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Hillsdale quarterback Brett Wetteland, left, and a teammate console each other as the nal seconds counted down in theKnights’ 41-24 loss to Aptos in the CCS Division IV championship game.

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By Amanda Leeand Tami AbdollahTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN BERNARDINO — The FBIannounced Friday that it is inves-tigating the mass shooting at aSouthern California office partyas an act of terrorism, but theagency’s director said there is noindication the husband and wifewho killed 14 people were part of a larger plot or members of a terrorcell.

If the investi-gation con-firms those ini -tial suspicions,the attackwould be thed e a d l i e s tinspired byIslamic extrem-

ism on U.S.soil sin ce Sept.11.

While authorities did not citespecific evidence that led them to

the terrorismfocus, a U.S. lawenforcement offi-cial said that thewife, TashfeenMalik, had undera Facebook aliaspledged alle-giance to the

Islamic Stategroup and itsleader. A

Facebook official said Malik

FBI: Attack was act of terror

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

In the wake of tragic massshootings that shocked the worldand hit closer to home this weekafter a duo s tormed a social serv-ice center in Southern Californiakilling 14, emergency officialsare urging residents to review San

Mateo County’s robust disasterpreparedness plans.

While not wanting to causeunwarranted fear or alarm, offi-cials noted there’s no harm inknowing how to best react in apotentially lethal active shooterincident.

Local law enforcement urgesactive shooter preparedness

Syed Farook

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InsideMassacrespurs ancevisa programconcerns

Californiashooting doesnot t familiargun debate

No indication shooters who killed 14 people were part of larger plot

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

As the weather has cooled, sohas the lo cal real estate market, asreports sh ow there are more homeson the market selling for lessmoney than months prior.

The average home sale priceacross San Mateo County hit$1.56 million in October, mark-ing a bit of a slump from the peakannual sales price of about $1.66million in June, and there are cur-rently about 100 more homes forsale than when the market was

hotter and tighter, according to areport from the San Mateo CountyAssociation of Realtors, or SAM-CAR.

Real estate professionals attrib-ute the market softening in part tothe slump in sales which typicallycomes during the winter, as fewer

deals tak e place during t he hol idayseason.

But for those int erested in enter-ing t he market and finding a ho mewhich is considered relativelyaffordable, compared to th e priceswhich have skyrocketed recently,experts say there may some be

cause for optimism.“It has cooled down a little bit,

not a whole lot, compared to whatwe had in the spring when it wascompletely insane” said ChuckGillooley, a Realtor in San Carlos

Winter weakening the local housing marketExperts project San Mateo County market softening to continue into next year

City honoringBarbara PierceCouncilwoman served 16

years in Redwood City officeBy Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Redwood City has changed dramatical-ly since Councilwoman Barbara Piercewon her first election in 1999.

After 16 years in office, the CityCouncil is set to recognize her accom-plishments at its Monday night meetingas she is being termed out.

Not only has the city’s skylinechanged dramatically in recent years but so has its residentsand how they communicate with each other, Pierce saidThursday.

“When I first s tarted, s ome council meetings were not socivil,” she said. Today, the dialogue is more civil but thecity’s residents are no less passionate, she said.

Pierce can expect to be praised by her council colleaguesfor especially transforming the old courthouse downtowninto a public plaza that has become known as the city’s“living room.”

Councilman Ian Bain said Courthouse Square will bePierce’s crowning achiev ement.

“It’s th e best t hin g we’ve ever done as a cit y and Barbara

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Five U.S. Navy torpedo bombersmysteriously disappeared after takingoff from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on atraining mission (designated asFlight 19) with the loss of all 14 crew

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In 1782 , the eight h president of the United States, MartinVan Buren, was born in Kinderhook , New York; he was thefirst chief executive to be born after American independ-ence.In 1791 , composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died inVienna, Austria, at age 3 5.In 1831 , former President John Quincy Adams took hisseat as a member of the U.S. House of Representativ es.In 184 8, President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of ’49 by confirming that gold had been discovered inCalifornia.In 1932 , German physicist Albert Einstein was granted avisa, making it possible for him to travel to the UnitedStates.In 1933 , national Prohibition came to an end as Utahbecame the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to theConstitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.I n 1 9 5 5 , the American Federation of Labor and theCongress of Industrial Organizations merged to form theAFL-CIO under its first president, George Meany.I n 1 9 6 2 , the United States and the Soviet Unionannounced a bilateral space agreement on exchangingweather data from satelli tes, mapping Earth’s geomagneti cfield and cooperating in the experimental relay of commu-nications.In 1979 , feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommu-nicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspokensupport for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to theConstitution.In 1984 , the action comedy “Beverly Hills Cop,” starringEddie Murphy, was released by Paramount Pictures. A fter the television music show“Soul Train” (1971-2006) debutedin 1970, the Sears and Roebuck

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***Dolly Parton (born 1946) met her hus-band Carl Dean (born 1942) at theWishy-Washy Laundromat in Nashville,Tennessee.

***Most major airlines retire flight numbersafter a plane crash. It is not superstitious.It is done out of respect for family mem-bers so they do not have to be remindedof the accident.

***The shoulder joint is made up of threebones: the clavicle, scapula and humerus.

***Kraft introduced Miracle Whip in 1933with the slogan “Salad Miracles with

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***Log cabins in Maine are exempt fromproperty taxes.

***There are more than 8,000 species of ants.

***Prankster Samuel S. Adams (1878-1963)invented sneezing powder and started theCachoo Sneezing Powder Company in1904. Adams also created us the joybuzzer, the dribble glass and the squirtinglapel flower.

***Only about one in 40 babies is born onthe actual ‘due date’ estimated by theobstetrician.

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***The cover of the first issue of Ms.Magazine in January 1972 pictured awoman juggling a clock, frying pan,mirror, iron, steering wheel, typewriterand rake.

***Abstract expressionist painter JacksonPollock (1912-1956) died in an automo-bile accident at age 44.

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The first winning word of the NationalSpelling Bee in 1925 was gladiolus. In1975, it was incisor. In 2005, the win-ning word was appoggiatura.

***Some types of terrestrial salamanders do

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***The nickname for St. Stephens Tower inLondon is Big Ben, but Big Ben refers tothe bell, not the clock or the tower. Theclock’s hour hand is 9-feet long and theminute hand is 14 -feet long.

***Betsy Ross (1752-1836), the seamstresscredited with sewing the first Americanflag, was widowed three times and hadnine daughters.

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***“Often a bridesmaid but never a bride”was used in the first ad for Listerinemouthwash in 1925. They originated thephrase.

***Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 -1736) was thefirst person to make a thermometer usingmercury.

*** An s we r : A chirablutomaniac excessive-ly washes his hands. A bibliomaniac isobsessed with books. A technomaniac isobsessed with technology.

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SAN MATEOShopl i f t ing . A woman was arrested forshoplifting from Sears at the HillsdaleShopping Center before 8:51 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 3.Burglary . A vehicle’s radio was taken andits ignition was punched on West ThirdAvenue before 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.Hit-and-run. A vehicle sideswiped anothervehicle before leaving the scene near SouthEl Camino Real and East Fifth Avenue before12:28 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.Suspicious circumstances. Someonewas seen trying to break into a vehicle onSouth Claremont Street before 10:06 p.m.Tuesday, Dec. 1.

BELMONTFound property . A passport was found onEl Camino Real somewhere between SouthSan Francisco and Belmont before 4:15p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.Disturbance. Two men were seen ghtingon El Camino Real before 12:40 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 3.Suspicious circumstances . Two menwere seen in a vehicle parked in the middleof the street on Garden Court before 2:08p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2.Arres t . The driver of a vehicle was arrestedafter being seen with a Champagne bottlewhile driving near El Camino Real before8:03 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1.

