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ByJanieHar TheAssociatedPress SAN FRANCISCO The mother of a skydiver who plummeted to his death with an instructor in a Cal- ifornia vineyard said her teenage son was an adven- turous spirit who was will- ing to try just about any- thing — including the jump that was on his bucket list of things to do in life. Tyler Turner, 18, had a mild case of cerebral palsy and walked with a crouched gait. His mother Francine Salazar said that didn't dampen his zest for life. Turner had graduated from high school with hon- ors and had been bound for the University of Califor- nia at Merced this month to study biomedical engi- neering. On Saturday, Salazar drove Turner and his best friend to the Parachute Center in Lodi, east of San Francisco, where she says they joined two other friends and sped through a safety video. Before going up in a plane, Turner knelt at the edge of the jumping area and said a quick prayer. He gave his mom a tight hug and told her he loved her. He jumped while she waited on the ground, wondering which one of the tiny dots in the air was her son. Turner and the instruc- tor died when they plunged together to the ground af- ter their shared parachute did not open. Salazar said the in- structor was found with his hand on the lever for a backup parachute but it was never pulled. San Joaquin County sheriff's officials have not identified the instructor. "One of the last things they wanted to do was go on a skydiving trip they've been talking about," Sala- zar said about her son and his friends, who jumped safely. "I hate for any other mother to go through this." Salazar said she paid $175 for her son's jump, which included a video re- cording that is now in the hands of federal investiga- tors. The four friends filled out paperwork but didn't finish watching the safety video before they were hus- tled into gear, she said. Salazar said she was ap- palled that the center con- tinued sending people up to jump while she waited for word about her son. She thought the center might halt operations. "I'm out there waiting for my son to be recov- ered, for hours, and they just kept jumping over my head," she said. Bill Dause, owner of the Parachute Center, said the instructor was a veteran who had about 700 previ- ous jumps. Dause said he sympathized but there was nothing he could do. "It was just an accident," he told The Associated Press on Monday. Dause told Sacramento television station KCRA on Saturday that it appeared "something may have gone out of sequence in the jump." He did not elaborate. The wind and other con- ditions were perfect, he added. In May, a small plane car- rying 17 skydivers took off from the center and landed upside-down after clipping a pickup truck. People in- volved sustained minor cuts and scrapes. In February, the Lodi News-Sentinel reported a solo skydiver died after a parachute malfunction at the center. Further details were not immediately avail- able. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help cover funeral costs for Turner. CALIFORNIA Motherofdeadskydiver says jump on bucket list SAMMYCAIOLA—THESACRAMENTOBEE San Joaquin County Sheriff's deputies talk with Bill Dause, the owner of the Lodi Parachute Center in Lodi, a er two skydivers had died when they plummeted to the ground earlier in the day. The Associated Press SANFRANCISCO A special unit of the San Francisco Police Department is in- vestigating how 19 peo- ple including a 6-year- old child could have eaten gummy candies at a birth- day party that most likely were marijuana edibles, authorities said Monday. The 19 were hospital- ized Saturday, but all of them were released by Monday. The unit is interview- ing people to see if the candies were intention- ally placed at the party to target children, which would be a serious crime, Officer Grace Gatpandan said at a news conference. But she said there could have been various ways the candies ended up at the San Francisco quinceanera, a traditional 15th birthday party. "We don't want to au- tomatically rush the as- sumption that this was an intentional act," Gat- pandan said. Final laboratory results weren't available Monday, but officials say some of the hospitalized patients tested positive for THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Preliminary findings show the candies contain THC, public health offi- cials said. Thirteen of the patients were 18 or younger. The youngest was 6. Police did not name the Oakland company that ca- tered the party and pro- vided the food, or say how the gummies were pre- sented. The prices of the can- dies vary widely, but they typically can be bought for about $25 for a pack of 10. Dr. Craig Smollin, co- director of the San Fran- cisco branch of the Cal- ifornia Poison Control Center, said ingesting ed- ibles is not fatal. The peo- ple hospitalized showed symptoms consistent with the effects of edi- ble cannabis, including rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, lethargy and confusion Authorities are con- cerned about making sure marijuana edibles that are attractive to children — such as gummy rings — do not get into kids' hands. The event could serve as a warning about the dangers of edibles, which can be extremely potent, said Dr. Tomas Aragon, the health officer of San Francisco. It's also hard to control the proper dosage. "A situation like this, where they were con- sumed by unsuspecting people, and many chil- dren, is greatly concern- ing," he said. SAN FRANCISCO Tainted candy at party likely edible marijuana The Associated Press INCLINE VILLAGE, NEV. With all their modern scientific equipment and state-of-the-art computer models, researchers try- ing to better understand the effect of algae growth in Lake Tahoe are search- ing for new tools to aid in their mission — old photo albums. Experts at the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Re- search Center said in an annual report last week that the mountain lake is still getting warmer, re- gional winters are still get- ting shorter and snowfall is still on the decline. Water quality also has worsened a bit. What is less clear, how- ever, is the trend in long- term algae growth. "Everyone wants to know if there's more of this stuff, but we don't know," said Geoff Schladow, a pro- fessor of water resources and environmental engi- neering at UC Davis. Researchers study algae growth because it is linked to high levels of nutri- ents, which enter the lake both atmospherically and through stormwater run- off. Fertilizer, for example, contains nutrients and can find its way into the lake when it rains, thus contrib- uting to algae growth. "We have low rainfall and low sediments com- ing in. You would expect the clarity to be better," Schladow said last week during a presentation on the campus of Sierra Ne- vada College in Incline Vil- lage, according to the Si- erra Sun. But despite a reduction in the amount of sediment entering the lake last year because of the ongoing drought in the West, the concentration of nitrate is actually higher. The problem is, scien- tists have already been measuring algae growth at Tahoe since the 2000s. "What we're left to use is anecdotal data," Schladow said. "We also ask for old photos, so if anyone has some they'd like to share, unfortu- nately that is the only older data we have." ENVIRONMENT Researchers ask for old photos of Lake Tahoe algae By Brian Melley The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Led Zeppe- lin may have won the copy- right war over its creation of "Stairway to Heaven," but it lost its battle Monday to recoup nearly $800,000 in defense fees. Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled that the band's song- writers, record label and associated companies were not entitled to legal fees and other costs because the copyright lawsuit against them was not frivolous. A Los Angeles federal jury in June found that guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant did not lift the introduction of "Stairway" from an obscure instrumental written by the late Randy Wolfe, founder of the band Spirit. The trust for Wolfe, bet- ter known as Randy Cali- fornia, claimed Page and Plant were familiar with his work and stole a riff from the short tune "Taurus" that repeats throughout the first two minutes of their 1971 classic rock anthem. 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