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    By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    A former San Mateo County TransitDistrict employee who alleges she enduredyears of sexual harassment ranging frombeing in appropriately videotaped to phy si-cally assaulted, is suing the public agencyand it’s current head of human resources sheclaims was responsible.

    Elizabeth Trudell, who resig ned from herposition as a personnel specialist inNovember after nearly 17 years withSamTrans, filed the lawsuit in San MateoCounty Superior Court Tuesday.

    Trudell alleges her boss, Director of Human Resources William Carson, madeinappropriate sexual comments, gesturesand physical advances that became moreegregious as her employment continued.

    According to the lawsuit, Carson claimedhis behavio r was no t unwanted.

    The district oversees Caltrain, the busagency SamTrans and th e San Mateo CountyTransportation Authority. A districtspokesperson said they could not commenton pending litigation and Carson did notreturn a request for comment.

    According to Laura Mazza, an attorneyrepresenting Trudell, the former longtime

    employee is devastated by the loss of hercareer.

    “She relied on h er job to support her fam-ily and planned to continue working withthe district until she ultimately retired, butcould no longer sustain the intolerableworking conditions created by [Carson],who is shockingly the head of the Human

    Former employee sues SamTrans for sexual harassmAllegations against San Mateo County Transit District’s director of human resources

    116-acre site planOK’dBy Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Following years of thoroughplanning and months of extensivedeliberation, officials approvedthe policy guidelines laying thegroundwork for future develop-ment in the 116-acre site near theMillbrae rail station.

    Yet despite the substantialamount of the consideration thathas gone into shaping the docu-ment aiming to regulate construc-tion in the area surrounding thecity’s Bay Area Rapid Transit andCaltrain station, the MillbraeCity Council narrowly passed thestation area plan Tuesday, Feb. 9,by a slender margin of 3-2.

    Councilmembers Wayne Lee andGina Papan dissented, due in partto their concerns the MillbraeStation Area Specific Plan wasbeing ushered through theapproval process too quickly, and

    President asks Congress for$125M to fund the project

    Electrification of Caltrain getting aboostfrom Obama

    Millbrae City Council approves development policy for train station area

    By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    After hearing from numerous members o f the public abo ut the Bay Area’s ho using cri-sis Tuesday night, the Belmont CityCouncil unanimously approved a proposalto redevelop an aging business park into a73-unit mixed-use residential apartmentcomplex.

    Sares Regis Group has paved the way toconstruct one of the largest housing devel-opments t he city has approved in years. Thelocal real estate firm plans to transform thenearly 2-acre site at 490 El Camino Realinto two four-story buildings housing a

    Affordability crisis remains,council negotiates tradeoffs

    By Keith Burbank and Sara GaiserBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

    President Barack Obama has askedCongress for $125 million in the fiscal

    2017 budget for the elec-trification of Caltrain,U.S. Department of

    Transportation officialsannounced Wednesday.U.S. Secretary of

    Transportation AnthonyFoxx said in a statementthat projects likeCaltrain’s electrification“transform communi-

    ties” by “improving mobi lity and access to job s, educatio n and oth er importan t o ppo r-tunities for millions of residents.”

    The money would come through theFederal Transit Administration’s CapitalInvestment Grant Program.

    If Caltrain receives the money, it “willhave a sizeable impact” on the $430 mil-lion still needed to pay for electrification,Caltrain spokeswoman Jayme Ackemannsaid.

    Caltrain will also get $73 million thathad been allocated in previous years, leav-ing a deficit of $232 million, Ackemann

    Belmont approves 73-unit housing project

    Artist’s rendering of the proposed 73-unit apartment complex on El Camino Real in Belmont.

    COURTESY OF REPUBLIC URBAN PROPERTIES

    An artist rendering of the mixed-use project designed by Republic Urban near the Millbrae rail station.Officials approved the Millbrae Station Area Specific Plan, which will make way for development in the116-acre site surrounding the intersection of Millbrae Avenue and El Camino Real.

    DAILY JOURNAL FILE PHOTO

    Electrification is part of a larger Caltrainmodernization plan that will replace the dieselsystem with a more modern electric system.

    Barack Obama

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    See BELMONT , Page 18See CALTRAIN , Page 18

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    Mayor showslove to skateboarders,lifts ban in Love Park

    PHILADELPHIA — Skateboarders inPhiladelphia are feeling the love fromLove Park now that the mayor hastemporarily lifted a ban on skatingthere until i t closes for renovations.

    Democratic Mayo r Jim Kenney madethe anno uncement Wednesday during agroundbreaking ceremony for the parkand welcome center’s $20 million

    facelift.The park i s a skateboarding haven.

    Kenney urges skaters to take advan-tage of it until it closes Feb. 15. Hetells skaters they’re “part of the fab-ric” of Love Park. He says graniteremoved during the overhaul will beused in skate parks across the city.

    Skater Luke Darigan tells ThePhiladelphia Inquirer he’s taking timeoff work to make the most of theopportunity.

    Robert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE”statue will be moved across the streetto City Hall’s Dilworth Plaza duringthe yearlong renovation.

    Female tiger killed by mating

    partner at Sacramento ZooSACRAMENTO — Sacramento Zooofficials say a Sumatran female tigerwas killed by her mating partner afterthe two felines were put in the sameenclosure for breeding.

    The zoo says in a statement themale tiger became aggressive with t he15-year-old Baha minutes after aphysical introduction Wednesdaymorning.

    Officials say staff monitoring theintroduction from outside the enclo-sure used a water hose and fire extin-guishers to separate the animals. Oncethe male tiger was secured, veterinari-ans rushed to help Baha but she hadalready died.

    They say that since arriving at the

    zoo on December 2015, the 12-year-old Mohan had had visual contact withBaha. Staff decided to physicallyintro duce the t igers on Wednesday.

    Baha had been at the SacramentoZoo since 2002 and had successfullybred with three other partners, giv ingbirth to five offspring.

    Indian scientists study chunkthat fell from sky, killed man

    NEW DELHI — Scientists are ana-lyzing a s mall blue object that plum-meted from the sk y and kill ed a man insouthern India, after authorities said itwas a meteorite.

    The object slammed into the groundat an engineering college over the

    weekend, sh attering a water cooler andsending splinters and shards flying.Police say a bus driver standing near-by was hit by t he debris and died whil ebeing taken to a hospital.

    College principal G. Bhaskar said

    he heard a loud thud from his office,where several window panes shatteredwhen th e object hit the ground.

    Local officials and scientists fromthe Indian Institute of Astrophysicson Tuesday examined the 5-foot-wideimpact crater at the college nearVellore city, but said they had yet todetermine whether the o bject was fromouter space or possibl y a passin g air-plane or man-made satellite.

    College officials said window panesof the building shattered with the

    impact of the loud explosi on. Severalbuses parked nearby were also dam-aged and bits of glass from brokenwindows were scattered in th e buses.

    The hard, jagged object is dark blueand small enough to be held in aclosed hand. The scientists used metaldetectors to check the crater for thepresence of metals and dug up the so il.

    “The object th at poli ce have recov-ered from the site would have t o under-go chemical analysis” to confirm itsorigin, said the dean of the institute,Prof. G.C. Anupama. She said thatwhile it was rare for meteors to reachthe ground before burning up in theatmosphere, it happens.

    In February 2013, a meteor blazedacross southern Urals that scientistssaid was the largest recorded strike inmore than a century. More than 1,6 00people were injured by the shockwave and property damage was wide-spread in the Siberian city of Chelyabinsk.

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    3Thursday• Feb. 11, 2016 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCALPolice reports

    Driven madA woman reported that her car wasstolen and later called back to say sheremembered where she parked it onAcacia Drive in Burling ame before 2:18p.m. Monday, Feb. 1.

    By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Citing transparency concerns, a group of frustrated San Bruno residents filed a lawsuitseeking to shed more light on n egotiations

    poten tially leading t oward develop ment of ahotel in a piece of city property.A group calling themselves the San Bruno

    Committee for Economic J ustice filed a law-suit Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the San MateoCounty Superior Court seeking access todocuments detailing t he value assessment of the property near the intersection of Interstate 380 and El Camino Real whichhas been i dentified as th e future home of theCrossing Hotel.

    The lawsuit alleges San Bruno officialshave not sufficiently been forthcomingwith documents which should be availableto the public regarding the management of the property adjacent to Jack’s Restaurantand cites the rights of residents to knowmore about the assessment process underthe Califo rnia Public Records Act.

    The lawsuit marks t he latest round of pub-lic skepticism surrounding the project, asresidents have long been critical of negoti-ations between San Bruno officials and OTO

    Developments, the South Carolina firmselected to build the hotel.

