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By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

More than $4 millio n is b eing grant-ed to four northern San Mateo Countyschool districts to raise literacy rates

of hundreds of young students throughexpanded preschool offerings.

The grants announced Wednesday,May 27, are part of a larger effortcalled the Big Lift, which has coll ected$28 million with an aim to replicatethe ini tial effort elsewhere in the coun-ty.

The program is a collaborative

fundraising initi a-tive targeted atimproving thereading levels of students betweenpreschool and

third-grade. Itslaunch was cele-brated at theJoseph FernekesR e c r e a t i o n

Building in South San Franciscowith elected officials, educationexperts, representatives from localbusinesses as well as community

organizations and others.At the event, more than $4 million

was granted to the South SanFrancisco, Cabrillo, La Honda-Pescadero unified school districts andthe Jefferson Elementary School

District that will be used to help edu-cate roughly 900 preschool students.

Preschools in the South SanFrancisco Unified School District willreceive nearly $2 million to serve 375young students, through a collabora-tion with th e Penin sula Family Service

Early education gets a big liftCounty school districts receive more than $4Mto improve access to preschool, raise literacy

 AUSTIN WALSH/ DAILY JOURNAL

Students from Westborough Preschool in South San Franciscoperform in front of the crowd gathered to honor theannouncement of Big Lift grant funding.

 Jerry Hill

Residents questionthe support of Black

Mountain purchaseSome in San Carlos don’t likecouncil’s proposal to buy landBy Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Some San Carlos residents contend the city’s claim thatsupport for purchasing the Black Mountain propertiesapproaches 90 percent is more public relations gimmickthan the truth.

Special project director Elaine Costell o discussed suppo rtfor the project at Tuesday night’s City Council meetingwhere she also indicated that 96 percent who responded toan online survey on Shape San Carlos said the propertieswould be a valuable additio n to the city.

The online survey shows that 85 percent would support abond measure, Costello told the council.But residents Scott Gattey, Barbara Rodriguez and Wade

Kingery say that t hey and a lot of oth er San Carlos residentsopp ose purchasing the prop erty for a variety of reasons andare letting their feelings be heard on Nextdoor.com.

By Austin Walsh

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Burlingame residents and city officialsadvocated in favor of constructing a 290-unit residential development, which is

vying to become one of the largest housing

projects built in the recent history of thecity.

Planning commissioners voted to

Burlingame housing projectreceives preliminary approval290-unit development near Caltrain gainsmomentum through city planning process By Samantha Weigel

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

State Sen. Jerry Hill is getting a taste of Hollywood activism as his efforts to deterthe use of controversial recycled tires onincreasingly popular artificial turfs faces a

critical vote in the Senate Thursday, May28.

With scarce evidence on the potentialhealth impacts of using crumb rubber asinfill for synthetic fields, Hill, D-San

Bill to deter, study recycled tires inartificial turf facing critical voteSen. Jerry Hill gets support from Hollywood stars

KELLEY L. COX 

Golden State Warriors players celebrate with the western conference championship trophy. Stephen Curry had 26 pointsand eight rebounds, Harrison Barnes added 24 points and the Golden State Warriors advanced to the NBA Finals for thefirst time in 40 years with a 104-90 victory over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night. SEE STORY PAGE

WARRIORS HEADING TO THE FINALS

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Oh, brother: Twins chargedwith hurling bricks at each other

ORANGE CITY, Fla. — What are afew bricks between b rothers?

Well, they’re worth battery chargesfor twin 5 2-year-olds after officials s ayan argument ended with them hurlingthe projectiles at each other.

The Daytona Beach News-Journalreports that Michael and JamesRemelius were arguing in the front yardof a ho me last week when Michael firstthreatened to throw a brick at hisbrother.

According to a police report,Michael Remelius followed through,striking his brother in the leg andcausing a small cut. James Remeliusretaliated with a brick that bloodiedand bruised his b rother’s eye.

Both were arrested and charged withaggravated battery with a deadlyweapon. Both remain ed jail ed Tuesday.James’ bail is $25,000 whileMichael’s is $20,000. Court recordsshow they do not yet have attorneys tocomment on the case.

Kitten rescued after beingdropped from talons of hawk

JURUPA VALLEY — A 5-week-oldkitten was lucky to land on its feet afterit fell from the grip on a hawk in aJurupa Valley neighborhood.

KCBS-TV reports that residentLindsay Gage spot ted the white kitt en

flying by as she was leaving herhouse. The hawk lost its grip as it flewfrom its perch on a neighbor’s basket-ball ho op and Gage scooped the felineup before the bird could come back forits prey.

Riverside County Animal Servicesspokesman John Welsh says Gagetook the kitten to the WesternRiverside County/Cit y Animal Shelterin Jurupa Valley. The cat had a wound toits chest area, but it does not app ear tobe life threatening.

Sea lion impaled with spearrescued in Southern CaliforniaSAN DIEGO — A giant sea lion

impaled by a ho memade spear is recov-ering at SeaWorld after being rescued

 just off the Southern Cali fornia coast.Los Angeles news station KNBC-TV

reports that a team spent much of Tuesday searching Channel IslandsHarbor before spotting the injuredmale sea lion nicknamed Bubba.

Rescuers managed to hit the animalwith tranquilizer darts and drag himashore in a net. He’s estimated toweigh more than 6 00 po unds.

Veterinarian Sam Dover discoveredthe blade was so deeply embedded thatit had to be cut out with a scalpel.Dover says it app ears Bubba was inten-tionally stabbed.

The metal spear was taken as evi-dence. Harming a sea lion is a federaloffense.

Bubba is expected to return to the

ocean after recovering at SeaWorld SanDiego.

Lawyer: Confinement of chimpsfor research akin to slavery

NEW YORK — A lawyer seeking tofree two chi mpanzees from a state uni-versity told a judge Wednesday thattheir confin ement for research purpos-es is akin to slavery, the involuntarydetention of people with mental ill-nesses and imprisonment.

Steven Wise, an attorney with the

Nonhuman Rights Project, toldManhattan Supreme Court JudgeBarbara Jaffe in a nearly two-ho ur hear-ing that Hercules and Leo are“autonomous and self-determiningbeings” who should be granted a writof habeas corpus and be moved fromStony Brook University on LongIsland to a s anctuary in Florida.

“They’re essentially in solitary con-finement,” Wise told the judge before acrowd of about 100 p eople packed intothe Manhattan courthouse’s ceremoni-al courtroom. “This is what we do tothe worst human criminal.”

The 8-year-old chimps are used forlocomotion studies at Stony Brook.

Christopher Coulston, an assistantstate attorney general representing the

university, argued that the case wasmeritless on procedural groundsbecause the venue was improper andbecause granting the chimps person-hood would create a slippery sloperegarding th e rights o f other animals.

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1945The novel “Brideshead Revisited” byEvelyn Waugh was published inLondon by Chapman & Hall.

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In 1533 , the Archbishop of Canterbury, ThomasCranmer, declared the marriage of England’s King HenryVIII to Anne Boleyn valid.In 1892 ,  the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.In 1912 , the Senate Commerce Committee issued itsreport on the Titanic disaster that cited a “state of abso luteunpreparedness,” improperly tested safety equipment andan “indifference to danger” as some of the causes of an“unnecessary tragedy.”In 1929 , th e first all-color talking p icture, “On with th eShow!” produced by Warner Bros. , open ed in New York.In 1934 , the Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile,Emilie, Marie and Yvon ne — were born to Elzire Dion ne at

the family farm in Ontario, Canada.In 1937 ,  President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed a but-ton in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic couldbegin crossing the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge inCalifornia. Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.In 1940 , during World War II, the Belgian army surren-dered to invading German forces.In 1959 ,  the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey,and Baker, a squirrel monk ey, abo ard a Jupiter miss ile for asuborbital flight which both p rimates survived.In 1961 , Amnesty International had its beginnings withthe publication o f an article in the British newspaper TheObserver, “The Forgotten Prisoners.”In 1977 , 165 people were killed when fire raced throughthe Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky.

