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    www.smdailyjournal.comLeading local news coverage on the Peninsula

    Thursday• March 19, 2015•Vol XV, Edition 184

    MUSEUM ATTACK WORLD PAGE 8

    JADE: GREAT FORA DROUGHT YEAR

    SUBURBAN LIVING PAGE 19

    MILITANTS IN TUNISIAN CAPITAL KILL 19; 2 GUNMENSLAIN

    By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Reforming how Belmont prop-erty owners can remodel theirhomes is underway as thePlanning Commission expressedsupport Tuesday night for a newtiered review system after listen-ing to residents’ varied and often

    emotional opinions about poten-tial changes.

    The commission, however,decided to continue a larger discus-sion to a March 31 meeting whenit could tackle dozens of p roposedchanges ranging from reducedparking requirements to creatingobjective design review criteria.That meeting will be solely dedi-

    cated to considering amendmentsto the city’s zoning and tree ordi-nances — on which the commis-sion has 30 days to make recom-mendation s th at will b e forwardedto the City Council.

    At issue is the cit y’s current zon-ing regulations and whether theycreate too much of a burden onhomeowners seeking to renovate

    their property or keep Belmontfrom overdevelop ment of in divid-ual lots.

    Compared to other cities in thecounty, Belmont has the lowestthreshold to trigger a single-fami-ly design review as the PlanningCommission considers any addi-tion of 400 square feet or more,has the most stringent parking

    requirement and has the leastobjective review criteria, saidSenior Plann er Damon DiDonato.

    The city also caps most homesizes at 3,500 square feet, regard-less of lot si ze.

    Vice Mayor Eric Reed andCouncilman Charles Ston e collab-

    Belmont planners give nod to tiered reviePossible changes to home remodel laws prove controversial, council must make final approval

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SACRAMENTO — Blue Shieldof California is protesting a statedecision to strip the nonprofithealth insurer of its tax-exemptstatus, which the company hasheld since its founding in 19 39.

    The California Franchise TaxBoard quietly revoked the taxbreak in August, the Los AngelesTimes repo rted Wednesday.

    The decision could put SanFrancisco-based Blue Shield onthe hook for tens of millions of dollars in state taxes each year.The insurer has paid federal taxesfor years.

    A spokeswoman for the taxagency declined to comment onwhy the insurer lost its status. Thehigh ly unusual action came after alengthy state audit reviewed the

    justi fication for Blue Shield’s tax -payer subsidy, according to thenewspaper.

    Blue Shield said it is protestingthe decision, but state officialshave ordered it to file tax returnsback to 201 3 in the meantime.

    California’s third-largest healthinsurer has faced criticism ov er itsrate increases, executive pay andfinancial reserves.

    Blue Shieldtax-exemptstatus nixedNonprofit health insurer on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to state

    By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Burlingame residents hoping toshape the vision of a new recre-ation center are invi ted to join cit yofficials in a discussion regardingthe future of the p ropos ed facility.

    The Parks and RecreationCommission will hold a meetingat the current recreation centerThursday night t o review the goals

    identified in previous planningphases, discuss the updated build-ing program and provide input ondesign strategies and architecturalstyles, among other issues,according to a city report.

    Members of the community areencouraged to participate in thediscussion, and their input willhelp guide the development of the

    City to hold rec center discussioBurlingame residents can express theiropinion on the design of the new facility

    BILL SILVERFARB/DAILY JOURNAL

    The Fair Oaks Health Center in unincorporated Redwood City has the largest dental clinic in the county’s HealthSystem. It celebrates its first anniversary Saturday. low : Center manager Jonathan Mesinger stands next to avideo and voice interpreting device used to assist its Spanish speaking patients.

    By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    The largest building in NorthFair Oaks is also the only healthfacility in the unincorporatedcounty area that serves mostlyuninsured individuals living insouth county, many of them wholive within walking distance of the full-service clinic.

    The Fair Oaks Health Center onMiddlefield Road has been openfor 15 months now and providesprimary care, optometry, dental,pediatric and obstetrics and gyne-cology services.

    Providing careFair Oaks Health Center open 15 months, served 17,000 See STATUS , Page 18

    See FACILITY , Page 18See CARE , Page 20

    See REVIEW , Page 20

    PANTHERS RIDFERRARI TO ‘W

    SPORTS PAGE 11

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    Drunken man falls from tree,gets impaled on fence and dies

    LOS ANGELES — Los Ang eles policesay a man was kill ed when he fell out of a tree and impaled himself on the sp ikesof a metal fence after a night of heavydrinking.

    Sgt. Melvin Gamble tells City NewsService that the victim appears to havefallen about 20 feet from a tree branchonto the fence. The incident was report-ed shortly after 3:30 a. m. Wednesday inEast Hollywood.

    The coroner’s office identified thevictim as 30 -year-old Edwin Ochoa.

    Gamble says more than a dozenempty beer cans were found around thetree. Local residents tell police the manwas known as a heavy drinker.

    Bill sent out in 1969returned to Maine water district

    BRUNSWICK, Maine — A bill for$1.40 sent out by a Maine water districtalmost a half-century ago has finallybeen returned.

    The Brunswick and Topsham WaterDistrict mailed the bill to a resident of Topsham in October 1969. The bill wassupposed to b e returned to the water dis-trict by the post office because the cus-

    tomer’s post office box had beenclosed.However, it didn’t find it s way back to

    the district until last Tuesday, 46 yearslater.

    Linda Deacetis, the district’s execu-

    tive secretary, tells The Times Recordshe was quite surprised to receive thebill. The district believes that the cus-tomer has since passed away. The billhad a 6-cent stamp on it.

    Missing SouthCarolina cat found twoyears later in California

    RIVERSIDE — A cat that vanished inSouth Carolina two years ago is go inghome after ending up nearly 2,000miles away in Southern California.

    Kevin the orange tabby is leavingPalm Springs on Wednesday after disap-pearing from Anderson, SouthCarolina, in 2013.

    John Welsh of Riverside CountyAnimal Services says the cat turned upin early March inside a U-Haul trailer awoman had driven across the country.

    During a routine inspection, theinspector heard meowing. The driversays she didn’t know Kevin was inside.

    The dehydrated cat was taken to ashelter. His microchip helped trackdown owner Cheryl Walls, who jokesthat Kevin has seen more of the countrythan her.

    She says somebody must have caredfor Kevin. But who — and how Kevingot i nto t he trailer — are mysteries.

    California officials setmodest plans for vanishing lake

    SAN DIEGO — California officialssay the state set an unrealistic bar to

    save the Salton Sea and have outlined aseries of small projects aimed at stavingoff the demise of th e state’s largest lake.

    Kealii Bright, the state NaturalResources Agency’s deputy secretary forlegisl ation , to ld a panel Wednesday thatthe state erred in 2007 when it backedan $8.9 billion plan to restore the dis-appearing Salton Sea.

    He says the lake must compete withother projects for state bond money andhighlighted several modest endeavors,including a wetlands restoration proj-ect.

    Skydiver who was inmilitary dies in Riverside County

    PERRIS — A skydiver who was amember of the military died Wednesdayin Southern California but th ere were noimmediate details o f the circumstances.

    The Riverside County FireDepartment said the skydiver wasreported down shortly after 9 a.m. nearstate Route 74 in an unincorporated areanear Perris.

    The death was confirmed a short timelater.

    Fire Department spokeswoman JodyHagemann said no more details werebeing released because the sky diver wasin the military. She referred inquiries to

    a Naval Special Warfare office.Messages seeking additional infor-mation were left for naval officials.

    Skydive Perris declined to discuss theincident and referred questions to themilitary.

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    1945During World War II, 724 people werekilled when a Japanese dive bomberattacked the carrier USS Franklin off Japan; the ship, however, was saved.Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall intoAllied hands in his so-called “NeroDecree,” which was largely disregarded.

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    3Thursday• March 19, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCAL

    FOSTER CITYSuspic ious person. A woman was seenapproaching vehicles with a pair of scissorsat Foster City Boulevard and Center ParkLane before 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 11.Petty theft . Plants worth $30 0 were stolenfrom a home on Polynesia Drive before11:25 a.m. Wednesday, March 11.Disturbance . A group of men drivingaround in a car were seen yell ing profaniti esat pedestrians on Beach Park and EastHillsdale boulevards before 1:58 p.m.Friday, March 6.Drunk in public . A report was made abouta drunk man in public o n Chess Drive before10:49 p.m. Friday, March 6.