    Laurel Fish, spokeswoman for a laborunion party t o the lawsuit, sai d she is uncer-tain whether the city is offering a sweet-heart deal to OTO Development, butbelieves the public should have the oppor-tunity to find out more information regard-ing the development of city-owned proper-ty.

    “We thin k peop le have to k now how muchtheir property is worth,” said Fish.

    San Bruno Cit y Attorney Marc Zafferanosaid the details o f the assessment , and more,will be available to the public in due time,and that message has been clearly communi-cated to Fis h and her group.

    He called the legal action “a rush to thecourthouse,” and said officials were sur-prised to learn of the lawsuit, consideringthe previous commitment to share thedetails of negotiations eventually.

    “We are not sure why they had to go to

    court to release someth ing we said we wouldgive t hem,” said Zafferano.

    He said officials are reluctant to releasedetails of any ongoing negotiations withOTO Developments, as publicizing sensi-tive documents may weaken the city’s posi-tion.

    Zafferano said he was uncertain of whenthe documents may be made public but,assuming an agreement is ultimatelyreached with OTO Developments, all perti-nent details of negotiations will be madepublic prior to the City Council voting onany deal.

    “We understand their concerns,” saidZafferano. “But we are, and will be, trans-parent before there is any decision made,because th at is what the l aw requires.”

    Allegations of unscrupulous dealingshave marred the history of the plannedhotel, stemming largely from officials con-sidering to offer an estimated $4 millionworth of givebacks to lure OTODevelopments to build the hotel on landwhich was purchased by the city for $1.4

    million in 2012.San Bruno officials have repeatedly said

    President lands in BayArea to attend fundraisers

    President Barack Obama arrivedWednesday evenin g t o t he Bay Area, wherehe will attend Democratic fundraiser eventsbefore his scheduled departure Thursdayafternoon.

    Air Force One touched down at 7: 09 p .m.at Moffett Federal Airfield in MountainView.

    Obama, who i s in the Bay Area for the firsttime this year, spent the night in the SanJose area.

    On Thursday, he will attend a Democratic

    National Committee event at the home of former state Controller Steve Westly andAnita Yu in Atherton and will also attend aDemocratic Senatorial CampaignCommittee event.

    General admissio n tickets for the event inAtherton have sold out. The public can stillpurchase special guest, photo line guest andpremium seating tickets, which run between$1,00 0 and $25,0 00 each.

    His roughly 19-hour visit will endThursday afternoon when he’s estimated to

    leave from Moffett Field for Los Angeles,where he will tape an appearance on “TheEllen DeGeneres Show” and attend DNCevents.

    Obama’s last vi sit to t he Bay Area was inOctober when he att ended a fundraising con-cert at the Warfield Theater in San Franciscofeaturing rapper Kanye West.

    Private hotel negotiations bring lawsuitGroup claims San Bruno officials aren’t transparent, city says suit is unwarranted

    HALF MOON BAYPublic intoxicat ion . A woman was toodrunk to care for herself on the 500 block of California Avenue before 10:28 p.m.Sunday, Feb. 7Vandalism . Someone was seen breaking acar’s window and eeing on the 2300 blockof Oleander Way before 8:45 p.m. Saturday,Feb. 6.Suspended license. A man was cited fordriving with a suspended license on BalboaAvenue before 12:36 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6.Multiple offenses . During a routine traf-c stop, two men were cited for possessingunlawful paraphernalia and having an opencontainer of alcohol on Main Street before12:48 a.m. Saturday, Feb 6.Suspended license. A man was cited fordriving with a suspended license onHighway 1 before 3:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5.

    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCOPetty theft . A man went to a store’s cooler,grabbed a beer, drank it and left after gettingupset the st ore’s clerk would not allow alco-hol sales before the legal time allowed onSan Felipe Avenue before 7:05 a.m.Saturday, Feb. 6.Burglary . A man on a bike jumped over afence and tried to st eal furniture from a b usi-ness o n Westborough Boulevard before 7:24a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 .

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    A woman traveling on Highway 101 in San Mateo was forced to pull over Wednesday when her Porsche suddenly caughtfire around 9:30 a.m. A California Highway Patrol officer said the cause of the fire remains unknown and luckily no one wasinjured when the car became fully engulfed near the Hillsdale Boulevard exit.

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    By Lisa Leff THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    BERKELEY — The University of California at Berkeley is running a$150 million deficit this year andmust undertake a top-to-bottomreview of expenses if it hopes t o sus-tain its n ational standing as a premierpublic institution, the school’s chan-cellor warned Wednesday.

    The university faces difficult deci-sions as it works to preserve its long -term financial footing, ChancellorNicholas Dirks said. Consolidatingacademic departments, evaluating

    spending on athletics, shedding staff

    and admitt ing fewerdoctoral studentsare some of thechanges that willbe considered, hesaid.

    “We are fightingto maintain ourexcellence againstthose who mightequate ‘p ublic’ with

    mediocrity,” Dirks wrote in a letter tothe campus. “What we are engaged inhere is a fundamental defense of theconcept of the public university, aconcept that we must reinvent in o rder

    to preserve.”

    Inadequate state funding and otherfactors have created “a substantial andgrowing structural deficit” at UCBerkeley, Dirks said. To address it,the chancellor said he was init iating arestructuring process aimed at cuttingcosts, increasing revenue and pre-serving the strongest programs.

    A budget review prepared byBerkeley administrators blames thedeficit, which represents 6 percent of the campus’ $2.7 billion operatingbudget, on reduced state funding forinstruction and construction,increased pension costs and fiveyears without in-state tuition i ncreas-

    es.

    Chancellor: Cash-strapped UC Berkeley faces tough decis

    Panel denies parole to Sirhan,assassin of Robert F. Kennedy

    SAN DIEGO — For the 15th time, officials denied parolefor Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,after hearing Wednesday from anot her person who was shotthat n ight and called for Sirhan’s release.

    The decision came after Sirhan answered questio ns from aCalifornia parole panel during a hearing that lasted morethan three hours in a small, windowless conference room.

    Commissioners concluded Sirhan did not show adequateremorse or understand the enormit y of hi s crime.

    Around the state

    Nicholas Dirks

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    02-29-2016

    Hearing date set again for formerfire chief charged with grand theft

    More than a y ear after the former chief of the Central County Fire Department wasarrested for grand theft and tax evasion, asixth preliminary hearing date has beenscheduled for a judge to determine whetherthere’s enough evi dence for his case to pro-ceed to trial .

    Mark Ladas is scheduled to return to courtApril 25 for a lengthy hearing expected tolast a day and a half, said Chief DeputyDistrict Attorney Karen Guidotti .

    In December 2014 , Ladas, 5 1, pleaded notguilty to 10 felony charges in a case prose-cutors say was a “sophisticated” schemebetween the former fire chief and his wifePeta, who remains at l arge. The duo all eged-ly netted thousands of dollars by usingfraudulent credit cards at a fake busines s con-trolled by the wife between January 2011and June 2013.

    The case has dragged on with both thedefense and prosecution requesting contin u-ances of the preliminary hearing s for a vari-

    ety of reasons rangingfrom unavailable wit-nesses to Ladas’ attorneybeing sick.

    Because of t he compl exnature of the case and anextensive amount of evi-dence a judge mustreview, Guidotti said thepreliminary hearing isexpected to last much

    longer than other cases typically requiringabout 30 minutes to an hour. In part,Guidotti attributed the delay to having tofind a judge with a completely clear schedulefor nearly two days and the need to re-sub-poena witnesses to testify.

    His last preliminary hearing was sched-uled for Feb. 2 but bot h sides agreed to po st-pone the meeting.

    Ladas, who reportedly lives inHillsborough, remains out of custody on$80,000 bail.

    Local brief

    Mark Ladas

    By Scott MorrisBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

    A Burlingame man shot by three SouthSan Francisco police officers after analleged bank robbery on Friday morningwas released from t he h ospi tal Wednesday, apolice lieutenant said.

    Ronald Dinges, 56, was expected to bebooked into San Mateo County JailWednesday afternoon on suspicion of armedrobbery, kidnapping, exhibiting a firearmwhile resisting arrest, assault with a deadlyweapon and burglary, said South SanFrancisco pol ice Lt. Keith Wall.

    Police responded to th e robbery at the SanMateo Credit Union at 150 El Camino Realat 10:12 a.m. Friday.

    When they arrived, they saw a man in adark jacket and black mask, later identifiedas Dinges, fleeing to the back of the bank.They chased him there and he pointed ahandgun at the officers, pol ice said.

