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Former Redwood City mayor Jim Hartnettwas named Wednesday to head the SanMateo County Transit District as generalmanager and CEO of the county’s majortransportation networks.

Hartnett’s influential position includesserving as the general manager for

SamTrans, the executivedirector of Caltrain andthe executive director of the San Mateo CountyTransportation Authority— his five-year contractalso comes with$434,661 in annual

salary and benefits,according to Caltrain

spo keswoman Jayme Ackemann.An attorney and Redwood City resident,

Hartnett, 64, has a wealth of transit experi-ence as he prepares to step in to replace thedistrict’s current longtime CEO MikeScanlon beginning March 30.

“This i s personal for me,” Hartnett said ina press release. “I grew up on th e Peninsula.

I rode the bus before there was a SamTrans. Irode the train before there was a Caltrain. I

believe in what transi t can do to make a bet-ter life for all of us and to preserve thosethin gs we so deeply value and treasure aboutliving and working here. I understand theimportant role our bus and train systemsplay in maintaining our quality of life andsustaining the economic vitality of ourregion.”

New transit chief namedFormer Redwood City mayor to make $434K to lead Caltrain, SamTrans, Transportation Authority

Jim Hartnett

Optionsemergefor SetonCounty purchase of DalyCity medical center unlikely,coastside clinic a possibilityBy Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The Daughters of Charity are being urged to consi der sell-ing th eir two local hosp itals to San Mateo County but it isnot clear yet whether the county will be an i nterested buyer.

Supervisor Adrienne Tissier, however, thinks it’s unlike-ly t he county would buy the medical faciliti es.

“It was talked about long ago and it isn’t viable,” Tissiersaid. “It’s not sustainable long term.”

In the meantime, officials from private equity firm Blue

Wolf, whose bid was rejected to manage the hospitals, toldthe Daily Jo urnal Wednesday they are sti ll in terested in theDaughters of Charity properties.

Deputy donates kidneyto co-worker’s teen sonDonation came after relatives discovered they couldn’tBy Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Jerran Higgins and Gary Ramos started as casual workacquaintances with a few things in common; both arefathers and Fremont residents who work for the San MateoCounty Sheriff’s Office.

But as of Tuesday, they will forever hold a unique bond as

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The ugliest buildings make thenicest canvasses.

That’s the opinion of muralistMorgan Bricca, who recently painted alarge mural depicting a street scene inChina on the back wall of CrouchingTiger restaurant in downtown RedwoodCity.

It’s the first of many more muralsthat should hopefully pop up in theCommercial Way alley parallel toBroadway, said Jason Newblanc with

the Redwood City CulturalCommission.

The commission is working with th ePeninsula Arts Council and city offi-cials to reinforce the city’s role as avibrant mecca for art and culture.

The vision is to have each buildingon Commercial Way painted withmurals. It took about five years, how-ever, to get the first business owner toagree to having a mural painted on

their b uilding, Newblanc s aid.“No one wanted to take th e risk, ” he

said.Crouching Tiger’s owner Tonia Yeh

was the first to take the plunge andnow that oth er business owners nearbyhave seen how nice it turned out, theytoo are lining up to have their build-ings painted, Newblanc said.

The Crouching Tiger mural is part of a broader effort t o b eautify downtownwith art.

“It’s exciting to see thi s forgotten,yet highly visible building facade getnew life. It is often this type of cre-

ativity that make downtown visitorsand residents smile and really enjoy

Mural brings life to restaurant’swall in downtown Redwood City

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Artist Morgan Bricca stands with Crouching Tiger restaurant owner Tonia Yeh in front of a mural recently painted on the

back of the restaurant’s wall in downtown Redwood City.

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Politician sued by womanwho accused him of peeping

SANTA ROSA — A NorthernCalifornia politician has been suedby a former neighb or who claims thecounty supervisor traumatized herwhen he showed up outside her homein the middle of the night dressedonly in his socks and underwear.

The civil lawsuit filed by a womanidentifying herself only as Jane Doeclaims Sonoma County SupervisorEfren Carrillo’s “willful and mali-cious” actions caused her emotionaldistress and the need to sp end on psy-chological treatment.

The Santa Rosa Press Democratreported Monday the lawsuit filedlast month is seeking $2.5 millionin g eneral and puniti ve damages.

The woman claims she was forcedto move after the July 13, 201 3 inci-dent and lost income from her job asa nurse.

A jury acquitted Carrillo of being apeeping Tom.

Police: Woman got nakedat Dunkin’ Donuts on a dare

GREENACRES, Fla. — A 32-year-old woman tol d police in Florida shegot naked and sat outside a Dunkin’Donuts as a dare.

The Palm Beach Post reports

Shakara Monik Martin was arrestedSunday i n Greenacres near West Pal mBeach.

According to a police report,Martin told authorities the dare waspart of a pledge to a dance troop,which wasn’t identified.

Witnesses told police Martin wasoffered cloth es several times, but sherefused to take them. She began apol -ogizin g when poli ce arrived.

She faces a charge of indecentexposure. Martin appeared in courtMonday and was released on her ownrecognizance.

It was not clear whether she’sretained an attorney and a phonenumber wasn’t available for her.

Trailer with tons of mozzarellastolen from truck stop

SUMMERFIELD, Fla. — Hold thecheese. Thieves made off with arefrigerated tractor-trailer filled with$85, 000 worth of sh redded mozzarel-la cheese bound for a Hungry HowiesPizza distribution center in centralFlorida.

The truck was reported stolenSunday.

The Ocala Star-Banner reports thedriver and his g irlfriend left the trail-er at a truck stop in Summerfield onSaturday evening while having amechanic check the t ruck.

Marion County Sheriff’s officialssay t he woman reported the t ruck wasmissing Sunday. Deputies say ahauler was also reported missingfrom the lo t Saturday, presumably totake the trailer.

The missing trailer has white mudflaps with “Hudsonville TrailerSales” on them. It also has aMichigan license p late. The trailer isvalued at $62,000.

Man who sent emailednude photos of ex is sentenced

PASADENA — The ex-boyfriend of a Pasadena high school teacher hasbeen sentenced to six months in jailfor sending nude photos of his ex tohundreds of students and schoolemployees.

City News Service says DavidGalvan also was given 200 hours of community service on Monday andordered to take anger managementclasses.

Autho riti es say h e used a Muir HighSchool work email to send nakedphotos of his former boyfriend tostudents, teachers and others on thevictim’s contact list last July.

Police say Galvan was angry overthe couple’s breakup.

He pleaded no contest last monthto false impersonation and distribut-ing obscene material.

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Former MLBAll-Star DarrylStrawberry is 53.

This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1933

President Franklin D. Rooseveltdelivered the first of his 30 radioaddresses that came to be known as

“fireside chats,” telling Americanswhat was being done to deal with thenation’s economic crisis.

“If power corrupts, being outof power corrupts absolutely.”

— Douglass Cater, American author and educator

Actress-singer LizaMinnelli is 69.

Actor AaronEckhart is 47.

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An American alligator estimated to be 12-13 feet long walks onto the edge of the putting green on the seventh hole of Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood, Fla.

Thursday : Partly cloudy in the morningthen becoming sunny. Highs in the mid60s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.Thursday night: Mostly clear exceptpatchy fog after midnight. Lows in thelower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.Friday : Mostly cloudy in the morningthen becoming partly cloudy. Patchy fogin the morning. Highs in th e mid 60s.

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The“Enrollment woes drive teacher layoffs” article pub-lished Wednesday, March 11, misquoted Superintendent JanChristensen. She said “Regretfully, many highly effectiveteachers will receive notices this week.”

Correction

In 1664, England’s King Charles II granted an area of landon the East Coast of present-day North America known asNew Netherland to his broth er James, t he Duke of York.In 1857, the original version of “Simon Boccanegra,” anopera by Giuseppe Verdi, was poorly received at it s p remierein Venice, Italy. (Verdi o ffered a revised versio n i n 1 881. )In 1912 , the Girl Scouts of the USA had its beginnings asJuliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia, founded the firstAmerican troop of th e Girl Guides.In 1925 , Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died.I n 1 9 3 8 , the Anschluss merging Austria with NaziGermany took place as German forces crossed the borderbetween the two countries.In 1940 , Finland and the Soviet Union concluded anarmistice during World War II. (Fighting between the twocountries flared again th e following year.)In 1955 , legendary jazz musician Charlie “Bird” Parkerdied in New York at age 34.In 1968 , President Lyndon B. Johnson won the NewHampshi re Democratic primary, but Sen. Eugene McCarthyof Minnesota placed a strong second.In 1971 , Hafez Assad was confirmed as president of Syriain a referendum.In 1985 , conductor Eugene Ormandy, director of thePhiladelphia Orchestra for more than four decades, died atage 85.In 1994, the Church of England ordained its first womenpriests.In 2003, Elizabeth Smart, the 1 5-year-old girl who’d van-ished from her bedroom n ine mon ths earlier, was found alivein a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian DavidMitchell and Wanda Barzee, who are serving prison termsfor kidnapping her.