    SAN MATEOBurglary . A home was burglarized onCasanova Drive before 6:49 p.m. Friday,

    March 10 .Theft . Cash from a cash register was stolenfrom a Foot Locker at the HillsdaleShopping Center before 5:11 p.m. Friday,March 10 .Vandalism . Police were contacted when aroommate damaged a TV and a mattress onSouth Claremont Street before 11:32 a.m.Friday, March 10 .Vehicl e accident . A pedestrian was hit bya vehicle on Second and South Ellsworthavenues before 11:21 a.m. Friday, March10.

    Police reports

    What’s got your goose?A man was wrongly accused of throwingFrisbees at geese on EdgewaterBoulevard in Foster City before 4:05p.m. Thursday, March 5.

    By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Officials in the San Mateo-Foster CityElementary School District will discuss

    laying off nearly 25 classified positionsat the upcoming Board of Trustees meet-ing.

    Contributions from the district’s ParentTeacher Association, or PTA, have paid formany of the jobs from the classifiedunion, which typically includes positionssuch as support s taff, aides and custodians,and officials are hop eful th at the o rganiza-tion will again be able to fund them nextyear.

    The district i s waiting to h ear how muchmoney t he PTA is able to offer the districtbefore it can commit to employing theclassified workers, but officials are hope-ful that most can be hired back once thebudget is solidified, said AssistantSuperintendent Donna Lewis.

    Roughly 10 teaching aide positions, aforeign language teaching aide, a librarymedia assistant, middle school libraryaide, student supervision aide, a deliverydriver, more th an four computer and phys-ical education teaching aides, a schooloffice assistant and office specialist arebeing discussed as pot entially being cut atthe board meeting Thursday, March 19,according t o a district report.

    Lewis said she expects the 24.49 full-time equivalent positions from the classi-fied union that are being considered forreduction may change before th e April 2 3

    deadline to notify classified staff of lay-offs for the coming school year.

    The board will ultimately need to pass aresolution at a later date to authorize thelayoffs.

    The district laid off nearly 60 classifiedworkers last year, and Lewis said she ispleased the amount of positions on theblock have been drastically reduced fromthe p revious year.

    She said the district expects to rehiresome, if not all, of the workers, once thePTA announces its available budget for thecoming year.

    Lewis praised the role that the parentorganization plays i n helping the districtemploy some of its support staff.

    “The PTA is so supportive,” she said.“They allow the schools to have addition-

    al, positive resources.”She also not ed the unfortunate timing of the b udget p rocess, which requires th e dis-trict to distribute pink slips to workersprior to funding sources being sol idified.

    “I wish that the layoff timelines alignedbetter with o ur budgeting ti meline,” Lewissaid. “That is the conflict.”

    To meet state requirements, the districthas to announce any propos ed teacher lay-offs in March, and reduction s to classifiedstaff in April, said Lewis.

    In the past, the PTA has been willing tohelp the district retain personnel but, forbudgeting purposes, the district cannotassume the size of the contribution thatthe PTA might make, sh e said.

    “We don’t know what their prioritieswill be,” Lewis said. “They might changetheir priorities, but they usually continueas they have been.”The PTA generally finalizes it s ros ter, andbudget, for the coming year around May,which will ultimately determine how muchmoney will be offered to the district, andhow that amount should be allocated, saidLewis.

    Lewis said she was unsure how muchmoney the district would need from thePTA to retain the jobs on the choppingblock.

    Money spent by PTAs and school site-raised funding was $2.1 5 milli on last year,up from $2. 07 mill ion th e year prior.

    District spokeswoman Amber Farinhacharacterized the layoffs as an unfortunatestep that the district is required to take dur-ing the budget process to remain fiscallysolvent.

    “This is the process that happens, thisis a necessary evil,” she said. “But we arehappy it is less than last year.”

    The Board of Trustees is set to meet 7p.m. Thursday, March 19 in the districtoffices at 1700 Chess Drive in FosterCity.

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    School district considers layoffsPTA contributions in San Mateo-Foster City elementary district may save support staff jobs

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    4 Thursday• March 19, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNAL

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    5Thursday• March 19, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCAL/STATE

    AUSTIN WALSH/DAILY JOURNAL

    This Menlo Park home, on the corner of Santa Cruz Avenue and Arbor Road, is on the market for $2.7 million.

    CITY GOVERNMENT• Foster Ci ty’s Parks and

    Recreat ion Director KevinM i l l e r announced TuesdayJennifer Liu has been chosen toreplace him when he comes in ascity manager July 1.

    Liu has worked for the city since2005, starting as a recreation coordinator for senior andvolunteer programs then serving as recreation managersince 2007.

    Liu holds a bachelor ’s degree in kin esiolo gy and a mas-ter’s degree in recreation.

    Liu will be paid approximately $142,176 annually asshe oversees dozens of staff who maintain 24 parks, offerprograms for all ages and coordinate 50 special eventsannually.

    Brown, university presidentgive few details on budget talks

    SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Jerry Brown and University of California President Janet Napoli tano said Wednesday they

    are pleased with the progress they havemade since they agreed to form an unusu-al “committee of two” to work out theirdifferences over the university’sfinances, but they provided no specifics

    about what their talks will mean for stu-dent admissions and tuition.The two leaders briefly updated the rest

    of UC’s governing board about theirwork as the sole members of the SelectAdvisory Committee on the CostStructure of the Univ ersity.

    The governor requested the panel torecommend changes in how the universi-ty operates and spends its money after amajority of the Board of Regents gaveNapolitano approval in November toincrease tuition by up to 5 percent ineach of the next five years, a plan Brownopposed.

    “This is an important inquiry, andwhile the committee is a very small com-mittee, it works very well. We haven’t

    had any tie vo tes yet, and that’s good,” he j oked Wednesday.

    Napol itano said she and Brown have met t wice so far andare scheduled to g et tog ether again i n April.

    California attorney generaluses personal email for work

    LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General KamalaHarris said Wednesday that she uses a personal email

    account to communicate with her seniorstate staff on “very rare” occasions.

    Harris’ disclosure in an interview withThe Associated Press comes as formerSecretary of State Hillary RodhamClinton faces stiff criticism over her useof a private email account at the StateDepartment and questions about whethershe skirted transparency rules by delet-ing thousands of emails.

    Harris, the only major Democrat in the

    2016 race for California’s first open U.S. Senate race indecades, said she doesn’t use email on the job regularlybecause the nature of the legal work often inv olves v olumi-nous research. Typically, she carries one or two bindersstuffed with memos and legal briefs, she s aid.

    Margaret TurnerA Belmont resident for 41 years, Margaret (“Margo”)

    Turner died March 4, 2015.Born in Grindleford, England, in 1940, her family was

    bombed out t wice while livi ng in London during World WarII.

    Her family emigrated to Canada in 195 8, with her familythen moving to Los Angeles.

    She joined United Airlines in 1962, flying domesticroutes for the airline. It was during this time she became anaturalized American citizen. She later worked in UA’s SFOoffices, leaving in 1968 before the birth of her first child.

    During the ’70s, she was a loving mother to Tracy andLance, later returning to work for Bank of America, enjoy-ing being an escrow officer in San Bruno and San Mateountil 1984.

    Her devotion to her family, love of travel and fiction andconviviality will never be forgotten.

    Survivors include daughter Tracy, son-in-law Brian andgrandchildren Zoe and Leo. She is predeceded by h er broth erJim (2010); beloved husband of 34 years, Quincy (2002);and dear son Lance, who was ki lled in 198 4.

    The family respectfully requests your prayers; and, in lieuof flowers, donations to the charity of one’s choice.

    Graveside committal will be priv ate.

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    Around the state

    By Elliot SpagatTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SAN DIEGO — California homesales fell slightly in February as buy-ers struggled with higher prices and athin supply of properties for sale, aresearch fi rm repo rted Wednesday.

    There were nearly 25,585 new andexisting single-family houses andcondominiums sold last month, down0.4 percent from 25,680 sales a yearearlier, said CoreLogic DataQuick. Itwas the lowest February sales tallysince 2008.

    The median sales price was$378,000, up 0.5 percent from$376,000 in January and up 6.5 per-cent year over year from $355,000 inFebruary 2014.

    It was also the 36th straight monthof annual increases, tho ugh gains havemoderated significantly since 2013.

    Low inventories kept a lid on sales,particularly in the San Francisco BayArea and other coastal markets. Therewas a five-month s upply of unsold sin-gle-family homes in the state inFebruary, according to the CaliforniaAssociation of Realtors. A normal sup-ply is considered five to sevenmonths.

