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in several California coun- ties, the furthest north be- ing Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area, ac- cording to a California De- partment of Public Health fact sheet. Zika occurs in many trop- ical and sub-tropical areas of the world, particularly in Africa, Southeast Asia, and islands in the Pacific Ocean. Recent outbreaks have oc- curred in Latin America and the Caribbean. An Aedes mosquito can only transmit Zika virus after it bites a person who has this virus in their blood. Thus far in California, Zika virus infections have been documented only in a few people who were infected while traveling outside the United States. Zika virus is not spread through casual contact such as touching or kissing an infected person. Most people infected with Zika virus have no symptoms. If symptoms de- velop, the most common are fever, rash, joint pain, and red eyes. Symptoms usually begin 3-7 days after being bitten by an infected mos- quito and last several days to a week. If you have re- cently traveled to an area where Zika virus is present and you have these symp- toms, your healthcare pro- vider can order different tests to help determine the cause. There is a possible associ- ation between Zika and mi- crocephaly — abnormally small head and brain — in newborns. It is suspected that women who get in- fected with Zika virus may pass the virus to the devel- oping fetus if they are preg- nant. However, there are many causes of microceph- aly in babies, and whether Zika virus infection causes microcephaly has not been confirmed. Until more is known, and out of an abundance of caution, Public Health recommends special travel precautions for pregnant women and women trying to become pregnant. Pregnant women in any trimester should consider postponing travel to areas where Zika virus transmis- sion is ongoing. Women trying to become pregnant should consult with their healthcare pro- vider before traveling to these areas and strictly fol- low steps to avoid mosquito bites during the trip. Pregnant women who traveled to an area with ongoing Zika virus trans- mission during pregnancy should be evaluated for Zika virus infection if they had any symptoms. Avoidingthebite The best way to avoid West Nile and Zika viruses is to avoid mosquito bites. Mosquito repellents con- taining DEET, picaridin, IR3535, and oil of lemon eu- calyptus should be applied to exposed skin and cloth- ing. Using insect repellent is safe and effective. Preg- nant women and women who are breastfeeding can and should choose an EPA- registered insect repellent and use it according to the product label. When weather permits, wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants. Use air conditioning or window and door screens to keep mosquitoes outside. If you are not able to pro- tect yourself from mosqui- toes inside your home or ho- tel, sleep under a mosquito bed net. What can people do to help prevent Zika from be- coming established in Cal- ifornia? Control mosquitoes To reduce mosquito breeding, check your yard often for water-filled con- tainers. Clean and scrub bird baths and pet-wa- tering dishes weekly and dump the water from over- flow dishes under Call Te- hama County Mosquito and Vector Control at 527- 1676 if you detect unusual numbers of mosquitoes or you are being bitten during the day. For more information about Zika visit http:// www.cdc.gov/zika/index. html and http://www.cdph. ca.gov/HEALTHINFO/DIS- COND/Pages/Zika.aspx For more information about West Nile, visit www. westnile.ca.gov. A nurse is available at the Tehama County Health Ser- vices Agency, Public Health Division to answer ques- tions related to West Nile or other health issues 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Call 527-6824 in Red Bluff, 824- 4890 in Corning or 1-800- 655-6854 toll free. Virus FROMPAGE1 the charges. Morrison and Seagraves are schedule back in court with a trail by jury on Nov. 3 and 4, Flowerdew on Nov. 17 and 18 and Isaacson on Nov. 27 and 28. The investigation was initiated by School Re- source Officer Heidi Thomas, according to the press release issued April 27 by the Red Bluff Po- lice Department. There was a review of more than 26,000 text messages dur- ing an eight-month period. Those messages reportedly referenced sexual encoun- ters between the suspects and victim. It was reported that Sea- graves was initially the one who had a relation- ship with the boy and had forged a note for the boy to receive a ride from the bus to his house instead of the boy's home, accord- ing to the release. The sus- picious nature of the note prompted the investiga- tion. Red Bluff Police Officers obtained eight search war- rants from the court, includ- ing a warrant to search four residences, three in Tehama County and one in Butte County and a search war- rant for AT&T, Sprint and Verizon cellular phones, cameras and Facebook ac- counts, according to the re- lease. Numerous items were seized as evidence during the search. Officers seized phones, computers, a camera, a thumb drive and other items from the homes of Isaacson, Morrison and Seagraves. According to the release there wasn't a list of confiscated items that accompanied the war- rant for Flowerdew, who was reported to have had the shortest relationship with the teen. All four men are charged with meeting with the mi- nor for lewd purposes. Sea- graves was charged with procurement of a minor for sex acts, oral copulation with a minor and sodomy with a minor; Flowerdew was