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68. Singer-songwriter James Taylor is 67. Former Sen. KentConrad, D-N.D., is 67. Rock singer-musician Bill Payne(Little Feat) is 66. Actor Jon Provost (TV: “Lassie”) is 65.Author Carl Hiaasen (HY’-ah-sihn) is 62. Rock musicianSteve Harris (Iron Maiden) is 59. Actor Jerry Levine is 58.Singer Marlon Jackson (The Jackson Five) is 58.

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SAN CARLOSArrest . A man was arrested for being drunk

in public on the 900 block of East SanCarlos Avenue before 12:14 a.m. Friday,March 6 .

Drinking in public. A citation was is suedto a man who was drinking in public at theintersection of Cherry and Laurel Streetbefore 8:15 p.m. Friday, March 6.

FOSTER CITYTheft. A rental truck was stolen on ChessDrive before 12 :04 p.m. Tuesday, March 10.

Arrest . A man was arrested for driv ing with-out a license on Foster City Boulevardbefore 3:24 p.m. Tuesday, March 10 .

Arrest . A man was arrested for drivi ng under

the influence on Vintage Park Drive andVelocity Way before 8:17 p.m. Monday,March 9 .

State board suspends schoolaccountability on Common Core

LOS ANGELES — The Califo rnia Board of Education suspended the state’s schoolaccountability system on Wednesday forone year to give teachers and students timeto adjust to new standardized tests alignedwith Common Core s tandards.

The board voted at a meeting inSacramento not to produce an AcademicPerformance Index for the 2014-15 schoolyear. The index uses student results onstatewide tests to rank schools and to iden-tify those that need improvement.

School b oard President Michael Kirst saidthe st ate wants to make sure it is measuringstudent growth, not just baseline perform-ance, on the new Smarter Balanced tests.

The Common Core benchmarks adoptedby a majority of states around the nationhave come under fire in recent years, l argelyfrom conservatives who decry th em as a fed-eral infringement on school policy. Thestandards were approved for implementa-tion by individual states, though the U.S.Department of Education encouraged theiradoption through initiatives like Race tothe Top.

The new tests have angered some parentsand teachers across the nation who say the

exams distract from real learnin g, put addedstress on students and staff members, andwaste resources, especially in poor dis-tricts.

Police reports

A bird in the bushA woman was seen hi ding behi nd bush-es and breaking branches on KetchCourt in Foster City before 5:11 p.m.Monday, March 9.

CITY GOVERNMENT• The city o f San Mateo is seeking interested citizens to apply

for an open seat on the Planning Commission . The initialappoin tment is for a partial term through June 10, 201 7. The seatis vacant due to Rick Bonil la’s appointment to the CityCouncil. The successful applicant will then be eligible for twofour-year terms on the commissi on.

Applications are available on the city’s website cityofsanma-teo.org or by contacting San Mateo City Clerk Patrice Olds at [email protected]. Applications must be received by the city clerk by 5 p.m. Tuesday, March31 to be considered. If you have questions about serving on the Planning Commissionplease contact the San Mateo Planning Divi sio n at [email protected].

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Joseph Maria Lucia Jacinta Francisco Schreurs

Joseph Maria Lucia Jacinta FranciscoSchreurs (“Joe”) died Feb. 18, 2015.

Joe was born in theNederlands and emigratedto the United States whenhe was 10. He was a stu-dent of Bishop O’Dowd,Ohlone College, a semi-narian at the Oblates of St. Joseph and a corps-man for the U.S. Navy. In1983, Joe and his wifeformed the consulting

firm of Schreurs & Schreurs. Joe served as aconsultant to H-P, Apple, Oracle and VirginAmerica among other fortune 500 companiesuntil his death.

Joe made friends easily, and was alwayshappy to share a story or joke, comfort andkindness. Joe had that air about him thatmade everyone love him. He was taken toosoon from this world, and will be greatlymissed by many.

He is survived by his wife Cynthia, chil-dren and grandchildren Jos eph S. (wife Hyla,children Alexander, Zachary, Zoe); Jonathan(wife Joanna, children Jordan, Joshua);

Virginia (husband Chris, children Ashley,Trevor); Jeremy; Justin (wife Pamela, childLorelei); and many in-laws, nieces, nephews,godchildren and friends, too many to list butnot forgotten. A private service will be heldfor the Family.

Theresa (Terry) Alchera CookTheresa (Terry) Alchera Cook, born Aug. 6,

1924, died March 6, 2015.Her beloved Mamma and

Papa were northern Italianimmigrants. She was pre-deceased by brother AldoAndrew Alchera, nephewDon Alchera and her hus-band John M. Cook.

Retirement came about

with her marriage, “Therestarted a life of happiness

and travel.”Lap swimming was a personal part of her

life. With that passion, she not only taughther children to swim but to also give otherchildren an opportunity to learn to swim inthe local publi c pool as a San Bruno Parks andRecreation commissioner. “It was an honorto serve the community on this commis-sion.”

She served as a political advocate bybecoming a member of the RepublicanWomen Federated in San Mateo, also inSonoma, and then in Auburn, California,which was her last and final home.

Theresa has two children, Joan Lovan andMichael Muscardini. In the next generation,there are four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Rose Marie HorganA private memorial service has been held

for Rose Marie Horgan of San Mateo, whodied in March 2015.

She was 99.Rose Marie Murray was born i n Oakland in

1916. A graduate of Hayward High School andDominican College, she had lived in SanMateo since 1947 .

A devoted mother and a former publicschool teacher, she was married to John T.Horgan for nearly 50 years.

A lifelong Catholic, she was a member of the St. Anthony’s Guild at St. Matthew’sChurch in San Mateo; she also was a volun-teer at the St. Vincent de Paul Society in SanMateo.

She is survived by her three adult children,Patricia Boblitt of Sebastopol, Anne Horganof San Mateo and John M. Horgan of Burlingame; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and two brothers, RichardBrown of Oakland and Raymond Brown of San Jose. She was predeceased by her sister,Loretta Potst ada.

“The family wishes to thank the caregiverswho tended to Rose Marie’s needs during thelast years of her life.”

Burial was at Holy Cross Cemetery inColma. Donations to the St. Vincent dePaulSociety or Samaritan House are preferred.Arrangements were by the Sneider & Sullivan& O’Connell’s Funeral Home in San Mateo.

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SEATTLE — Warm temperatures and a lack

of snowfall in February have taken a toll o nwinter snowpack in the Cascade Mountainsand other areas in t he West, the U.S. NaturalResources Conservation Service saidWednesday.

One-third of monitoring sites in theCascades and Sierra Nevada reported thelowest snowpack ever measured as of March1, and some sites don’t even have snow,unusual for this time of y ear.

The March forecast als o sho ws that sno w-pack in Nevada, Utah and Idaho fell fartherbelow normal.

“Snowpack along the Continental Divideis about normal, but it drops off as you goSouth and West,” said Cara McCarthy, ahydrologist with the service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “If theweather doesn’t change, we’re looking at

low-stream flow in a lot of areas.”Snow that falls in the mountains during

the winter typically melts slowly duringspring and summer, providing water formuch of th e region. A lack of sno wpack canlead to drought. Low-flowing rivers in the

summer also may affect fish, wildlife, live-stock, municipal water supplies andhydropower production .

“The snowpack in the Western U.S. iscounted on to be an additio nal reservoir that

holds a whole bunch of water, so that wateris released slowly as the snow melts.Westerners count on that snow for springand summer, for irrigation and other wateruses,” McCarthy said.

Warm February takes tollon snowpack in the West

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One-third of monitoring sites in the Cascades and Sierra Nevada reported the lowest snowpack

ever measured as of March 1.

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The rising cost of running for city officesand changing policy at the natio nal level areprompting th e Belmont City Council to pro-ceed with updates to its campaign finance

ordinance that would include allowing busi-nesses to contribute and raising donationcaps.

The council met Tuesday night to continueits January discussion on changing i ts regu-lations considered to be the most restrictivein San Mateo County.

Currently, those running for a city officecannot take contributions from businesses,can only receive up to $2 50 from an in divid-ual, can b e given no more than $99 from ananonymous donor and must file three reportson their campaign spending.