    Gary London, president of TheLondon Group real-estate consultingfirm in San Diego, s aid lack of land fornew homes in coastal markets willcontinue to limit sales.

    “These markets are fundamentallylimited by the amount of units thatbuilders can put up,” he said. “Therewill always b e more demand than sup-ply, assuming coastal economies arestrong and continue to grow.”

    Sales in i nland markets are hamperedby lack of wage growth and affordabil-ity concerns, London said

    The median sales price in the SanFrancisco Bay was $565,000, down1.2 percent from $572,00 0 in Januarybut up 4.6 percent from $540,000 inFebruary 2014, according to Irvine-based CoreLogic DataQuick. It was the35th straight month of annual increas-es.

    There were 4,376 homes sold in the

    nine-county region, down 11 percentfrom a year earlier. It was the lowestFebruary sales tally in seven years.

    The median sales price in SouthernCalifornia was $41 5,000 , up 1. 5 per-cent from $409,000 in January and up8.4 percent from $383,000 inFebruary 2014. The median is littlechanged over the past five months.

    There were 13,6 50 homes so ld in thesix-county region, down 2.7 percentfrom 14,027 sales a year earlier. Salesin the region have fallen from a yearearlier in 15 of the last 1 7 months.

    State home sales sluggishin February, prices on rise

    By Dave BrooksherBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

    An 85-year-old Pacifica residentaccused of stabbing his wife multipletimes last year has died in custody andSan Mateo County prosecutors dis-missed the charges against himWednesday morning.

    On July 13, Tony Gocksue Leeallegedly stabbed his 72-year-old wifeof 54 years seven times: three times inthe neck, t wice in the abdomen, once inthe thig h and once in the h and. Lee latertold a family friend who was bringingdinner over that he’d killed his wife forbugging him, and not loving him anymore, according to prosecutors.

    When policearrived at theirPacifica home, Leereportedly toldthem he’d killed hiswife. She wasrushed to the hospi-tal after being foundbleeding out on thedining room floorand survived the

    attack, prosecutors said.Lee had been charged with attempt -

    ed murder, assault with a deadlyweapon with an enhancement forgreat bodily injury and relatedcharges stemming from the incident.Prosecutors filed a motion to dismis s

    thos e charges Wednesday.“It’s the first time I’ve had a person

    die in custody,” defense attorney PaulCummins said.

    “He expired several days ago,”Cummins s aid. “I think he’ll be buriedthis weekend.”

    On Feb. 4, Cummins said his clientwas in intensive care after fallingdown in jail and suffering a traumaticbrain injury. As a result of the injuryLee was unresponsive, according toCummins.

    At that time, San Mateo CountyDistrict Attorney St eve Wagstaffe saidLee’s doctors h ad given hi m a terminaldiagnosis, and expected him to diewithin 10 days.

    Man accused of stabbing his wife dies in custody

    Kamala Harris

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    JanetNapolitano

    Tony Lee

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    STOCKTON — Three people werekilled and four people were woundedin an apparent drive-by shooting at aNorthern California conveniencestore that one official called one of the worst mass shootings in thecity’s recent h istory.

    Stockton police Officer Joe Silvaalso says the shooting in the inlandport city was in a crime-ridden areaknown for drug deals and is likely

    gang-related. Violence has rockedStockton, which was hit hard by theeconomic downturn and declaredbankruptcy in 2012.

    A 27-year-old woman was shot todeath Tuesday night on a sidewalkoutside the Madison Market, and a 24-year-old man and a 20-year-oldwoman died later at a hospit al, p olicesaid.

    Four men in their 20 s and 30s werefound inside the small market andtaken to hospitals. The victims —

    ages 24, 2 5, 3 2 and 38 — are expect-ed to survive, Silva s aid.

    No arrests have been made, and it isnot yet known if there were multipleshooters.

    Police are interviewing witnesses,some of whom said they heard up to40 gunshots. Dozens of people gath-ered in th e area after the shootin g, andadditional officers were called in tohelp cont rol the crowd.

    Police did not release the names orany other details on the victims.

    Three killed, four hurt in shooting at California convenience store

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    6 Thursday• March 19, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNALLOCALMan arrested for assaultinggirlfriend after crashing stolen car

    Police arrested a man Tuesday wanted forallegedly assaulting and burning his girl-

    friend’s eyelid with a litcigarette 2013.

    Richard Kramer, a 29-year-old South SanFrancisco resident, wasapprehended around 4:30p.m. after fleeing andcrashing a stolen car atthe intersection of Millerand Orange avenues, saidpolice Sgt. Ken Chetcuti.

    Kramer had at least one warrant out for hisarrest stemming from a Sept. 9., 2013,assault when he held his live-in girlfrienddown, pressed a lit cigarette against h er eye-lid, punched her in the face, pressed a screw-driver against t he back of her head and threat-ened to kill her, according to South SanFrancisco pol ice.

    Kramer was also wanted for questioning inan unrelated domestic violence incident.

    Kramer had been on the city’s “most want-ed” list and officers ultimately located himon Hemlock Avenue when a patrol officerspotted a green Honda Accord that had beenreported stolen out of Daly City last week.

    While conducting surveillance, police sawKramer enter the car and drive off, Chetcutisaid.

    Police attempted to make a traffic stop butKramer fled before crashing into another carat the intersection where he was ultimatelyarrested.

    Camera storeburglar pleads no contest

    The man tied to the attempted theft of $5million worth of camera equipment from aSan Carlos rental business by DNA left at thescene pleaded no contest to felony commer-cial burglary Tuesday.

    San Francisco resident Tyrone Brennan,29, faces up to 32 mon ths in s tate prison forhaving a prior felony strike conviction,according to the San Mateo County DistrictAttorney’s Office.

    Brennan entered the business in April2013 by breaking a glass door in an adjoin-ing business and then cleaning up pieces toremain undetected. He then used power toolsto cut a hole through the common wallbetween the two businesses and enteredBorrowlenses on the 1600 block of

    Industrial Road in SanCarlos.

    He tried cutting into alocked metal cage hold-ing the camera equipmentbut fled when an alarmsounded, leaving thepower tool s and a weldingmask behind, accordingto the District Attorney’sOffice.

    The mask had DNA butit did not result in an immediate hit.

    The burglary went unsolved untilSeptember 2014 when a national crime data-base matched that DNA to Brennan who wasconvicted of a 2013 burglary in SonomaCounty and sentenced to a rehabilitation pro-gram.

    He also has another robbery convictionwhich makes him a second-striker.

    He returns to court May 27 for sentencing.

    La Honda manarrested after motor home crash

    A 48-year-old La Honda man was arrestedfor felony vandalism for allegedly ramminghis motor ho me through a neighbo r’s locked

    gate over an ongoingproperty rights dispute,according to the SanMateo County Sheriff’sOffice.

    Geoffrey Goldsberrywas arrested Tuesday andfaces a second charge forallegedly destroyingvehicle identificationnumbers, according to theSheriff’s Office.

    Police s erved Goldsberry with a search war-rant prior to his arrest at his home on th e 400block of Judson Drive in La Honda.

    Goldsberry allegedly intended to ram the24-foot long motor home into his neigh-bor’s residence, according to the Sheriff’sOffice.

    The dispute has resulted in a protectionorder and civil harassment order filed againstGoldsberry in Superior Court, according tothe Sh eriff’s Office.

    He was booked into the MaguireCorrectional Facility.

    Victim chases armedrobber and gets shot at

    Sheriff’s deputies are searching for at leasttwo suspects who robbed and shot at an

    employee of the Home Depot in San Carlosthen crashed a car Monday.

    The victim was sitting in his car in theHome Depot parking lot at 1125 Old CountyRoad around 10:13 p.m. when he wasapproached by a man who b randished a hand-gun, according to the San Mateo CountySheriff’s Office.

    The suspect stole the victim’s cellphonethen struck the victim in the head with the

    gun. The suspect then fled in a blue MiniCooper occupied by two or three others,according to the Sheriff’s Office.

    The victim follo wed the suspects t hroughnearby streets in San Carlos and RedwoodCity. At one poin t, th e two cars stopped, thesuspect go t out and fired one shot at the vi c-tim striking his car, according to Sheriff’sOffice. The driver of the Mini Cooper thencrashed into a fence and all of the suspectsfled, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

    The armed robber is described as a whiteman in his 20s. Anyone with information isasked to call the detectives Andy Armando at(650) 363-4347 o r Jon Sebring at (650) 363-4057.