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Good gourdA person threw a pumpkin out of a mov-ing v ehicle at a passerby on Beach ParkBoulevard in Foster City before 10:13p.m. Friday, Nov. 27.

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The details of the coastside’s new libraryare taking sh ape after the Half Moon Bay CityCouncil voted on a slight ly s maller buildingto keep costs within the budget it’s jointlyfunding with the county.

The council voted Tuesday to replace the

current less than 8,000-square-foot facilitynear downtown with a 22,000-square-footbuilding, a slightly scaled-down version fromthe 25,000-square-foot structure previouslydiscussed.

With a nearly $23 million budget for theproject that will serve Half Moon Bay and 10unincorporated communities along the coast,the council is working collaboratively withthe county Board of Supervisors as well as theSan Mateo County Library JPA.

In addition to unanimously approving thesmaller size, the city also approved a designthat was heavily favored by the public duringrecent outreach efforts, according to city o ffi-cials. The library became a somewhat contro-versial topic amongst residents who raisedconcern by the size and cost of the new facil-ity. While the scaled-down version was inpart a response to budgetary restrictions, it

also offered a compromise for those whosought a smaller project.“I’m very excited to be moving forward

with a new library! The 22,000-square-footlibrary may not please everyone. But I’mconfident it will serve us well and far into thefuture as long as we build it with flexibilityand sustainability in mind,” Vice MayorDebbie Ruddock wrote in an email. “I’m con-fident that t he passion and commitment of somany library supporters and volunteers willmake it a warm, inviti ng and happening pl aceto be.”

The council was presented with the p roject-ed costs, which included an average of morethan $6 million in soft expenses for thingslike preparing an environmental review of the facility. A 25,000-square-foot librarywould have gone over budget at $25.5 mil-lion and a 19,500-square-foot building would

have been under budget at $21.3 million. The

22,00 0-square-foot design fits neatly i nto itsagreement with the county by costing an esti-mated $23.2 million, according to a staff report.

Despite the scaled-down size, the librarywill still be able to maintain many of theservices the community identified as a priori-ty, said Councilwoman Marina Fraser andDeputy City Manager Alex Khojikian.

“Adjusting the size to 22,000 square feetwill help us stay within the budget and we’reconfident that the collection of programs thecommunity has requested through a largeamount of input and outreach we’ve done, willbe accommodated within this building size,”Khojikian said. The council barely discussedthe three design alternatives and made a sim-ple choice to heed the community’s prefer-ence, Fraser said.

“That’s important, because we’ve done somany surveys, spent s o much time going intothe community and getting feedback,” Frasersaid. “It gives the architects a framework tostart and to refine the design. It just makes thewhole project much more concrete.”

The council chose a more simple contem-porary design — a smaller single-story build-ing will connect through a glass lobby to asecond-story building, which will house themajority of the facility, according to thereport.

The building is designed to achieveLeadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesign, or LEED, Silver certification throughsolar panels, making use of daylight, incor-

porating a high efficiency building design,having low-flow water fixtures as well asdrought-tolerant landscaping and other sus-tainability features, according to the report.

While some raised concerns about the l argeproject requiring more parking than the lotcurrently has room for, the city has beenworking with the Cabrillo Unified SchoolDistrict to sh are the ample parking at the mid-dle school located directly adjacent to thelibrary, Fraser said.

With the smaller design , ins tead of 80 park-ing spaces, only 71 will be needed, accordingto the report.

Further public outreach as well as hearingswill be held as the hired architects narrowdown the design specifics of the new libraryin the coming months.

Although many on the council had hopedfor a slightly larger facility, Fraser said she’spleased they came to a unanimous decision tomove forward and replace the more than 40-year-old asset for the community.

“It’s just another milestone in this long journey of building a new lib rary,” Frasersaid. “We just need to be min dful o f the b udg-et, so I’m glad that 22,000 square feetreceived a full agreement o f the council. ”

New library scaled down to meet budget

An artist’s rough sketch of the proposed library in downtown Half Moon Bay, the cost of whichis shared by the county.

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WASHINGTON — The woman who carriedout the San Bernardino massacre with herhusband came to the U.S. last year on a spe-cial visa for fiances of U.S. citizens, raisingquestions about whether the process can ade-quately vet people who may sympathize withterrorist groups.

Authorities said Friday that Pakistani citi-zen Tashfeen Malik, 27, pledged allegianceto the Islamic State g roup and its l eader underan alias account on Facebook just momentsbefore she and her husband, Syed Farook,opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14. They later died in a gun-battl e with pol ice Wednesday.

Malik, who had beenliving with her family inSaudi Arabia andPakistan, had passed sev-eral government back-ground checks and enteredthe U.S. in July 2014 o n aK-1 visa, which allowedher to travel to the U.S.

and get married within 90days of arrival.Malik was subjected to a vetting process

the U.S. government describes as vigorous— including in-person interviews, finger-prints, checks against U.S. terrorists watchlist s and reviews of her family members, trav-el history and places where she lived and

worked. The process was began when sheapplied for a visa to move to the UnitedStates and marry Farook, a 28-year-oldPakistani-American restaurant health inspec-tor for the county who was raised in SouthernCalifornia.

Foreigners applying from countries recog-nized as home to Islamic extremists, such asPakistan, undergo additional scrutiny before

the State Department and Homeland SecurityDepartment approve permission for a K-1visa.

It was not immediately clear what informa-tion Malik provided as a part of the back-ground check by the State Department andU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesor when she became radicalized.

“This is not a visa that someone would usebecause it is easy to get into the US, becausethere are more background checks on thistype of visa than just about anything else,”said Palma Yanni, a Washington-based attor-ney who has processed dozens of K-1 visas.“But fingerprints and biometrics and namesaren’t going to tell you what is in some-body’s head unless they somewhere have

taken some action. ”The government’s app arent failure to detect

Malik’s alleged sympathies before the s hoot-ings will likely have implications on thedebate over the Obama administration’splans to accept Syrian refugees. Attorneysrepresenting Farook’s family deny that he orhis wife had extremist views.

San Bernardino massacre spurs concernsabout fiance visa progra

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Tevis Paul Martin, Jr.(June 25, 1932 – Nov 30, 2015)

Tevis left us peacefully after a long illness. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Carol, and his children, Tevis III (Lynne), Linda(Marty), David (Tracy) and Peter (Jessica), and ten grandchildren. A native San Franciscan, Tevis attended St. Ignatius (SI) Highbefore matriculating to UC Berkeley and Hastings College of Law. At SI, Tevis was an All City fullback in football and lettered intrack. He continued to play football at Cal and off the eld, Tevis was an active student leader in many collegiate organizationsincluding: Cal Club, Order of the Golden Bear, the University

Affairs Council, Big C Society, , and served as President of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity.Tevis’ leadership skills continued to be valued and much in demand after college with positionsincluding: President of the Olympic Club, Chair of the St. Charles School Board, and Boardmember for the Hanna Boys Center, The National Conference of Christians & Jews, and SerraHigh School.He was a member of the San Carlos Civil Service and Trafc Commissions and served ten yearsin the U.S. Naval Reserve, Intelli gence Division, as Lt. Commander. A memorial Mass will be held at St. Matthew’s Church, 1 Notre Dame Ave, San Mateo at10:30 am on Monday Dec 7th. Donations in memory of Tevis are suggested to St. Vincentde Paul of S.M. County, St. Matthew Conference, 50 North B St San Mateo CA 94401, and,The Olympic Club Foundation supporting youth sports, www.olympicclubfoundation.org/ 524 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.

ObituaryCITY GOVERNMENT• At its Dec. 1 meeting the Half Moon Bay City Council reor-

ganized and named Rick Kowalczyk to serve as mayor and DebbieRuddo ck to serve as vice mayor. Outgoing mayor Marina Fraserremains on the council.