With changes to federal standards and thecost of living having increased since theordinance was adopted in 1986, and updatedin 2009, the council instructed staff to pro-ceed with a draft ordinance that would adhereto U.S. Supreme Court rulings by allowingbusinesses to participate.

The proposal will be presented at a futuremeeting and includes allowing individuals tocontribute up to $5 00, businesses or organi-zations to donate up to $1,000, keepinganonymous donations at no more than $99and an escalator clause that would annuallyincrease contribution maximums by a per-

centage comparable to cost of livin g increas-es.The council seeks to enact changes prior t o

the November election during which twocouncil seats currently occupied by MayorDavid Braunstein and Councilwoman CathyWright , th e city clerk and city t reasurer are upfor a vote.

As the council discussed the parameterswithin which it must work, they also com-pared Belmont’s ordinance to four othercities within the county that have enactedrules more restrictive than the state’s.

San Mateo allows in dividuals to contribute$250 and businesses up to $ 500. Burlingameallows individuals to donate up to $584 andbusinesses up to $1 ,168 ; the city’s caps havebeen increased due to an escalation clause.Half Moon Bay allows businesses and indi-viduals to contribute up to $1,000 per elec-

tion while Menlo Park prohibits anony mousdonations of $25 or more, according to a citystaff report.

Vice Mayor Eric Reed had hop ed the coun-cil would consider doing away with the city’sordinance altogether and raised concernsabout personal wealth being an advantage.

“I think it’s important for people to knowthat it’s very difficult to run a campaign andend that campaign without being in debt. …What I think that does is it makes peopl e of lesser means less likely to run,” said Reed,according to a video of the meeting. “I thin kthe amount of donations has to be highenough to allow everybody to be able to runa campaign and I think we need to make theescalation something that mirrors real worldactivity.”

Federal standardsWhile some desired to ease the barriers to

entry by leveling how much a candidate couldloan themselves, the U.S. Supreme Courtlimits local jurisdictions from adoptingequalization restrictions, said City Attorney

Belmont tackles campaign finances

Negotiations linger on d.tech locationBy Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

A decision by the San Mateo Union HighSchool District regarding the long-termplacement of Design Tech High School hasbeen temporarily postponed while negotia-tion s are finalized.

Officials were slated to address the issueThursday, March 12 during the regularlyscheduled Board of Trustees meeting, butthat timeline has been pushed back tem-porarily.

The district i s waiting t o anno unce a deci-

sion where the charter high school, current-ly located on the Mills High School cam-pus, will be placed following the currentschool year.

Assistant Superintendent Liz McManussaid the district is in the process of negoti-ating an agreement with another agencythat would supply space to the charterschool, and cannot disclose the resolutionuntil th e deal is finali zed.

“These things take a little longer thananticipated,” she said. “Sometimes youhave to move slow to go fast.”

District spokeswoman Sheri Costa-Batissaid in an email officials hope th e issue willbe resolved as soon as po ssible.

“Solidifying a location for d.tech’s place-ment is a district priority and we anticipatethat th e discussio n surrounding d.tech’s newhome for next school year will be on theagenda at bi-weekly board meetings untilresolved,” said Costa-Batis. “The processcontinues to move in a positive direction.The district t eam appreciates the patience of both the Mills High and d.tech communi-ties.”

The charter school offers students an edu-cation immersed in technology and innova-tion curriculum. It opened last year to con-cerns of members of the Mills community,

regarding the impact that co-location mayhave on the school.The district has considered moving the

charter to the former Crestmoor HighSchool site in San Bruno, onto propertyowned by either the San Mateo CountyOffice of Education, or a parcel of land inRedwood Shores owned by the OracleCorporation, among oth er options.

McManus said officials are nearing a deci-sion regarding the school’s ultimate desti-nation.

“We are very close to resolvin g thi s iss ue,and we’ve been in contact with d.tech andMills, so th ey are aware of the steps t he dis-trict is taking,” she said.

Bills banning most vaccineexemptions fail in Northwest

SALEM, Ore. — Legislative efforts toincrease pressure on parents t o get their kidsvaccinated failed in Oregon and Washingtonstate Wednesday amid stiff opposition as ahandful of other statehouses consider simi-lar bills prompted by a measles outbreak atDisneyland. Oregon’s measure, which had thesupport of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown,would have made the state the third in thecountry allowing exemptions from immu-nizations only for medical reasons, and nolonger for religious, philosophical or per-

sonal reasons. Mississippi and West Virginiaare the only o ther states that have compara-ble laws in place.

Lawmakers criticize U.S. lawenforcement profiling guidelines

LOS ANGELES — Lawmakers s ent a let teron Wednesday to the Justice Departmentsaying new guidelines restricting federallaw enforcement agencies from racial pro-filing don’t go far enough.

U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, a Democrat whochairs the Congressional Asian PacificAmerican Caucus, sent the concerns toAttorney General Eric Holder.

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Accused meth dealer skips court appearanceA San Jose man accused of selling large amounts of

methamphetamine out of the Redwood City OrchardSupply Hardware parking lots failed toappear in court Wednesday for a felonyarraignment and a bench warrant wasissued for his arrest, according to theSan Mateo County District Attorney’sOffice.

San Jose resident Sergio NarangoRodriguez, 36, allegedly sold 3 po undsof meth to an undercover DrugEnforcement Agency officer Jan. 29.

The DEA officer had bought a poundof meth from anot her man Oct. 8 and set up a s econd buyin January when Ro driguez, an all eged suppli er, sho wedup with the larger amount.

He was out of custody on a $40, 000 b ail.

Potential grand jurors urged to applyThe appli cation period for service on the 201 5-16 San

Mateo County Civil Grand Jury will close March 30,according to Judge Joseph C. Scott, the appointed advi-sor for th e next g rand jury term, which commences July 1and ends June 30, 2016 .

Any resident of San Mateo County for more than oneyear who is a citizen of the United States, 18 years of ageor older, of ordinary intelligence, sound judgment andgood character, with sufficient kn owledge of t he Englishlanguage is eligible for selection.

Elected public o fficials are not eligi ble.The San Mateo County Superior Court encourages all

interested individuals to apply. The court strives toobtain a cross section of the county population. After thecompletion of an interview process by Judge Scott,

jurors will be s elect ed thro ugh a random draw.Application forms can be obtained by writing Grand

Jury Clerk, Court Executive Office, 40 0 County Center,Redwood City, CA 94063 or telephoning (650) 261-5066 or online at: http://www.sanmateocourt.org/docu-ments/grand_jury/application_form.pdf.

Local briefs

By Emily SwansonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Americans’ confi-dence in all three branches of govern-ment is at or near record lows, accord-ing to a major s urvey th at has measuredattitudes on t he subject for 40 years.

The 2014 General Social Surveyfinds only 23 percent of Americanshave a great deal of confidence in theSupreme Court, 11 p ercent in the exec-utive branch and 5 percent inCongress. By contrast, half have agreat deal of con fidence in the mili tary.

The survey is conducted by the inde-pendent research organization NORCat the University of Chicago. Becauseof its long -running and comprehensiveset of questions about the public, it is ahighly regarded source of data aboutsocial trends. Data from the 2014 sur-vey was released last week, and ananalysis of its findings on confidencein institutions was conducted by theAssociated Press-NORC Center forPublic Affairs Res earch and the GeneralSocial Survey.

Five things to know aboutAmericans’ low confidence in th e gov -ernment and other institutions:

DROP IN SUPPORT FORPRESIDENCY DRIVEN BY GOP

The 11 percent who say they’re con-fident in the presidency approaches arecord low measured by th e same surveyin 199 6, when just 10 percent said theyhad a great deal of confidence in theexecutive branch. The 44 percent who

now say they have hardly any confi-dence at all is at a record high .

Historically, and not surprisingly,the survey has found that Democratshave more confidence in the executivebranch when the sitting president is aDemocrat, and Republicans have moreconfidence when the president is aRepublican. In the 2014 survey, just 3percent of Republicans say they have alot of confidence in the presidency,down from a record high 45 percentwho said so in 20 02, when overall con-fidence in the presidency was also atthe highest point the survey has meas-ured, at 27 percent. Then, PresidentGeorge W. Bush was still riding a crestof support in the aftermath of the 9/11terrorist attacks.

But confidence among Democratshas dropped some in recent years, to o,from 25 percent in 2010 to 18 percentin 2014.

Just 1 in 10 in dependents expressed alot of confidence in the presidency in2014.

