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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A Breaking news at: Vitality New Bite In Your Workout RED BLUFF LosMo Falls SPORTS 1B likely Weather forecast 8B Rain 63/51 By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Tehama County unemploy- ment rates continue to drop according to preliminary Octo- ber numbers released by the Employment Development DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Jobless rate continues to drop steadily Department recently. ties, Tehama County unemploy- ment saw three-tenths of a point drop from September's num- bers, coming in at 12.2 percent versus 12.5 percent unem- ployed for September. Ranking 40th out of 58 coun- Of the neighboring counties, Butte is the lowest at 32nd with 11 percent unemployment fol- lowed by Shasta, 35th, at 11.5 percent and Glenn, 36th, at 11.8 percent. Imperial County has the highest unemployment at 28.1 percent with a 12.3 percent gap between it and Yuba County, which comes in at 57th with 15.8 percent. Sutter County, 14.9 percent, Merced County, 14.7 percent and Tulare County, 14.4 percent round out the top five highest Mercy back on top unemployment rates. be lowest with 5.8 percent fol- lowed by San Mateo, 6.3 per- cent; San Francisco, 6.8 per- cent; Napa, 6.9 percent and Marin County continues to See DROP, page 7A Bar fight suspect caught near station far for a suspect involved in an early Sunday morning bar fight. He was right outside their door. Officers had been dispatched to the Round Up Saloon regarding a bar fight. When they arrived they found a man lying unconscious inside the bar. Witnesses told police several Hispanic men approached the victim and engaged in an argument with him. One of the men picked up a chair and struck the victim, knocking him to the ground. Once the victim was on the ground, more men began kicking him. The Red Bluff Police Department didn't have to look The suspects then fled the bar. Shortly afterwards, officers located Rafael Andres Soto, 23, Corning near the front of the police depart- See FIGHT, page 7A Man charged with attempted murder By JULIE ZEEB Daily News photo by Andre Byik Members of the Mercy Lady Warriors volleyball team embrace Saturday after beating Liberty Christian 3-1 in the Northern Section Division VI championship match at Red Bluff High School. By ANDRE BYIK leyball team is back on top. A year removed from being bust- ed in the Northern Section champi- onship game, Mercy won the last game of its season Saturday in the Division VI section final against Liberty Christian 25-13, 25-27, 25- 20, 25-20 to end a decade-long title drought. DN Sports Editor The Mercy Lady Warriors vol- "It feels so amazing," junior hit- ter Jessica Curl said after posing for a team photo with the section cham- pionship plaque at Red Bluff High School. "I've never been in this position before." A year ago, Mercy fell to Cham- pion Christian in the D-VI section final in five sets, and senior star hit- ter Ella Fleet, who was on that War- riors squad, said making it back to the championship round was on the team's mind all season. "We've had this goal to be here, Saturday, Red Bluff High, and win," said Fleet, who notched 14 kills in Mercy's victory. "Last year we made it and, unfortunately, got second place. But this was definitely a big goal for us." The Lady Warriors, the top seed in the tournament, went into Satur- day's final facing a league rival in Group moves ahead on coast rail plan By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer A study to determine the feasibility of creating a rail route connecting Humboldt Bay with the national rail system and Tehama County is moving full steam ahead. The committee dis- cussed a non-profit orga- nization called the Land- bridge Alliance and its role in accepting private donations dedicated to the feasibility study. The recently formed UpState RailConnect Committee met for the first time last week with representatives from the city of Eureka, Upstate California Economic Development Council and Humboldt, Trinity and Tehama counties. public or private sources. The city of Eureka had received a $25,000 Com- munity Development Block Grant to assist in the cost of the study. The study will examine the feasibility of a centu- ry-old idea to develop an east-west rail line from Humboldt Bay to Gerber. The original idea was scrapped after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in favor of north-south routes to help rebuild the Bay Area. Tehama County has been chosen as the eastern connection point because of its connections with both the national rail sys- tem and Interstate 5 as well as available land to create a multi-modal ter- minal. The committee agreed the process will remain public regardless of whether funds are from benefit through job cre- ation and international routes for produce exports. Tehama County has not pledged any monetary support to the plan at this time. The county hopes to 