By Kathleen Henessey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — As inves tig a-tors search for a motive behindthe deadly rampage in SanBernardino, politicians aresearching for a way to talk aboutit.

The details of the Californiamassacre at a holiday party —pointing at a possible link toIslamic militants and raisin g ques-tions about domestic extremism— quickly knocked bothRepublicans and Democrats off their talking points, upendingwhat has become a grim and pre-dictable ritual in American poli-tics.

Democrats who have vowed touse every mass shooting as a

moment to call for new gun lawswere tempering there rallyingcries. Republicans who point tomental health services as the solu-tion had begun to blame extremistviews.

In an interview Friday morning,Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said “wehave a violence problem inAmerica” but added it’s not exclu-sive to guns. A U.S. citizen with aclean background but extremistviews is perhaps the most s ignifi-cant threat, he said.

“That is a very sig nificant, diffi-cult threat to confront,” theFlorida Republican said on “CBSThis Morning. ”

Hillary Clinton also movedcarefully in that direction. “It’sbecoming clearer th at we are deal-ing with an act of terrorism,” she

said Thursday. “It does raise someserious questions about how weneed to be protecting ourselves.”

Addressing those questions willbecome a far more complex debate— with fewer clear-cut policy pre-scriptions — than the well-trodconversation over gun control.

President Barack Obama has s aidhe worries about th e difficulties of preventin g a homegrown or “lone-wolf” attacker on U.S. soil — andthe limits of security measures toprevent them. But proposals fortigh ter domestic s ecurity measuresor expanded intelligence gather-ing powers are politically fraught.For Republicans the issue couldbecome quick campaign fodder —although they risk politicizing anational security threat, withoutoffering a clear alternative.

California shooting doesnot fit familiar gun debate

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DOES THE ASSAULT HAVEA LINK TO TERRORISM? The FBI’s announcement does not mean that theagency has concluded Syed Farook, 28, and hiswife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, were terrorists — onlythat investigators have gathered enoughpreliminary information to move their probe inthat direction. That’s a step beyond earlier this week, whenpolice said they knew nothing conclusive aboutthe possible motivation of Farook or his wife.David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s LosAngeles ofce, said in Los Angeles on Friday thatthe shooters attempted to destroy evidence,including crushing two cellphones and discardingthem in a trash can. The husband and wife used homemadeexplosives and assault-style ries in the attack ona holiday party of Farook’s co-workers,authoritiessay, but much remains unknown.A U.S. law enforcement ofcial said Friday thatMalik, who later died with Farook in a gunghtwith police, used an alias on Facebook to makeher declaration of support for the Islamic Stateand its leader.But there is no sign anyone fromthe group communicated with her or providedany guidance for the attack.FBI Director James Comey noted the bureau’sinvestigation so far has shown no evidence thatthe suspects were part of a larger group ormembers of a terror cell.

ARE THERE ANYOTHER INDICATIONS OF APOSSIBLE TERRORISM LINK?On Thursday,a U.S.intelligence ofcial said Farook had been in contact with known Islamicextremists on social media.But the ofcial said the contact was with “peoplewho weren’t signicant players on our radar”anddated back some time. There also was noimmediate indication of any “surge” incommunication ahead of the shooting.Farook had no criminal record, and he and hiswife weren’t on the FBI’s radar before theshooting.Also,police are looking at the possibilitythat the shooting was tied to a workplace dispute.Investigators say they had more than 1,600 bulletswith them when they were killed and well over4,500 rounds of ammunition at their home.Chesley said it wasn’t unusual for gun owners —Farook owned two pistols,and also had two ries— to buy thousands of rounds of ammunitionto save money.

WHAT DID THEFAROOK’S FAMILY KNOW?Nothing, according to attorneys David Chesleyand Mohammad Abuershaid, who representFarook’s mother and three siblings.

Farook’s mother, Raa Sultana Farook, lived with

the couple in a modest Redlands apartment butnever saw anything that would suggest they wereplanning a massacre at a holiday party forFarook’s co-workers or building explosives for usein the attack, the attorneys told reporters in LosAngeles.The mother stayed mostly to herself atthe home, upstairs, and “everyone was in shock”after details of the rampage emerged, Chesleysaid.“We all want an answer”for what motivated theattacks, Chesley said. “We can’t jump toconclusions.”Family and friends have expressed disbelief thatthe quiet, religious couple staged the deadlyattack.Friends knew Farook by his quick smile, hisdevotion to Islam and his talk about restoringcars.They say they didn’t know he was busy withhis wife building pipe bombs and stockpilingthousands of rounds of ammunition for theassault on Farook’s colleagues from SanBernardino County’s health department. The dead in Wednesday’s attack ranged in agefrom 26 to 60, and 21 were injured.

WHO IS TASHFEEN MALIK?In the days since the shooting,only sparse detailshave emerged about her life.Farook told friends he met his future wife onlineand she was Pakistani.Malik arrived in the U.S.ona K-1 visa for ancies and with a Pakistani passportin July 2014, authorities said. The two were married Aug. 16, 2014, in nearbyRiverside County, according to their marriagelicense.Both listed their religion as Muslim.Thecouple had a 6-month-old daughter; they left thebaby with relatives Wednesday morning beforethe shooting.Pakistani intelligence ofcials say Malik movedas a child with her family to Saudi Arabia 25 yearsago. They say the family is originally from thePakistani town of Karor Lal Esan, about 200 milessouthwest of the capital of Islamabad in Punjabprovince.Malik didn’t stay in Saudi Arabia, eventuallyreturning to Pakistan and living in the capitalIslamabad, though she returned to Saudi Arabiafor visits.Farook attended Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyahmosque in San Bernardino.Gasser Shehata, whoalso went to the mosque,said Farook would cometo the mosque about three times a week, usuallyduring his lunch break from work as a SanBernardino County health inspector. His wifedidn’t join him, he said.Shehata said he saw Malik sitting in Farook’s caronce about nine months ago wearing a niqab, aveil that covers a woman’s face except her eyes. The family attorneys described Malik as a soft-spoken, very private housewife who spokebroken English and lived in Pakistan until she was18 or 20 years old.Following religious traditionin their home, men and women would remainseparated during social visits, and Malik wore aburqa, a robe-like garment that covers most of the face and is the most conservative Islamicapparel worn by women. Farook’s brothers hadnever seen her face.

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One of two Oakl and men accused of flee-ing San Mateo police and starting alengthy SWAT standoff after they wereallegedly caught stealing from cars wassentenced to 32 months in state prisonFriday, according to t he San Mateo CountyDistrict Attorney’s Office.

Oakland resident Walter Mitchell, 26,was also ordered to pay $10,000 restitu-tion to one of three victims.

His defense attorney asked the court todelay sentencing until after Christmas sohe could spend time with a newborn andailing grandmother, but the judge deniedthe request.

Mitchell pleaded no contest to felonycommercial burglary and felony recklessevading in October for a mini-crime spreein January.

The second suspect, Andre Dupree-Lafleur Jr., 22, pleaded no contest tofelony auto burglary and will b e sentencedin J anuary, according to p rosecutors.

Mitchell and Dupree-Lafleur allegedlybroke into cars in the Central ParkingGarage at East Fourth and Ellsworthavenues in the evening of Jan. 7, prosecu-tors said.

They later crashed their vehicle afterbeing chased by police and both occu-pants ran from the scene. Mitchellallegedly pointed a handgun at a policeofficer as h e fled. Dupree-Lafleur was fo undwalking nearby, p rosecutors said.

Shoplifting suspect who allegedlyleft 11-year-old behind arrested

A woman who allegedly left her 11-year-old daughter behind at a Daly City Targetstore after being confronted by the storesecurity guards for shoplifting has beenarrested, police announced Friday.

Investigators located Rosalina Medina,34, of Oakland, along with her infantdaughter Thursday at a Denny’s Restaurantat 60 1 Hegenberger Road in Oakland.