SUPREME COURT CONFIDENCEFALLING ACROSS PARTY LINES

The 2014 survey finds that confi-dence in the Supreme Court has fallenamong Democrats, Republicans andindependents since 2012, driving con-fidence in the court to a 40-year lowoverall. The 26 percent of Democratswith a lot of confidence in the court is arecord low in th e histo ry of the s urvey,while Republican confidence in thehigh court, at 22 percent, is also nearan all-time l ow.

Independents are the least likely tohave a great deal of confidence in thecourt, at 20 percent.

Overall, 2 i n 10 s ay they have hardlyany confidence in the court, a recordhigh, while more than half have onlysome confidence.

NOBODY LIKES CONGRESSIf there’s one issue than unites

Americans, it ’s that hardly anyone h asmuch confidence in Cong ress, t he sur-vey shows. Over half of Americansexpress hardly any confidence at all,while only 7 percent of Democrats, 5percent of independents and 3 percentof Republicans have a great deal of confidence in Con gress.

Younger Americans — th ose under 35— are a bit more lik ely than o lder onesto express confidence in Congress, b uteven among that group only 10 percentsay they have a lot of confidence in thelegislative branch.

POOR MARKS FOR MEDIA, TOOConfidence has decreased since the

1970s, when about a quarter of Americans expressed a great deal of confidence in the press. Now, a recordlow of 7 percent have a lot of confi-dence, while 44 percent have hardlyany confidence at all.

Republicans are the least likely toexpress a lot of confidence in thepress, at o nly 3 percent, but Democratsaren’t far behind at 1 0 percent.

Only 1 in 10 has a lot of confidencein television, which is also near arecord low.

Major survey finds recordlow confidence in government

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By Calvin WoodwardTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The State Department’sinternal watchdog has found that manydepartment employees are not preservingemails for the public record as required bythe go vernment. That could mean a substan-tial amount of lost government informa-tion.

The inspector general’s office, in a reportout Wednesday, said that in 2011, whenHillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state, department employees wrote morethan 1 billion emails but only marked61, 156 for the public record. There’s no wayto know from the figures how many shouldhave been designated as public records.

Even fewer were marked for public records,41,74 9, in 20 13, the year when she left thedepartment.

Clinton is under scrutiny for using herpersonal email exclusively for official non-classified business during her tenure and fordoing so with a private server. The newreport does not address the use of personalemail accounts, which the department dis-couraged employees from using in earlierguidance.

But the investigation found that employ-ees had no central oversigh t of their record-keeping responsibilities with email, manydid not kno w about the rules and some fearedthe consequences of their emails beingsearched and exposed.

“Department officials have noted thatmany emails that qualify as records are notbeing saved as record emails,” the reportsays. “Some employees were under theimpression that record emails were only aconvenience; they had not understood thatsome emails were required to be saved asrecords.”

The report found the laxity despite a 200 9upgrade in the system used to preserveemails as public records. It recommends bet-ter training, sharper guidelines for whatshould be made a public record and a depart-ment-wide review of ho w emails are used andkept.

Branches within the department variedwidely in their preservation practices: Thesecretary’s office designated only seven

emails as public records in 2013; the officeof diplomatic security did so with 409emails.

Emails are required to be preserved for thepublic record if they deal with policy,actions by officials, historically relevantinformation or meet a variety of otherbenchmarks. Among the more than 1 bil-lion emails sent in 2011, some were workemails that did not meet those standards,others were personal and still others shouldhave been captured for the record butweren’t. Emails that are not designated forthe record may still become available forrelease later but become harder to find in themountain of untapped government informa-tion.

Inspector: State Departmentlax on preserving their emails

CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

While it may seem unusual, secretariesof state traditionally have rarely dealtpersonally with classified information inelectronic form,according to current andformer employees. These employees’knowledge of Clinton’s practices islimited, in as much as they have notreviewed her emails and cannot speak to whether she followed standardprocedure.MAHOGANY ROW AND THE LINE

In Washington,the office of the secretaryof state is located on the 7th floor of thedepartment’s headquarters along acorridor known as “Mahogany Row.”Visitors are required to surrender theircellphones when entering the area,which is lined not only with thesecretary’s office suite but the offices of other senior department officials andaides.The job of some of these staffers isto receive and send correspondencerelated to the secretary,sort of a humanfirewall. Nearly all classifiedcommunication to and from thesecretary passes through the hands andcomputers of these staffers, knowncollectively as “the line.”According to current and pastemployees, those on “the line” havegenerally made hard copies of classifieddocuments requiring the secretary’scomment, response or signature andhand-delivered them to his or her officefor action. Those staffers are alsoresponsible for the ultimate transmissionand disposition of the documents once

the secretary has responded.Current andpast employees say even a secretary of state’s references to classified informationin electronic communications are oftennot sent directly by the secretary butthrough these aides or other more seniorofficials on a government email account.ON THE ROAD

When a secretary of state is traveling,thesame system is employed on a smallerscale with members of “the line”aboardthe secretary’s plane and at hotels. On

the plane,the secretary’s compartmentand staff area are designated secure areaswhere classified conversations andcorrespondence may be conducted.

Those without clearances, notably thetraveling press corps,are not permitted inthose areas, which constitute the fronttwo-thirds of the converted Boeing 757.In hotels, the State Department oftenblocks off entire floors or sections of floors as secure areas where classifiedcomputers and documents are handled.SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED

Unique among federal agencies, theState Department has a designationknown as “sensitive, but unclassified,”which refers to information that does notmeet the standard for secrecy but shouldnevertheless be handled with extremecare. (Other agencies use a similarformulation “for official use only.”) For asecretary of state,that can be particularlytrue,since much of his or her job involvesdealing with other countries,which havetheir own sensitivities. It’s not clearwhether any of Clinton’s emails from her

personal account included language thatcould embarrass the United States orother governments,like comments fromsome diplomats that came to light in theWikiLeaks scandal. Since 2005, StateDepartment policy outlined in theForeign Affairs Manual has been that“sensitive,but unclassified”informationshould not be included in private emails.However,officials stress that the code of conduct spelled out in the manual is aguideline and not a law or regulation.

HOW DID CLINTON

HANDLE SUCH INFORMATION?

It’s still not clear.Her insistence that noneof the emails from her personal account— based on a server at her home —contained classified information hasbeen met with skepticism.Critics say thesheer volume of her self-reported work email (30,490 messages on 55,000printed pages) combined with the sheervolume of classified information availableto her as secretary of state make such aclaim dubious.Only a thorough review of thedocuments — a process the StateDepartment says will take at least severalmonths — will be able to determine if Clinton included any classified material,even perhaps inadvertently,in the emailsshe gave the department.The review willnot include the 31,830 messages thatClinton’s office identified as “private,personal records”and did not provide.Once the emails are reviewed,the StateDepartment says it will post them onlinefor the public to see.

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PARIS — A man and a boy featured in anIslamic State group propaganda video thatthreatens Jews and shows the killing of a

Palestinian have been identified as Frenchcitizens, and investigators are looking intowhether the man is related to an extremistwho attacked a Jewish school in southernFrance in 2012, an official told theAssociated Press on Wednesday.

The extremist group claimed thePalestinian was an agent for the Mossad andthe adult i n t he vi deo made reference to thetargeting of Jews both in Europe and ulti-mately in Israel. But the man’s father toldthe Associated Press h e had simply regrettedhis decision to join IS and was killedbecause he wanted to go ho me.

The White House noted the video comesamid signs of dissent within IS ranks andreports of IS fighters being executed whiletrying to flee and defect, suggesting thegroup was flail ing under increased pressure.

Meanwhile, Iraqi soldiers and alliedShiite militiamen swept into the IS-heldcity of Tikrit on Wednesday, launching atwo-front offensive to squeeze the extrem-ists out of Saddam Hussein’s hometown.

The man in the video, released lateTuesday, speaks with a southern Frenchaccent and investigators are probing if hecould be a person who has been identifiedvariously as the step-brother or half-broth-er of Mohammed Merah, who killed sevenpeople in attacks on a Jewish school andparatroopers in the south of France begin-ning on March 11, 2012 - exactly threeyears ago.

In photos from Merah’s funeral after hisdeath in a shootout with police, the relativeis identified as Sabri Essid, whose fatherwas married to Merah’s mother. Essid

strongly resembles the man in the IslamicState video, notably in the shape of theeyes.

In the video, the man praises attacks onJews “in your own strongh old in France” ashe and the boy stand behind the man aboutto be killed.

The French official, who has close ties tointell igence services but was not authorizedto speak publicly about the inquiry, alsosaid another French fig hter whose death wasannounced this week by Islamic State is ayoung t eenager.

Since the 2012 k illi ngs in Toulouse, Jewshave been targeted by French extremiststwice.