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3Thursday • May 28, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCAL/STATE

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCOPetty theft. Two teenagers were seenentering a yard and stealing two bikes onLux Avenue before 7:10 p.m. Wednesday,May 13.Assault. A woman was walking back fromchurch and a man slapped and grabbed her onMiller Avenue before 9:05 p.m. Wednesday,May 13.Burglary. Two cars had windows smashedin the parking lot at IHOP on South AirportBoulevard before 12:2 9 a. m. Thursday, May14.Reckless driving . A man was seen speed-ing and spinnin g his tires on Littlefield andGrand avenues before 8:37 a.m. Thursday,May 14.Petty theft. A person sto le a camera from abusiness on Linden Avenue before 9:43 a.m.Thursday, May 14.

REDWOOD CITYArrest . A man was arrested for standingagainst a fence drunk and holding a brokenbottle on Spring Street before 12:26 a.m.Sunday, May 17 .Vandalism. A gas pump was damaged on ElCamino Real before 7:13 p.m. Monday,May 18.Disturbance. A man was arrested for thro w-ing a rock at a car on Duane Street before 10p.m. Monday, May 18.

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What’s fare is fairA man was arrested for being rude to acab driver and refusing to pay the fullamount of the fare on Main Street andBroadway i n Redwood City before 5:2 2p.m Friday, May 15.

By Scott Morris

BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

A tenfold expansi on o f the Bay Area BikeShare program was unanimously approved

Wednesday morning by the MetropolitanTransportation Commission.

The expansion to more than 7,000 bicy-cles, set to be completed by 2017, wouldintroduce the popular program in the EastBay for the first time and come at no cos t totaxpayers, MTC officials said.

Bike sharing, a subscription servicewhere bikes are available at docking sta-tion s for sho rt rides, was first introduced inthe Bay Area in 2013 with 700 bikes at 70docking stations in San Francisco,Redwood City, Palo Alto, Mountain Viewand San Jo se.

The program has proven successful, par-ticularly in San Francisco, and an expan-sion o f the system has been planned sinceshortly after its inception. However,

plann ed expansi ons were stalled when bi cy-

cle manufacturer Bixi went bankrupt lastyear.

But the company that operates the systemhas since reorganized its supply chain andis ready to expand it significantly over thenext two years.

Now called Motivate International Inc.,the company operates similar systems inChicago; New York; Washington, D.C.;Seattle, and other cities in the U.S. andCanada. The company says it can expandthe program at no cos t to taxp ayers by fund-ing it through corporate sponsorship, amodel that has already prov en successful inother urban areas.

Motivate CEO Jay Walder said atWednesday’s MTC meeting that bike sharebicycles are used in numerous differentways, including connecting to BART, San

Francisco Municipal Railway or Caltrain,taking rides between neighborhoods notwell connected by public transit, runningquick errands or just to get s ome exercise.

“That’s the b eauty o f bik e share: Each per-

son can make it what they want it to be,”Walder said. “In the blink of an eye it willbecome part of the urban fabric of thecities.”

The planned expansion would make theBay Area’s bike share system the second-largest in the country, Walder said.

Most of the new bikes would go to SanFrancisco, where the total number of bikeswould jump to 4,500. After the expansion,there would be 1,00 0 bik es in San Jose, 850in Oakland, 400 in Berkeley and 100 inEmeryville.

Mountain View, Palo Alto and RedwoodCity could get up to 155 bikes between thethree cities, though bike sharing has notproven to be particularly popular there andthe cities may decide to abandon bike shar-

ing altogether, according to MTC officials.

MTC approves tenfold expansionof Bay Area Bike Share program

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By Lisa Leff 

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — California is bettingbig — $1.4 billion over five years — thatconnecting high school st udies to specificcareers will get more students to graduate,go on to college and find well-paying jobs.

In the latest incarnation of vocationaleducation programs that once preparedyoung people for skilled trades, the statedistributed nearly $250 million in grantsWednesday to dozens of so-called “career

pathways” — programs that combine aca-

demic and technical coursework at the highschool and community college level withhands-on trainin g and work experience sup-plied by employers.

The recipients represent high-demandfields — such as health care, agriculture,information technology and advanced man-ufacturing — that are facing a shortage of skilled workers, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said. Heannounced the grants at a Silicon Valleytechnical education center that plans to useits $6 million grant to expand its offeringsfor high s chool s tudents by offering courses

in in cyber security, computer coding and

drone programming.

“My top priority is to better prepareCalifornia students for college and careersin the 21st century,” Torlakson said.“Career Pathways prov ides vital support forinnovative, practical, and effective careertech programs th at keep students eng aged inschoo l and prepared for real-world jobs .”

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Camera store burglar gets probationThe man tied to the attempted theft of $5

million worth of camera equipment from aSan Carlos rental business by DNA left at thescene was sentenced to three years super-vised probation Wednesday, according to theSan Mateo County District Attorney’sOffice.

San Francisco resident Tyrone Brennan,30, was also ordered to enter and complete adrug treatment program at Delancey Street,where he is already enrol led.

Brennan had a prior felony strike convic-tion but his defense attorney had it success-fully struck from consideration during sen-tencing.

He will be sent to state prison if he vio-lates the terms of probation, according toprosecutors.

“As a business owner, I can tell you thatbreak-ins l ike this take a financial and emo-tional tol l on us and it’s disappoin ting to seethat Mr. Brennan did not get a stiffer punish-ment,” said sto re owner Max Shevy akov.

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 San Carlos.He tried cutting into a locked metal cageholding the camera equipment but fled whenan alarm sounded, leaving the power toolsand a welding mask behind, according to theDistrict Attorney’s Office.

The mask had Brennan’s DNA in i t, howev-er, which led to his arrest nearly a year later.

Deputies arrest allegeddrug-fueled driver following pursuit

A man who was allegedly high onmethamphetamine and heroin led San

Mateo County sheriff'sdeputies on a h igh-speedchase on Highway 1Saturday afternoon.

Deputies receivedreports of a vehicle pur-suit involving a whiteToyota Camry comingfrom Santa Cruz Countyat 12:37 p. m., accordingto s heriff's officials.

Soon after, a deputyspott ed the vehicle trav-

eling no rth at a high rate of speed on stateHighway 1 at Bean Hol low Road. However,the deputy couldn’t catch up with the sus-pect, sheriff’s o fficials said.

As the suspect kept driving, he side-swiped a car in the intersection of Miramontes Poi nt Road, and then coll idedwith a second vehicle at Van Ness Avenuein Half Moon Bay, deputies said.

After the collision, the suspect attempt-ed to flee the scene, but deputies detainedand arrested him, according to sheriff’sofficials.

The suspect, San ta Cruz resident DouglasDavid McGill, 29, admitted to deputies hehad ingested methamphetamine and heroinearlier in the day.

Deputies also found that McGill was inpossession of marijuana, heroin, drugparaphernalia and two small plastic bagsof a substance suspected to be narcotics,according to sheriff’s officials.

McGill was injured during the collisionand taken to a hospit al, deputies said.

No other motorists were injured duringthe incident.

Whale washes ashore in12th recent death in California

POINT REYES STATION — Another dead

whale washed ashore in NorthernCalifornia, the 12th carcass that hasappeared in the past few months and marksa higher-than-normal number of deaths butnot a record.

The dozen whales have been found alongnearly 300 miles of coastline and are of different sp ecies and various ages. In a typ -ical year, one or two gray whales washashore, said Frances Gulland, the seniorscienti st for th e Marine Mammal Center.

The most recent animal appearedTuesday on a beach along the Poin t Reyes

National Seashore, officials said. It’sbadly decomposed and headless, makingidentifying the species and its age diffi-cult, said Mary Jane Schramm, spokes-woman for the Gulf of the FarallonesNatio nal Marine Sanctuary.

“(The condition) suggests it could be akiller whale attack,” she said.

Scientists are trying to determine if there is a connection between the beachedwhales. They are considering factors s uchas environmental changes, food distribu-tion, shippin g and predator behavior.