    Shuttle bus driver pleads notguilty to felony reckless driving

    An airport shuttle bus driver accused of hit-ting a pedestrian while distracted pleaded notguilty Tuesday to felony reckless drivingcharges, according to San Mateo Countyprosecutors.

    Tiana Marie Wilbert, a 3 1-year-old residentof San Francisco, was allegedly distracted bysome sort of electronic device when she ran ared light and struck a pedestrian in a cross-walk Dec. 31 in South San Francisco.

    The 32-year-old victim suffered majorinjuries including numerous b roken bon es, acollapsed lung, brain bleeding and a tornspleen. The victim’s spleen had to beremoved, according to prosecutors.

    Wilbert reportedly denied being on hercellphone and claimed the traffic signal hadbeen a green light at the time of the colli-sion, but prosecutors say that vi deo evidencecontradicts her statements.

    If convicted she could face six mont hs in jail and a $1, 000 fin e, according to state law.

    Wilbert will appear in court again at 2 p .m.on April 21. Meanwhile, she remains out of custody on $50,000 bail.

    Wilbert will be represented by the PrivateDefender Program, but chief defender JohnDigiacinto said they have yet to assign heran attorney. Digiacinto declined to commentfurther on the case.

    Archdiocese to remove sprinklersthat pour water over homeless

    A bishop with the Archdiocese of SanFrancisco said a sprinkl er system inst alled inexterior alcoves at Saint Mary’s Cathedraltwo years ago to deal with messes left by thehomeless was “ill-conceived” and will beremoved immediately.

    Bishop William Justice, the auxiliarybishop of the Archdiocese of San Franciscoand rector of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption said that the sprinkler sys-tem was installed “as a safety, security andcleanliness measure to avoid the situationwhere needles, feces and other dangerousitems” were being left in the doorways.

    Saint Mary’s Cathedral is a modern churchlocated atop Cathedral Hill in the city’sWestern Addition neighborhood.

    Justice said the sprinkler system wasinstalled only after other ideas were unsuc-cessful.

    He said people who regularly slept in thedoorways were told in advance that the sprin-klers were being installed.

    “We are sorry th at our intentions h ave beenmisunderstood and recognize that the methodused was ill-conceived,” Justice said.

    San Mateo to install EV

    charging stations downtownFive parking spaces in downtown SanMateo transit center will be converted forelectric vehicle chargers this summer, thecity announced Wednesday.

    The chargers will be installed at no cos t tothe city through a partnership with NRGeVgo. The chargers will be level 2 and twoDC Fast Chargers that can charge a car in 30minutes or less. San Mateo will be the firstcity in Northern California to install such acharging station on public property. Thecompany plans to expand its networkthroughout California and the United States,according to the city.

    Woman, 70, arrested in burglaries atchurch, property stolen from school

    A 70-year-old San Francisco woman is asuspect in a pair of burglaries at a church inPalo Alto and the theft of property from aschool in Los Altos, Palo Alto police saidWednesday.

    Ethel Jean Hayes was arrested Sunday andbooked into the Santa Clara County MainJail on suspicion of two counts of b urglariz-ing the Trinity Lutheran Church in Palo Altoand possessing property stolen from theMontecito Preschool in Los Altos, policesaid.

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    GOP pushes conservativebudgets in both houses

    By Ted BridisTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administra-tion set a record again for censoring gov-ernment files or outright denying access tothem last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analy-sis of federal data by the Associated Press.

    The government took longer to t urn overfiles when it provided any, said more regu-larly that it couldn’t find documents andrefused a record number of times to turn overfiles quickly that might be especially news-worthy.

    It also acknowledged in nearly 1 in 3cases that its initial decisions to withholdor censor records were improper under thelaw — but on ly when it was challenged.

    Its backlog of unanswered requests atyear’s end grew remarkably by 55 p ercent tomore than 200,000. It also cut by 375, orabout 9 percent, the number of full-timeemployees across go vernment paid to lookfor records. That was the fewest number of

    employees working on the issue in fiveyears.

    The government’s new figures, publishedTuesday, covered all requests to 100 federalagencies during fiscal 2014 under theFreedom of Information law, which is her-alded globally as a model for transparentgovernment. They showed that despite dis-appointments and failed promises by the

    White House to make meaningful improve-ments in the way it releases records, t he lawwas more popular than ever. Citizens, jour-nalists, businesses and others made a record714,231 requests for information. The U.S.spent a record $434 million t rying to k eepup. It also spent about $28 million onlawyers’ fees to keep records secret.

    “This disapp oint ing t rack record is hardlythe mark of an administration that was sup-posed to be the most transparent in histo-ry,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, whohas co-sponsored legislation with Sen.Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to improve theFreedom of Information law. Their effortdied in the House last year.

    By David Espo and Andrew TaylorTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — Making good on lastfall’s campaign commitments, Republicansadvanced conservative budgets in bothhouses of Congress on Wednesday, settingup a veto struggle over the fate of the healthcare law and promising a whopping $5 tril-lion in spen ding cuts to erase deficits by t heend of the coming decade.

    The possibility of billions more for thePentagon and an overhaul of the tax codealso emerged as Republican priorities,although there were significant differencesbetween the day-old proposal in the Houseand the one unveiled during the day bySenate Republicans .

    Defense spending aside, Medicare waschief among them. Senate Republicans,already eying the 2016 elections, balked ata politically sensitive House plan to turnhealth care coverage for seniors into avoucher-like program for those who enrollbeginning in 2024.

    Republicans claimed a balanced-budget,no-tax-increase approach as the HouseBudget Committee neared an evening voteon its proposal. The Senate panel set itsvote for Thursday.

    By contrast, Senate Majority LeaderMitch McConnell of Kentucky saidPresident Barack Obama’s budget from earli-er in the year raised “taxes by n early $2 tril-lion, and increased the national debt by

    more than $7 trillion. In other words, it wasmore of the same old tired, failed policies of the past.”

    He said the Republicans promise a plan“that will support economic growth andmore opportunity for hardworking families,while protecting our most vulnerable citi-zens.”

    Obama leaned in.Claiming credit for the improving econo-

    my, he said Republicans offer “a path toprosperity for those who have already pros-pered.” Reprising a criticism he leveled in

    his winning 2012 campaign against MittRomney, he said in Cleveland that the GOPbudget “doubles down o n t rickle-down.”

    It will be weeks or months — if then —before Republicans can turn their non-bind-ing blueprints into legislation and send it tothe White House for Obama’s signature orveto.

    Before that, they will concentrate onpushing the rival budgets through the twohouses. Next, they will try to agree on acompromise that they concede will stand asa test of their ability to go vern.

    Republicans promised during last fall’scampaign they would try to balance thebudget if they won power. They also saidover and over they would work to eradicatethe health care law that Obama has pl edgedto defend and the administration now sayshas provided coverage to more than 16millio n individuals who previously lackedit .

    LaHood, ex-congressman’sson, to vie for Schock’s seat

    PEORIA, Ill. — The son of former WhiteHouse cabinet member Ray LaHood emergedas the l eading contender Wednesday to replaceU.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, as two other poten-tial candidates abandoned thoughts of seekin gthe seat that is coming open after a spendingscandal forced the Illinois congressman’sabrupt resignation.

    State Sen. Darin LaHood, a Republicanwhose father held the central Illinois seatbefore Schock and then served as PresidentBarack Obama’s transportation secretary,announced that he would seek the seatWednesday morning during an appearance on aradio show in Peoria, where his family hasresided for decades.

    Glazer, Bonilla appearheaded to runoff for Senate seat

    SACRAMENTO — Two Democrats appearedheaded to a May runoff for an open state Senateseat in the San Francisco Bay Area following abruising primary that saw special interestgroups pour in $2.1 million.

    With all precincts reporting in District 7,Orinda Mayor Steve Glazer had about 33 per-cent to s tate Assemblywoman Susan Boni lla’s25 percent. Former Assemblywoman Joan

    Buchanan of Alamo trailed Bonilla by about2,200 votes, with an unknown number of mail-in ballots left to count.

    Secret Service knowssuspect in cyanide probe

    WASHINGTON — The person suspected of sending an envelope to the White House thatmay have contained cyanide is known to theSecret Service and has sent multiple suspi-cious items over the last two decades, a federallaw enforcement official familiar with theinvest igatio n said Wednesday.