    The officers ordered him to drop the gun,but when he didn’t, three officers shot him.They were identified as Sgt. Ken Hancock, a20-year veteran of the department, OfficerRobert Reinosa, an 11-year veteran, andOfficer John Bower, a 16-year v eteran.

    Dinges was taken to San Francisco

    General Hospital, where he underwent sur-gery on Friday. He remained there recover-ing until Wednesday, when h e was expectedto be booked into jail, Wall said.

    The San Mateo County District Attorney’sOffice had not yet received Dinges’ case forreview as of Wednesday morning, DeputyDistrict Attorney Karen Guidotti said.

    The three officers were placed on paidadministrative leave while the shooting isbeing investigated by the district attorney’soffice, Wall said.

    Hancock shot a different suspect less t hana year ago. He had responded to reports o f aman sitting with a shotgun near the cornerof Del Monte and Romney avenues themorning of Aug. 30.

    When officers arrived, they ordered theman, identified as 55-year-old MikeGordon, to stay seated but he got up andstarted walking toward the officers, point-ing t he shotg un at Hancock.

    Hancock fired a single shot, hittingGordon in the side. He recovered from hiswounds and invest igato rs found Gordon hadpreviously attempted suicide and was tryi ngto provoke police to kill h im.

    Gordon p leaded no con test to two feloniesin exchange for a referral to mental healthservices.

    Man shot by police duringbank robbery out of hospital

    By Michael Biescker and Sam HananelTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama is vowing to pressahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse gasemissio ns after a divided Supreme Court puthis s ignature plan to address climate changeon hold until after legal challenges areresolved.

    Tuesday’s surprising mo ve by the court isa blow to Obama and a victory for th e coali-tion of 27 mostly Republican-led states andindustry opponents, who call the regula-tion s “an unprecedented power grab.”

    By issuing the temporary freeze, a 5-4majority of the justices signaled that oppo-nents made strong arguments against therules. The high court’s four liberal justicessaid they would have denied the request fordelay.

    The administration’s plan aims to staveoff the worst predicted impacts of climatechange by reducing carbon dioxide emis-sions at existing power plants by aboutone-third by 20 30.

    White House spokesman Josh Earnestsaid the administration’s plan is based on astrong legal and technical foundation, andgives the states time to develop cost-effec-tive plans to reduce emissions. He also saidthe administration will continue to “takeaggressive steps to make forward progress

    to reduce carbon emissions.”A federal appeals court in Washin gton last

    month refused to put the plan on hold. Thatlower court is not likely to issue a ruling onthe legality of the plan until months after ithears oral arguments begin on June 2.

    Any decision will likely be appealed tothe Supreme Court, meaning resolution of the legal fight is not likely to happen untilafter Obama leaves office.

    Compliance with the new rules isn’trequired until 2022, but states must submittheir plans to the Environmental ProtectionAdministration by September or seek anextension.

    Many states opposin g the p lan depend oneconomic activit y tied to such fossi l fuels ascoal, oil and gas. They argued that the planoversteps federal authority to restrict car-bon emissions, and that electricityproviders would have to spend billions of dollars to begin complying with a rule thatmight end up bein g ov erturned.

    Attorney General Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia, whose coal-dependent stateis helping lead the legal fight, hailed thecourt’s decision .

    “We are thrilled that the Supreme Courtrealized the rule’s immediate impact andfroze its implementation, protecting work-ers and saving countless dollars as our fightagainst its legality continues,” Morriseysaid.

    Obama vows to press ahead on Clean Power P

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    A protester stands with his hands on his head as a cloud of tear gas approaches after a grand jury returned no indictmentin the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo, on Nov. 24, 2014. The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday that it hadfiled a civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson to enforce a police and court reform plan after the city said it wanted to amendsome aspects of a consent decree it reached with the federal agency.

    By Jim Salter and Eric TuckerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    FERGUSON, Mo. — The federal gov-ernment sued Ferguson on Wednesday,one day after the City Council voted torevise an agreement aimed at improvi ngthe way police and courts treat poor peo-ple and minorities in the St. Louis sub-urb.

    Attorney General Loretta Lynch saidFerguson’s decision to reject the dealleft the Justice Department no choiceexcept to file a civil-rights l awsuit.

    “The residents o f Ferguson have wait-ed nearly a year for the city to adopt anagreement that would protect theirrights and keep them safe. .. . They havewaited decades for justice. They shouldnot b e forced to wait any longer,” Lynchtold a Washin gton news conference.

    The Justice Department complaintaccuses Ferguson of routinely violatingresidents’ rights and misusing lawenforcement to generate revenue — a

    practice the govern-ment alleged was“ongoing and perva-sive.”

    Ferguson leaders“had a real opportu-nity h ere to step for-ward, and they’vechosen to step back-ward,” Lynch said.

    F e r g u s o nspokesman Jeff

    Small declined to comment. Messagesleft with Mayor James Knowles III werenot returned.

    Ferguson has been under JusticeDepartment scrutiny since 18-year-oldMichael Brown, who was black andunarmed, was fatally shot by white offi-cer Darren Wilson 18 months ago. Agrand jury and the Justice Departmentdeclined to prosecute Wilson, whoresigned in November 2014.

    But a scathing Justice Departmentreport was critical of police and a prof-

    it-driven municipal court system.Following months of negotiations, anagreement between the federal agencyand Ferguson was announced inJanuary.

    A recent financial analy sis determinedthe agreement would cost the strugglingcity nearly $4 million in the first yearalone. The council voted 6-0 Tuesday toadopt the deal, but with seven amend-ments.

    Hours before the lawsuit wasannounced, Ferguson leaders said theywere willing to sit down with JusticeDepartment negotiators to draw up anew agreement.

    That seemed unlikely from the outset.Withi n ho urs of the Tuesday vote, VanitaGupta, head of the Justice Department’sCivil Rights Division, said in a state-ment that the department would take“the necessary legal actions” to ensureFerguson’s police and court practicescomply with the Constitution and feder-al laws.

    Government sues Fergusonafter city tries to revise deal

    Powerful Californiacoastal panel oustsexecutive directorBy Michael R. BloodTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    LOS ANGELE — The p owerful agency that manages devel-opment on California’s coastline fired its executive

    Wednesday after a lengt hy an d, at ti mes,emotionally charged meeting that veeredfrom accusations about the influence of developers and lobbyists to discussionson the mundane inner workings of gov-ernment.

    The California Coastal Commissionvoted 7-5 to dismiss Executive DirectorCharles Lester, who has held the postsince 2011.

    The shake-up raises questions aboutthe direction of an agency o ften caught i n th e clash betweenproperty righ ts and conservation . The panel has broad swayover const ruction and environ mental iss ues in coast al areasthat in clude some of the most co veted real estate in th e U.S.

    The decisio n t o o ust Lester came after hundreds of peo plefilled a meeting roo m in Morro Bay to capacity, with scoresmore outside, in what amounted to a nearly unanimous sho wof support for the embattl ed executive director and the com-mission’s staff. Many waved signs saying “More Lester”and “Save Our Coast,” and supporters chanted outside: “Wewant Lester.”

    Environmental activists suspect some commission mem-bers wanted to push o ut Lester to make way for managementthat would be more favorable to develop ment, while a busi-ness g roup has question ed the tactics of the agency’s st aff.

    Before the vote, several commission members said thattalk o f a “coup” or “conspiracy” to oust Lester was a ground-less narrative pushed in the media by those eager to saveLester’s job.

    Instead, they indicated that the proposal to dismiss himwas rooted in questio ns about Lester’s jo b p erformance andhow he interacted with the commissi on and entities regulat-ed by them. Some complai ned they had been left in the dark

    on important matters, or had difficulty obtaining informa-tion.“It makes for easy drama to paint this as some plot by a

    gang of blood-thirsty developers who see only one man intheir way of total destruction of the coast,” saidCommissi oner Mark Vargas.

    The commission heard from dozens of witnesses, includ-ing members of its staff, all supporting Lester’s work.

    Excise tax on medicalmarijuana sales proposed in California

    SACRAMENTO — A state senator from NorthernCalifornia has i ntroduced a bill th at would impose a 15 per-cent tax on retail sales of medical marijuana.

    Sen. Mike McGuire estimated that the excise tax he pro-

    posed Wednesday would bring the state over $100 millionannually.The Healdsburg Democrat’s SB98 7 directs 3 0 p ercent of

    the revenues collected to the n ew state agency charged withenforcing the new medical marijuana licensing regulationsthe Legislature approved last y ear.

    The Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation would becharged with distributing the funds as grants to help localgovernments with the costs of enforcing the regulations.

    Loretta Lynch

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    COLUMBIA, S.C. — Hoping forsurvival in the South, a muddledfield of Republican presidentialcontenders descended Wednesdayon South Carolina, no closer toclarity about who can standbetween Donald Trump and theirparty’s nomination.