“We are seeing them coming from somany different species and various causesof death,” Schramm said. “One of t he rea-sons we are seeing such a cluster at onetime is we have very strong winds thathave been blowing consistently that are

washing th ings onto shore.”Scientists say the deaths could be part

of the annual gray whale migration fromMexico to Alaska, the newspaper report-ed.

At least one of the whales showed evi-dence of being hit by a ship. Two otherswere missing limbs, which indicates theygot tangled in fishing gear or attacked bykiller whales.

The latest beached whale app eared a fewdays after a 28-foot juvenile gray whalewashed up on the Sonoma County coast.

Last week, a gray whale carcass appearedin Half Moon Bay as officials buried asperm whale and a humpback whale.

In April, two gray whales got beached inSanta Cruz County, a killer whale wasfound near Fort Bragg and a gray whalewashed up in Mont erey County.

Many of t he dead were gray whales, butthey were so badly decomposed thatresearchers have not been able to deter-mine ho w they died, Gulland said.

The last large increase in whale deaths

was in 1999 and 2000, when 40 dead graywhales were found on beaches in the BayArea, s he said.

Before that die-off, there were 26,600gray whales nationwide, according toestimates by the National MarineMammal Laboratory in Seattle.

Bay Area doctors to treatdying patients with ecstasy drug

The Federal Drug Administration isallowing a team of San Francisco BayArea psychotherapists to prescribe ecsta-sy to treat dying patients.

Ecstasy, or MDMA, is a recreationaldrug that brings on feelings of “lovingand caring,” says Dr. Phil Wolfson, who

is leading the 1 5-month experiment.

The federal government currently con-siders the recreational drug to have notherapeutic value, the stations reports.

Wolfson will conduct a clinical trial of 18 p atients using th e drug in conjunctionwith a number of intense therapeutic ses-sions.

Wolfson says he knows firsthand thatecstasy is effective in easing extremeanxiety. He says he used it when his sonway dying from leukemia.

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CITY GOVERNMENT• The Daly City Council voted 5-0

Tuesday night to adopt an international

bill of rights for women. TheConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of DiscriminationAgainst Women (CEDAW) was adopted

by the United Natio ns General Asse mbly in 1979 b utonly five cities in the nation have adopted it since includingLos Angeles, Berkeley, Portland, Oregon and San Francisco,which was the first to adopt CEDAW in 1998. In SanFrancisco, CEDAW has led to a flagshi p grants program that

funds agencies to help end domestic violence, sexual assaultand human trafficking . The resolution to support CEDAW wascrafted by Daly City Councilman David Canepa.

• The San Bruno Community Foundation will meet

Thursday, May 28, to collect input from residents on how tospend the $70 milli on in restitution funds paid by PacificGas and Electric in the wake of the 2010 gas pipelineexplosion. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at Belle AirElementary School , 450 Third Ave., in San Bruno.

Those who cannot attend the meeting may take an o nlinesurvey to express their opinion. Visitwww.SBCFListens. com for more information . The deadlineto participate in the survey is June 12.

By Ben NuckolsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OXON HILL, Md. — An impressive fieldof 283 young spellers was narrowed to 49semifinalists during Wednesday’s prelimi-nary rounds of the Scripps NationalSpelling Bee. The remaining spellers will

compete on Thursday for more than$37,0 00 in cash and prizes.Among the semifinalists: Gokul

Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri,who finished third last year. Gokul, a mat-ter-of-fact speller who shows little emotiononstage, was one of three who got perfectscores on the preliminary spelling andvocabulary test.

Also advancing to the semifinals wereVanya Shivashankar, a five-time partici-pant and the younger sister of the 2009champion; Srinath Mahankali, the youngerbrother of the 2013 winner; and JairamHathwar, whose older brother was one of last year’s co-champions.

Here are some memorable moments fromthe preliminary rounds:

BREEZING THROUGHDuring the first preliminary round

Wednesday morning, 283 kids spelledwords — and 279 spelled correctly. Thewords included “fidelity,” “flamboyant,”“mirage,” “llama” and “analysis.”

The words for the first onstage round —technically Round 2 of the bee; Round 1 is awritten t est — are taken from a list of about600 words that’s also used in school andregional-level bees. That gives participantsample opp ortunity t o study and memorize.

“We like the opportunity to give every

speller the chance to shine onstage,” saidPaige Kimble, the bee’s executive director.“I think what happened this morning is ter-rific.”

Round three words are slightly tougher,and spellers have less time to master them— they are given the list after winning theirregional bees.

Jacob Williamson, a popular formerspeller who finished in seventh placelast year and is back this y ear as a spec-tator, thinks that’s where the national

bee should start.“Round 2 has to go. It’s pointless,” he

said. “I’d make the Round 3 lis t twice as bigand use it for bo th rounds.”

WHAT’S OLD IS NEWMany spellers pretend to write words

down before they spell them aloud. NateBritton, 14, of Macomb, Michigan, had adifferent technique: He stepped away fromthe microphone, covered his hands with hismouth and sil ently rehearsed the word.

Nate picked up th e trick by reading a bookabout the bee. He learned that HenryFeldman, who won in 1960, did the samething.

“I don’t want to spell the word out withthe wrong letters. I say it to myself before.I basically repeat what I say before,” Nicksaid. “This is my last bee, so it’s very

important. I just do it as a precaution.”The approach was successful, at least onWednesday. Nate made the semifinals.

NICE THREADSSportin g a gray sweater vest ov er a purple

T-shirt, Evan Hailey, 12, of Odessa, Texas,was given the word “haberdasher.” He clear-ly k new it, b ut he asked pronouncer JacquesBailly to use it in a sentence anyway.

“Yet another upscale haberdasher hasopened a shop on Brighton Street, butKumar still can’t find one of those hatsPharrell wears,” Bail ly said.

“That describes my life,” Evan replied.

BIGGEST FANEmily Alldrin, 13, of Palocedro,

California, had a front-row seat among thespellers on stage for the preliminary rounds,and even when her fellow competitors did-n’t sho w much emotion , s he did.

Alldrin applauded vigorously for everyspeller. She started a line of high-fives forthe ones who misspelled words. And shereacted to the words given to other kids bytaking deep breaths, pursing her lips andsticking o ut her tongue.

“I really want everybo dy else to do well,”she said. “I want to make them feel goodabout how they did.”

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Santorum launched a 2016 White House bid on Wednesday,vowing to fight for working-classAmericans in a new election season thatwill test his influence — and focus onsocial issues — in a changingRepublican Party.

The former Pennsylvania senator may

have exceeded his own expectations byscoring a second-place finish in the racefor the Republican presidential nomina-tion four years ago. Yet as he enters amore powerful and diverse 20 16 field, he

may struggle even to qualify for the debate stage in h is sec-ond run.

“I am proud to stand here, among you and for you, theAmerican workers who have sacrificed so much, toannounce that I am running for president of the UnitedStates,” the 57-year-old senator said, flanked by factoryworkers and six of his seven chil dren in a cinderblock ware-house near his western Pennsylvania hometown.

“The last race, we changed the debate. This race, with y ourhelp and God’s grace, we can change thi s nati on. ”

Nebraska abolishes deathpenalty in landmark override vote

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska aboli shed the death p enaltyon Wednesday over the governor’s objections in a movepushed through the Legislature with unusual backing fromconservatives who oppose capital punishment for reli-gious, financial and practical reasons.

Senators in the one-house Legislature voted 30-19 tooverride the veto of Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican whosupports the death penalty. The vote makes Nebraska thefirst traditionally conservative state to eliminate the pun-ishment since North Dakota in 1973 .

The override vote — passed by the narrowest possiblemargin — drew a burst of app lause from death penalt y op po-nents in the gallery above the legislative chamber.

“Whenever anything historic occurs, it’s never the doingof one person,” said Sen. Ernie Chambers, an independentwho int roduced a repeal measure 38 ti mes. “I’ve been push-ing for this for 40 years, but all of this time it’s never beendone. If it could be done by one man, it would have beendone a long time ago.”