France identifies man, boy in IS killing video

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An Iraqi helicopter lands on the ground in the town of al-Alam.

By Deb RiechmannTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — America’s top militaryofficer says that while Iran’s support in the

fight against Islamic State militants ishelpful, the U.S. remains concerned aboutwhat happens “after the drums stop beating ”and IS is defeated.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman o f the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the SenateForeign Relations Committee onWednesday that anything anyone does tocounter IS is a “positive thing.” But he saidthere is concern about whether Iran-backedmilitamen, who are Shia, will turn againstSunni Iraqis, further destabilizin g Iraq.

“We are all concerned about what happensafter the drums stop beating and ISIL isdefeated, and whether the government of Iraq will remain on a path to provide aninclusive government for all of the variousgroups within it,” Dempsey said, using anacronym for the mil itant group. “We’re veryconcerned about that.”

“What we are watching carefully iswhether the militias — they call themselvesthe Popular Mobilization Forces —whether, when they recapture lost t erritory,whether they engage in acts of retributionand ethnic cleansing,” he said. “There’s noindication t hat th at is a widespread event atthis point, but we’re watching closely.”

Dempsey joined Secretary of State JohnKerry and Defense Secretary Ash Carter intestifying at a hearing about PresidentBarack Obama’s proposal for new war pow-ers to fight IS. The debate comes amidDemocratic worries that it could lead to afull-scale U.S. ground war in the Mideastand GOP concerns that i t sho uld not t ies th e

hands of th e commander in chi ef.The legislation, debated in a Senate

Foreign Relations Committee hearing, willset up the first war vote in Congress in 13years.

Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker,R-Tenn. , said he hopes th e hearing will helpstart a process where both parties can reachagreement on a new authorization to fightIS militants, who have seized territoryacross Iraq and Syria. Obama sent his draftto Capitol Hill last month.

“As we have received that authorizationfor the use of military force, what we have

come to understand is that — and this is nota pejorative statement, it’s an observation— we don’t know of a single Democrat inCongress, in the United States Senate, any-way, that s upports that authorization for th euse of military force,” Corker sai d.

Obama’s p roposal would allow the use of military force against IS for three years,unbounded by national borders. The fightcould be extended to any “closely relatedsuccessor entity” to the IS, which has over-run parts of Iraq and Syria. He ruled outlarge-scale U.S. ground combat operationsreminiscent o f Iraq and Afghanis tan.

Military chief voices concerns about fight against IS

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, U.S. Defense SecretaryAsh Carter, center, and Secretary of State John Kerry testify at a Senate Foreign Relations

Committee hearing on ‘The President’s Request for Authorization to Use Force Against ISIS:Military and Diplomatic Efforts.’

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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on theNew York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEVeriFone Systems Inc., up $1.41 to $34.60 The maker of terminals for electronic payments reported better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter profit and revenue.Brown Shoe Co., down $2.05 to $30.01 The footwear retailer posted a disappointing outlook for the year and saidit might face product delays due to a West Coast port slowdown.Southwest Airlines Co., up 90 cents to $43.84 The carrier said that passengers flew more, flights were more crowded,and a key revenue figure increased in February compared with a yearearlier.Express Inc., up 52 cents to $15.47 The clothing and accessories company’s fourth-quarter profit fell as someexpenses increased, but its results topped analysts’expectations.NasdaqSalix Pharmaceuticals Ltd., up $10.96 to $168.61Endo International offered $11.7 billion for the drugmaker, seeking totop a rival bid from Valeant Pharmaceuticals.Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc., up $1.07 to $11 The drugmaker reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter resultsand forecast about 50 percent product revenue growth.Vera Bradley Inc., down $2.93 to $15.14 The handbag and accessories company reported worse-than-expectedfourth-quarter results and a weak outlook.Zogenix Inc., down 45 cents to $1.22

Big movers

By Bernard Condon


NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexesclosed slightly lower Wednesday, sta-bilizing a day after their biggest sell-off in two months.

With no obvious catalyst pushingthem either way, indexes spent mos t of the day wavering between slight gainsand losses. Investors are waiting forclues from a Federal Reserve meetingnext Wednesday as to when it may s tartincreasing interest rates. The prospectof high er rates and a surge in t he dollarhave been weighing on markets sinceindexes hit record highs last week.

Stocks rose at the openi ng of tradingand, until about an hour before theclose, were holding onto their gains.The losses at the end were tiny, andenergy and financial companies man-aged to rally.

“Investors are reassessing whetheryesterday’s sell-off made sense,” saidDavid Lefkowitz, senior stock strate-

gist at UBS. “We still l ike stocks.”The Dow Jones industrial average

lost 27.55 points, or 0.2 percent, to

close at 17,635.39. The Standard &Poor’s 500 index lost 3.92 points, or0.2 percent, to 2,040.24. Both index-es are down now about 1 percent in2015.

The Nasdaq composite fell 9.85points, or 0.2 percent, to 4,849.94.The Nasdaq is up 2. 4 percent t his year.

The odds of the Fed raising ratesappeared to rise on Friday after theU.S. government reported a burst inhiring last month. A rate increasewould be the first in nine years. Lowrates and other monetary stimulus havehelped the S&P 500 to triple in pricesince the bull market began six yearsago.

A U.S. interest rate rise would comeas Japan and Europe are struggling togrow and as China’s expansion slows.On Wednesday, China’s official Xinhuanews agency reported that output inthe world’s second-biggest economyrose 6.8 percent in the first twomonth s of the year, less than expected.China is expected to slo w further aftergrowing 7.4 percent last year, the

slowest rate in nearly a quarter-century.“You have three out of four major

drivers of economic growth st ill s trug-

gling,” said Bill Strazzullo, chief mar-ket strategist at Bell Curve Trading.“Can the U.S. go it alone, especiallywith rates heading higher?”

Strazzullo said he wouldn’t be sur-prised if the S&P 500 fell 10 p ercent inthe coming months.

UBS’s Lefkowitz is more op timis tic.

He said he doesn’t think higher inter-est rates will hurt the U.S. economybecause it has been steadily strength-ening. After Tuesday’s stock markettumble, he published a report showingthat, in the six months after initial Fedrate hikes going back to 1954, theS&P 500 has rallied an average 7.6percent.

David Lebovitz, Global MarketStrategist for J.P. Morgan AssetManagement, also thin ks in terest ratefears are overblown. “I think a coupleof month s after the Fed hikes, the mar-ket will be higher,” he said.

As the Fed is poised to raise rates,the European Central Bank is tryi ng tolower them. The divergent p olicies arehammering the euro and sending the

dollar higher. On Wednesday, the eurofell to $1.0550 , its lo west level sinceApril 20 03.

Stocks slip at close, stabilizing day after sell-off

By Marcy GordonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The FederalReserve approved plans by major U.S.banks to raise dividends and buy backshares, but gave only conditionalapproval for Bank of America, citing

weaknesses in the bank’s planningprocesses.

The Fed also rejected plans by theU.S. divisions of two European banks,saying their planning for financialrisks is inadequate. Those divisionsbelong to Germany’s Deutsche Bankand Spain’s Sant ander.

The Fed approvals announcedWednesday foll owed part o f its “stresstests” — an annual check-up of thenation’s biggest financial institu-tions. This year, 31 b anks were testedto determine if they have large enoughcapital buffers to keep lending th roughanoth er financial crisis and severe eco-nomic downturn.

The remaining 28 banks can raisedividends or buy back shares. Theyincluded JPMorgan, Citigroup, andWells Fargo & Co., which with Bank of America are the four biggest U.S.banks by assets.

Shortly after the Fed announced itsresults Wednesday, a handful of banks

began increasing their dividends,including JPMorgan Chase and WellsFargo. Bank of America announcedplans to buy back $4 billion in stockafter the conditional approval from theFed.

Bank of America, the second-largestU.S. bank, has until Sept. 30 to resub-mit its capital plan. If the new plan forits financial management processesisn’t acceptable to the Fed, the regula-tors said they may restrict dividendincreases or share buybacks.

In stress tests in 2013, JPMorganChase & Co. and Goldman Sachs wererequired by the Fed to resubmit theircapital plans.

Fed approves dividend andbuyback plans for U.S. banks

FTC sues DirecTV, allegeshidden fees and deceptive ads

WASHINGTON — The governmentis taking the nation’s biggest satelliteTV provider to court, accusing DirecTVof misleading millions of consumersabout the cost of i ts programming.

The Federal Trade Commission saidWednesday that its complaint chargesDirecTV Inc. with deceptively adver-tising a discounted 12-month pro-gramming package. Consumersweren’t clearly told that the packagerequires a two-year contract, the com-mission said.