Officers arrestedMedina on suspicion of child endangerment,buying or receiving astolen vehicle andequipment, being afelon in possession of afirearm and being afelon in possession of ammunition. Medinaalso had three out of county warrants,

according to officials at the MaguireCorrection al Facility in Redwood City.

Police also arrested two other peopleduring the course of their investig ation.

Marques Lewis, 26, of Pacifica, wasarrested on suspicion of resisting arrest,possession of a loaded firearm and out-standing warrants. Angelica Reed-Medina,27, of Oakland, was also arrested on suspi-cion of possession of a stolen vehicle,poli ce said.

Police had been looking for Medina inconnection with an incident reported at10:0 6 a.m. on Nov. 24 at a Target store off Serramonte Boulevard, according topolice.

Security guards at the store told policethey saw a woman and a child concealingitems in a shopping bag. The guards con-fronted the two as they were exiting thestore with stolen merchandise, policesaid.

The woman, later identified as Medina,told the officers they couldn’t arrest herdaughter because she was only 11. As anofficer attempted to detain the girl,Medina allegedly tol d her to fight the offi-cers and run, according to p olice.

The girl bit one of the guards on theshoulder and Medina left t he sto re with herinfant daughter, leaving the 11-year-oldbehind, police said.

Child protective service officials werecalled and took custody o f the 11 -year-old,according to poli ce.

The three suspects have been bookedinto the Maguire Correctional Facility,poli ce said.

Police arrest man who allegedlythreatened roommate with knife

Police arrested a 29-year-old San Brunoman Thursday morning after he allegedlybrandished a knife at his roommate andthreatened to kill him.

At 6:39 a.m., officers responded to areport of a man with a knife insi de a homelocated in the 500 block of Huntington

Avenue, according to poli ce.The caller told police he had beeninvolved in an argument with his room-mate, identifi ed as Andre Choc-Hernandez,poli ce said.

During the argument, Choc-Hernandezallegedly told the victim he was going tokill h im as he made stabbing mo tion s withthe knife toward the victim, according topolice.

The victim, fearing for his safety, leftthe ho me and called police.

When officers arrived, they found Choc-Hernandez had locked himself inside thehome and refused to come o ut, po lice said.

For safety reasons , officers chose not toenter the home by force, but instead tomonitor the home. Later in the day, offi-cers were able to make con tact with Cho c-

Hernandez and he was taken into custodywithout incident, according t o poli ce.Officers arrested Choc-Hernandez on

suspicion of assault with a deadly weaponand booked him into the San MateoCounty Jail.

No injuries were reported during th e inci-dent, poli ce said.

Police arrest sexual assault suspectA South San Francisco man was arrested

Thursday in connection with a sexualassault in Pacifica.

Alberto Umali, 19, was arrested on sus-picion of attempted sexual assault, pene-tration with a foreign object, false impris-onment, attempted murder, assault on adomestic partner, resisting arrest and

assault on an officer, p olice said.Officers from the Pacifica Police

Department responded at 1:30 p.m. to thearea of Gypsy Hill Road on a report awoman had been seen screaming and run-ning from a vehicle.

An arriving officer heard a womanscream, located the vi ctim and determinedshe had been the v ictim of a sexual assault,poli ce said.

The officer saw a man running down anearby wooded hillside and pursued thesuspect, later identified as Umali, untilother officers arrived on t he scene.

Officers chased Umali and were able totake him into custody after a brief strug-gle, police said.

Police said the suspect assaulted an o ffi-cer and tried to take h is firearm during thestruggle.

Charges dropped against 14who chained themselves to trains

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Franciscoarea district attorney has dropped chargesagainst 14 protesters who chained them-selves to commuter trains a year ago andshut down a West Oakland station .

The protesters, called the Black Friday14, were reacting to a grand jury decisionnot to indict a white police officer inFerguson, Missouri, in the August 2014kill ing o f Michael Brown, who was black.

Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malleycharged each protest er with a mis demeanorcrime. On Friday, she dropped the chargesafter protesters acknowledged the threattheir actions could have caused to publicsafety.

Protesters also p articipated in a restora-tive justice process where they spokeabout the circumstances behi nd the b road-er Black Lives Matter movement.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit station wasclosed for two hours on Black Friday2014.

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Obama signs five-year infrastructure spending biWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed

into law a $305 billion bill th at provides a modest increasein spending over the next five years tomaintain and upgrade the nation’s agingtransportation n etwork.

Obama signed the measure into law atthe White House on Friday, a day afterCongress overwhelmingly approved it.

In a written statement, Obama said thebill i sn’t perfect, but called it a common-sense compromise and an important firststep in the right direction. He says he’llcontinue to push for greater transporta-tion spending to meet the n ation’s infra-

structure needs and create jobs.

Justices take up meaning of ‘one person, one voteWASHINGTON — The growing political influence of

Latinos could be slowed by a Supreme Court case over theconstitutional requirement to make electoral districtsroughly equal in populatio n. Two voters i n Texas are askingthe court, in arguments set for Tuesday, to order a drasticchange in the way Texas and all other states divide theirelectoral districts. Rather than basing the maps on totalpopulation, including non-citizens and children who aren’told enough to vote, states must count only people who areeligible to v ote, the challengers say.

By Erica Werner

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — In a vi ctory for t hebusiness establishment over tea partyconservatives, Congress has revivedthe federal Export-Import Bank fivemonths after allowing i t to expire.

The bank is a small federal agencythat makes and guarantees loans tohelp foreign customers buy U.S.goo ds. A measure extending it through2019 was included in a massive trans-portation bill that cleared the House

and Senate late Thursday and is headed

for President Barack Obama’s signa-ture.The development was cheered by

business groups lik e the U.S. Chamberof Commerce, which say the Ex-ImBank is necessary for U.S. competi-tiveness since most overseas competi-tors rely on similar government help.But conservatives pushed by the bil-lionaire GOP Koch Brothers decriedthe development, arguing that thebank amounts to government interfer-ence in th e free market and many of itsbeneficiaries are large corporations

that don’t really need the help.

“The Export-Import Bank’s revivalin this bill is especially offensive totaxpayers who want to end corporatewelfare handouts and let the free mar-ket finance overseas investments byAmerican companies,” said Sen.Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Rubio is amon g th e GOP presidentialcandidates and other leadingRepublicans who’ve arrayed againstthe bank, a once-obscure entity that’sbecome a cause celebre for conserva-tives led by the Koch Brothers inrecent years.

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By Marcy GordonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Chicken of the Seaand Bumble Bee have called off theirproposed merger after theObama administrationtold the companiesit would hurt com-

petition in theU.S. canned tunamarket.

The JusticeD e p a r t m e n tannounced Fridaythat the deal,announced a year agobetween Thailand’s largestseafood company and Bumble BeeFoods of the U.S., was off. If ThaiUnion Group, o wner of Chicken of th eSea, had bought Bumble Bee, it wouldhave combined the second- and third-

largest sellers of ti nned tuna in the U.S.in a market long dominated by threemajor brands.

The third major brand is StarKistCo., based in Pittsburgh, a subsidiaryof Dongwon Industries of Seoul, South

Korea. Bumble Bee, which isowned by th e British

investment firmLion Capital

LLP, isbased in

S a nD i e g o .T r i -U n i o nSeafoods,

the Thai Unionsubsidiary operating as Chicken of theSea International, also is based in SanDiego.

“Consumers are better off withoutthis deal,” Assistant Attorney General

Bill Baer said in a printed statement.He said the two companies knew orshould have known that competitionalready is lacking in the canned tunamarket, and more consolidation wouldmake the situation worse.