Pentagon: Military mistakenlyshipped live anthrax samples

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control andPrevention said Wednesday it is investigating what thePentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthraxspores to government and commercial laboratories in asmany as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expectedto receive dead spores.

“At this time we do not suspect any risk to the generalpublic,” CDC spok eswoman Kathy Harben said.

A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, said the sus-pected live anthrax samples were shipped from DugwayProving Ground, an Army facility in Utah, using a commer-cial delivery service.

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By Eric TuckerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — As Congress wres-tles over renewing the bulk collectionof Americans’ phone records, federallaw enforcement officials are warningthat legal authority is also at risk forlesser-known surveillance tools thatare even more valuable in fig hting ter-rorism.

The Patriot Act authorities give theFBI flexibility to intercept the calls of terror suspects who continuouslyswitch phones during the course of aninvestigation and to conduct surveil-lance on “lone wolf” individuals whopose threats but aren’t affiliated withan international terrorism organiza-tion.

U.S. officials have defended theneed for those powers over the lastdecade, but have amplified thoseefforts in recent weeks as t he expira-tion dates for their authority nearswithout any signals of a congres-sional compromise that would keepthem from lapsing along with oth er

parts of the act on June 1.The Senate returns to session

Sunday, facing a deadline to reach alast-minute agreement to renew a once-secret National Security Agency pro-gram that collects Americans’ phonerecords in bulk. Provisions of thePatriot Act dealing with lon e-wolf tar-gets and roving wiretaps would alsoexpire at midnight with the phonerecords program.

FBI Director James Comey has calledbulk phone collection a useful tool tothe FBI’s counterterrorism efforts. Butrecently he has expressed more concernabout being able to maintain the lonewolf and roving wiretap capabilities,as well as a s eparate Patriot Act provi-sion that allows the FBI to obtainsecret court orders to collect documentssuch as hotel and travel records duringterrorism investigations, and whichalso would be affected by the deadline.

“I sure hope Congress figures out away to make sure I don’t lose theseessential tools,” he said during a visitTuesday to the New Haven,Connecticut, field office of the FBI.

Attorney General Loretta Lynchwarned Wednesday against permittingthe expiration of “vital and uncontro-versial tools we use to combat terrorismand crime.”

But civil liberties lawyers say the FBIalready has the tools it needs andhaven’t presented enough informationto justify the use of these additionalauthorities. The American CivilLiberties Union accuses intelligence

officials and some in Congress of “scaremongering” about the Patriot Actand says the debated authorities givethe gov ernment to o much discretion innational security investigations.

“Existing laws provide ample author-ity for the government to obtain infor-mation about individuals who are plan-ning attacks of terrorism,” ACLUlawyers wrote in a memo urgingCongress to let the provisions expire.

The FBI has had roving wiretapauthority since the 1980s for criminalinvestigations such as drug cases, andthe Patriot Act of 20 01 extended its usefor counterterrorism and counterintelli-gence investigations.

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HOUSTON — Homeowners dragged sog gycarpet to the curb and mopped up coffee-col-ored muck Wednesday after a barrage of storms and floods in Texas and Oklahomaleft at least 21 people dead and 11 othersmissing.

More rain fell on the hard-hit Houstonarea, temporarily complicating the cleanupa day after a downpour of nearly a foo t trig -gered the worst flooding t he natio n’s fourth-largest city has seen in years. Hundreds of homes were damaged.

Severe weather contin ued in oth er parts of Texas, with hundreds of p eople west o f FortWorth told to evacuate along the risingBrazos River and flash flood warnin gs po st-ed in many areas.

Gadi Shaulsky spent the day cutting wetcarpet and padding from his home inHouston’s Meyerland section and taking itto the curb. His neighbors were doing thesame. A water mark showed that up to 6inches o f water had seeped into the ho me.

“That was just really frightening. It was just flowing in, ” said Shaulsky’s wife, Jo di.

With tears in her eyes, she added: “It’s h ardto wrap your head around all that n eeds to bedone.”

Houston Mayor Annise Parker said twopeople whose boat capsized during a rescuewere missing. Another person was missingin suburban Houston. And in Central Texas,crews resumed the search for nine peoplefeared dead after the swollen Blanco Riversmashed through Wimberley, a small touristtown between San Anto nio an d Austin , o verthe Memorial Day weekend.

The storms that produced the floodingwere part of a system that stretched fromMexico into the central U.S. The death tollfrom the system climbed to 35 — 14 inMexico, 17 i n Texas and four in Oklahoma.The Houston area alone had seven storm-related deaths.

Matt Meeks and his wife, Natalie, workedto clean up the resort on the banks of the

Blanco that has been in his family for fivegenerations, since the 1920s.

Of the 14 rock cabins at Rio BonitoResort, probably only five will be salvage-able, they said. Two were destroyed andseven appeared structurally unsound.

Meeks’ parents own the resort, but hetook charge of removing the debris and sal-vaging the furniture because “they’re too

emotion ally ti ed to the place to decide whatgets junked and what stays.”

On the night of the flood, they got all 10 0guests out safely after the fire chief called towarn that t he river was risin g. The river hadnever gotten so close to th e cabins before,Meeks said.

This has been the wettest month on recordfor Texas, and there are still several daysleft. The state climatologist’s office saidWednesday th at Texas h as go tten an averageof 7.54 inches of rain in May, breaking theold record of 6.66 inches, set in June 2004.

Texas has been hit with almost continu-ous storms for the past week to 1 0 days. Thewettest area has been from Dallas-FortWorth to the Red River, where some placeshave gotten more than 20 inches of rain.

Authorities, meanwhile, defended their

telephone and in-person warnings to resi-dents ahead of the b ad weather but acknowl-edged the difficulty in reaching tourists andsaid a messaging system in Houston isawaiting improvements.

“Nobody was saying, ‘Get out! Get out!Get out!”’ said Brenda Morton of Wimberley. She said year-round residentsknow the risks, but “people who were visit-ing or had summer homes, you have compa-ny from o ut of town, you don’t kno w. Youdon’t kno w when that ins tant is. ”

Wimberley saw some o f the h eaviest dam-age, including the loss of a two-story vaca-tion home that was swept downstream andslammed into a bridge. Eight people in thehome went missing, including three chil-dren.

Authorities in surrounding Hays County

said the warnings included multiple cell-phone alerts and calls to landlines.

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New federal rules onstream protectionhailed and criticizedBy Mary Clare Jalonick THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — New federalrules designed to better protectsmall streams, t ributaries and wet-lands — and the drinking water of 117 million Americans — arebeing criticized by Republicansand farm groups as going too far.

The White House says the rules,issued Wednesday, will providemuch-needed clarity for l andown-ers about which waterways mustbe protected against poll ution anddevelopment. But House SpeakerJohn Boehner declared they willsend “landowners, small busi-nesses, farmers and manufacturerson the road to a regulatory andeconomic hell.”

The rules, issued by theEnvironmental ProtectionAgency and the U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers, aim to clarify whichsmaller waterways fall under feder-al protection after two SupremeCourt rulings left the reach of theClean Water Act uncertain. EPAAdministrator Gina McCarthysaid the waters affected would beonly those with a “direct and sig-nificant” connection to largerbodies of water downstream thatare already prot ected.

The Supreme Court decisi ons in2001 and 2006 left 60 percent of the nation’s st reams and millions

of acres of wetlands without clear

federal protection, according to

EPA, causing confusion forlandowners and government offi-cials.

The new rules would kick in andforce a permitting process only if a business or landowner tooksteps to pollute or destroy cov-ered waters.

EPA says the rules will helplandowners understand exactlywhich waters fall under the CleanWater Act. For example, a tribu-tary must show evidence of flow-ing water to be protected — suchas a bank or a high water mark.

President Barack Obama saidthat while providing that clarityfor business and industry, therules “will ensure polluters whoknowingly threaten our waterscan be held accountable.”

There is deep opposition fromthe Republican-led Congress andfrom farmers and other landown-ers concerned that every stream,ditch and puddle on their privateland could now be subject t o feder-al oversight. The House voted toblock t he regulations earlier thismonth, and a Senate panel isplanning to consider a similarbill this summer.

