em- phasized that the screening process for refugees takes 12 months to 18 months and in- cludes in-person interviews and a review of biographi- cal and biometric informa- tion. The administration also has said it is focused on bringinginrefugeeswhoare in the most desperate situa- tions, such as families with children and those in need of medical care. In the year prior to Obama's new target, theU.S.acceptedabout1,680 Syrian refugees. WAR-TORN COUNTRY US poised to hit Obama's target of 10,000 Syrian refugees LEFTERIS PITARAKIS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Thousands of Syrian refugees walk in order to cross into Turkey. THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Former police officer Stephen Rankin answers questions from the prosecution during the penalty phase of the his trial Thursday in Portsmouth, Virginia. By Ben Finley The Associated Press PORTSMOUTH, VA. A jury recommended 2 years in prison for a white for- mer police officer con- victed of voluntary man- slaughter on Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man who had been accused of shop- lifting. The ex-officer, Stephen Rankin, shot 18-year-old William Chapman in the face and chest outside a Wal-Mart store last year after a security guard called police to go after the young man. No video recorded the actual killing, and testi- mony conflicted on the details of what happened. But most witnesses said Chapman had his hands up, and prosecutor Steph- anie Morales said the offi- cer could have used non- deadly force. The officer "brought a gun into what is at worst a fist fight," Morales told the jury, which deliber- ated for nearly two days before returning its ver- dict. Rankin, 36, faced one to 10 years on the man- slaughter conviction. Mo- rales asked jurors to give him the maximum, while defense attorney James Broccoletti argued that no amount of jail time would bring Chapman back to life. A judge will formally sentence Rankin on Oct. 12. The judge doesn't have to follow the jury's recom- mendation, but can't in- crease the penalty. Rankin, who was fired from the Portsmouth po- lice force after being in- dicted, had already killed another unarmed sus- pect, four years earlier, and many in the mostly black city of 100,000 saw his trial as a chance for accountability as po- lice shootings continue around the country. But his lawyers said this case had nothing to do with deadly uses of force against other black men. "I think this is a terri- ble tragedy I wish it had never happened. I wish none of it had ever oc- curred," Rankin testified after being found guilty. "I can't begin to fathom how much pain that fam- ily is going through. I wish I could have done more to keep him alive," he added. Chapman's second cousin, Earl Lewis, also took the stand, speaking through tears about the family's struggle to find money to bury him. The jurors — eight black and four white — did not convict on the first-de- gree murder charge pros- ecutors sought. Criminal charges are rare in po- lice-involved shootings, and convictions are even more uncommon. VIRGINIA Jury says ex-officer should serve 21/2 years for manslaughter FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A