Apple reopens iTunes,App stores after lengthy outage

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple hasrestored service to its widely usediTunes and app stores after a rare break-down Wednesday.

The outage vexed the iPhon e and iPadmaker for more than five ho urs, disrupt-ing some of the world’s most widelyused and profit able servi ces and frustrat-ing millio ns of music lovers and mobiledevice o wners around the world.

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It was the spectacular finish Notre Dame-Belmont deserved in its 2014-15 home-courtfinale.

With the Tigers trailing Anderson Union byone point going in to their final possession of the Northern California playoff opener atMoore Pavilion, senior guard Megan Smithsidestepped two defenders to g lide to the hoopfor an impressive lay-in to give Notre Dame a

46-45 l ead with 12 seconds remaining.

That would stand as the final s core, as No. 8-seed Notre Dame (14-14) held off No. 9Anderson to advance through the openinground of the Nor Cal Division IV bracket.

“I think that our whole season has got usacclimated for this game,” Smith said of thewild win. “We’re finding out that we’re prettygood under pressure.”

But Anderson (22-8) had a good chance tothwart Notre Dame’s dramatics in the closingseconds.

Even after Cubs superstar center KatieNunnelley missed a close chance, the ballkicked out of bounds off a Notre Dame player.After a timeout, Anderson got an open outsidelook, but Kilee Hannan missed a 3-pointer.Anderson’s Natalie Campos came down withthe offensive board but could not release theshot in time to beat the buzzer, setting off aspirit ed Notre Dame celebration .

It didn’t look as though dramatics were inthe cards as Notre Dame took a 23-14 lead intohalftime. But Anderson outscored Notre Dame

14-8 in the third quarter to close it to a one-possession game at 31-28. Then Camposopened the fourth quarter with a trey to tie it31-31 to set the s tage for a wild fourth quarterthat s aw the lead change hands four times.

Notre Dame outshot Anderson handilythrough the first half. The Tigers converted 9of 29 from the field while the Cubs managed

just two field goals in the first half.The Tigers set the tempo by moving the ball

through Anderson’s full-court press and dis-

Notre Dame-Belmont wins a thriller over Anderson

By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The Sacred Heart Prep boys’ basketball teamhas been no stranger to scoring this season,as its average of 69 .8 would attest.

Five times the Gators have cracked the 80-point barrier this season, most recently an 81-55 win over Woodside Priory J an. 30.

You would expect, then, that scoring mightbe down a little in the playoffs, as the Gatorsscored 51, 59 and 65 points in three CentralCoast Section Open Division games.

It certainly couldn’t easier in the first roundof the Divisi on IV Northern California tourna-ment, could it?

Offensively, yes. Third-seeded SHP scored

20 or more point s in three of the four quartersas the Gators scored a season-high 89 pointsin an 89-71 win over No. 14 Mesa Verde-Citrus Heights in Atherton Wednesday night .

The third-seeded Gators will next host No.11 St. Mary’s-Berkeley at 6 p .m. Saturday. St.Mary’s upset reigning CCS Division champand No. 6 seed Santa Cruz, 66-58.

As good as the offense was, however, SHPcoach Tony Martinelli was a b it perturbed afterthe game. While it may seem nitpicking,Martinelli knows all the little things matter.

“I didn’t think we played the type of defense(necessary to win consistently at this level),”Martinelli said. “We can’t give it away so eas-ily. They have to buy in defensively.”

After three tough games against WestCatholic Athletic League opponents, perhapsthe Gators can be forgiven for letting down

their guard ever so slightly.“They really liked that style of game

(against West Catholic Athletic Leagueteams),” Martinelli said. “”Knowing we mightbe gett ing easier shots (against Mesa Verde),maybe that got into their heads a little bi t.”

It wasn’t all bad defensively for SHP (24-4overall). The Gators did force 14 Mavericksturnovers and came up with 15 s teals and theydominated the boards — 49-28.

But Martinelli was concerned with the s lop-py brand of basketball h is team displayed. TheGators themselves turned the ball over 15times and Mesa Verde (16-14) came up with 13steals as well.

Gators cruise in Nor Cal

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SHP’s Corbin Koch, right, shoots a floater over a Mesa Verde defender during the Gators’89-71 victory in the first round of the Nor Cal Division IV tournament. Koch finished with agame-high 35 points as the Gators scored a season high.

The San Francisco 49ers have madea lot of moves this offseason.Most of them peopl e saw coming:

Jim Harbaugh being l et go, Frank Goremoving on, the impending retirement of defensive tackle Justin Smith.

All of these were more or less expected.What wasn’t expected and the move I

think caught nearlyevery 49ers fan off guard was th e retire-ment of linebackerPatrick Willis . Hemissed most of 2014with a turf toe injurythat eventually need-

ed surgery. Turns out,he was having a lotmore serious iss ueswith his feet thananyone knew and hedecided to get out

while he could still walk.I can certainly sympathize. I have

recently battled foot and Achilles’ heelproblems — issues that were ongoi ng fora couple months. I could barely walk attimes. I too k to even using a cane at cer-tain po ints during the day. I can onlyimagine the pain with which Willis wasdealing, all while maintaining his statusas an elit e-level linebacker.

Willis was on ce called a “bowling b allof knives” by a television color analyst.He was the heart and soul of the 49ers

defense and you could argue was th e faceof the franchise for the last seven years.So much so that I literally have boughtone jersey in my life — and it was Willis’No. 52 .

Who knows? Maybe after a year off, hefeels a lot better and gets the itch to giveit one last go. It’s possible, but I doubt it.He seemed too at peace with the decisionwhen he made his announcement Tuesday.

Now the debate begins about his Hall of Fame candidacy. He certainly has thenumbers and accolades. He may not havethe longevity, h owever, and that will behis biggest hurdle.

See GATORS, Page 16

Unexpected

blow for 49ers

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By Janie McCauley


OAKLAND — Klay Thompson reached the5,000-point milestone and knocked downtwo late 3-pointers in a 69-second span,leading the Golden State Warriors past theDetroit Pist ons 105-98 on Wednesday nigh tfor their fifth straight win.

Thompson finished with 27 points on 11-for-19 shooting in the Warriors’ 51st victo-ry — matching their total from last season

— and their eighthstraight against Detroit,Golden State’s second-longest streak in theseries.

Andre Drummond had acareer-high 27 rebounds— 17 offensive — to gowith 22 points in thePistons’ eighth straightloss.

Thompson’s two 3s came during a deci-sive 18-2 run, including one with 5:37 left

to put Golden State ahead by 10 as Detroitcouldn’t fight back.

This game didn’t give coach Steve Kerr asmuch time to rest his regulars as he mighthave liked, though Stephen Curry did get asecond-half break. The Warriors have a busyweek with a game in Denver on Friday nigh tbefore returning home Saturday to host theKnicks and kick off a six-game homestand.

Andrew Bogut had 12 points, six

rebounds and two blo cked shots for GoldenState.

Curry slipped a pretty behind-the-backpass to assist on Leandro Barbosa’s base-line 3-pointer late in the third that helpedGolden State take a 79-76 l ead into the final12 minutes. That was one of his 11 assiststo go with ni ne points and five boards.

A day after Detroit took 35 3-pointers —making eight — th e Pistons managed onlythree attempts in the first half from long

Warriors hold off Pistons for fifth straight win

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SANTA CLARA — The Santa Clara Count yDistrict Attorney’s office has received thecase of 49 ers fullback Bruce Miller, who wasarrested on suspicion o f spousal battery lastweek.

District attorney’s spokeswoman CynthiaSumida said in an email to The AssociatedPress on Wednesday that the case is underreview and that Miller has a placeholderarraignment scheduled for April 20. Theoffice will not release any documents ordetails regarding the facts of the case, shesaid.

Miller was arrested last week at an undis-closed location, police said.

The 49ers said this week that the team is

looking into details.

The 27-year-old Miller spoke last fall of being newly engaged and buying a houseafter receiving a three-year contract exten-sion in March 2014. The 49ers were com-mitted to keeping a key member of theirrunning game through the 2017 s eason.

Miller is a key run-blocker who clearedthe way for Frank Gore’s fourth con secutive1,000-yard rushing season. He impressedthe 49 ers brass when he converted from col-lege defensiv e end at Central Florida to NFLfullback. He earned Conference USADefensive Player of the Year honors whilebecoming the school’s all-time sacks leaderwith 36 before the 49ers selected him in the

seventh round of the 20 11 draft.