House Speaker Boehner calledthe rules “a raw and tyrannicalpower grab.”

EPA’s McCarthy has acknowl-edged the proposed regulationslast year were confusing, and she

said the final rules were written t obe clearer. She said the regula-tio ns don’t create any new permit-ting requirements for agricultureand even add new exemptions forartificial lakes and ponds andwater-filled depressi ons from con-struction, among other features.

These efforts were “to makeclear our goal is to stay out of agriculture’s way,” McCarthy andAssistant Secretary of the Armyfor Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcysaid in a blo g on the EPA website.

The American Farm BureauFederation has led opposition tothe rules, saying they could makebusiness more difficult for farm-ers. The group said Wednesday

that it would wait to review the

final rules before responding.The agriculture industry has

been particularly concerned aboutthe regulation of drainage ditcheson farmland. The EPA and ArmyCorps said the only ditches thatwould be covered under the rule arethose that look, act and functionlike tributaries and carry pollu-tion downstream.

Another farm group, theNational Farmers Union, said itstill has some concerns about theimpact on farmers but is pleasedwith the increased clarity onditches, “removing a gray areathat has caused farmers and ranch-ers an incredible amount of con-cern.”

Since the rules were originally

proposed last year, the EPA hasbeen working to clear up somemisconceptions, putting to restrumors that puddles in your back-yard would be regulated, for exam-ple. Farming practices currentlyexempted from the Clean WaterAct — plowing, seeding and themovement of livestock, amongother things — will continue tobe exempted.

Environmentalists praised therules, sayin g many of the n ation’swaters would regain federal pro-tections that had been in doubtsince the Supreme Court rulings.

Margie Alt, executive directorwith Environ ment America, calledthe rules “the biggest victory for

clean water in a decade.”

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By Deb RiechmannTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Five senior Talibanleaders released last year from the U.S.prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, inexchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl couldmove freely around the world next week astheir one-year travel ban expires.

The five detainees were sent to Qatarwhere gov ernment officials agreed to mon-itor their activit ies and prevent them fromtraveling out of the country under theterms of the May 2014 exchange.Bergdahl, who had been held captive bythe Taliban for nearly five y ears after walk-ing away from his Army post inAfghanis tan, was released to th e U.S. mil-itary.

He recently was charged with desertion.

U.S. officials have discussed with theQataris the possibility of extending thetravel ban after it expires on June 1. But sofar, the White House has not publiclyannounced any new agreement with Qatar,meaning the five could leave the tinynation on th e Arabian Peninsula at the endof the month.

“In Congress, we spent a lot of timedebating whether the Qataris were going toadequately keep an eye on them in thecourse of the 1 2 month s,” s aid Rep. AdamSchiff of California, the top Democrat onthe House Intelligence committee. “Mypoint all along was that I’m more worriedabout month No. 13 than the first 12.”

Schiff has been privy to the details of the still-secret memorandum of under-standing the U.S. reached with Qatar thatput the five under a 12-month watch fol-lowing th eir release.

“The Qataris did pretty good — I would-n’t say perfect,” he said about the year-long monitoring. “But the big question is

what comes next. ”

At least one of the five allegedly con-tacted militant s during th e past year whilein Qatar. No details have been disclosedabout that contact, but the White Houseconfirmed that one was put under enhancedsurveillance. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,chairman of the Senate Armed ServicesCommittee, said last week: “I know that atleast one has had communication with theTaliban.”

One or more of the detainees had somemembers o f th e al-Qaida-affili ated Haqqanimilitant group travel to Qatar to meet withthem earlier in th e year, according to Sen.Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. That was an in di-cation that the group was reaching out tocommunicate with the so-called TalibanFive, said Graham, who predicts all fivewill rejoin the fight.

Four of the five former detainees remainon the United Nations’ blacklist, whichfreezes their assets and has them under aseparate travel ban. But the U.N. itself hasacknowledged that its travel ban has beenviol ated. In a report late last y ear, th e U.N.sanction s committee stated: “Regrettably,the monit oring team contin ues to receive a

steady — albeit officially unconfirmed —flow of media reports in dicating that so melist ed individuals h ave become increasing-ly adept at circumventing the sanctionsmeasures, th e travel ban i n particular.”

The State Department insists that U.S.officials work to mitigate the risk of for-mer Guantanamo detainees returning to thefight, threatening Americans or jeop ardiz-ing U.S. national security. U.S. officialshave not ed in th e past that the five Talibanleaders are middle-aged or older, were for-mer officials in the Taliban governmentand probably wouldn’t be seen again onany battlefield, although they could con-tinue to b e active members of t he Taliban.

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  The aspiration of religion along with theaspiration of science is to explain theuniverse and answer questions about life, in

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answers. Whether a person is repetitivelyreading religious scripture, or fascinated byrepeatable scientific experimentations, both

are searching for methods that answerquestions about the universe around us.

  It can be debated that early humans

turned to religion as a way to alleviate theirfears and gain reassurance with the concept

of life after death. This helped to give thema sense of order in a confusing world that

often seemed mysterious. Eventuallyscientific realization evolved along sidereligion and the process of “trial and error”

established itself as a way to solve some ofthese mysteries. Fire the wheel farming.

The more humans observed the world theylived in, the more they leaned how thenatural world worked and how they could

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the ages science and religion have beenevolving together on a roller coaster ride ofacceptance, denial and equilibrium.

We now appear to be at a crossroadswhere religion is not only viewing science

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truths of faith...”. Gregor Mendel, the fatherof Genetics, was an Augustinian Friar.

Georges Lemaitre, who developed much ofthe Big Bang Theory, was a Belgian priest.Recently, Pope Francis, who has a Master’s

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By Sinan SalaheddinTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD — As Iraqi forces gath ered fora major new offensive to try to take backthe sprawling Sunni heartland of Anbarprovince, Islamic State militants struckfirst, unleashing a wave of suicide bomb-

ings t hat killed at least 17 soldiers.The attacks outside the extremist-held

city of Fallujah came just hours after theIraqi government announced the start of awide-scale operation to recapture areasunder Islamic State control in the vast desertprovince that stretches to the border withJordan.

The militants used a sandstorm thatengulfed most of Iraq to launch the deadlywave of bombi ngs l ate Tuesday night , Brig.Gen Saad Maan Ibrahim, the s pokes man forthe Joint Military Command, told theAssociated Press.

He said it was not clear how many suicideattackers were involved in the bombingsbut they struck from multiple directions atthe Iraqi troops, who were gathered near awater control stati on and a lock sy stem on acanal between th e Euphrates River and LakeTharthar as t hey p repared to deploy.

Last month, the water station nearFallujah fell into the hands of the militantsfollowing attacks that also included multi-ple suicide bombings that killed a generalcommanding the 1st Division and a dozenother officers and soldiers, Ibrahim said.

Iraqi government forces retook the sta-tion a few days l ater. Fallujah li es to t he eastof the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi,which was captured 10 days ago by theIslamic State militants in a major defeat forIraqi troo ps.

The military, humiliated last y ear when itcrumbled in the face of the militantonsl aught in the city of Mosul, had regainedsome momentum after its vi ctory in SaddamHussein’s hometown of Tikrit last month.

The campaign t o retake Anbar, which is saidto be backed by Shii te militi as and pro-gov -ernment Sunni fighters, is deemed criticalin regaining momentum in the fight againstthe Islamic State group.

The capture of Ramadi, followed onlydays later by the fall of the ancient Syriantown of Palmyra, showed the Islamic Stategroup’s abili ty to advance in both countriesdespite months of U.S.-led airstrikes. Capt.Andrew Caulk, a U.S. Air Fo rce spok esmanin Qatar, to ld the AP it will contin ue to pro-vide air support “to government-controlledIraqi forces” th roughout the country, in clud-

ing near Ramadi, where it has b een carryingout airstrikes for several months.

In Palmyra, Syrian activists said IslamicState militants shot dead a group of detainees in the Roman theater in thetown’s ancient ruins after gathering peopleto watch. They said Islamic State gunmenkill ed at least 1 5 men after accusing them of having fought with President BasharAssad’s troops.