Bumble Bee CEO Chris Lischewskiconfirmed in a statement that the twocompanies had mutually agreed to ter-

minate the deal. “During the last year,Bumble Bee has conducted business asusual and now has a renewed focus toexecute its v ision for the company wellinto the future,” Lischewski said.

Representatives of Tri-UnionSeafoods didn’t immediately returntelephone calls seeking comment.

When the deal was announced inDecember 2014, Thai Union said itspurchase of Bumble Bee would be itslargest acquisition, and would boost it searnings by reducing cos ts and improv-ing efficiency.

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BERLIN — Germany st epped up its contri -bution to the fight against the Islamic Stategroup on Friday, with lawmakers over-whelmingly voting in favor of sendingreconnaissance jets, a tanker plane and afrigate to prov ide broad noncombat s upportto the U.S.-led coalition flying airstrikesagainst the militants.

The move answers a call for help fromFrance following last month’s deadly attacksin Paris. IS militants claimed responsibilityfor the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 peo-ple and wounded hundreds.

On Friday, Belgian and French authoritiessaid they were hunting two new suspects inthe Paris carnage. The men used fake identi tycards and sent money to a relative of the manwho orchestrated the attacks the day beforethe ringleader died in a shootout with French

police, the Belgian prosecutor’s office said.The German Parliament voted 445 in sup-

port of the mission against IS and 146against, with seven abstentions. The planreceived wide support from the ranks of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governingcoalition, a week after the German leaderassured French President Francois Hollandethat Germany would “act quickly” to help itsally.

German opposition lawmakers, however,questioned the effectiveness of militaryoperations against the extremists. “Youwon’t fight IS th at way. You’ll o nly strength-en it,“ Left Party lawmaker SahraWagenknecht told Parliament.

Her criticism echoed the concerns voicedby Nicolas Henin, a French journalist whowas held hostage by Islamic State militantsfor 10 months until being freed in April2014. Henin told the Associated Press thatwhile using military muscle against the

group shouldn’t be ruled out, it should onlybe a small part of a broader strategy.

“The party that will win is not the partythat will have the most powerful, the mostmodern or the most expensive weaponry oreven the b ravest fighters,” Henin said. “Theside that will win ... is the party that will

have the Syrian people on its side. By bomb-ing Syria, we are pushing the Syrians intothe hands of IS.”

The 134 million-euro ($145 million)German mission will see two Tornado recon-naissance planes sent to Turkey’s Incirlikbase as early as next week.

Germany steps upmilitary missionagainst IS group

By George JahnTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIENNA — OPEC nations decided Fridayto keep producing oil at their current highlevels, effectively acknowledging theirinabil ity t o push up crude prices.

An attempt to nudge the cost of oil high-er would have involved lowering output.Instead, the organization’s endorsement of present output, which is more than 1 .5 mil-

lion barrels a day above the formal ceilingof 30 million b arrels, is lik ely to push theprice of oil down further.

The ministers of the Organization of thePetroleum Exporti ng Co untries appeared tohave little choice. Major producing nationsin the cartel were opposed to reducing out-put. Instead, OPEC is poised to producemore oil.

Iran, which once pumped around 4 mil-lion barrels a day and is now down to about

half that, i s preparing to come back fully online once it sheds nuclear-related sanctionsin a few months.

Senior oil official Amir HosseinZamaninia said last week Iran hopes tobring an extra 500,000 barrels on the mar-ket by early next year. He said he hopes theextra output will be accommodated withinOPEC’s formal ceiling of 30 mi llio n barrelsa day.

Arrivin g for Friday’s meeting, Iranian oil

minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said Iranis ready to discuss a ceiling for its produc-tion — but only after his country makes a“full return to the market.”

Iraq is also resurgent. The country hasseen the fastest rise in crude production inthe world this year. It was pumping morethan 4 milli on barrels a day last month andwas responsible for last month’s biggestmonthly rise in output among all OPECcountries.

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Belgians seeking twonew suspects in Paris attacks probe

BRUSSELS — Belgian and French authorities were hunt-ing two new suspects Friday in the Paris attacks who theysay used fake identity cards around Europe and sent moneyto a relativ e of the man who orchest rated the attacks the daybefore the ringl eader died in a sho otout with French p olice.

The two men, carrying bogus ID in the names of SamirBouzid and Soufiane Kayal, had been traveling in a

Mercedes with another Paris attacks fugitive, SalahAbdeslam, when the car was checked Sept. 9 at theHungarian-Austrian border, the Belgian FederalProsecutor’s office said in a statement Friday.

The same Kayal ID was used to rent a house in the Belgi antown of Auvelais that authorities have searched as a possi-ble site for making the suicide bombs used in the Nov. 13Paris attacks, the pros ecutor’s office said.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility forthose gun-and-bomb attacks that killed 130 people andwounded hundreds in Paris.

Belgian authorities said about 6 p.m. on Nov. 17, fourdays after the Paris attacks, the false identity card in thename of Bouzid was used at a Western Union office in theBrussels area to send a 750-euro ($817) money order toHasna Ait Boulhacen, cousin of the purported attack ring-leader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

Both Boulhacen and Abaaoud died a day later when Frenchpoli ce stormed their hideout in a Paris suburb.

The two new suspects “are being actively sought byBelgian and French police services,” th e prosecutor’s officesaid.

Nightclub in Egyptfirebombed after dispute; 16 killed

CAIRO — Two men who were denied entry to a nightclublater returned with others and firebombed it early Friday,setting off a blaze that killed all 16 people who weretrapped inside by the smoke and flames, authorities said.

Terrorism was quickly ruled out as the cause of the attackat the El Sayad restaurant and club in Cairo’s Agouza dis-trict. Egypt has been batt ling a growing Islamic insurgencyin recent months .

The overnight fire that came on the first day of th e week-end in Egypt also injured three other people.

Police were searching for six people suspected in theattack, which occurred after two o f them were not allowed to

enter the club, said Interior Ministry spokesman Abu BakrAbdel-Karim.After the two were refused entry, they “went and drank

alcohol somewhere else,” then brought four others withthem, arriving on three motorcycles about 6 a.m., Abdel-Karim said.

“They then threw a Molotov cocktail at the entrance of the pl ace,” he said. “This caused the fire and the smok e andthe 16 deaths.”

No one who was inside the club survived, Abdel-Karimsaid. Eleven of th e dead were employees, an d the other fivewere not identified, he added.

The victims all died of suffocation, he said, with peopletrapped inside because the fire was located at the onlyentrance to the club — a converted underground garage withan apartment building on top.

By Bassem MroueTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia is hostingSyrian opposition groups and manyof the main rebel factions next weekin an effort to come up with a unifiedfront ahead of peace talks with repre-sentatives of the government inDamascus, scheduled to begin earlynext year.

The meeting is the first of its kindin the Sunni kingdom, which is a mainbacker of the Syrian opposition,underscoring how the internationallybacked effort is the most serio us yet inattempts to end the nearly five-yearcivil war. The conflict has killed morethan a quarter of a million people andtriggered a refugee crisis of massiveproportions.

The rebel factions’ participationpoints to the evolution in the posi-tion of many of them that lon g reject-ed any negotiations with Damascus aslong President Bashar Assad was inpower. Now they are on board toattempt a process that the UnitedStates and its allies s ay must eventual-ly l ead to Assad’s removal — but withno timetable for it.

At the three-day gathering thatstarts next Tuesday in the Saudi capi-tal, Riyadh, the factions will try toform a unified opposition delegationand a platform regarding what is meantto be a transitional period in Syria,officials who were invi ted said.

“We will be negotiating Assad’sdeparture,” said Mustafa Osso, thevice president of the Syrian NationalCoalition, the main Western-backedopposition group. “If this regimestays, violence will continue in Syriaand there will be no stability,” hesaid, speaking from Turkey. Osso willbe part of what he said will be a 20-member delegation from the coalitionat the Riyadh meeting.