    Not me, Carly Fiorinaannounced, dropping out of thecampaign. A Chris Christie s pokes-woman said his race was over, too.But a sizeable field remained.

    To the dismay of party leaders,all signs point to a drawn-out bat-tle for delegates follo wing Trump’sresounding victory in NewHampshire. Florida Sen. MarcoRubio, under immense pressure toprove himself after a devastatingfifth-place finish, was looking fora fight that could last for months or

    even spill into the first contested

    GOP nationalc o n v e n t i o nsince 1976.

    “We very eas-ily could be

    looking at May— or the con-v e n t i o n , ”Rubio cam-paign managerTerry Sullivan

    told the Associated Press.If Trump had Republicans on

    edge, Democrats were feeling noless queasy.

    Rejected in New Hampshire,Hillary Clinton s ought redemptionin Nevada, where a more diversegroup of voters awaited her andBernie Sanders.

    Sanders, a Vermont senator andself-proclaimed democratic social-ist, raised $5 million-plus in lessthan a day after his New Hampshi re

    triumph. The contributions came

    mostly ins m a l l - d o l l a ramounts, hiscampaign said,illustrating the

    resources he’llhave to fightClinton to abitter end.

    Both Clintonand Sanders —

    the first Jew to win a presidentialprimary — worked to undercut eachother among African-Americansand Hispanics with less than twoweeks until the Democratic con-tests i n Nevada and South Carolina.

    Sanders met for breakfast inHarlem with the Rev. Al Sharpton,a civil rights activist. Clinton,meanwhile, announced plans tocampaign with the mother of Sandra Bland, whos e death whil e inpolice custody became a symbol of

    racial tensions. And Clinton’s

    c a m p a i g ndeployed SouthCarolina stateRep. ToddRutherford to

    vouch for hersupport forminorities.

    “ S e c r e t a r yClinton hasbeen involved

    in South Carolina for the last 40years,” Rutherford said. “BernieSanders has talked about theseissues for the last 40 days.”

    Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the conser-vative firebrand and victor in theleadoff Iowa caucuses, returned tothe center o f the fracas after largelysitting out New Hampshire. Hedrew contrasts with Trump as hetold a crowd of 500 in MyrtleBeach that Texans and SouthCarolinians are more alike than

    not.

    Jumbled GOP field hopes for survival in S.C.REUTERS

    Carly Fiorina, left, and Chris Christie have dropped out of the 2016 White House race.

    Donald Trump Marco Rubio Ted Cruz

    Two deputies, suspectdead in shopping area gunfire

    ABINGDON, Md. — A gunmanfatally shot a sheriff’s deputyinside a crowded restaurant atlunchtime Wednesday and killedanother deputy in a shootout near-by, authorities and witnesses said.

    The suspect was killed in the

    shootout not far from the shop-ping center where the restaurantwas situated, Harford CountySheriff Jeffrey Gahler said.Remarkably, no bystanders werehurt.

    Police haven’t released a motivefor the shooting, but the sheriff said he believed the first deputywho approached the gunman wasshot because he was wearing a uni-form.

    The shooter, 67-year-old DavidBrian Evans, had warrants out forhis arrest in Harford County andOrange County, Florida, where hewas accused of assaulting a policeofficer.

    Burger King’s nextconquest: Hot Dog King

    NEW YORK — Burger King islook ing fo r a new crown: Hot DogKing.

    The Miami-based chain says itplans to put hot dogs on its menunationally for the first time start-ing Feb. 2 3. It may seem like a jar-ring addition for those who knowthe chain for its Whoppers. ButBurger King says its ability toflame-grill meat makes hot dogs anatural fit on it s menu.

    “This is probably the mostobvi ous product launch ever,” saidAlex Macedo, president of BurgerKing North America.

    Around the nation

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    By Youkyung LeeTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SEOUL, South Korea — SouthKorea said Wednesday that it willshut down a joint industrial parkwith North Korea in response toits recent rocket launch, accusingthe North of using hard currencyfrom the park to develop itsnuclear and missile programs.

    The decision to end operationsat the industrial complex in theNorth Korean border city of Kaesong, the last major coopera-tion project between the rivalcountries, comes after North Koreaon Sunday launched a long-rangerocket considered by o ther nation sto be a banned missile technologytest.

    By closing the complex, SouthKorean President Park Geun-hyehas done something her conserva-tive predecessor resisted, evenafter two att acks blamed on NorthKorea killed 50 South Koreans in2010. It is among the strongestpunitive measures availabl e to her.

    South Korean UnificationMinister Hong Yong-pyo said at anews conference that the suspen-sion of operations at the parkwould stop the North from usingcurrency earned there to developnuclear and missile techno logy.

    The park, which started produc-ing goods in 2004, has provided616 billion won ($560 million) of cash to impoverish ed North Korea,

    Hong said.“It appears that such funds havenot been used to pave the way topeace as the int ernational commu-nity had hoped, but rather toupgrade its nuclear weapons andlong-range missiles,” he said atthe televised briefing.

    The Unification Ministry, whichis responsible for relations withNorth Korea, said in a statementthat the government had “decidedto completely shut down” thepark. It notified North Koreanauthorities of the decision andasked them to help ens ure the safereturn of South Korean citizens

    from Kaesong .There was no immediate reaction

    to t he move from North Korea.The United States supported the

    move by its close ally, and said itwas considering its own, unspeci-fied “unilateral measures” to pun-

    ish Pyongyang for its recentnuclear test and rocket launch,even as the U.N. Security Councildeliberates imposing more multi-lateral sanctions.

    South Korea’s government willprovide financial compensation to

    companies that operate at thepark, the Finance Ministry said.

    South Korean businesses withfactories at th e park reacted with amixture of disappointment andanger. In a statement, the associa-tion of South Korean companies in

    Kaesong denounced the govern-ment’s decision as “entirelyincomprehensib le and unjust.”

    Lee Eun Haeng, chairman of Ilsung Leports, which producesfashion goods at the park, said thecompanies had become “victims”of a political situation.

    “For the companies and for theirsuppliers to survive, the govern-ment should give enough compen-sation ,” Lee said by phon e. “Thereare hundreds of thousands of SouthKorean workers and families whorely on the Kaesong park for theirliving. They have become joblessovernight.”

    Nonetheless, he said, he had nochoice but to accept the govern-ment’s measures because they werefor the sake of “nation al security.”

    Combining South Korean initia-tive, capital and technology withthe North’s cheap labor, t he indus-trial park has been seen as a testcase for reunification between theKoreas. Last year, 124 SouthKorean companies hired 54,000North Korean workers to producesocks, wristwatches and othergoods worth around $500 million.

    In addition to the business bene-fits, the park also allowed peoplefrom both Koreas to interact witheach other and glimpse into liveson the other side of the border.Some South Korean snacks havebecome popular among NorthKorean workers.

    South Korea’s government and

    companies invested more than 1trillion won ($852 million) topave roads and erect buildings inthe park zone, which lies in aguarded, gated complex on the out-skirts of Kaesong, North Korea’sthird-largest city.

    South Korean companies inKaesong survived during past p eri-ods of tensions that led to the sus-pension of other inter-Koreanprojects. A major interruption tothe park’s operation came in 2013 ,when North Korea pulled out itsworkers for about five months inprotest o f South Korea’s joi nt mil-itary drills with the United States.

    South Korea to shut down jointindustrial park with North Korea

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    A South Korean soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge which leads to theinter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea.

    By Richard LardnerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — Seeking toderail North Korea’s drive fornuclear weapons, Republican andDemocratic senators set asidetheir partisan differences

    Wednesday to unanimously passlegislation aimed at starvingPyongyang of the money it needsto build an atomic arsenal.

    The Senate approved the sanc-tions bill 96-0 after lawmakersrepeatedly denounced Pyongy angfor flouting international law bypursuing nuclear weapons.

    Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.,said for too lo ng North Korea hasbeen dismissed as a strange coun-try run by i rrational l eaders. “It’stime to t ake North Korea serious-ly,” Menendez said.

    The Senate bill, authored byMenendez and Sen. Co ry Gardner,R-Colo., targets North Korea’sability to finance the develop-ment of miniaturized nuclear war-heads and the long-range mis-siles required to deliver th em. Thelegislation also authorizes $50million over the next five yearsto transmit radio broadcasts intoNorth Korea, purchase communi-cations equipment and support

    humanitarian assistance pro-grams.

    The legislation comes in thewake of Pyongyang’s recentsatellite launch and technicaladvances that U.S. intelligenceagencies s aid the reclusive Asiannation is making in its nuclearweapons program.