The slayings were reported by activistsbelon ging to a Palmyra-based media collec-tive and the Britain-based SyrianObservatory for Human Rights.

The theater is part of the 2,000-year-oldRoman-era ruins in Palmyra.

Syria’s foreign minister said Wednesdaythat his go vernment was “not pinning anyhopes” on the U.S.-led coalition carryingout airstrikes against Islamic State groupmilitants in hi s country.

At a news conference in Damascus, Walid

al-Moallem said the coalition was active inpreventing the Kurdish town of Kobanifrom falling to the extremists last year butthat support seems to have “evaporated”after that.

The United States did nothing to preventPalmyra in Syria or Anbar province in Iraqfrom falling into their hands, he said.

“We’re not pinning any hopes on thatalliance and anyone who does is living anillusio n,” al-Moallem added.

He said Iraq and Syria were fighting thesame battl e but added that s ecurity coordina-tion between their two armies “has notreached the desired levels. ”

Also Wednesday, Syrian activ ists said theIslamic State group released two elderlyChristian women who had been held alongwith dozens of others since February in

northeastern Syria.At the time, they kidnapped more than

220 Assyrian Christians after overrunningseveral farming communities on the south-ern bank of the Khabur River in Hassakehprovince.

The two women, who are 70 and 75 yearsold, were released Tuesday and have nowreached the northwestern city of Hassakeh,said Osama Edwards, director of theAssyrian Network for Human Righ ts.

Another activist group, the SyrianObservatory for Human Rights , sai d the twowere likely released because of their poorhealth. Some of the captives had beenreleased previously.

Edwards said the Islamic State group isstill holding 210 Assyrian Christians and isdemanding $100,000 for each hostage.

IS suicide attacks in Iraq’s Anbar kill 17 troops

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Big movers

By Ken SweetTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Stocks ended higherWednesday, recovering the most of their losses from the day before, as

Greece appeared closer to resolving itslatest debt issues.However, the overall market remains

directionless as most investors arefocused on figuring out when theFederal Reserve’s long-awaited interestrate increase may come.

The Dow Jones industrial averagerose 121.45 points, or 0.7 percent, to18,162. 99. It had fallen 190 po ints onTuesday. The Standard & Poor’s 500index rose 19.28 points, or 0.9 per-cent, to 2,123.48 and the Nasdaq com-posite rose 73.84 points, or 1.5 per-cent, to 5,106.59.

The stock market was barely higherfor the first half of the day, but gainedmomentum in the afternoon afterGreece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

said his country is near a deal with itscreditors. Tsipras stressed that “calmand determination” were needed in thefinal stretch of negotiations.

Greece might miss a debt payment onJune 5 if it fails to receive bailout fundsfrom creditors, who are demanding thatthe country make reforms to its econo-my. It is unclear whether an agreementcan be reached in time and Greece is

dealing with three different creditorinstitutions: the InternationalMonetary Fund, European Commissionand European Cent ral Bank.

Missing those p ayments could desta-bilize the country’s financial systemand eventually push it out of the 19-country eurozone, a step that couldshake the currency union and the glob aleconomy.

The news helped the euro stabilizeagainst the dollar after its sell-off Tuesday. The drop in the euro was par-tially blamed for yesterday’s stock mar-ket s ell-off.

Outside of Greece and the doll ar, mostof investors’ attention is on th e Fed andwhen the central bank plans to start

raising rates for the first time in almosta decade. Investors and strategists aresplit on when the central bank willmove, with some thinking it could beas early as September and most loo kingat early 201 6.

Market strategists argue that until themarket has some more clarity from theFed or from economic data, stocks areunlikely to p ost s olid gains. There was

no major economic data on Wednesdayto mov e the market one way or anoth er.

“It’s an old but true expression: Themarket li kes certainty. Until we get t hatfrom the Fed, stocks are unlikely tomake any headway,” said DavidLefkowitz, a senior equity strategist atUBS.

In individual sto cks, tobacco compa-nies Lorillard and Reynolds Americanrose after th e Federal Trade Commissio ngave its tacit approval to the compa-nies’ $27.4 billion merger. Lorillard,maker of Newport cigarettes, was up 70cents, or 1 percent, to $72.82.Reynolds American, which makesCamel cigarettes, was up $1. 70, or 2.3percent, to $77. 13.

Michael Kors Holdings sank $14. 66,or 24 percent, to $45.93. The handbagand accessories maker posted a drop inyear-over-year sales and predicted saleswould be well short of analysts’ esti-mates. And jewelry maker Tiffany & Co.rose $9.01, or 11 percent, to $94.54after its quarterly results topped ana-lysts’ expectations, despite a strongerdollar.

Stocks recover from Tuesday’s slump“It’s an old but true expression:

The market likes certainty. Until we get that fromthe Fed, stocks are unlikely to make any headway.”

— David Lefkowitz, a senior equity strategist at UBS

By Stephen OhlemacherTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — IRS inv esti gato rs

believe the identity thieves who stolethe personal tax information of morethan 100,000 taxpayers from an IRSwebsite are part of a sophisticatedcriminal operation based in Russia,two officials t old the Associated Press.

The information was stolen as partof an elaborate scheme t o claim fraudu-lent tax refunds, IRS CommissionerJohn Koskinen told reporters.Koskinen declined to say where thecrime origin ated.

But two o fficials briefed on the mat-ter said Wednesday the IRS believesthe criminals were in Russia, based oncomputer data about who accessed theinformation. The officials spoke oncondition of anonymity because theywere not authorized to publicly discussthe ongoing investigation.

The revelation highlights theglobal reach of many cyber crimi-nals. And it’s not the first time theIRS has been targeted by identity

thieves based overseas.

In 2012, the IRS sent a total of 655tax refunds to a single address inLithuania, and 343 refunds went to a

lone address in Shang hai, according toa report by the agency’s inspector gen-eral. The IRS has since added safe-guards to prevent similar schemes, butthe criminals are innovating as well.

The information was taken from anIRS website called “Get Transcript,”where taxpayers can get tax returns andother tax filings from previous years.In order to access the information, thethieves cleared a security screen thatrequired detailed knowledge about eachtaxpayer, including their SocialSecurity number, date of birth, tax fil-ing status and street address.

The IRS believes the criminals orig-inally obt ained this i nformation fromother so urces. They were accessing th eIRS website to get even more informa-tion about the taxpayers, which wouldhelp them claim fraudulent tax refundsin t he future, Koskin en said.

“We’re confident that these are notamateurs,” Kosk inen said. “These actu-

ally are organized crime syndicatesthat not o nly we but everybody in t hefinancial in dustry are dealing with.”

Congress is demanding answers

about how identity thieves were ableto steal the in formation.

The Senate Finance Committee hasscheduled a hearing for Tuesday.Koskinen and J. Russell George, theTreasury inspector general for taxadministration, are scheduled to testi-fy.

“When the federal government failsto prot ect private and confidential tax-payer information, Congress mustact,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,chairman of the Finance Committee.“Taxpayers deserve to k now what hap-pened at the IRS regarding the datatheft, and this hearing will be the firststep of many that the committee takesto determine what happened and howthe government can prevent suchattacks from happening again.”

The IRS said it is notifying taxpay-ers whose information was accessed.The IRS is providing them with creditmonitoring services.

IRS believes identity thieves from RussiaPacific Gas & Electric Companypresident announces retirement

SAN FRANCISCO — The man who led Pacific Gas &Electric Company through a deadly 2010 pipeline explo-

sion i n San Bruno is retiring at the end of the year.PG&E announced the retirement of 

Christopher P. Johns in a statementTuesday, praising his leadership andservice. PG&E Chairman and CEO TonyEarley said the board of directors is like-ly to discuss a replacement plan beforeJohn s’ last day December 31.

Johns joined PG&E in 1996 as vicepresident and controll er, becoming pres-ident of the state’s largest utility in

August 2009. In 2010, a natural gas pipeline explosionrocked San Bruno, killi ng eigh t people and destroying morethan th ree dozen homes.