DA reviewing case

against 49ers’ Miller

Jags commit $175M, including$78M guaranteed, to free agents

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Having wonnine of 48 games in three years, theJacksonville Jaguars were no easy sell infree agency.

They couldn’t get players in a room withenergetic coach Gus Bradley and couldn’tget them to see owner Shad Khan’s visionfor the franchise. So th ey had two thin gs tooffer: money and opportunity.

The first was probably more attractivethan the second.

The small-market Jaguars committed$175 million, including $78 million guar-anteed, to six free agents who are expectedto be immediate starters and possibly keycomponents to getting th e team back in thehunt in the AFC.

Jacksonville signed tight end JuliusThomas, defensive end Jared Odrick, right

tackle Jermey Parnell, cornerback DavonHouse, linebacker Dan Skuta and free safetySergio Brown to contracts Wednesday.

Thomas and Odrick are proven starters.Parnell, House, Skuta and Brown were part-time players who are now getting paid totake on big ger roles.

The team had nearly $70 mi llio n in salarycap space and planned to spend big. TheJaguars targeted Thomas, Odrick, Parnell,Green Bay receiver Randall Cobb and NewEngland safety Devin McCourty — andlanded three of them.

Thomas signed a five-year, $46 millioncontract that includes $24 million guaran-teed. Odrick inked a five-year, $42.5 mil-

lion deal that includes $22 million guaran-teed. Parnell sig ned a five-year, $32 mill ioncontract that includes $13 million guaran-teed. House signed for four years and $25million, including $10 million guaranteed.Skuta signed for five years and $20.5 mil-

lion, with $8 million guaranteed. AndBrown inked a three-year, $9 million con-tract that i ncluded $1 milli on guaranteed.

Colts sign veteran WR Andre JohnsonINDIANAPOLIS — Andre Johnson just

wanted a chance to win a championship.Indianapolis, with Andrew Luck, seemed

like the perfect landing spot.So Wednesday, two days after the Texans

released their longtime star, the 33-year-oldreceiver signed a three-year deal with theColts. Terms were not immediately available.

Johnson will replace one of his closestfriends, Reggie Wayne, and team up withanother, Frank Gore, to chase a Super Bowltitle.

While Johnson fills th e void left by Wayne,

a 14-year veteran who spent h is career in Indyafter playing with Johnson at the Universityof Miami, the circumstances are a bit awk-ward.

Three years ago, when Wayne was a freeagent, Johnso n tried to get Wayne to join himin Houston. Instead, Wayne gave Indianapolisa hometown discount.

The 6-foot-3, 230-pound University of Miami star also seems like a perfect fit intothe offseason plan of Colts general managerRyan Grigson, t oo.

Gore’s three-year, $12 million deal, agentDrew Rosenhaus said, includes $6.5 millionin bonuses, $7.5 mil lion in guaranteed moneyand $8.5 million over the first two years.

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By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA CLARA — Torrey Smith believes inhis ability to turn a simple catch into a biggain, and he knows Colin Kaepernick has thestrong arm to deliver the ball just where he

likes it.“He has a strong arm and I can run,” Smith

said Wednesday when he formally joined theSan Francisco 49ers. “That’s a good combina-tion there.”

The free agent wide receiver finalized hisnew five-year contract with the Niners, fillinga void left by Michael Crabtree’s expecteddeparture and reuniting him with a couple of former teammates — Anquan Boldin andVernon Davis.

Smith even played against Kaepernick in

college, and has worked out with him inMiami — and plans to track down the quarter-back in Arizona this spring for more jointworkouts.

The deal includes $22 million in guaranteedmoney and could be worth as much as $40 mil -lion, a person with direct knowledge of the

contract said, speaking on condition of anonymity because details weren’t announced.Smith had been scheduled for a physical earlyWednesday, then the team announced the deal.

Former Ravens teammate Boldin helpedrecruit Smith to San Francisco, and believesthey could be a dynamic twosome in thereceiving corps.

Boldin’s pitch: “No. 1, the organization,it’s a first-class organization, something hewas used to in Baltimore,” Boldin said. “Andthen just having the opportunity to win. I

think we have the pieces in place to make thathappen. (Because of) the guys we still have onthe roster. Every year you’re going to haveguys leave. But I think we have a bunch of guys that can step in and fill those roles.”

The two helped the Ravens beat the 49ers bythree poin ts in the Super Bowl at New Orleans

following the 20 12 season.“I can definitely make the big play,” Smithsaid. “I can turn a simple play into a hugegain.”

Also Wednesday, running back Reggie Bushvisited team headquarters and could be seenwalking outside Levi’s Stadium with new headcoach Jim Tomsula.

The 26-year-old Smith had 49 receptions for767 yards and 11 touchdowns last season, hisfourth year with t he Ravens.

Smith spoke with departed running back

Frank Gore, who gave him a pos itive scoutingreport about the franchise — one that finished8-8 and replaced Jim Harbaugh with Tomsula.Five-time All Pro linebacker Patrick Willisretired Tuesday and others have left in recentdays.

“I’m comfortable with what’s going on,”

Smith said.Smith, who made a formal farewell toBaltimore, played in college with Davis atMaryland. Now, he i s working on his master’sin business administration at Miami.

He hopes to take some pressure off Boldinand Kaepernick.

“He’s a guy who can definitely help us winfootball games,” Boldin said. “I played withhim for two years in Baltimore. It was good forme. He helped me out and we complementedeach other as receivers.”

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ALAMEDA — The Oakland Raiders have officiallyannounced the signing of free agent center RodneyHudson.

Hudson was the first free agent to agree to a deal withOakland this offseason and signed the five-year contractthat can be worth $44.5 million on Wednesday.

The Raiders bolstered their front seven earlier in theday by agreeing to contracts with free agent defensivetackle Dan Willi ams and linebacker Curtis Lofton.

Lofton said in a text to the Associated Press that he hadagreed to a three-year deal with the Raiders.

A person with kn owledge of th e deal said Willi ams hasagreed to a contract pending a physical. The personspoke on condition of anonymity because the deal hasnot b een signed.

ESPN first reported both contracts.This has been a busy start to free agency for the

Raiders, who are hoping to rebound from a 3-13 season.The team also announced the signing of bl ocking tig htend Lee Smith. Oakland has also ag reed to con tracts withlinebacker Malcolm Smith and running back Roy Helu,according to people with knowledge of those deals.

General manager Reggie McKenzie entered free agencywith more than $60 million in salary cap room and hasbeen spending it to fill some of the many holes on histeam. Oakland has gone 11 straight seasons without awinning record or playoff berth.

Lofton is th e second big addition at lin ebacker, follow-ing 201 4 Super Bowl MVP Malcolm Smith, who agreed toa deal Tuesday. He will li kely fil l th e hole at middle lin e-backer created when Nick Roach went down with a sea-son-ending concussion in an exhibition game last sum-mer. Mil es Burris s truggled as the st arter in th e middle and

the Raiders were seekin g an upgrade after releasing Ro achlast week.

With outside linebacker Sio Moore working his wayback from hi p s urgery, Smith giv es Oakland needed depthat linebacker. The Raiders also can use Khalil Mack as adefensive end in pass-rushing situations.

Willi ams is a stout run-stop per who pl ayed mostl y nosetackle in Arizona’s 3-4 defense. He had the seventh bestrun stop percentage last season, according to ProFootball Focus. He played mostly on run downs and wasnot used much as a pass rusher and has just two sacks in70 career games.

He will join a rotation that includes Antonio Smith,who is more of a pass-rushing tackle, and Justin Ellis,who played well again st th e run as a rook ie.

Raiders signHudson, agreewith two others

By Rick EymerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Tim Hudson threw one scorelessinni ng i n hi s sp ring debut, Tim Lincecum was pulled after aninning because of stiffness in his neck and Milwaukeestarter Matt Garza pitched three inni ngs in t he Brewers 6-3

win over the San Francisco Giants onWednesday.Khris Davis drove in two runs, Luis

Jimenez had two hits and drove in a runand Gerardo Parra had two hits for theBrewers.

Brandon Belt homered among his twohits, walked and scored twice for theGiants. Casey McGehee had two hits,upping his average to .467, and BrandonCrawford drove in a run.

Lincecum said he felt his neck goimmobile while he was warming up. He said he could notmove his head to the left, which flattened out his pitches.

“It was frustrating not being able to go th ree innings andget th e work in,” Lincecum said. “I could have gone back o utbut nothing good would have come out of it.”

Lincecum has allowed runs in each of his three appear-ances. He gave up three on th ree hits again st th e Brewers.

Hudson gave up a hi t, walked a batter and struck out one.Garza gave up two runs on four hits. He walked two andstruck out two.