charged with oral cop- ulation with a minor and penetration with foreign object with a minor; Mor- rison was charged with oral copulation with a mi- nor and sodomy with a mi- nor; Isaacson was charged with oral copulation with a minor and sodomy with a minor. Seagraves will have a trial confirmation hearing on Aug. 28 and the three other men will have a con- firmation hearing in Octo- ber. Seagraves is being held on a $135,000 bail and Isaacson is being held on a $505,000 bail and both re- main in custody, according to the Tehama County Su- perior Court inmate infor- mation. Morrison and Flowerdew posted bail. Trial FROM PAGE 1 We will be working with the architect to develop plans." Finck said he was un- aware the motor lodge was ever there and many peo- ple don't even know what the sheds are. "There are virtually none left (in the area), but there are some in the Ashland area," Finck said. "They were basically a ga- rage to pull into in a car that had a little sleeping and bathroom area." Finck said he is excited about the new location for the bank. "People are going to be amazed how nice it will be cleaned up," Finck said. "It's a visible spot and we plan to take it from some- what blight to revitalized." The bank is working with various community members to reclaim what is there and put it to use when possible. One of the donations was the old barn wood that was given to the Tehama County Li- brary to be used in the new location, which also started construction this week. Glass windows that were etched with scenes were returned to the fam- ily of the man who made them and light fixtures and equipment have been donated to various places in the community, Finck said. "We're trying to recycle as much there as possi- ble," Finck said. "We're re- ally excited about cleaning that property up and put- ting state of the art bank building there. To be able to revitalize the area, but also from our position to be very visible in town. You can't get any more central than that location." A 9,000-square-foot building is planned, which is similar to the size of the existing Red Bluff branch. "We looked around the whole town to find a site and had to convince a couple people to see the vision of that location," Finck said. "There's not water to the deck, but it's still attractive and a great location for a bank." Cornerstone has been in Red Bluff since Octo- ber 2006 and moved to the Tractor Supply shop- ping center on South Main Street in 2007. The lease on the build- ing runs out soon and the bank officers de- cided they wanted to build their own new, en- ergy efficient, state of the art building, Finck said. "It makes a statement," Finck said. "We started in Red Bluff and now it's the first place we're de- veloping a building that the bank owns itself. Red Bluff is a big part of the bank and always will be." Bank FROM PAGE 1 Officers contacted the bus driver and both men involved in the incident during the investigation. While talking to the in- volved parties, officers learned that there had been a fight during which Togi reportedly punched the other man for being too loud on the bus, So- mavia said. While entering infor- mation into the system to check on both parties, it was determined Togi had a felony warrant from San Diego and he was ar- rested. Togi was booked into the Tehama County Jail on the felony charges of embezzlement: over $400, grand theft of labor and grand theft by public ser- vant: $400 or more. Bail was $25,000. Fight FROM PAGE 1 By Deb Riechmann TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON A new re- port on Guantanamo de- tainees tells the stories of former al-Qaida bomb mak- ers and bodyguards as well as low-level militant cooks and medics who have been transferred or cleared for release — despite fears they are at risk of returning to battle and many after be- ing held without charge for more than 14 years at the military prison the presi- dent wants to close. The Pentagon gave the unclassified report to Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who has been pushing the Obama administration for years to be more trans- parent about who is be- ing transferred out of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She shared it with The Associated Press and posted it online Wednesday. "By clearly detailing some of the disturbing ter- rorist activities and affilia- tions of detainees at Guan- tanamo, the report demon- strates why these terrorists should not be released — they pose a serious risk to our national security," Ayotte said in an email re- sponse to questions. The remaining detain- ees "will no doubt" return to the fight once released, she said, noting that the De- fense Department told her that 93 percent of the de- tainees still at Guantanamo as of late last year were high risk for re-engagement in terrorism. The report tells the story of detainees like Karim Bostan, who once ran a flower shop and later was accused of running an al- Qaida-affiliated explosives cell believed to have tar- geted U.S.