    The official said the suspected sender haspreviously sent packages with rambling mes-sages and foreign s ubstances. The official wasnot authorized to discuss an ongoing investi-gation by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.

    The envelope was received at a mail pro-cessing center away from the White House forroutine screening Monday and initial testswere negative for cyanide. A second test onTuesday returned a “presumptive positive,” theSecret Service said. Officials are waiting forthe results of a third round of testin g to deter-mine if the envelope indeed contained thetoxin.

    Administration sets record forwithholding government files

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    U.S. and Iran race tofill out contours of anuclear agreementBy Geore Jahn and Bradley KlapperTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    LAUSANNE, Switzerland — With less than a week to the

    deadline for an Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Secretary of StateJohn Kerry worked with top Iranian and European officialsWednesday to try to close gaps blocking agreement.

    Racing to fill out a framework for rolling back Iran’snuclear program and punitive U.S. economic sanctions,U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Iranian atomicenergy chief Ali Akbar Salehi met again Wednesday in theSwiss city of Lausanne to discuss th e technical obs tacles toa deal. Kerry and Iranian Foreig n Min ister Moh ammad JavadZarif were to joi n th e talks l ater.

    Negotiations are expected to continue until Friday. Andalthough neither side is promising a breakthrough over thenext three days, each is hoping to resolve as many ling er-ing i ssues as possible, from the speed of a U.S. sanctionsdrawdown to the level of inspections on Iranian nuclearsites.

    A sign of an impending deal would be the discussionswrappin g up with an anno uncement of more talks next weekand the involvement of America’s negotiating partners:Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. Up to now,Washington and Tehran have mainly negotiated betweeneach other, but all seven countries would have to si gn off onan accord.

    The governments h ave set for themselves a deadline o n apreliminary deal by t he end of March, with a full agreementby July.

    Salehi, an MIT-educated physicist and former Iranian for-eign minister, suggested Tuesday a deal was close, sayingone “final item” remained contentious. He didn’t specify,but said that matter’s resolution would mean “on technicalissues, things are clear on both sides.”

    “As a whole, I am optimistic,” he told reporters.The United States was less upbeat. “There’s no doubt t hey

    have made substantial progress over the past year,” WhiteHouse spokesman Josh Earnest said. But he declared thechances of an agreement “at best 50-50.”

    Washington wants to stretch the time Iran would need to

    make a bomb from a few months to a year. The deal takingshape would limit Iran’s uranium enrichment and othernuclear activity for at least a decade, with the restrictionsslowly l ifted over several years.

    Congressional Republicans have threatened to upend thediplomacy, claiming any deal would be ineffective. AndPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose party scored aresounding victory in Israel’s election Tuesday, is also anopponent.

    By Josef FedermanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’sstrong showing in national electionsthis week has come with a price: Hehas managed to antagon ize friends andfoes alike with hard-line rhetoric onthe campaign trail.

    While the tough talk gaveNetanyahu a last-minute boost in thepoll s, the Israeli leader could now facea difficult task convincing an alreadyskepti cal world that h e is serious aboutreaching peace with his Arab neigh-

    bors — particularly if, as expected, heforms a new government comprised of religious and nationalistic parties.

    Trailing in opinion polls,Netanyahu took a sharp turn to theright in the final days of the campaignto shore up support among his corenationalistic constituency.

    He vowed to increase settlementconstruction in east Jerusalem, thePalestinians’ would-be capital, andrejected the idea of a Palestinian statein current condition s — putting h im atodds with U.S. an d European po siti onsand reversing his own policy of thepast six years.

    In a last-ditch attempt to spur his

    supporters to the polls Tuesday, hewarned that Arab citizens were voting“in droves” and endangering years of

    rule by his Likud Party. The commentsdrew accusations of racism from IsraeliArabs and a White House rebuke.

    In Washington, the Obama adminis-tration said Wednesday that it was“deeply concerned” by the divisivelanguage used by the Likud.

    White House spokesman JoshEarnest also said the U.S. would haveto rethink the b est way to bring abouta two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a cornerstoneof U.S. Mideast policy for years —after Netanyahu rejected the idea.

    Netanyahu victory leaves damage in wak

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    Museum attackin Tunisia kills 19;

    two gunmen slainBy Ben Bouazzaand Paul SchemmTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSTUNIS, Tunisia — Foreign

    tourists scrambled in panicWednesday after militantsstormed a museum in Tunisia’scapital and killed 19 people,“shooting at anything thatmoved,” a witness s aid.

    Two gunmen were slain bysecurity forces following thedeadliest attack on civilians inthe North African country in 13years, and the president said theyoung democracy was embroiledin a war with terror.

    The militants, who wore mili-tary-style uniforms and wieldedassault rifles, burst from a vehi-cle and began gunning downtourists climbing out of buses atthe National Bardo Museum. Theattackers then charged inside to

    take hostages before being killedin a firefight with securityforces.

    Authorities launched a man-hunt for two or three accomplicesin the attack. Prime MinisterHabib Essi d said the two Tunisi angunmen killed 17 tourists — fivefrom Japan, four from Italy, twofrom Colombia, two from Spain,and one each from Australia,Poland and France. The natio nal-ity o f one dead foreigner was no treleased. Essid said two Tunisiannationals also were killed by themilitants.

    At least 44 people were wound-ed, i ncluding tourists from Italy,

    France, Japan, South Africa,Poland, Belgium and Russia,according to Essid and doctorsfrom Tunis’ Charles Nicolle.

    “I want th e people o f Tunisia tounderstand firstly and lastly thatwe are in a war with terror, and

    these savage minority groupswill not frighten us,” said newly

    elected President Beji CaidEssebsi in an evening address tothe nation. “The fight againstthem will continue until they areexterminated.”

    Tunisians overthrew their dicta-tor in 2011 and kicked off the Arab

    Spring that spread across theregion. While the uprising built a

    new democracy, the country hasalso struggled with economicproblems and attacks by extrem-ists.

    Essid identified the slain gun-men as Yassine Laabidi andHatem Khachnaoui.

    Twitter accounts associatedwith the extremist Islamic State

    group based in Syria and Iraqwere described as overjoyed atthe attack, urging Tunisians to“follow their brothers,” accord-ing to Rita Katz of SITE, a U.S.-based organization that monitorsmilitant groups.

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    Police officers are seen outside parliament in Tunis, Tunisia.

    Swedish police:Several people shot,two dead, in Goteborg

    STOCKHOLM — Several peoplewere shot inside a restaurant in thecity of Goteborg late Wednesday andat least two of them have died,Swedish police said.

    Police said in a statement that an

    automatic weapon is believed to

    have been used in the shooting.They had no details on any sus-pects.

    The shooting happened in theBisko psgarden suburb of Goteborg,Sweden’s second largest city. Theneighborhood has a history of gangviolence, said police spokeswomanUlla Brehm.

    She said it was too early to sp ecu-late on the motive but said there

    were indications that the shooting

    was gang-related.“There is absolutely nothing that

    indicates terrorism,” Brehm said.She said that at least two people

    were kill ed at the scene and severalothers taken to a hospital.

    Japan investigatesdeath threats to U.S.Ambassador Kennedy

    TOKYO — Japanese police are

    investigating ph one calls threaten-ing to kill U.S. AmbassadorCaroline Kennedy and anotherAmerican envoy, authorities saidWednesday.

    The calls to the U.S. Embassy tar-geted Kennedy and Alfred Magleby,the U.S. consul general on thesouthern is land of Okinawa, accord-

    ing to an Okinawa police official

    who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was notauthorized to comment on an inv es-tigation by Tokyo authorities.

    Kennedy, the daughter of the latePresident John F. Kennedy, arrivedin Tokyo in November 2013 as thefirst woman to serve as U.S. ambas-sador to Japan. She was appointedby President Barack Obama afterhelping with his re-election cam-

    paign.

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    Big movers

    By Steve RothwellTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK — The Federal Reservesurprised financial markets onWednesday with a cautious outlook onthe economy, pushing stocks andbonds sharply h igher.

    Investors judged that the tentativetone stuck by the Fed following a two-day meeting meant that interest ratesmay soon be heading higher, but thepace of any increases will be moremoderate than they previouslythought.

    Policymakers left open the possibil -ity of a rate increase later in the year,but also lowered the central bank’sforecast for economic growth andnoted that inflation would likelyremain low.