A peace plan agreed to las t mont h by

20 nations meeting in Vienna sets aJan. 1 deadline for the start of negoti-ations between Assad’s governmentand opposition g roups. The plan saysnothing about Assad’s future, butstates that “free and fair electionswould be held pursuant to t he new con-stitution within 18 months.”

Among the nation s that took part inthe Vienna meeting were the UnitedStates, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia,Qatar and Turkey.

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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:NYSEAvon Products Inc., up 23 cents to $4.22 The beauty products company is talking with Cerberus CapitalManagement about a potential deal, according to media reports.Norfolk Southern Corp., down $1.05 to $92.06 The railroad operator rejected Canadian Pacic’s proposal to combine thecompanies in a deal worth more than $28 billion.Barnes & Noble Inc., down $2.01 to $10.04 The book retailer reported a loss for its latest quarter, hurt by weakeningsales trends at its stores and online.Chesapeake Energy Corp., down 32 cents to $4.55Analysts say warm weather in the U.S.is hurting demand for heat and alsofor stocks of natural gas drillers.NasdaqKaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc., up $1.81 to $31.13

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Big movers

By Marley Jay THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — The stock marketsurged to its biggest gain since earlySeptember Friday after another strongmonth of hiring by U.S. employers.

The solid news on the economyopened the way for the Federal Reserveto begin raising interest rates backtoward normal levels later this month.Energy stocks and the price of crude oilfell after OPEC said it won’t cut produc-tion.

Stocks s tarted the day hig her after theLabor Department said emplo yers added211,000 jobs in November. That wasmore than investors expected, and asign that consumers are still spendingand keeping the economy afloat even asmanufacturing and energy companiesare strugglin g.

The rally gained more power afterEuropean Cent ral Bank President MarioDraghi said the ECB is ready to expandits stimulus program if necessary. That

was a relief: stocks and bonds tumbledThursday after the ECB announced somenew stimulus measures, but didn’t do asmuch as investors expected.

“His clarification of comments hemade earlier in the week gives investorsconfidence that ECB will continue its‘whatever is necessary’ course,” saidErik Davidson, chief investment officer

at Wells Fargo Private Bank.The Dow Jones industrial average

rose 369.96 points, or 2.1 percent, to17, 847. 63. The Standard & Poor’s 500index had its b est day since Sept. 8, ris-ing 42.07 points, or 2.1 percent, to2,091.69. The Nasdaq compositeincreased 104.74 points, or 2.1 per-cent, to 5,142. 27 points.

When th e Federal Reserve decided notto raise interest rates in September,investors gradually concluded that theFed would act in December unless itreceived some big warning sig ns aboutthe health of the economy.

Those signs never came. TheSeptember jobs report was disappoint-ing, but hiring climbed in October, andNovember hiring was solid. The gov-ernment also said the economy gainedmore jobs in September and Octoberthan it in itially reported.

The Fed slashed its key short-terminterest rate to near zero during thefinancial crisis and it kept it lowthroughout the Great Recession to

encourage lending and hiring. It hasn’traised interest rates in nine y ears.Davidson said the jobs data was as

good as investors expected, whichgives t hem more confidence in the st ateof the economy and the Fed’s plans.

“The markets lo ve predictability andthis is about as predictable as you canget,” he said. In addition to the jobs

growth, Davidson said more people arelooki ng for work and wages are improv-ing.

Luke Bartholomew, investment man-ager Aberdeen Capital Management,said it was almost a foregone conclu-sion that the Fed will raise interestrates, but what isn’t clear is what willhappen after that.

“It would have taken a really cata-strophically bad number to put the Fedoff today,” he said. “It’s a question of what the path looks li ke next year.”

Consumer discretionary stocks werethe best performers in the S&P 500.Discount retailer Dollar Tree, toy makerMattel and homebuilder D.R. Hortonclimbed, and Apple rose $3.83, or 3.3percent, to $119.03, a large move forthe world’s most valuable company.

Energy sto cks, h owever, took a beat-ing, and almost all of th e largest loss esin th e S&P 500 went to energy compa-nies. Oil cartel OPEC said it won’t cutoil production even though globalstockpiles keep growing. The price of

oil is trading near six-year lows.The price of U.S. crude fell $1.11, or2.7 percent, to $39.97 a barrel in NewYork. Brent crude, a benchmark forinternational oils, slid 84 cents, or 1.9percent, to $43.

Meanwhile warm weather in the U.S.is hurting demand for heating fuels likenatural gas and heating oil.

Strong job gains send stock market high

By Josh Boak THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The falling oil andgasoline prices that for months have coin-cided with strong U.S. hiring have helpedmost Americans. But they’ve come at apainful cost for workers in the energy andmining sector:

122,300 lost jobs i n the past year.Even as workers nationwide are earning

slig htly mo re than they did a year ago, aver-age wages have tumbled 1.5 percent to$26. 72 an h our for energy production work-ers. The November jobs report th at the gov-

ernment released Friday illust rated the divi debetween the broad economy and the ailingfossil fuels industry: Overall, U.S. employ-ers added a robust 211,000 jobs and theunemployment rate held steady at a low 5

percent. But the energy industry, reelingfrom falling oil prices and weakening glob-al demand, lost 11,300 jobs.

In just 18 months , oil p rices have crateredfrom $107 a barrel to roughly $40. Andgasoline prices have plunged from around$3.70 a gallon to $2.05. Those prices arepoised to fall further, with OPEC decidingFriday to keep production runnin g hig h.

One measure of the damage: Even as the

overall U.S. s tock market rocketed up 2 per-cent on Friday, an index of oil and gasstocks tracked by the New York StockExchange fell 0. 5 percent.

The industry’s layoffs are expected pile up

as energy companies try to shore up theirfinances in ligh t of the sharply lower prices.“This is likely going to continue for six

months or so as things settle out,” said KenMedlock, an economist and Senior directorat Rice University’s Center for EnergyStudies in Houston .

Medlock s aid the rapid hiring that energycompanies embarked on five years ago asfracking unlocked oil and natural gas from

shale won’t likely return soon. There will b eless impetus to develop fields and increaseproduction as l ong as p rices stay low.

For most American consumers and compa-nies, cheaper energy has been an unexpected

gift. Drivers are paying less for gasoline.Jet fuel costs have plunged for airlines andshipping firms. Heating oil expenses havedipped ahead of winter.

Average gas prices nationwide are likelyto sli de below $2 a gallon in the next sever-al days, bringing them to their lowest levelsince March 2009, said Tom Kloza, globalhead of energy analysis at the Oil PriceInformation Service.

While job growth lifts most of U.S. economy, oil patch su

By Candice ChoiTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Chipotle said Fridaythat an outbreak of E. coli lin ked to itsrestaurants sent sales plummeting by asmuch as 22 percent in recent weeks andthat it could no longer reasonably esti-mate sales for next year.

The Denver-based chain said in a regu-latory filing that sales trends have been“extremely volatile” since it closedrestaurants in Oregon and Washingtonin early November as a result of the out-break.

For the final three months of the year,it said it expects sales to be down

between 8 to 11 percent at establishedlocations if trends continue. Earningsare also expected to fall to between$2.45 and $2.85 per share for the quar-ter. That’s down from last year’s $3.84per share.

Chipotle’s stock slid more than 7 per-cent in after-market trading. Its shareshave dropped 25 percent since mid-October. Before rescinding its outlookFriday, the company had expected salesfor 2016 to rise in the low-single digitpercentages.

Earlier the day, the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention the out-break had expanded to nine states, witha total of 52 reported illnesses. That was

up from the six states and 45 illnessesas of l ate November.

The agency said the most recent ill-ness started on Nov. 13.

The majority of the illnesses havebeen in Oregon and Washington, wherecases were initially reported at the endof October. Cases have now also beenreported in California, Illinois,Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Ohioand Pennsylvania.