“I ironed some thi ngs out,” Garza said. “I grin ded throughthe first two innings and found a rhythm in the third.”

Starting timeBrewers: Garza said he spent the offseason studying

video with his brother Michael, a high school baseballcoach, and noticed a few things that needed to be fixed.“Stuff gets exposed and leaves you open to injury,” Garza

said. “That’s what I was doing. So I altered my mechanicsand changed my delivery to become more consistent. I can

judge what my body is doin g and that’s refreshi ng . I haven ’tbeen in control before.” Michael, three years younger,trains with Garza and knows his pitching style better thananyone else. “It’s part of the reason my change hasn’t fullydevelop ed. I feel better about i t n ow. You have to find waysto alt er, chan ge and adjust as you start to get ol der.”

Giants: Hudson had to cover first base on his first batterof the spring, the same thing that happened to him lastspring after returning from a broken right ankle sufferedcovering first with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2013. “I knewit was going to be the first play. I’m surprised it wasn’tbang-bang, or I had to jump or do a cartwheel to make theplay.” Hudson said he feels he’s in better shap e now than hewas last sprin g and that he’s a lit tle ahead of where he was.“I arrived in sh ape and now I want to build my pitch count upto pitch 6, 7,8 in nings. My ankle feels fine. It is a non-issueat this poi nt. I don’t even think about it any more.”

Trainer’s roomBrewers: C Jonathon LaCroy (mild strain of right ham-

string) continues doing baseball-related work with theexception of running.

Giants: With reliever Sergio Romo ready to pitch, OFHunter Pence (fracture in l eft forearm) is t he onl y pl ayer onthe sidelines. He is excepted to miss abo ut two weeks of th eregular season. Romo will throw to hit ters at least one moretime th is week. Lincecum will be evaluated further by teamdoctors.

Up nextBrewers: RHP Wily Peralta gets the start against

Colorado on Thursday.

Giants: LHP Madison Bumgarner will start against theChicago White Sox o n Thursday.

Hudson makes spring debut

By Don KetchumTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MESA, Ariz. — Brandon Mos s h ad a home run and a tripleagainst his former team, but the Cleveland Indians lost tothe Oakland Athletics 3-2 Wednesday.

Moss, acquired by the Indians in an offseason trade,tripled off A’s starter Kendall Graveman in the secondinni ng b ut was stranded at th ird. He connected with one outin t he fourth off Fernando Abad to cut Oakland’s lead to 3-2.It was his second homer of the spring.

“I tried to distract him, but he wouldn’t turn around andlook at me,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said of Moss, his for-mer design ated hitter.

The A’s scored three runs in the second.Free-agent signee Billy Butler led off the inning with his

second homer. Stephen Vogt reached second base on an out-field error and Marcus Semien walked. Billy Burns had anRBI singl e and Craig Gentry h it a s acrifice fly.

Starting timeIndians: RHP Danny Salazar struggl ed in 1 2-3 in ning s,

giving up a pair of hits, including Butler’s home run.Athletics: Graveman picked up his second win of the

spring. Melvin was pleased with his three-inning effort —one run on two hits with a strikeout and a walk.

Trainer’s roomIndians: Team medical officials are trying to figure out

how best to handle Gavin Floy d. The RHP re-injured hiselbow (stress fracture). ... INF-OF Nick Swisher is makinghis way back from knee surgery and is expected to resume

game action within a few weeks. .. . RHP Josh Tomlin , a latescratch from Sunday’s game due to right shoulder fatigue,was exp ected to throw a s ide session on Wednesday.Athletics: RF Josh Reddick (strained oblique muscle)

continues to work his way back but still is looking at a min-imum of 10 days before resuming baseball activity. ... LFCoco Crisp will be sidelined for at least a few more dayswith a strained right triceps. Tests revealed no structuraldamage after he sustained the in jury on Sunday. . .. New 1BIke Davis was scratched from Wednesday’s game with backspasms. The situation was not believed to be too serious,and he likely will return to action Thursday o r Friday.

Future shortstopFrancisco Lindor conti nues to make strides as the Indians’

shorts top of the future. The 21-year-old hustled his way to aleadoff triple in the third inning and scored the team’s firstrun, and showed good range in the field. The switch-hittingLindor has played in a combined 21 games for the Indians in2013 and 2014 and last season spl it time between Double-A

Akron and Triple-A Columbus. Indians manager TerryFrancona isn’t quite ready to make a commit ment to Lindor.But it might be soo n.

Up nextThe A’s will pl ay ho st to t he Seattle Mariners o n Thursday,

with first pitch coming an hour earlier than normal. It isexpected to be the first stop on comi c Will Ferrell’s tour of the Cactus League where he will attempt to p lay every po si-tion in five games. “We’ll see if he falls into line,” Melvinsaid with a smile. “If he gives me any lip , he will be in trou-ble.”

Moss has big day in loss to A’s

Tim Hudson

A-Rod hits first homer sincereturning from drug suspension

TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Rodriguez has hit his first home runsince returning to the New York Yankees following a one-sea-son drug suspension.

Rodriguez hit a long drive to left-center on a 3-1 pitch fromBoston right-hander Brandon Workman leading off the fourthinning Wednesday. Rodriguez has five hits in 11 at-bats (.455 )this spring training.

The three-time AL MVP, who turns 40 in J uly, has not p layeda full season since 2007 because the suspension , operation s onboth hips and other injuries.

Darvish getting one moreopinion before likely elbow surgery

SURPRISE, Ariz. — Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers arewaiting for a third opinion that they expect will confirm the

ace pitcher needs season-ending elbow ligament-replacementsurgery.

General manager Jon Daniels said Wednesday that Dr. DavidAltchek, the New York Mets’ medical director and an expert inTommy John surgery, recommended the procedure after exam-

ining Darvish on Tuesday.The Rangers will have Dr. James Andrews review images of Darvish’s elbow before making a final decision later thi s week.

Kluber signs one-year contract with IndiansGOODYEAR, Ariz.— AL Cy Young Award winner Corey

Kluber has sig ned a one-year contract for the 20 15 season withthe Cleveland Indians.

Financial terms were not immediately available onWednesday.

Kluber vaulted from the middle of Cleveland’s rotation tobecome the league’s top pitcher last season, going 18-9 with a2.44 ERA and 269 strikeouts.

Kluber joined Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez and RandyJohnson as the only pitchers since 1987 to record at least 18wins, an ERA under 2.50 and 260 s trikeouts.

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PHOENIX — Will Ferrell plans toplay ball in spring training — andplay ball and play ball and play ball.

The comedian plans to play everyposition while making appearancesat five Arizona spring traininggames on Thursday. He will play for

all 10 teamsinvolved, HBOand MajorLeague Baseballa n n o u n c e dWednesday.

The star of “Anchorman:The Legend of Ron Burgundy,”“ T a l l a d e g a

Nights: The Ballad of RickyBobby” and “Elf,” among othermovies, will travel to the Phoenixsuburbs of Mesa, Tempe, Scott sdale,

Glendale and Peoria via helicopter.The event will be filmed for anupcoming HBO special in conjunc-tion with the Funny or Die websiteco-founded by Ferrell.

HBO said Ferrell is dedicating hisspecial to fighting cancer. He alsowill hon or Bert Campaneris’ feat of playing nine positions in a gamefive decades ago. Starting times forfour of the games were adjusted tomake Ferrell’s barnstorming tourpossible.

Memorabilia collected duringFerrell’s tour will be auctioned off atMLB.com, with proceeds going toCollege of Cancer and Stand Up toCancer, according to HBO.

“Will is a big fan of our game,”MLB Commissioner Rob Manfredsaid in a st atement, “and many of usin baseball — among our clubs,players and our millions of fans —are big fans of his. Major League

Baseball is happy to take part inwhat will surely be a fun and memo-rable day for a great cause.”

Ferrell is to appear in the follow-ing games: Seattle Mariners-Oakland Athletics to start at 12:05p.m. PDT; Chicago Cubs-LosAngeles Angels at 1:10 p.m.;Cincinnati Reds-ArizonaDiamondbacks at 2:10 p.m., SanFrancisco Giants-Chicago WhiteSox at 4:05 p.m.; and Los AngelesDodgers-San Diego Padres at 6:15p.m.

“This latest collaboration is oneof those things only Will could pulloff,” Michael Lombardo, HBO’spresident for programming, said in a

news release. “I can’t wait to see himtake the field.”

This is not Ferrell’s first forayinto th e game.

In 2012, he and ZachGalifianakis, promoting theirmovie “The Campaign,” threw outthe first pitch at a Chicago Cubsgam

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