    Stocks swung from losses earlier inthe day to big gains after the Fedreleased its post-meeting statement.Bonds also rallied, pushing the yieldon the 10-year Treasury note back

    below 2 percent. The dollar plungedagainst the euro.“There is very little to suggest that

    the Fed is going to raise rates aggres-sively this year,” said Jeremy Zirin, aninvestment strategist at UBS WealthManagement.

    The Fed has held its benchmarkinterest rate close to zero since 2008

    to help the economy recover from theGreat Recession. Low rates make iteasier for businesses an d consumers toborrow and spend. They have alsohelped the stock market soar over thepast six years, pushing major stockindexes to record levels.

    On Wednesday, the Standard &

    Poor’s 500 index rose 25.22 points,or 1.2 percent, to 2,099. 50. The indexhad been down as much as 11 pointsbefore the release of the Fed’s state-ment at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time.

    The Dow Jones industrial averagegained 227.11 points, or 1.3 percent,to 18,076.19. The Nasdaq compositerose 45.39 points, or 0.9 percent, to4,982.83.

    Energy companies led the gains forstocks as the price of oil spiked afterthe Fed’s statement. Lower rates tendto make oil and other hard assets moreattractive investments, increasingtheir prices. The energy sector in theS&P 500 jumped 2.9 percent.

    Benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.20 toclose at $4 4.6 6 a barrel in New York.

    The Fed’s statement confirmed thatstocks remain in a “Goldilocks” envi-ronment, where growth is solid, butnot strong enough to stoke inflation,said Zirin at UBS.

    “This still seems to be the sweetspot for equity investors, where youshould see decent, but unspectacularearnings gains,” he said.

    In currency trading, the dollarslumped, reversing a recent surgeagainst the euro.

    The U.S. currency weakened almost3 percent against the euro, to$1.0894. The dollar had traded as lowas $1. 05 earlier in the week. The dollaralso declined agains t J apan’s currency,

    to 120.09 yen from 121.34 yen lateTuesday.The dollar has surged in recent

    months as traders anticipated that theFed would start raising interest ratesthis year, even as policymakers inEurope and other parts of the world arestill s timulating their economies.

    That surge has crimped earnings forbig multinational companies, such asOracle, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, which rely on overseas sales fora large portio n of th eir revenue. Abouthalf of all sales by S&P 500 compa-nies are made overseas.

    Bond investors also took the Fed’sstatement as a buying signal, and U.S.government bond prices jumped.

    On Wednesday, the Fed downgraded

    its quarterly economic forecasts. It cutits estimate of growth this year to arange of 2.3 percent to 2.7 percent,from an estimate of 2. 6 percent to 2. 7percent in its last forecast issued inDecember. It was an acknowledgementthat some key indicators have beenweaker than expected in recentmonths.

    Stocks rally as Fed says it may move slowly on

    By Brandon Bailey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SAN FRANCISCO — Look out,Internet Explorer. After 20 years of competing against rival Webbrowsers, Microsoft is gearing up tolaunch its own alternative to its once-dominant Internet surfing program.

    Microsoft has built a new Webbrowser designed for the modern Weband mobile devices to go with its newWindows 10 operating system that’scoming later this year. Explorer willstill be available, but Microsoft hint edthis week that its new — and as-yetunnamed — browser will get topbilling in the future.

    “They want to be associated withsomething sexy and new,” said techanalyst Al Hilwa, who followsMicrosoft and other software compa-nies for International Data Corp.“Explo rer has gotten kind of a bad rep-

    utation for not being as fast as theChromes and Firefoxes o f this world,”he said, referring to rival browsersfrom Google and Mozilla.

    Though exact estimates vary, mar-ket researchers say Explorer has beenoutpaced by Chrome in recent yearsas the world’s most widely used Webbrowser. While some analysts sayExplorer is still the leader on desktopPCs, it lags far behin d browsers madeby Google, Mozilla and Apple for

    smartphones and tablets.Explorer isn’t goin g away complete-

    ly, however. Many businesses useWeb-based software that relies onExplorer. Microsoft will likely sup-port b oth Expl orer and the new brows-er for several more years, so it doesn’talienate business customers by forcingthem to rebuild their systems fromscratch, Hilwa said.

    Microsoft unveil ed the new browser,known inside the company as “ProjectSpartan,” at a January press event.Corporate Vice President Joe Belfioretouted features design ed to make it eas-ier for users to view Web pages, savethem or share comments about themwith friends.

    As Explorer loses ground, Microsoft readies new Web brow

    By Martin CrutsingerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — After holding interestrates at record lows for more than six years,the Federal Reserve stil l isn ’t ready to startraising them.

    The Fed signaled Wednesday that it needsthe job market to improv e further and infla-tion to rise above low levels before itbegins nudging borrowing rates up. Eventhen, it suggested it will do so only verygradually.

    The statement th e Fed issued after its l at-est policy meeting seemed to catch

    investors by surprise in suggesting that arate increase might be further off than manyhad assumed. Stock prices jumped, and bondyields fell.

    The Dow Jones industrial average, whichhad been down nearly 10 0 poi nts b efore the

    statement was issued, clos ed up 227 po ints,or 1.3 percent. The yield on the 10-yearTreasury note, which influences long-termmortgage rates, tumbled from 2.04 percent

    just before the Fed’s anno uncement to 1 .9 2percent.

    In its statement and later in Chair JanetYellen’s news con ference, the Fed expressedconcerns despite the economy’s steady

    growth. Yellen pointed to lower energyprices and a surging U.S. dollar, which ishelping k eep inflation excessively low andposing a threat to U.S. corporate profits andpossibly to the economy. A Fed rateincrease would likely send the dollar even

    higher.At the same time, the Fed at least opened

    the door to a rate in crease later this year byno longer saying it will be “patient” instarting to raise its benchmark rate.Complicating its decision is that other bigcentral banks — from Europe to Japan toIndia — are either cutting rates or embark-ing on stimulus programs to try to boost

    their struggling economies.At her news conference, Yellen stressed

    that while the Fed had removed “patient” todescribe its approach to raising rates, i t stil lhadn’t decided when t o b egin raising them.

    “Just because we removed the word‘patient’ from the statement,” Yellen said,“doesn’t mean we’re going to be i mpatient. ”

    The Fed has kept its key short-term ratenear zero since late 2008 to try to bolsterthe economy after a devastating financialcrisis and recession. In its statement, theFed not ed that th e economy, which it p revi-ously said was growing so lidly, has “moder-ated somewhat.”

    Even with hiring up, Fed want further gains before rate hike

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    By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    OAKLAND — Harrison Barnes had 25points, Andre Iguodala added 21 points andsix assists, and the Golden State Warriorscruised past the Atlanta Hawks 114-95 onWednesday night in a matchup of the NBA’stop two teams.

    Stephen Curry had 16 points and 12assists, Draymond Green contributed 18points and Andrew Bogut grabbed 14rebounds as balanced Golden State main-

    tained the best record inthe league (54-13) withits 10th straight win athome.

    The Hawks, lookingfatigued and trailing bigby the fo urth quarter, weredenied again in a chanceto clinch their first divi-sion title since the 1993-94 season as Washing tonwon at Utah.

    Paul Millsap and DeMarre Carroll each

    scored 16 points andCarroll had 12 boards forcold-shooting Atlanta(53-15), which had won10 of 12 and three in arow but shot 35 .6 p ercentfrom the floo r.

    The Warriors certainlylook ready for a longpostseason run, sho wingoff snazzy passing andunselfish pl ay while win-

    ning their third straight and 10th in 12

    games, in front of a rocking sellout crowdof 19, 596 at Oracle Arena.Two days after Golden State clinched a

    playoff berth for the third consecutive sea-son, the Warriors scored 44 baskets on 39assists. It was the 25th time this seasonGolden State had 30 or more assis ts.

    Both teams played short-handed. TheWarriors were without All-Star guard KlayThompson, who sprained his right ankleMonday against the Lakers and will be re-evaluated in seven to 10 days.

    Dubs down Hawks to keep NBA’s best record

    By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    The Carlmont baseball team came toWashington Park to face Burlingame strug-gling to score runs.

    The Scots opened their Penin sula Athleti cLeague Bay Divis ion last week with a p air of games against Sacred Heart Prep. In thosetwo games, Carlmont scored a combinedthree runs.

    Their struggles continued Wednesday andBurling ame starter Paulie Ferrari had a lo t t odo with it. Ferrari pit ched a complete game,allowing two runs on ve hits.

    “We don’t do anythi ng with our at-bats —move guys over, get guys in. The last cou-

    ple of games, all we’ve done is pop it up,”said Carlmont assistant coach RickLavezzo. “Ferrari, he’s good. He’s only asophomore. He moved the ball in and out,had us reaching out on the outside sli der.