    Gardner said the Obama admin-istration’s policy of “strategicpatience” with North Korea hasfailed. “The situation in theKorea peninsula is at its mostunstable point since thearmistice,” said Gardner, refer-ring to the 1953 agreement toend th e Korean War.

    Senate passes bill to hit North Korea with harsh sanctions

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    By Ismail Alfa THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Two female sui-cide bombers bl ew themselves up in a no rth-eastern Nigerian refugee camp, killing atleast 58 people, health and rescue officialssaid Wednesday.

    A third woman bomber was arrested andgave officials information about otherplanned bombings that helped themincrease security at the camp, said an offi-cial of the Borno State EmergencyManagement Agency.

    Some 78 people are being treated forwounds from the twin explosions thatoccurred Tuesday morni ng i n a camp of some50,000 people driven from their homes bythe Bok o Haram Islamic uprising, accordingto health workers in Maiduguri, the biggestcity in northeastern Nigeria and birthplaceof Boko Haram. They spoke on conditi on of anonymity as did rescue officials who said

    they were not authorized to speak toreporters.

    The emergency management official said51 bodies were buried Wednesday in Dikwa,the scene of the carnage 85 kilometers (53miles) north east of Maiduguri. Health work-ers said five bodies were brought t o th e mainhospital in Maiduguri. PR Nigeria, anagency that disseminates official news,Wednesday night quoted health and rescueofficials putting the number of dead at 58.The officials said poor cellphone servicedelayed news of th e attack.

    Boko Haram’s 6-year-old Islamic insur-gency has killed 20,000 people, made 2.5million homeless and spread acrossNigeria’s borders.

    In northern Cameroon, officials said twosuicide bombers believed to have come fromNigeria on Wednesday killed 10 people andinjured 40 attending a wake in a border vil-lage, including children. Attacks in Chadand Niger also are blamed on Bo ko Haram.

    Two bombers kill 58 inNigerian refugee camp

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    Victims of an attack by Boko Haram rest in damaged houses in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria.

    By Matthew Lee and Bradley KlapperTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — As it s s truggles to craft acease-fire in Syria’s civil war, the Obamaadministration h as become increasingly tornbetween its loy alty to Turkey as a NATO allyand to its longtime Arab partner, SaudiArabia, and the cold pragmatism of Russia.The result has been a confusing mix of sh ift-ing priorities that have exposed a policytoward Syria that few understand, and evenfewer see working.

    As Secretary of State John Kerry heads toMunich on Wednesday in search of compro-mises t hat could yield a truce and revive p eacetalks that were suspended before they reallystarted, the administration is being pressedby all s ides to clarify its strategy.

    “We will approach this meeting in Munichwith great hopes that this will be a tellingmoment,” said Kerry, whose peace push willcoincide with Defense Secretary Ash Cartergathering in Brussels with NATO partners tohash out military options.

    Meanwhile, the offensive continues onSyria’s bi ggest city, Aleppo, a rebel territoryunder bombardment by the Russian-backedSyrian military, complicating the already dif-

    ficult task of convincingPresident Bashar Assad’sgovernment to negotiatehonestly with the oppo-sition.

    Brett McGurk, theObama administration’spoint-man for defeatingthe Islamic State, saidRussia’s Aleppo offen-sive was having the per-verse effect of helping

    the extremists by drawing local fightersaway from the bat tle again st IS and to the waragainst Syria’s government.

    “What Russia’s doing is directly enablingISIL,” McGurk told the House Foreign AffairsCommittee.

    The panel’s top Democrat echoed some of the frustration of hi s Republican colleagueswith the l arger U.S. strategy.

    “It seems as if we’re only halfheartedlygoing after ISIS, and halfheartedly helpingthe (rebel) Free Syria Army and others on theground,” said Rep. Eliot Engel , D-N.Y. He

    urged a “robust campaign, not a tentativeone, not o ne that s eems lik e we’re draggingourselves in .. . to destroy ISIS and get rid of Assad.”

    U.S. struggles to craftcease-fire in Syria war

    By Sylvie CorbetTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    PARIS — French lawmakers haveapproved a divisive bill aimed at making itpossible to revoke the citizenship of peo-ple convicted on terrorism charges.

    The bill, presented by Socialist Prime

    minist er Manuel Valls i n th e wake of th eParis attacks last year, passed by 317-199Wednesday in parliament’s lower house, theNational Assembly.

    The measure revealed deep divisionamong the ruling Socialists. Many on theleft expressed indignation at the move andrefused to vote for it. Justice ministerChristian Taubira resigned last month in

    protest. The measure also divides the oppo-sition conservatives.

    Valls justi fied the need for the bi ll by theterrorist threat. “Because we are at war, wemust unite,” he told journalists after thevote. “This is a great day for the Republic,for unity, for France and for the figh t agains tterrorism.”

    The reform, which would alter theConstitution, is sti ll far from being defini-tively adopted. It also needs to be voted onby the Senate and ultimately would require athree-fifths majority vote from lawmakersof both ho uses.

    The government says the measure wouldconcern a very small number of people butis of high symbolic value.

    French lawmakers approvedivisive bill on citizenship

    John Kerry

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    Dow 15,914.74 -99.64 10-Yr Bond 1.71 -0.02Nasdaq 4,283.59 +14.83 Oil (per barrel) 27.30S&P 500 1,851.86 -0.35 Gold 1,197.80

    Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on theNew York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:NYSE Time Warner Inc., down $3.14 to $60.07Revenue for the owner of Warner Bros.studios and HBO and TBS networkscame up far short of expectations.Walt Disney Co., down $3.47 to $88.85Disney’s fourth-quarter television prot slumped as ESPN struggles withsubscriber losses and higher costs for broadcast rights.DTE Energy Co., down $1.06 to $85.79 The Detroit-based utility slumped after its fourth-quarter revenuedisappointed investors.Martin Marietta Materials Inc., up $2.50 to $131.38 The building materials company continued to climb after it gave anupbeat view of the construction industry in 2016.Sealed Air Corp., up $3.20 to $43.63 The packaging company posted a larger-than-expected fourth-quarterprot.Assurant Inc., down $10.26 to $66.23 The insurer’s fourth-quarter prot fell short of analyst estimates.NasdaqAkamai Technologies Inc., $8.39 to $47.96 The cloud services company’s fourth-quarter prot and revenuesurpassed analyst projections.Henry Schein Inc., up $9.13 to $156.75 The health care products maker rose after it reported strong fourth-quarter results.

    Big movers

    By Alex Veiga THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    The Federal Reserve’s latest signalson interest rates gave U.S. stocks alift for much of Wednesday, but therally didn’t last.

    A sell-off in the final minutes of trading knocked the Dow Jones indus-trial average and the Standard &Poor’s 500 index slightly into thered. The slide extended a three-daylosing streak for the two indexes.Only the Nasdaq cored deputies tointimidate an FBI agent and “doeverything but put handcuffs on her.”Baca later lied to federal prosecutorsand the FBI that he wasn’t privy todiscussion s about trying to derail th einvestigation.

    Baca was scheduled to plead guiltylater in the day to a single count of lying to federal investigators. Hecould face up to six mon ths i n prisonunder the deal. He would be allowed towithdraw his guilty plea if the judgedecided he deserves a l ong er sentence.In th at case pros ecutors would proceedto obtain an indictment.

    “This i s no t a day of celebration forus,” U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker saidduring a news conference. “It is a sadday when a leader of a law enforcementagency fails to honor his oath and

    instead of upholding justice choosesto obst ruct it.”

    Baca, who ran the department formore than 15 years and traveled theworld to sp eak about policing tactics,had said he was out of t ouch with whatwas going on and he denied knowing

    about efforts to stifle the probe byhiding an inmate who was an FBIinformant.

    Baca avoided charges for years asprosecutors moved up the ranks toindict a number of officers and, even-tually, his second-in-command.

    In May, when former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka and another high-rankingmember of the department werecharged with obstructing justice,prosecutors declined to comment onwhether Baca was under investi gatio n.

    Tanaka is facing trial, but his co-defendant, former Capt. Tom Carey,pleaded guilty and agreed to testify inrelated court proceedings. It’s notclear if that included providing grand

    jury tes timony against Baca.In January 2014, Baca sidestepped

    questions about whether he was wor-ried he might b e indicted but acknowl-edged that more of his employees mayface charges.

    “I’m not afraid of reality. I’m onlyafraid of people who don’t tell thetruth,” Baca said at the time.