CBS’ Bob Schieffer is ready for retirementWASHINGTON — At 78, Bob Schieffer is enti tled to remi-

nisce about the “good old days” of reporting. He believes

young people coming into the business can also learn fromthem.

Schieffer will host CBS’ “Face theNation ” on Sunday for th e last t ime after24 y ears. He’s retiring from a journalismcareer that began at 20 at a Fort Worth,Texas, radio station and landed him atCBS News in Washington when hewalked in o n so meone else’s interview.

He’s one of the last of a generation of reporters working at s uch a high l evel; hecovered the assassination of President

John F. Kennedy, a story that gave him one of the biggestscoops of his career. “I suppose every generation thinksthat th e kids younger than th em aren’t as goo d as they wereand screwed it up in some way,” he said.

As TV goes online,

Suddenlink latest to hook up with HuluNEW YORK — TV watchers are going online, and cablecompanies are following them there.

Suddenlink, which has 1.1 million TV subscribers, is thelatest t o h ook up with Hulu, adding the service t o it s TiVoset-top bo x. It already had a partnership with Netflix.

There has been a string of cable company partnershipswith Hulu and Netflix announced over the past year, primari-ly with s maller providers. The benefit of t hese deals for con-sumers is that they make it easier to watch online video inthe li ving room, o n y our TV. Services li ke Hulu get a mar-keting boost and a way to add new subscribers. The cablecompanies have a chance to talk you into upgrading tofaster, more expensive broadband speeds and keep youwatching o nlin e video competitors on t heir cable box ratherthan away from your TV on your iPad.

By David KoeingTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS — Shareholders of big oilcompanies overwhelmingly rejectedseveral environmental resolutionsincluding proposals to put climate-change experts on their boards and setgoals for greenhouse-gas emissions.

The votes at meetings of Exxon

Mobil Corp. an d Chevron Corp. sh are-holders on Wednesday were expected.Some of the ideas had lost badly at pre-vious annual meetings.

Lower prices for crude have cut intothe oil giants’ profits. At the ExxonMobil meeting in Dallas, CEO RexTillerson said the company is posi-tion ed to withs tand ups and down in oilprices and give shareholders a goodreturn on t heir money.

Tillerson has said that said that oilprices will remain low over the nexttwo years because of large global sup-plies and weak economic growth.

The company is adjusting by cutting

costs. Exxon has completed more thana dozen major projects in the past t hreeyears and expects an equal number tobegin production through 2017.Exxon plans to cut capital spending asthose projects are completed — from$38.5 billion last year to $34 billionthis year and less in 20 16 and 2017.

Shareholders rejected a proposal byan organization of Catholic priests in

Milwaukee to put a climate-changeexpert on the board. The Exxon boardopposed the resolution, saying severalboard members have engineering andscientific backgrounds and can handleclimate issues, and it gained only 21percent support. The outcome was thesame at the Chevron meeting.

Michael Crosby, spon sor of the res-olution at the Exxon meeting, said thecompany is fixated on oil and gas andisn’t paying enough attention torenewable energy and climate change.

“This company has to be makingplans for the future,” he s aid. “Let’s getan expert on the board to deal with a

critical question.”Others proposed that Exxon Mobil

and Chevron set goals for reducinggreenhouse gas emissions from itsproducts, such as gasoline, but thosegot less than 10 percent support.Vermont state treasurer Beth Pearcesaid institutional investors are grow-ing more concerned about the topic,and Exxon management’s strategy for

diversifying its production beyond oiland gas has been “wholly inadequate.”

Measures calling for reports on theimpact of hydraulic-fracturing drew 25percent support at Exxon and 27 per-cent at Chevron.

On climate change, Exxon CEOTillerson said that models predictingthe effects of global warming aren’tvery good and that it would be veryhard for the world to meet aggressiveemission-reduction targets. He saidtechnology can help deal with risingsea levels or changing weather pat-terns “that may or may not be inducedby climate change.”

Exxon shareholders to vote on climate change, fracking

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By Nathan Mollat

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

SAN JOSE — Death by a million cuts.That’s ho w the second-seeded Mitty softballteam beat No. 3 Hillsdale in the semifinalsof the Central Coast Section Division IItournament at P.A.L. Stadium in San JoseWednesday evening.

The Monarchs scored 11 runs on nine hi ts— all singles — in a nightmare of a secondinning for the Knights.

That would be all Mitty would need as theMonarchs advanced to another CCS cham-pionship game with an 11-1, five-inningvictory over Hillsdale (20-9).

“Tough inning there,” said Hillsdalecoach Randy Metheany, in the understate-ment of the season. “You can’t get behindlike that. [Mitty is] a good team. It’s tough.It’s hard to lose.”

Hillsdale scratched out a run in the top of the third when Sharona Mataele led off theinning getting hit by a pitch. She went to

second on a wild pitch and took third on agroundout. Caitlin Chan was hit by a pitchto put runners on the corners and bring upleadoff hitter Megan Wells. Well hit a slowroller toward short and the only play theMitty shortstop had was to force out Chanat second, with Mataele coming in to score.

Making the loss even harder to swallowwas the fact the Knights were not over-whelmed by Mitty pitcher DesireeSeverance, who finished with just threestrikeouts. Hillsdale did a good job of put-

ting th e ball in p lay, but the Mitty defensewas too stout.

“We had faced her a couple years ago as afreshman and hit her pretty good,”Metheany said. “You have to go after thatgirl. She wasn’t dominant.”

Severance doesn’t have to be dominant,however, when she has one of the mostpotent offenses in the section. Mitty (26-3)did not record an extra-base hit, but the

Monarchs rule Knights in CCS softball semifinals

Scots stuffed by Los Gatos

Of course, the Sacred Heart Prepbaseball team made it to its firstCentral Coast Section champi-

onship game since 1989. It’s been thatkind of school year for the school’s ath-letic program.

In fact, it ’s now becoming a commonsigh t to see Sacred Heart Prep team com-peting — and winning — section titles.The previous two school years — 2012-

13 and 2013-14— have seen theGators win a com-bined 10 CCS cham-pionships — fiveeach season.

They’ve already

added four more thi sschool year withfootball, boy s’ andgirls’ water polo andgirls’ soccer all win-ning titles. In addi-

tion , t he boys’ soccer team advanced tothe Division III title game, while theboys ’ basketball t eam qualified for theOpen Division.

Saturday, the baseball team will try forthe school’s fifth CCS crown this schoolyear following a 1-0 win over Montereyin t he Divisio n III semifinals Tuesdaybehind a four-hit gem from WillJohnston . It was the second game thistournament the Gators pulled out a 1-0win.

“We’ve had a pretty good run t hese last

three, four years,” said Frank Rodriguez,assistant principal of athletics. “[We’re]proud of those accomplishments.”

There have also been a number of firstsfor SHP this year. The football t eam wonits first-ever Peninsula Athletic LeagueBay Division crown and Open Divisi ontitle, go ing a p erfect 13-0.

The boys’ basketball team, which wenta perfect 14-0 in West Bay AthleticLeague, qualified for the Open Divisionfor the first ti me. The Gators proceeded towin their first Open Division gameagainst Riordan, before losing i n thesemifinals and the third-place game.

Gators gobbling

up section titles

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By Antonio GonzalezTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND — After a generation of wishingand waiting, the Golden State Warriors havefinally arrived on basketball’s biggest stageagain.

Stephen Curry had 26 points and eightrebounds, Harrison Barnes added 24 points andthe Warriors advanced to the NBA Finals for thefirst time in 40 years with a 104-90 victoryover the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night.

“Why not us?” Curry said to a roaring, gold-

en-yellow shirt wearingcrowd after the Warriorsreceived the WesternConference trophy fromAlvin Attles, the coach of their last championshipteam in 1975.

The Warriors shook off aslow start and sweated out ashaky finish in Game 5 toclose out the Rockets and

set up a matchup with LeBron James and theCleveland Cavaliers beginning June 4.

It was hardly the prett iest performance — butone they’ll savor nonetheless.