    “He had something to do with it [ouroffensive struggles] too.”

    Burlingame (1-0 PAL Bay, 7-3 overall)didn’t do much offensively either, but thePanthers did enough to pull out a 3-2 victo-ry.

    “It’s what we do,” said Burlingame manag-er Shawn Scott. “We get on and try to makethings happen.”

    Ferrari got in to a groov e quickly and otherthan a rocky sixth inning, sailed along forthe win. He threw only 92 pitches, 70 of which were strikes. He threw rst-pitchstrikes to 21 of 27 batters.

    “The yo ung kid did what we expect hi m to:keep the ball down,” Scott said of Ferrari.“He commanded both sides of the plate,which is uncommon for a 15 year old. He’snot afraid to throw any pitch I call. He’spretty s easoned for a 15-year-old kid.”

    The Burling ame offense did a good of gi v-ing Ferrari a quick lead with which to work.After Ferrari retired Carlmont (1-2, 5-4) inorder to start the game, the Panthers tookadvantage of some shoddy defensive workby the Scots to score twice for a quick 2-0lead. Grifn Intrieri led off the bott om of th erst for Burlingame and reached on an in eldhit. He stole second and moved to thirdwhen Andrew Kennedy stuck out, but the

    Panthers win pitching duel

    NATHAN MOLLAT/DAILY JOURNAL

    Burlingame pitcher Paulie Ferrari held Carlmont to just two runs on five hits as the Panthersbeat Carlmont 3-2 in their PAL Bay Division opener.

    F inally. With the Serra basketballteam losing in the NorthernCalifornia tournament semifinalsTuesday night, the high school wintersports season is now, officially, over.

    And with that comes my annual wrapupof the best of the best of the winter cam-paign.

    Goal of the y ear: Austi n Mah, Hi l lsdale. I’ve watched a lot of so ccerduring my reportin g career. A lot.

    So I can hon estly s ay Mah’s header inthe Knights’ Central Coast Section tour-nament opener might be th e best goal

    I’ve ever seen in per-son.

    Playing ScottsValley, th e Knightswere awarded a freekick just over themidfield stripe in thefirst half of a sco re-less game.Hillsdale’s ZoenEbinger st epped upand curled a long,booming cross intothe middle of the

    Falcons’ penalty box .Mah, who was crashing the goal with a

    defender on h is s houlder, g ot a runningstart, launched into space and beat thedefender and the charging goalkeeper,heading the ball into the left corner of the goal, falling headlong b ack to earth.

    It gave the Knights a 1-0 lead in a gamethey would lose in overtime.

    Most heartbreaking los s:Hillsdale’s boys’ soccer team.Mah’s goal — as s pectacular as it was —would be the Knights’ only strike in thatCCS loss. But they were oh-so-close topulling out a 1-0 win.

    They were literally seconds fromadvancing to the s econd round when

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    By Barry WilnerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK — Video replays galore.More coaches’ challenges. And a “bonusfield goal.”

    All are on t he agenda for next week’s NFLmeetings, when team owners will spendmuch time deciding whether 13 propo sals t oamend instant replay should pass.

    Among the replay proposals are Detroitsuggesting reviewing all penalties calledby game officials — yes, including pass

    interference and holding calls; all personalfouls; penalties against defenseless play-ers; any foul that results in an automaticfirst down; and clock i ssues.

    New England even proposed that every-thing except scoring plays or turnovers bechallengeable. Washington suggestedincreasing a coach’s number of challengesfrom two to three, regardless of whether heis successful on an early challenge.

    Even stadium-produced video could beused to correct officiating errors if a sugges-tion by Tennessee is approved.

    Currently, no penalties are reviewable.The Lions felt burned by a flag against theDallas defense that was picked up inDetroit’s lo ss in January.

    St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher, a member of the powerful committee, made it clear thathis peers wouldn’t favor such a change.

    “It would be our responsibility on thefield whether these are fouls or not fouls,”Fisher said of his fellow coaches. “This(replay review) was never designed toinvolve fouls.”

    Also to be discussed in Phoenix will be a

    proposal by the Patriots to place fixed cam-eras on all boundary li nes. That would guar-antee coverage of the goal lines, end linesand sidelines regardless of where networkcameras are posit ioned.

    Other proposals include moving the extrapoint attempt to the 15-yard line; guaran-teeing both teams a possession in overtimeeven if one scores a touchdown on its firstdrive; and a scenario that gives teams thatsuccessfully convert a 2-point conversion

    Significant replay rules changes proposed in NFL

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    As Ray Falk gets back on track, analready deep arsenal of Terra Nova pitch-ing grows in creasingly frightening.

    Coming off a marginal junior season,the now senior right-hander soldieredthrough five inning s to pace the Tigersto a 6-3 win over Menlo in Wednesday’sPeninsula Athletic League Bay Divisio nopener at Terra Nova.

    Falk got roughed up for two runs inthe first inning, but settled in to earnthe win, improving h is record to 2-1.

    “It definitely took a little while tosettle in after that first inning,” Falksaid. “I definitely threw way too manypitches in the first inn ing. But after thatI got i nto a li ttle groove and started toreally find my stuff.”

    Falk has been unbeaten as a starterthis year. He earned his other win inTerra Nova’s no n-league opener Feb. 25with 5 1/3 shutout innings in a 1-0 vic-tory over Riordan. His only loss camein hi s only relief appearance March 7 ina 3-2 loss to San Benito at the MikeHazlett Tournament in Santa Clara.

    Currently touting a 1.17 ERAthrough four appearances, Falk hasseen a turnaround from a year agowhen he went 5-4 with a 4.23 ERA,including losses in each of his lasttwo appearances of the season.

    “This year he’s getting it back,”Terra Nova manager Joey Gentile said.“He’s one of the best pitchers in theleague, in my mind. … Ray did a great

    job just thro wing stri kes. That’s thename of the game.”

    Ultimately, the pitch count caught upwith the right-hander. He threw 85pitches on the day, including 2 0 pit ch-es in a first inning during which hefaced eight Menlo batters.

    The top of Menlo’s batting order isstacked this season. And the Knightsshowed it in the first inning by jumpingon Falk for a pair of runs.

    Jordan Pluchar’s one-out flare to leftfield was th e rally-starting single. JohnBergeson followed with a grounder upthe middle that shortstop Kobe Christostopped with a sweet diving stab, buthis toss to second base was dropped to

    put runners at firstand second.

    Knights cleanuphitter DavidFarnham cashed inon the error with anRBI single to rightto score Pluchar.After Menlo loadedthe bases, AntonioLopez hit a come-

    backer that Falk attempted to catchbehind his back, but the ball winged off his glove for an infield single allowingscore Bergeson, giving Menlo a 2-0 lead.

    Terra Nova (1-0 in PAL Bay, 3-3 over-all) answered right back though. TheTigers have scuffled at the plate this sea-son, currently batting .194 as a team.But they needed just one hi t thro ugh theopening two frames to score one run inthe first and three more in the second.

    “I stress that all the time to theseguys about puttin g up runs after we getscored on,” Gentile said. “I thought wesho uld have scored a lot more runs butit didn’t happen. The big h itters aren’thitting like they should be yet.They’re going to come around. I’mwaiting o n them. It’s going to happenbecause they can hit.”

    The Tigers got on the board in the firstwith some help from the Menlo defense.The Knights (0-1, 3-3) committed fourerrors in the game, starting with an errantpickoff attempt at first base by Menlostarting pitcher Rylan Pade to allowKobe Cristo to move around to third.Joey Pledger followed with a clutch two-out knock to drive home Cristo.

    In the second, Terra Nova put up athree-spot without producing a hit. MatLavorin i and Chris Macedo led off withback-to-back walks. Eric Viana fol-lowed with a sacrifice bunt that theMenlo infield threw away, allowingLavorini and Macedo to score, givingthe Tigers the lead, while advancingViana to third. Then Viana scored on aJacob Braslaw groundout to stake TerraNova to a 4-2 advantage.

    Menlo got a run back in the third onan RBI single by Antonio Lopez toplate Farnham to close the lead to 4-3.But the Knights stranded two runnerswith Falk notching three strikeouts in

    the frame. Menlo would go on to leave11 runners on base in the game.

    “We had a ton of stranded runnerstoday where we’re one hit away fromhaving a big inning, which is base-ball, ” Menlo manager Ryan Cavan said.