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See RAIL, page 7A No. 10 Liberty Christian, a team that they had recent successes against. Mercy downed the Patriots 3-1 twice in October, and beat the team 2-1 in early September at a tourna- ment in Hamilton City. But Liberty Christian was peak- ing at the right time. The team upset No. 3 Greenville in straight sets on Thursday after beating No. 2 Princeton on Tuesday. TheWarriors, in its run to the DN Staff Writer feisty, eighth-seeded Dunsmuir team Tuesday, and were forced to See MERCY, page 7A SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California sold out of the first pollution permits issued as part of a landmark offensive against greenhouse gases at an inaugural auction that regulators said Mon- day went smoothly. The effort to curtail carbon emissions involved the sale of 23.1 million permits — each allowing for the release of one ton of carbon — for $10.09 apiece, the Cali- fornia Air Resources Board said. The permit sales last week opened the largest carbon marketplace in the nation and the second- biggest in the world after the European Union. The California air board will hold four such auctions a year. ''By putting a price on carbon, we know we are beginning the process of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels,'' Mary Nichols, board chairman, said during a conference call with reporters. The board would not newly instituted caps on carbon emissions. The board does not comment on bidding activity to pro- tect each polluter's strate- gy regarding use of the carbon market, Nichols said. However, a sampling of companies that are cov- ered include utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric Co., petroleum refiners such as Phillips 66 Co. and even food processing companies such as Saputo Cheese USA Inc. The permits are part of California's so-called ''cap-and-trade'' program — a central piece of the state's 2006 global warm- ing regulations seeking to dramatically reduce emis- sions of heat-trapping gases. final, seemed out of sync at times. They dropped a game against a was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of attempted murder and inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, according to a Corning Police press release. Bail was set at $550,000. According to Corning Police logs, the incident was reported at 2:46 p.m. CORNING — A 52-year- old Corning man was arrested Fri- day for attempted murder fol- lowing a stand-off with police in the 500 block of Stanmar Drive. Kenneth Blane Eden Eden by the victim's daughter, who called to advise that her mother was involved in a domestic dis- pute on Stan- mar Drive. Of f icers head and the 43-year-old Corning woman, who had been reportedly been strangled, had heard two clicks as the man was holding the gun, accord- ing to the press release. Corning Police, with the assistance of two Cal- ifornia Highway Patrol officers, responded to the residence and attempted to make contact with the See MURDER, page 7A California sells out of first pollution permits Businesses are required to either cut emissions to cap levels annually, or buy pollution permits called ''allowances'' from other companies for each extra ton of emissions dis- charged annually. allowances will decline over time in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions year-by-year. The final price for 2013 allowances was just nine cents above the $10 minimum price set by reg- ulators. ''The fact that the prices are clearing a little above the reserve is a good sign that people's fears about out of control costs for cleanup are not justified by the way the The cap and number of market actually worked,'' Nichols said. About 97 percent of the allowances were bought by companies reg- ulated under the program, and another 3 percent were bought by financial traders for later sale. Nearly 40 million per- mits for 2015 — a year when cap-and-trade widens to include more entities — were also sold in the first auction. About 5.5 million of those allowances were auc- tioned for $10 each. Petroleum refiners, received third- hand informa- tion that Eden had held a gun to the victim's manufacturing companies and other industries have been outspoken oppo- nents of the program, call- ing it an illegal tax that See PERMITS, page 7A The Daily News office will be CLOSED Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 22 & Friday, Nov. 23 divulge specific figures on how many permits were bought by individual polluters covered under Retail advertising deadlines EDITION DEADLINE Thur. 11/22: Tues. 11/ 20, 10am Fri. 11/23: Tues. 11/ 20, 3pm Sat. 11/24: Wed. 11/ 21, 10am Tues. 11/27 Wed. 11/21, 3pm DAILYNEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY Classified deadlines: EDITION DEADLINE Thur. 11/22: Wed. 11/ 21, noon Fri. 11/23: Wed. 11/21, noon Sat. 11/24: Wed. 11/ 21, noon Tues. 11/27 SEE BELOW Friday, November 23 for placement of classified ads to start Tuesday, 11/27 dial 1-855-667-2255 527-2151 • FAX 527-3719 545 DIAMOND AVE., RED BLUFF