Yellow streams and confetti fell from therafters when the final buzzer sounded. TheWarriors shared hugs and handshakes, and thecrowd chanted “M-V-P!” for Curry, who relishedthe moment on the court with his 2-year-olddaughter, Riley.

“We deserve to celebrate tonight, but we’vestill got unfinished business and it’s a longtime coming for the Bay Area,” Warriors guardKlay Thompson said.

All five Rockets starters scored at least 10

points, with Dwight Howard leading the waywith 18 points and 16 rebounds. But MVP run-ner-up James Harden had a forgettable finale.

Harden had a playoff-record 13 turnovers andscored 14 points on 2-of-11 shooting.

“Tried to do a little bit too much and turnedthe ball over and gave them easy baskets intransition,” Harden said. “This isn’t where wewanted to end at. It’s a really good season forus. Next year we want to be better, and we will. ”

Curry said he had no lingering effects from

Warriors hold off Houston, advance to NBA Finals

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Carlmont’s Nick Thompson busts down the first-base line as Los Gatos pitcher Hunter Bigge prepares to throw to first for the out. Bigge wasnearly untouchable inCCS Open Division semifinal game, holding Carlmont to just one hit in a 3-0 Wildcats’ victory.

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

SAN JOSE — Carlmont’s run through theCentral Coast Section Open Division bracketcame to an end Wednesday night as the No. 4 -seed Scots (24-8) fell 3-0 to No. 1 Los Gatosin the semifinal round at San Jose’sMunicipal Stadium.

Los Gatos junior Hunter Bigge dominatedon the mound, firing a one-hit s hutout to send

the Wildcats (30-5) to Saturday’s champi-onship game. They will face No. 2 St. FrancisSaturday at Municipal Stadium for the t itle.

With the help of a fourth-inning doubleplay to promptly retire Carlmont’s onl y baserunner of the game, Bigge faced the mini-mum, falling just one hit shy of a perfectgame. The junior also added a double and twoRBIs at the p late.

“This is as perfect a game as I can think of,”Bigge said. “Going t o the championship , we

got the win. That’s all I can ask for.”Carlmont leadoff hitter Julian Billot

recorded the only hit of the game for theScots. The Wildcats banged out seven hitsand showed why they are the top seed withsome loud contact. With seven hits on thegame, Los Gatos is now hitting .317 as ateam this season.

Scots right-hander Joe Pratt took the loss,

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors accusedthe leaders of soccer federations o f tarnishingthe sport for nearly a quarter century by tak-ing $150 million in bribes and payoffs, lay-ing out a sweeping corruption case thathinges on the testimony of insiders, includ-

ing some who have agreed to cooperate inplea deals.

In announcing the racketeering conspiracyand other charges Wednesday against 14defendants — nine current and former offi-cials with global soccer governing bodyFIFA, four sports marketing executives andan accused intermediary — prosecutors alsorevealed four others had pleaded guilty insecret proceedings dating to July 2013 . It’sbelieved some or all are cooperating in theinvestigation.

The fact that some guilty pleas camealmost two years ago speaks to how longauthorities have been gathering evidence,likely s ome of it from those defendants, saidAlfredo F. Mendez, a former federal prosecu-tor who now is a white-collar criminaldefense lawyer.

A long time between a first round of pleasand their disclosure is “a signal that coopera-tion i s goin g on, ” Mendez said.

Prosecutors sealed the guilty pleas so theywouldn’t “flag that there was investigationgoing on,” said Timothy Heaphy, anotherformer federal prosecutor and defense attor-ney. “That happens all the ti me in organizedcrime cases, whether white-collar or blue-collar.”

Also telling is th e extent of the allegationsprosecutors have unveiled — the indictmentruns 161 pages — indicating they’re confi-dent they have voluminous evidence, expertssaid.

Heaphy said such detail s ends a message to

defendants: “They know what we did. Theyhave goo d information. That could be incen-tive to plead guilty and cooperate.”

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynchannounced the charges at a news conferencepacked with foreign journalists. The chargeswere filed by the U.S. attorney’s office inBrooklyn, which she ran before becoming acabinet member.

The indicted soccer officials “were expect-ed to uphold the rules that k eep soccer hones t

and to protect the integrity of the game,”Lynch s aid. “Instead, they corrupted the busi-ness of worldwide soccer to serve their inter-ests and to enrich themselves.”

With soccer officials gathered in Zurich toelect a new president, seven of the U.S.defendants were arrested there. Six of thosearrested were opposing extradition to theU.S., t he Swiss justice ministry said, withoutnaming them.

Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner

turned himself over to police in Trinidad, andhe was later released on $2.5 million bail.Warner did not enter a plea, but he denied anywrongdoing.

The others had yet to be arrested.Meanwhile, Warner’s two sons , Daryan and

Daryll, entered secret guilty pleas in 2013.The indictment points to their possible

cooperation by detailing how, i n a scheme tofix a vo te awarding th e 2010 World Cup to ur-nament to South Africa, Warner directed anunnamed co-conspirator — identified only as“a member of Warner’s family” — to fly toParis to “accept a briefcase containing bun-dles of U.S. currency in $10, 000 s tacks in ahotel room from a high-ranking SouthAfrican bid committee official.”

“Given the allegations that we’ve seen justin the papers, there seems little doubt whothe payments went to and for what reason,”said Andy Spalding, an international crimi-nal law expert at the University of RichmondSchool of Law.

Prosecutors outlined 12 different schemesdating to 1991, most involving marketingand media rights to various events.

FIFA said it was cooperating with investi-

gators and that it had already taken steps toroot o ut corruption.

While the case has an international scope,prosecutors have noted that one entit y at theheart of the case is headquartered in Miami,they’ve said some illegal transactions p assedthrough U.S. banks, and some defendants areU.S. citizens.

“When you look at all of that, I think thegovernment will argue that they have a rea-son for in volvement in this, ” Mendez said.

“The Department of Justice is trying tosend a message to FIFA: ‘If you’re not goingto p olice yourself, we’re going to p olice you,if you’re doing this kind of business in theUnited States.”’

U.S. FIFA case: $150M in bribes, dozen schemes

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FBI agents carry boxes from the offices of CONCACAF, the soccer federation that governsNorth America, Central America and the Caribbean, in Miami Beach, Florida Wednesday. Sevenof the most powerful figures in global soccer faced extradition to the United States oncorruption charges after being arrested on Wednesday in Switzerland, where authorities alsoannounced a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups.

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By Genaro ArmasTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MILWAUKEE — Ryan Vogelsong allowedone run in six innings to win his third straightstart, Joe Panik h it a two-run homer and the SanFrancisco Giants completed a three-game sweep

in Milwaukee with a 3-1 victory Wednesdayover the Brewers.

The Giants bullpen finished off the last-placeBrewers with three hitless innings, capped bySantiago Casilla’s 1-2-3 ninth for his 14thsave.

Both teams squandered numerous early scor-ing chances. The Giants stranded six runnersthrough the first four innings , but they finallybroke through on Panik’s shot to right for a 2-1 lead in the fifth off starter Mike Fiers (1-5).

Gregor Blanco added an insurance run with apinch-hit sacrifice fly in the ninth.

It was more than enough cushion forVogelsong (4-2), who allowed just Elian

Herrera’s RBI single withtwo outs in the fourth.

Milwaukee could havehad a bigger inning if KhrisDavis wasn’t thrown out athome after appearing tohesitate while breaking

from third on a hardgrounder to first by AdamLind.

After a single by AramisRamirez, Herrera followed

with his one-bouncer through the hole into leftwith to score Lind from third to give Milwaukeea 1-0 lead.

Vogelsong o therwise finish ed May withanother effective outing. The Giants have wonall five of Vogelsong’s starts this month , withthe veteran right-hander having given up justfour earned runs in 31 2-3 innings during thatstretch.

Fiers was OK working on three days’ rest in

place of Wily Peralta (left oblique), who wasplaced on the 15-day disabled list this week.The lanky right-hander allowed eight hits andhad six strikeouts in five innings.

Milwaukee lost it