    Terra Nova got two insurance runs inthe fourth. Eric Viana had the bigswing of the bat, making his first hitof the season a memorable one as helaunched a towering home run to leftfield. Cristo added a two-out doubleand advanced to third on a p assed ball.Then Pledger hit a hard grounder tothird that was sco red an error, scoringCristo to cap the day’s scoring.

    Both t eams’ bullpens were solid, eachproducing t wo shutout in nings. Menlothreatened in the seventh, though, byloading the bases with two outs forMacklin Badger. The senior catchergave a first-pitch challenge fastballfrom Terra Nova’s Braslaw a pretty g oodride to center, but the y ard held it for th egame’s fin al out.

    Terra Nova’s formidable depth of pi tch-ing stands to improve when Jared Milchestablishes himself in the rotation. The

    junior left-hander got a late start after fin-ishing up with his Terra Nova basketballseason. He had one abbreviated outingagainst San Benito, throwing twoinnings. He is slated to start Saturday’snon-league game against Westmont.

    Gordon is slated to take the moundFriday at Menlo in the second game of the two-game series. The right-handeris still looking for his first win of theyear at 0-1, b ut has a 1.91 ERA with onesave through three appearances.

    Sequoia 11, Capuchino 7Sequoia’s o ffense explo ded for 11 hits

    to l ead a rout of Capuchino.The Cherokees (1-0, 5-2) rallied for

    three runs in first, added one in the th irdand broke through for six more in thefourth to open up a 10-1 lead. MattLopez, Max Michelini, KylePruhsmeier and Mike Micheli ni had twohits apiece for Sequoia.

    Cap senior Oscar Martin had the lonetwo-hit performance for the Mustangs(0-1, 6-5) and also produced 3 2/3innings on the mound, allowing justone unearned run.

    Falk finds grooveasTigers down MenloBy Michael WagamanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    MESA, Ariz. — Oakland Athletics pitcher Jarrod Parkerthrew two innings of a simulated game and faced hitters forthe second time this spring while continuing his comeback

    from a second Tommy John surgery.The 26-year-old right-hander threw 30 pitches — 15 ineach inning — and look ed sharp as manager Bob Melvin andpitchin g coach Curt Young lo oked on. He faced five batters,getting three fly ball s and an in field grounder.

    “There are a few things I’m working on but today it’s justget out there and pitch a little bit, feelgood and move on, ” Parker said. “I’m notputting too much into it but it’s excitingat the same time just to play t he game outhere and be a part of everythin g.”

    Parker missed the 2014 season afterundergoing surgery on his right elbow inMarch. He had the same surgery in 2009and bounced back to win 25 games from2012-2013 before getting hurt again lastspring.

    Coming back from on e major elbow sur-gery is hard enough. A second would seem to increase the dif-

    ficulty, but the A’s remain optimistic and encouraged.“I know the numbers but I also try t o go off what I’m see-ing, and what I’m seeing right now is good stuff,” Melvinsaid. “I’m positive abo ut where he is righ t no w.”

    Parker will likely pitch in another simulated game beforethe team determines the next step. It’s doubtful th at he’ll beready for t he start o f the regular season and will li kely remainin Arizona for an extended spring training before rejoiningthe club.

    “There’s every bone in my body that feels like I could beready soo ner or soon but I thin k the smart side of me says becautious and trust the people that that’s their thing,” Parkersaid. “Right now it’s take what you take out of it and moveon. There’s not too much that we’re laboring over at thispoint.”

    The A’s insist they’re not rushin g Parker back, even t houghthey have three holes to fill in their starting rotation.

    “As far as the progression goes, he’s right on schedule,”Melvin s aid. “That’s t he second time h e’s t hrown curveballs

    and droppin g it in for strikes, which means he’s staying b ackand mechanically throwing th e ball the way he wants to .”

    Oakland’s Parker lookssharp during workout

    Jarrod Parker

    Dallas Seavey wins Iditarodin year marked by uncertainty

    NOME, Alaska — If ever there was uncertainty about the out-come of the world’s most famous sl ed dog race, i t was thi s year.

    Warm weather and a lack of snow in much of Alaska forcedorganizers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to forge an untest-ed route, utilizing the state’s extensiv e system of frozen rivers.

    Many wondered: Would the new trail make the race faster oreasier? Would it benefit mushers more accustomed to racing onice? Or would warm temperatures create new hazards on therivers?

    Dallas Seavey proved the short answer to all of those ques-tion s was no Wednesday when he won the race for the th ird timein four years.

    The Alaska musher crossed the finish line in the Bering Seacoastal town of Nome at 4:13 a.m., completing the route ineight days, 8 ho urs, 1 3 minutes and 6 seconds. That’s about fivehours longer than the record he set in winning the 2014 race.

    “Obvio usly going into this race, the big hubbub was all aboutthe new trail, right?” Seavey told a packed convention hall.Concerns were about the “warm, warm, warm winter” and condi-tion s on the Yukon River.

    But then winter came back to Alaska, and the trails becamemuch more like one would expect for the Iditarod.

    “We saw a lot of 40-, 50-below zero, snow,” said Seavey, of Willo w. “This was a v ery tough race. It was not the easy run th ata lot of peopl e had anticipated for the Yukon River.”

    Seavey’s father, Mitch, finish ed in s econd place Wednesday,followed by Aaron Burmeister. Behind th em en route to Nome

    were Jessi e Royer and Aliy Zirkle.

    Sports brief

    Ray Falk

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    SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jim Boeheim becamethe face of Syracuse University over the pastfive decades, first as player, then as coach —revered for wins and delivering a national titleto a struggling city in 2003. But the coda to

    his decorated career has become tinged withundeniable blemishes, laid out in harsh penal-ties for violations the NCAA says showBoeheim and the university los t control o f ath-letics.

    Boeheim and Syracuse officials acknowl-edged the unwanted ties Wednesday inannouncing he will retire after three more sea-sons, while insisting they don’t agree withparts of the scathing NCAA report and willappeal to try to s ave scholarships and wins.

    Syracuse University Chancellor KentSyverud said Boeheim decided to make theannouncement to “bring certainty to the teamand program in the coming y ears” and to allowfor a smooth transition.

    “Coach Jim Boeheim has been a mainstay atSyracuse University for more than o ne-third of our entire 144-year history,” Syverud said in a

    statement. “He enrolled as a student here in

    1962 and has never left. Hehas been the embodimentof Orange pride.”

    When Boeheim turned70 in November, wife Juliasked him if he was OKwith coaching as a septua-genarian and all that goes

    along with it.“I just think one dayyou’re going to have to

    slow down,” Juli said. “He doesn’t want to,number one, and he feels better than he everhas.”

    There’s been a change of heart.The violations, lasting more than a decade

    under Boeheim’s watch, involved academicmisconduct, extra benefits and the university’sdrug-testing policy, according to a March 6report by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.Boeheim is already suspended for the first half of the next Atlantic Coast Con ference season,a total of ni ne games. Syracuse will also h avethree scholarships taken away for four seasonsand all wins vacated in which an ineligibleplayer participated during five seasonsbetween 2004 and 2012. The total wins

    removed from records could be as high as 108,

    depending on what happens in the appealprocess. Syracuse has already vacated 24 wins.

    Athletic director Daryl Gross is also step-ping aside, immediately taking another mar-keting po sitio n with the school. Pete Sala willserve as interim athletic director.

    Boeheim, who scheduled a news conferencefor Thursday, has had problems before. The

    NCAA banned the Orange from the 1993NCAA Tournament for recruiting violations.Longtime assistant coach Mike Hopkins, a

    former star for the Orange, i s in line to succeedBoeheim.

    In its report, the NCAA placed Syracuse onprobation for five years for breaking with the“most fundamental core values of the NCAA.”Athletic department officials interfered withacademics, making sure star players stayed eli-gible, the report said.

    The report said the former director of basket-ball operations, who was picked by Boeheimand whose jo b primarily consis ted of monito r-ing academic performance of basketball stu-dent-athletes, became overly in volved. He col-lected and maintained student-athletes’ user-names and passwords and provided them toothers, including student-athlete support serv-

    ices.

    Boeheim’s reign done in three year

    Jim Boeheim

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    There’s no odds-on favorite for the NCAAteam wrestling title for the first time in years.

    About the only thing everyone seems toagree on is that it won’t be Penn State.

    The four-time champions Nittany Lions like-ly will see their run atop college wrestling cometo an end during this year’s national meet,w


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