Of the 52 people infected, the CDCsays 47 reported eating at a Chipotlerestaurant the week before the illnessstarted. The agency has not yet deter-mined the ingredient that made peoplesick.

Chipotle warns of sales slide as E. coli outbreak expandsFight over net neutralityrules returns to appeals court

WASHINGTON — The government’s latest push to makesure consumers get equal access to the Int ernet faces a key

legal test as a federal appeals court considers whether totreat high-speed service providers like public utilities.Cable and telecom industry groups on Friday urged a

three-judge panel to throw out new regulations that forbidonline content from being blocked or channeled into fastand slow lanes.

But two judges hearing arguments in the case seemed attimes sympathetic to government attorneys arguing thatthe Federal Communications Commission had authority toapprove t he rules in February.

The rules have won praise from consumer advocates andcontent companies such as Netflix.

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When the Sacred Heart Prep footb all t eamtakes on Riordan in the Central CoastSection Open Division III championshipgame 7 p.m. Saturday at Westmont HighSchool, the Gators won’t only be vying fortheir fourth straight CCS title, they’ll alsoget a chance at redemption.

It was the fift h-seeded Crusaders (9-3) whoended the sixth-seeded Gators’ 14-gamewinning streak in their second game of theseason, 48-21, which sent a message to the

rest of CCS that this was not the sameRiordan squad that has struggled for years.SHP coach Pete Lavorato, however, is

looking at the game as simply a chance towin another section championship .

“I don’t look at it as redemption. I don’tcare what h appened the first game we playedagainst them. That seems like a seasonago,” Lavorato said. “Both teams havechanged so much. We’ve changed a lot and Ithink they’ve changed a lot.”

That Sept. 11 g ame — the second game of the season for SHP — was marred by poortackling , which was the result of a defensive

unit that was breaking in nine new starters.“There was still a lot of experimentinggoing on,” Lavorato said. “A lot of guyswho were playing then aren’t playing now.… We were making adjustments and we’restill making adjustments.”

While SHP (9-3) would go o n to lose t womore games, the defense got bett er and bet-ter as the season went along. In five of theirlast six games, the Gators have giv en up 21points o r less — including just 10 poin ts ina 31-10 semifinal win over No. 2 MonteVista Chris tian l ast week.

“What I’m proud of is that we hung in

there,” Lavorato said. “We didn’t say, ‘Oh,maybe all t he st uff we were doing before, weneed to change everything.’ I think we’vehad a pretty goo d year.”

For the season, the Gators are allowing just o ver 22 po int s per game, but o ver th eirlast five games — which includes two CCSplayoffs games — they have lowered thatnumber to 20 points game.

“The last five, six games, we’ve reallysoli dified our defense and they’v e just b eengetting better and better,” Lavorato said. “I

SHP plays for fourth straight CCS crown


Hillsdale’s Joey Sabel tries to pull away from Aptos defenders after a catch during the Knights’41-24 loss to the Mariners in the CCS Division IV championship game Friday night in San Jose.


SAN JOSE — For two-and-half quarters, thetop-seeded Hillsdale football team went touch-down-for-touchdown with No. 2-seed Aptos inthe Central Coast Section Division IV cham-pionship game.

In the end, however, the Knights simplycould not keep pace with the machine-likeMariners. Hillsdale led 17-13 at halftime, butAptos outscored the Knights 28-7 in the sec-

ond half to come away with a third straightCCS title, posting a 41-24 win over Hillsdaleat Independence High School .

“[Our strategy] was just to try to score asmany poin ts as possible and see if we can stopthem,” said an emotional Mike Parodi,Hillsdale’s head coach. “We were unable tokeep the edge.”

While both teams made big plays all night,the one big difference was th is: Hills dale’s bigplays went for first downs, Aptos’ went fortouchdowns. Hillsdale had five p lays o f third-and-9 or longer and picked up first downs eachtime. Three times, Knights quarterback BrettWetteland hooked up with his understudy BenFrame — who moved to wide receiver for thetitle game — and each time Frame picked upthe first down. Twice Wetteland went to IsaiahCozzolino for a total of 68 yards. Wetteland

also found Joey Sabel with a 16-yard gain for afirst down as well.Aptos quarterback Gavin Glaum completed

only 3 of 7 passes on the night — and all threewent for touchdowns. He hooked up with JoeyRiccabona twice for a total of 93 yards andGlaum also found Fabian Chavez for a 3 1-yardscore.

Chavez also rushed for a touchdown.“They got a couple on us,” Parodi said. “They

saw something they could take advantage of.”When the Mariners weren’t using the big

play, they were gashing the Knights with theirWing-T ground attack. Hillsdale had a hardtime keeping track of the ball and, with thespeed the Mariners possessed, they simply

Title eludes Knights

By Steven WineTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — If Barry Bonds thinks a full-time return to baseball will help his Hall of Fame chances, he could be disappointed.Maybe he’ll at least help the Miami Marlins.

Bonds is joining the staff of new Marlinsmanager Don Mattingly as hitting coach.The media-shy, steroids-tainted home runking made a rare conference call appearanceFriday to discuss hi s hi ring, which raised his

profile just as balloting isunder way for 2016 Hallof Fame voting .

“I’m a Hall o f Fame base-ball player with no doubtin my mind, no doubt inmy heart,” said Bonds, 51.“God knows that. That’sall that matters to me. I’llleave the voting processup to you guys.”

Another slugger whose career was tar-

nis hed by steroids, Mark McGwire, was hi redthis week as bench coach of the San DiegoPadres. Hall of Fame support for McGwirehas actually declined since he began coach-ing in 2010, and last year he received hislowest vote total yet.

McGwire was hitting coach for Mattinglythe past three seasons when both were withthe Los Angeles Dodgers.

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria first suggestedhiring Bonds, according to team presidentDavid Samson. Mattingly seconded the idea.

“I’m extremely impressed with Barry’swillingness to be part of this team, and withhis excitement about being back and teach-ing,” Mattingly said.

The Marlins need hitting advice. In 2015,when they finished 71-91, they ranked next tolast in the majors in runs and home runs, andlast in walks — an area where Bonds excelled.

Among t he players he’ll tutor is $325 mil-lion slugger Giancarlo Stanton.

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“These rst 20 g ames, they are among thetop two or three top teams that I’ve seen,”said Scott, who got a rsthand look at thatgreatness when the Lakers were blown out by34 points a couple of weeks ago. “I mean,right n ow they’re on a different level thanany other team in the NBA.”

And that’s a good thing, a really goodthing.

The Warriors, more than any other t eam,and Curry, more than any other player, haveexploi ted the NBA’s lon g-runnin g crackdownon physical play. While some may miss BillLaimbeer body-slamming any one who daredventure into the lane, it’s much more fun towatch Golden State doing its Harlem

Globetrotters impression — weaving allover the court in a magnicent tapestry,showing off a dazzling array of passes anddribbles, doing everything but splashing th erefs with a bucket of confetti.

It’s a style of play everyone should aspireto, a display of the game at its elegant best.

“When yo u see a team doing it at t hatlevel,” Atlanta Hawks coach MikeBudenholzer said Friday, “it sets a greatexample for teams across the league, includ-ing o urselves. It’s the way we want to play,and move the ball, and play smart basket-ball, and all those things. ... There’s a littlebit of fan, a little bit of, ‘Can we get betterand improve ourselves?’ They’re goo d for theleague.”

Now that th ey’ve set the mark for mostwins at the st art of the season, the Warriors’next target is 33 — as in the longest win-ning streak in NBA history, set by the Lakersduring the 1971-72 season. Longer term,Golden State seems poised to make a run at

72-10 — the greatest season in NBA history,a standard establi shed by J ordan’s Bulls atthe height of their dominance in 1995-96.