    Seventeen members of the depart-ment have been convicted of federalcrimes, including beating inmates,obstructing justice, bribery and con-spiracy. The convictions stem from agrand jury investigatio n that b egan in2010 into allegations of abuse and

    corruption at the downtown Men’sCentral Jail.Deputies tried to hide an FBI jail

    informant from his handlers for weeksin 2011 by shifting him from cell tocell at various jails under differentnames and altering jail computerrecords. The FBI wanted the in formantto testify to a grand jury.

    After Baca learned of the investiga-tion, he met with Tanaka, Carey and alieutenant in September 2011 and toldthem to approach Special Agent LeahMarx, one of the inmate’s handlers,according to court documents. Thenext day officers, threatened to arrestMarx for intervening in their jurisdic-tion.

    David Bowdich, the FBI’s LosAngeles chief, said Baca had continu-ously denied playing a role in t he cor-ruption even as his rank-and-filedeputies faced prison time.

    “He had the opportunity to lead,”Bowdich said. “He did not lead ...There’s no excuse for the decisionsthat were made.”

    Early rally in stocks mostly gone by clo

    By Martin CrutsingerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve ChairJanet Yellen cautioned Wednesday thatglobal weakness and falling financial mar-kets could depress the U.S. economy’sgrowth and slow the pace of Fed interest ratehikes.

    But Yellen made clear that the Fed won’tlikely find it necessary to cut rates afterhaving raised them from record lows inDecember. She did concede, though, thatnegative rates, which central banks inJapan and Europe have recently imposed,are a tool the Fed has at least studied.

    In her semiannual report to Congress,Yellen offered no major surprises. And she

    reiterated the Fed’s confi-dence that th e U.S. econ-omy was on track forstronger growth and anincrease in too-lowinflation. At the sametime, she noted theweaker economic figuresthat have emerged since2016 began and madeclear the Fed is nervous

    about the risk s from abroad.Her concerns about the perils to U.S.

    growth contrasted with the Fed’s statementeight weeks ago, when it raised interestrates for the first time in nearly a decade anddescribed economic risks as “balanced.”

    In her testimony to the House Financial

    Services Committee, Yellen als o:• Expressed sympathy with committee

    members who raised concerns abo ut chroni-cally higher-than-average unemploymentamong black Americans. Members of anactivis t group, the Fed Up coalition, attend-ed the hearing wearing T-shirts emblazonedwith the messages “What Recovery?” and“Let Our Wages Grow.” The group has beenurging the Fed to delay further rate hikesuntil the job market improves further, espe-cially for minority groups.

    • Sounded her concern about China’sweaker currency and economic outlook,which are rattli ng markets. She also warnedthat risin g borrowing rates and a strong dol-lar could slow U.S. growth and hiring, areflection of the int ensified turmoil th at has

    gripped markets. Still, she said robust hir-ing at th e end of 2015 and signs of strongerpay growth could offset those drags.

    • Said the Fed still expects to raise ratesgradually but is not on any preset course.The central bank will likely s low its pace of rate increases “if the economy were to dis-appoint,” s he said.

    • Cautioned that the sharp declines instock prices, rising rates for riskier borrow-ers and further strengt h in the dollar had cre-ated conditions that pose risks to growth.“These development s, if they prov e persist-ent, could weigh on the outlook for eco-nomic activity and the labor market,although declines in longer-term interestrates and oil prices could provide some off-set,” she said.

    Yellen: Persistent economic weakness could slow rate h

    Janet Yellen

    Twitter tweaks itstimeline in pursuit of more users

    SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is tweaking the way thattweets appear in its users’ timelines in its latest attemptto broaden the appeal of its messaging s ervice.

    The change announced Wednesday moves Twitter closerto a formula that Facebook uses to determine the order of post s appearing in its users’ news feeds.

    It’s a risky mov e for Twitter because it threatens to infu-riate many of its 320 million users who like things theway they are. But the company can’t afford to stand patwith its user growth slowing dramatically and its stockprice plummeting by more than 50 percent since co-founder Jack Dorsey returned as CEO last summer.

    Investors i nitiall y applauded Twitter for shakin g thin gsup: Its stock gained 58 cents, or 4 percent, to close at$14. 98. But it th en shed 13 cents in extended trading afterthe company released a fourth-quarter report that showedits service didn’t add any users during the final threemonths of last year.

    Jack Daniel’s Distilleryannounces $140 million expansionNASHVILLE, Tenn. — The historic Jack Daniel’s

    Distillery is planning a $140 million expansion projectto help meet global demand for prized TennesseeWhiskey.

    The investment announced by Gov. Bill Haslam onWednesday will be used to construct two new barrelhous-es, expand the bottling facility and support the increas-ing number of visitors to the facility. Officials say morethan 275,000 tourists from around the world visited thedistillery in Lynchburg last year.

    The Louisvi lle, Kentucky-based Brown-Forman compa-ny owns the distillery. Company officials say the expan-sion will create 30 n ew jobs in Moore County.

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    DETROIT — Computers that controlcars of the future can be considereddrivers just like humans, the federalgovernment’s highway safety agencyhas found.

    The redefinition of “driver” by theNational Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration is an important breakfor Google, taking it a step closer toits goal of self-driving cars withoutsteering wheels, pedals or human driv-ers.

    But the company still has a long journey ahead before it s cars get onthe road in great numbers. While thesafety agency agreed with Google’s

    “driver” reinterpretation in a recentletter, it didn’t allow other conces-sions and said numerous federal ruleswould have to be changed to permitthe cars.

    “NHTSA will interpret ‘driver’ in thecontext of Google’s described motorvehicle design as referring to the SDS(self-driving system) and not to any of the vehicle occupants,” PaulHemmersbaugh, NHTSA’s chief coun-sel, wrote in the letter.

    But the agency rejected many of Google’s claims that its cars met feder-al auto safety standards, including arequirement for foot and hand brakes.Google said the requirement wasn’tnecessary because the electroni c driver

    can stop the cars. Yet the governmentsaid regulations are clear and wouldhave to be changed to allow that.

    “In a number of instances, it may bepossible for Google to show that cer-tain (federal) standards are unnecessaryfor a particular vehicle design,”Hemmersbaugh wrote. “To date, how-ever, Google has not made such ashowing.”

    Google, a subsidiary of AlphabetInc., has suggested the cars could beready for the public in a few years.After several years of caution, lastmonth federal regulators said theywanted to help speed the technology’swidespread adoption if it proves to besafe.

    Gov’s will consider Google computer to be car’s driver

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    DETROIT — Tesla Moto rs post edits 11th straight quarterly lossWednesday, and its results badlymissed Wall Street’s forecasts. But theelectric car maker’s sh ares soared any-way on news that its lower-pricedModel 3 sedan is on schedule to bereleased next y ear.

    Palo Alto-based Tesla said it willunveil the much-anticipated $35,000car on March 31 and expects to startproduction at the end of 201 7.

    CEO Elon Musk said he’s not wor-ried about competition from the all-

    electric Chevrolet Bolt, which willhave a similar price tag and range andwill go on sale at one year before theModel 3. He not ed that Model S sedansales rose in 20 15 even as l uxury com-petit ors like the Audi A7 and Lexus LSfell. “Tesla is approximately doublingits cumulativ e sales every year. I thin kthat’s pretty exciting and unusual,”Musk said on a conference call withanalysts and media.

    Tesla’s shares had fallen in recentdays as investors worried that theModel 3 would be delayed. Investorsalso weren’t happy with the slowramp-up of Tesla’s new Model X SUV.

    The company delivered only 206SUVs in the fourth quarter and it cur-tailed production last month to workout some quality issues.

    But Tesla said Wednesday it’s accel-erating Model X production andexpects to make 1,000 SUVs per weekby the s econd quarter.

    Tesla shares rose 9 percent in after-hours trading to $157. They are down40 percent this year through th e closeof regular-sessio n trading Wednesday.

    Tesla lost $889 million, or $6.93per share, for the full year. That com-pared to a loss of $294 million, or$2.36 per share, in 2014.

    Tesla’s 4Q net loss doubles but shares up on outlook

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    By Bob BaumTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    PHOENIX — Stephen Curry nearly had atriple-double before sitting out the fourthquarter, and the Golden State Warriors stormedinto the All-Star break on an 11-game win-ning streak with a 112-104 victory over thefree-falling Phoenix Suns on Wednesdaynight.

    Curry had 26 po ints , ni ne rebounds and nine

    assists for the defendingNBA champions . At 48-4,the Warriors have th e bestrecord through 52 gamesin NBA history, one winbetter than the 1995-96Chicago Bulls and 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers.Those Bulls finished theseason with a league-record 72 wins.

    Klay Thompso n added 24 po ints for GoldenState.

    Archie Goodwin scored 20 and Markieff Morris 19 for the Suns, who have lost ninestraight and 24 of 26. Rookie guard DevinBooker added 15 points and a career-best 10assists.