-led coalition forces in eastern Afghan- istan. He's been at Guan- tanamo for more than 13 years, but has been cleared for transfer to a country willing to accept him. It also, however, tells the story of Muhammad Said Salim Bin Salman, a Ye- meni who traveled to Af- ghanistan to train at an al-Qaida camp. He says he became a cook and never fought because he suffers from back pain. Deemed a medium intelligence risk, he was cleared for release and transferred to Oman in January following 14 years of detention. David Remes, a human rights lawyer who repre- sents several detainees, says dangerous men are not be- ing released "Holding the men at all was a deep injustice and a lasting stain on the U.S. These men shouldn't have been in Guantanamo in the first place," Remes said. "It's one thing to prosecute de- tainees for attacks on the U.S. ... It is quite another thing — and contrary to the values the U.S. says it is committed to — to hold men for many years, who are accused of no crime." The Office of the Direc- tor of National Intelligence reports that 5 percent of Guantanamo prisoners released since President Barack Obama took office have re-engaged in mili- tant activities and another 8 percent are suspected of it. That compares to 21 per- cent confirmed and 14 per- cent suspected during the Bush administration. Opened in January 2002, the prison once held about 770 detainees. Bush trans- ferred more than 500 and, so far, Obama has trans- ferred 162 detainees to other countries. The report given to Ayo- tte covers 107 detainees who were at the prison as of Nov. 25, 2015, the day Obama signed the 2016 defense pol- icy bill, which required the administration to provide more information to Con- gress about the detainees. The population has been whittled to 76 today. Republican lawmak- ers accuse Obama of rush- ing to downgrade detain- ees' threat status to clear them for transfer so he can make good on his campaign pledge to close the prison before he leaves office in January. Myles Caggins III, a spokesman for the Na- tional Security Council at the White House, declined to predict whether Obama will achieve his goal, but said the U.S. continues to work with countries willing to receive the 34 detainees — nearly half the remain- ing prison population — who have been cleared for transfer. The GOP-led Congress has tried to slow or stop detainees from being trans- ferred out and has banned any from being moved to U.S. prisons. The dispute between the White House and Republicans in Con- gress got especially heated this spring when Paul Lewis, the Pentagon's spe- cial envoy for closing Guan- tanamo, told a congressio- nal committee that Amer- icans have been killed by detainees released from Guantanamo. Lewis did not say how many or offer any other details. Amid the debate, Ayo- tte has been working for months to get the Penta- gon to provide Congress more information. UNCLASSIFIED Ne w re po rt w il l fu el d eb at e ov er cl os in g of G ua nt an am o pr is on CHARLESDHARAPAK—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured a er the Sept. 11attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. By Juliet Linderman and Eric Tucker The Associated Press BALTIMORE With star- tling statistics, a federal investigation of the Balti- more Police Department documents in 164 single- spaced pages what black residents have been say- ing for years: They are routinely singled out, roughed up or otherwise mistreated by officers, of- ten for no reason. The 15-month Justice Department probe was prompted by the death of Freddie Gray, the black man whose fatal neck in- jury in the back of a po- lice van touched off the worst riots in Baltimore in decades. To many peo- ple, the blistering report issued Wednesday was fa- miliar reading. Danny Marrow, a re- tired food service worker, said that over the years, he hasbeenstoppedrepeatedly bypolicefornogoodreason. "It started when I was 8 years old and they'd say, with no probable cause, 'Hey, come here. Where are you going?'" he said. "No cause, just the color of my skin." "Bullies in the work- place," he said. "They don't want you to get angry or challenge their authority, so they'll use force, they'll put the handcuffs on too tight. And if you run, they're going to beat you up when they catch you." The Justice Depart- ment looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, including in- ternal affairs files and data on stops, searches and ar- rests. If found that one Afri- can-American man was stopped 30 times in less than four years and never charged. Of 410 people stopped at least 10 times from 2010 to 2015, 95 per- cent were black. During that time, no one of any other race was stopped more than 12 times. With the release of the report, the city agreed to negotiate with the Justice Department a set of police reforms over the next few months to fend off a gov- ernment lawsuit. The re- forms will be enforceable by the courts. Mayor Stephanie Raw- lings-Blake and Police Commissioner Kevin Da- vis acknowledged the longstanding problems and said they had started improvements even before the report was completed. They promised it will serve as a blueprint for sweeping changes. "Fighting crime and having a better, more re- spectful relationship with the community are not mutually exclusive en- deavors. We don't have to choose one or the other. We're choosing both. It's 2016," said Davis, who was appointed after the riots in April 2015. Six officers, three white and three black, were charged in Gray's arrest and death. The case col- lapsed without a single conviction, though it did expose a lack of training within the department. Calvin Void, 45, said Wednesday that he was once tackled by a police officer who was convinced he had just participated in a drug deal. But when the officer checked his pock- ets, he found no cash or drugs. Still, Void was ar- rested. FEDERAL INVESTIGATION Report on Baltimore cops vindicates black residents Smog Check (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. 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