    Golden State was up by as many as 22

    poin ts in the second and third quarters, but theSuns cut it to 11 late in the thi rd and 10 a cou-ple of times in the fourth. The only timePhoenix got within single digits in the sec-ond half was on Goodwin’s breakaway dunk

    just before the final buzzer.Phoenix stayed with the Warriors shot for

    shot for a little while and was down only 29-28 after one quarter.

    Warriors enter break riding 11-game streak

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    Carlmont’s Maxim Storozhenko, right, makes a run down the sideline during the Scots’ 3-2 win overHillsdale. Storozhenko scored Carlmont’s first goal.

    By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    After a week that saw theCarlmont boy s’ soccer team lose todivision-leading Aragon and tielast-place Half Moon Bay, Scotscoach Will Stambaugh usedMonday and Tuesday of this weekto work on his team’s shooti ng.

    It appeared the extra work paidoff as the Scots scored three qualitygoals to hold off visiting Hillsdale3-2 and stay in the race for thePeninsula Athletic League’s BayDivision title.

    “[Tuesday] was a striker’s clin-ic,” Stambaugh said. “Since ourdraw against Half Moon Bay (lastFriday) … our focus has been onthe final t hird (of the field).”

    That would be in the attack zoneand while th e Scots sti ll had a num-ber of close misses, they did man-age to put nine of their 15 shots onframe.

    “I want them to p ull the trigg er,”Stambaugh said. “These are varsityplayers. … They should have thetechnical ability … to put the ballon frame. We’ve been working onthat.”

    Early on, it appeared it might beone of those games for Carlmont(6-4-1 PAL Bay, 10-4-2 overall).The Scots were dominating theattack, but could not solveHillsdale goalkeeper ArturoGonzalez.

    The Hills dale defense, to its cred-it, was holding firm outside itsown penalty box, forcing theScots to take shots from distance.

    The way Carlmont was dominat-ing the possession, flow andattack, it seemed inevitable the

    Extra work pays off

    See WARRIORS , Page 14

    Growing up, my younger brotherand I would play on the samesoccer team every other year. I

    don’t kno w if that was just a league ruleto have sibling s play on the same teamwhenever possible or if my parentsarranged it or what.

    When we did play on t he same team, italways raised our level of p lay b etweeneach other because we were so in tunewith how the oth er played.

    Talia Missan and Sarah McLeod are nei-ther sisters, nor are they related — bybloo d anyway. What the two senior co-captains for the Menlo-Atherton girls’soccer team have is b ond on the field usu-ally only reserved for kin. But when youhave play ed with the same teammate lit-

    erally your entirelife, you tend toknow what the otheris going to do on thefield.

    Missan andMcLeod first met onthe soccer pitch— as kin dergartners.Since then, theyhave been insepara-ble. The two haveplayed on the sameteam every yearsince then. All

    through grammar school, elementary,middle school and now high school. Thetwo have been joined at the hip.

    “I’m a forward. She’s a midfielder. Thereis a lot of passing between us,” Missansaid. “She already knows what kin d of runs I’m goi ng t o make. We can just readeach other’s bo dy language. We do havethat connection that’s hard to have withother players.”

    After playing in AYSO leagues theirfirst two years, both Missan and McLeodwere tagged as part of a core group o f players that formed a CYSO club teamwhile in s econd- or third-grade. Sin cethen, they have followed each otherwherever the other has gone.

    “My impression is, they both had adrive to pursue (soccer at a high lev el),”said Andy Missan, Talia’s father. “They

    Soccer sisters

    See LOUNGE , Page 14

    By Caleb JonesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    HALEIWA, Hawaii — Legendary surferEddie Aikau would have gone out. ButWednesday’s surf in Hawaii didn’t stack upto his namesake competition’s big-wavestandards, and the event was called off ho ursbefore it was supposed to happen.

    “Eddie would go” is the mantra of the

    Quiksilver surfing competition in memoryof Aikau, a Native Hawaiian surfer famousfor riding monster waves and saving hun-dreds of lives as Waimea Bay’s first official

    lifeguard.The event was last held in 2009, when

    waves built to competition size for longenough for the surfers to run their heats.

    Conditions Wednesday on the NorthShore of Oahu had been forecast to meet thecompetition’s strict requirements for 40-foot-high swells that last for hours. But th etowering breakers were a no-show, and asthe sun came up over throngs of spectatorsand dozens of elite surfers, ‘The Eddie’ wascalled off.

    The narrow road that s nakes along Oahu’s

    ‘The Eddie’ didn’t go off after all

    See EDDIE , Page 15

    See SCOTS , Page 13

    PAGE 12

    Thursday • Feb. 11 2016

    The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau was called off after sufficient waves failed to materialize“The towering breakers were a no-show, and

    as the sun came up over throngs of spectatorsand dozens of elite surfers, ‘The Eddie’ was called off.”

    Carlmont scores three times after focusing on shooting

    Warriors 112, Suns 104

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    SPORTS12 Thursday• Feb. 11, 2016 THE DAILY JOURNAL

    Boys’ basketballJefferson 75 Terra Nova 72

    The Grizzlies wrapped up the No. 2 seed in the Penin sulaAthletic League North Divis ion for the upcoming PAL tour-nament after beating th e Tigers.

    Jefferson (9-2 PAL North, 17-6 overall) got 27 pointsfrom Damari Cual-Davis, who was one of th ree Grizzlies toscore in double figures. Rodney Lawrence added 16 andDavid Benjamin h ad 14 for Jefferson .

    Terra Nova (5-6, 11-11) was led by Jared Milch, whoscored a game-high 28 points. Austyn Paminiano added 16in the loss.

    Boys’ soccerCrystal Springs 3 Harker 1

    The fifth-place Gryphons knocked off the fourth-placeEagles and moved to the .500 mark in West Bay AthleticLeague play in th e process.

    Alex Berman scored twice for Crystal Springs (4-4-2WBAL) and Brandon Chu netted the third.

    Sacred Heart Prep 7 Priory 0Trevor Peay and Will Mummery each scored twice to lead

    the Gators to t he lop sided win over the Panth ers in a WBALmatchup.

    SHP (5-4-1 WBAL, 8-7-3 overall) scored three times inthe first half, from three different players: Peay, Daniel

    Sanchez and Nikhi l Goel. Peay added his secon d goal in thesecond half, with Mummery rounding out the scoring bynetting the Gators’ final two goals. Sandwiched betweenPeay and Mummery was a strike from Conn or Joh nsto n.

    San Mateo 2 Westmoor 1Aaron Baca had a goal and an assist to help lead the

    Bearcats to a PAL Ocean Divisio n vi ctory o ver the Rams.Baca set up the first goal for San Mateo (6-4-2 PAL Ocean,

    8-6-4 overall), which was scored by Alejandro Alvarez.Baca then supplied the game winner with a go al scored on ashot from near midfield.

    Girls’ basketballCrystal Springs 48 Shasta-Daly City 25

    The Gryphons beat Shasta in a non-league game, clinch-ing a sp ot in the Central Coast Section tournament in theprocess.

    Despite being winless in WBAL play, t he Gryphons need-ed a .500 or better non-league record to grab a postseasonberth.

    Mission accomplished.Sharleen Garcia led the Gryphons with a game-high 20

    points. Natalie Brewster finished with nine.

    Girls’ soccerSt. Ignatius 5 Notre Dame-Belmont 1

    The Tigers may h ave suffered their 10 th consecutive los s— including nine straight in West Catholic League play— but for the first time in the new year, they s cored a goal.

    Ava Cholakian goal in the 75th minute snapped a 795-

    minute goalless drought. Notre Dame’s last goal came in a4-1 lo ss to La Reina-Thousand Oaks Dec. 19 .

    Boys’ basketball — TuesdaySacred Heart Prep 70 Menlo School 57

    The Gators o utscored the Knigh ts 1 9-8 in the fourth quar-

    ter to pull away for th e WBAL win between rivals .Mason Randall had a monster game for SHP (10-1 WBAL,

    12-9 overall) scoring a game high 30 points. JustinHarmon added 13 for the Gators.

    Menlo (6-6, 8-14) was led by Jared Lucian, who finishedwith 16 points.

    Girls’ basketball — TuesdayMenlo School 56 Sacred Heart Prep 53

    The Gators led the Knigh ts 4 5-42 after th ree quarters, b utthe Knights rallied to outscore the Gators 14-8 over the

    final eight minutes to pull out the win.Menlo (7-1 WBAL Footh ill, 18-4 o verall) was led by Sam

    Erisman, who finished with 21 points. Hannah Payechipped in with 16, while Kenzie Duffner pulled down 14rebounds.

    Riley Hemm poured in 21 points for SHP (4-4, 16-5),while Ma’ata Makoni added 10 for the Gators.

    Girls’ soccer — TuesdayMercy-Burlingame 10 Mercy-SF 0

    The Crusaders geared up for Thursday’s showdown withCrystal Springs by pummelling the Skippers in a WBALSkyline matchup.

    Sarah Feller paced the onslaught with three goals and twoassists. Ronia Salamy added two goals, while EmilyNaught on pick ed up a pair of assists t o go alon g with a goalof her own.

    Rounding out the scoring for Mercy-Burlingame (7-1-1WBAL Skyli ne, 9-5-1 o verall) were Kathleen Napier, IxclliGallindo, who struck twice, and Alyss a Parodi.

    Mercy-Burling ame will b e at Crystal Springs at 3:30 p. m.today with the WBAL’s Skyline Division title on the line.Mercy-Burling ame won the first matchup 3-2.

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    Scots would find the magic and, in the 1 8th min ute, they did just that. With the Hills dale back lin e b eing press ured bythe Carlmont front, a Knights’ back pass deflected off adefender and fell right at the feet of Carlmont’s MaximStorozhenko just outside the penalty area. After a touch tosettle and push int o space, he swung his right foot in to theball from about 25 yards out and sent i t to ward the upper farright corner. The shot hit the underside of the crossbar andinto th e net to put the Scots up 1-0.

    “We came out a little sluggish,” said Hillsdale coachChris Rodman.

    Carlmont cont inued to app ly p ressure and seven minuteslater, doubled their lead. Brett Fitzpatrick intercepted a ballnear midfield and triggered the Scots’ counterattack. He car-ried the ball across the field before dropping a pass back toKian Karamdashti, who was about 25 y ards from goal in t hemiddle of the field.

    His strike was a mirror image of Storozhenko’s goal, asKaramdashti’s s hot found the far left co rner.Two shots , two goals and the goalkeeper had no chance at

    stopping either one.But s uddenly, momentum flipped over to Hillsdale (1-6-4)

    and they spent the final 15 minutes of the first half finallyapplying offensive pressure against the Carlmont defense.

    “They seemed to take their foot off the gas,” Stambaughsaid of his t eam.

    The Knights’ confidence grew exponentially after theyscored their first goal four minutes after Carlmont t ook a 2 -0 lead. Evan Snodgrass whipped a corner kick into theScots’ penalty b ox, where it bounced around as bot h teamstried to get a clear kick away. Mario Arguello finally fin-ished things for the Knights, using a flying side kick tostab the ball into the back of the net and get them back inthe game.

    In stoppage time, Hillsdale came within a post of tyingthe score when Alex Lehr chipped a cross i nto t he goal b oxthat hit the far left post and ricocheted all the way backacross the g oal face before being cleared away by the Scots,

    salvaging their 2-1 lead at halftime.“We had them on t heir heels, ” Rodman said. “All seasonlong , we’ve been scrappy with the big boys . We didn’t giveup when we went 2-no thin g down.”

    The Knigh ts maintai ned the momentum after the halftimebreak, putting a scare into the Scots in the 41st minutewhen Snodgrass made a long run down the left sidelinebefore slipping a cross to an unmarked Fagan Oisin in thepenalty box. Oisin settled the ball and got off a shot as thedefense closed on hi m and it took a tremendous kick s ave byCarlmont goalkeeper Camron Dennler to maintain histeam’s lead.

    The Scots finally regained their composure and were

    look ing t o get back t heir two-goal lead, but Gonzalez madetwo spectacular saves in succession to keep the Knights inthe game.

    Carlmont finally got some breathing room in the 63rd

    minute when Leo McBride found the far right corner of thenet for a 3-1 lead. Once again it was Fitzpatrick making adangerous run and finding Christopher Gehlen with a per-fect diagonal through b all. Gehlen found McBride at the topof the penalty box and he finished Carlmont’s third goal of the game.

    But Hillsdale kept pushing. The Knights pulled back onegoal with about two minutes to play when Arguello hit alow, hard free kick into the penalty box that Snodgrassdeflected into the back of t he net, but there would be no mir-acle comeback for the Knights.

    “A day late and a dollar short,” Rodman said. “Our recorddoesn’t indicate how we’ve played this season.”

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    BOSTON — Olympic silver medalist DevinLogan pictures herself standing atop the 140-foot ski jump that towers over Fenway Park’sGreen Monster, hitting her jump and then com-ing to a stop right about where a batter wouldstand.

    “Sliding into home plate, coming in safe,hearing the crowd cheer like I just hit a grandslam,” she said Wednesday before practicing forthis week’s freestyle skiing and snowboarding

    jumpfest at the home of the Boston Red Sox.“It’s gonna be sick.”

    The ballpark that John Updike lauded as a“lyric little bandbox” is totally tricked out —Dude! — for Big Air at Fenway, with a concertstage where third base would be, the Red Soxbatting cage converted to a room for waxing andtuning skis, and of course a 14-story ramp rightin the middle of the snow-covered diamond.

    More than 75 athletes from 25 countries willcompete in men’s and women’s snowboardingand freeskiing Thursday and Friday nights , partof an attempt to bring the sport down from themountain and into cit ies where more people canenjoy it. There are about a handful of Big Airevents each year now on ramps made of scaf-folding, the U.S. Ski and SnowboardAssociation said.

    “Putting this s tadium inside Fenway Park is abodacious, bodacious concept,” said CalumClark, a vice president of the U.S. Ski andSnowboard Association.

    “It’s not too often that we get to ski in urbanenvironments,” Olympic slopestyle goldmedalist Joss Christensen said, who signed hisname inside the Green Monster scoreboard andchecked out the visitor’s clubhouse when hewent to check out the s ite on Tuesday. “Usuallywe spend a lot of time up in the mountains, awayfrom cities. It’s huge for us to be able to showpeople what we do.”

    Snowboarder Ty Walker said she had been toFenway for baseball games, including DerekJeter’s finale, a Goo Goo Dolls concert andmost recently the Boston College-Notre Damefootball game. She won a gold medal at a WorldCup Big Air in Ist anbul in 2014 and remembershearing the crowd cheering all the way up at thetop o f the ramp.

    “There’s going to be 20,000 people here,”said Walker, who grew up in Vermont. “To thinkof that in a place that so much has happened, tohear people I know cheering me on is very spe-cial to me.”

    Wednesday’s practice on a windless andcloudy afternoon coincided with “Truck Day” atFenway, and a few dozen Red Sox fans stoodbehind barriers outside the ballpark to watch theteam’s equipment loaded for the trip to springtraining in Fort Myers, Florida. It’s an odd tra-dition, but one that signals the impendingarrival of spring for those who have run out of patience with the ice and snow.

    Red Sox officials said they were relieved afterwatching the first snowboarder hit the jump onWednesday afternoon. Organizers had beenworking on the event for nine months, but theycouldn’t be sure everything was going to workuntil the athletes hit t he ramp.

    Big Air snowboarding will debut as anOlympic sport in Pyeongchang, South Korea,in 2018 — part of an attempt by organizers totap into a younger demographic with the addi-tion of X Games-style disciplines. Skiers andsnowboarders say they hope events like the oneat Fenway also help attract a new, bigger audi-ence to their sport.

    Putting them in the middle of a city ins tead of away on a mountain somewhere can’t hurt.

    “It’s just one event. But it’s an event on a150-foot scaffolding in the middle of FenwayPark,” said Gus Kenworthy, who took home aslopestyle silver medal and a family of puppiesfrom the Sochi Olympics. “So I think it’ll beOK.”

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    also really wanted to be together, too.”So when Talia Mis san h eard of a t ryout with a club team,

    she brought along McLeod.“I found out abo ut the club t eam we joi ned through

    [Talia],” McLeod said. “We bot h lo ok for o pportunit iestogether. Especially trying out for the high school team asfreshmen. They too k us as a p ackage because we played so

    well together.”While they always played for the same team, th ey didn’tgo to the same school. But that didn’t prevent them frombecoming clo se friends. Missan s aid the two would hangout togeth er on the road at showcases and tournaments.

    “Go to the mall an d stuff,” Miss an said.No matter how close people are, the only thing that mat-

    ters on t he soccer field is performance. If either Miss an orMcLeod didn’t have the talent, they would have been b ro-ken up long ago.

    But th at is far from the case. The two are wrapping upfour-year varsity careers and are enjoying one of t heir bestseasons since entering the high school ranks. McLeod hasseven goals and five assists, while Missan has four andthree, respectiv ely. The Bears currently s it in second place


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