The Warriors weren’t too far off that mark aseason ago, nishing 67-15. Now, havingclaimed the franchise’s rst title in 40 years,the Bulls’ record could be in jeopardy.

“They play with a purpose, and they playwith no agenda besides winning,” Scott saidduring a morning s hootaround in Atlanta,before the Lakers took on the Hawks. “Eventhough Steph is getting a lot of the acco-lades, which he deserves, absolutely, all theother players on that team, all they want todo is win.”

The Warriors have been so dominant —winning by an average of more than 15points a game, with only six victories asclose as single digits — the debate seems tohave shifted, from whether anyone can pos-sibly deny them a second straight title towhether Curry is t ruly the greatest pl ayer onthe planet.

As slender as a st ick and severely limitedacrobatically, Curry is hardly the prototypefor a player you’d build a franchise around.That’s st ill s omeone such as LeBron J ames,who can play all ve positions and dominateat both ends of the court.

But one gets the feeling t hat Curry couldn’tcare less if King J ames is stil l numero uno onthe singles chart. By the time summer rollsaround, Steph and his boys will likely be cel-ebrating another championship, havingpushed the Warriors another st ep closer tosecuring th eir legacy as one of the greatestTEAMS in NBA history.

Everyone else gets to enjoy the ride.Even those they take down along the way.“They’ve taken chemistry to a whole new

level,” said Atlanta guard Kent Bazemore,who started his career with the Warriors andnow admires them from afar. “They’ve reallyshown the game of basketball is a feel-goodgame.”

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The Cougars, the No. 2 seed in the CCSDivision V bracket, use the philosophy of the best defense is a g ood offense.

Half Moon Bay enjoys playing keepawayfrom other teams and, if the Co ugars can geta lead, t hey are hard to beat.

“We’d like to do that,” said Half MoonBay coach Keith Holden. “If we can up getup (get a lead) and start killin g clock, that’sthe best way to [win].”

Half Moon Bay (10-2) is unique in that ithas two, disti nct sty les of offense. It can runa traditional offensive set with a receiver,and running backs. When it has a lead, ittends to go with a triple-option, “scrum”offense, in which the quarterback takes thesnap and flips the ball into the air to a run-ning back — usually Matt Spigelman, whohas rushed for 1,352 yards this season —including 201 yards in last week’s 28-14win over Carmel in the semifinals.

“We’re comfortable with it. We put all thepressure on our offensive li ne,” Holden saidfollowing the win ov er Carmel last week.

“It gets the ball to Spigelman, who’s ourbest player.”When Half Moon Bay takes o n to p-seeded

Pacific Grove (10-2) in the Central CoastSection Division V championship game at7 p.m. Saturday at Independence HighSchool, the Cougars will be facing a squadthat looks very similar, style-wise, tothem.

“They’re a run-first team,” Holden said.“They’ll try to lull you to sleep and hit you

with play-action over the top . They have a

bunch of guys who go both ways. They kindof look like us, which is pretty rare.”Holden said the Breakers lik e to run a two-

quarterback system. Noah Cryn s is the “run-ning” quarterback, while Colton Moore isthe more traditional passer. He said bothwill hand the ball off or throw, but the ten-dency is Cryns runs and Moore throws.

Last week it was Moore who completedfive passes in the final minute to set upPacific Grove’s last-second field goal to

beat Scotts Valley 37 -35 in t he other semi-final game.

Pacific Grove finished in a three-way tiefor the Mission Trail Athletic League thisseason. The Breakers, along with Carmeland Soledad, finish ed with 6-1 lead records.

Despite being the No. 1 seed in theDivisio n V bracket, Pacific Grove has st rug-gled at times this season. The Breakers areaveraging 29 points on offense, whileallowing 20. Their two playoff wins wereby a combined six points. They held off Capuchino 17-14 in the first round beforebeating Scotts Valley last week.

Holden said the Breakers like to run“wild” looks on defense — one of whichincludes playing man-to-man coverage onthe wide receivers without any safety help .

“They bring pressure. Multiple fronts,multiple stunts,” Holden said. “For us, we

just need to st ick with our rules and ourassignments.”

The key to beating Pacific Grove, Holdensaid, is to run the ball and stop the run. Itmay be cliché but, i n a championsh ip game,all the li ttle details will determine who winsand loses.

“Hold on to the ball, that’s No. 1,always,” Holden said. “I know this is total-ly cliché, but we have to run the ball and beable to s top t he run. We watch them on film.It doesn’t look like they do much, but afterthe play, they’ve gained four yards. Andthen they gain six. And then it’s 12. They’remethodical.

“No disrespect to Pacific Grove, but theyrun the ball a whole lot better than theythrow it.”

HMB faces similar style in DV title game


Half Moon Bay running back Matt Spigelmanrushed for 201 yards in last week’s 28-14 winover Carmel in the CCS Division V semifinals.

think it’s a real testament … to just howhard our kids worked and how willing theywere to t rust and beli eve in what we do.”

The SHP offense, on the other hand, hasbeen mostly on point all season, averagingnearly 40 points per game. The Gators haveone of the best 1-2 backfield punches in thesection in running backs senior LapituMahoni and junior Isoa Moimoi. The twohave combined for nearly 2,200 yards and37 touchdowns. Senior quarterback MasonRandall, a three-year starter, may be themost underrated sign al caller in the sectio n.All Randall did was throw for more than2,200 yards and 21 touchdowns againstonly three interceptions.

Riordan, after opening the season withfive straight dominating wins, went just 2-3 over its final five games. While the Gatorshave cruised in two playoffs games, theCrusaders h ave just scraped by. They barelygot past Burlingame in the first round, 30-28, and then rallied from a 14-10 deficit tobeat No. 1 Palma in the semis, 17 -14.

Riordan had the highest-scoring offensein the West Catholic Athletic League thisseason, averaging 35 poin ts per game. TheCrusaders defense, on the other hand, isallowing 26.7 p oints p er game.

If the Gators have an advantage, it’s thefact that they’ve been here before. Whilethis may be the first CCS championshipgame for a number of players, the Gatorshave a core group who will be playing intheir th ird consecutive CCS tit le game.

Riordan, on the other hand, is playing inits first CCS championship game sincebeating Live Oak 54-19 in the 2007Medium School fin al.

“I think there can be an advantage to that(having played in several title games),”Lavorato said. “That’s got to help.”

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Pete Lavorato has led Sacred Heart Prep tofour straight Central Coast Section title games.

By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND — Draymond Green poundshis chest with h is right fist and roars towardthe rafters after big plays, mouth agape.

Jason Richardson loves every second of it, thrilled to see such emotion from a play-er he knows beat long odds to reach basket-ball’s hig hest level.

Richardson takes great pride in Green’s chal-lenging road to stardom with the defendingNBA champion Golden State Warriors, becausehe took an almost identical route: FromSaginaw, Michigan, to Michigan State toGolden State. Green wears No. 23 primarily forRichardson — Michael Jordan, too — and hasbeen motivated by their parallel career courses.

“That’s a big honor,” Richardson said.“It’s eerie scary t he career path we both had,from Saginaw to Michigan State to GoldenState. When I found out at Michigan St ate hewas wearing the number mostly because of me, it was an honor, especially being fromSaginaw where there’s not many role mod-els or guys to loo k up to.”

The Warriors ho nored Richardson on Nov.24, the same night they b eat the Lakers toset an NBA record for the best s tart in leaguehistory at 16-0. It was Green’s bobbleheadnight to boot.

Richardson spent his first six seasonswith Golden State and was part of the 2007

“We Believe” Warriors team that reached thesecond round of the playoffs after ending a12-year drought. He got traded to Charlotteafter that season.

Green appreciated Richardson being there

for the special milestone in person, sittingcourtside with his son next to Golden Stateowner Joe Lacob.

Green beats odds, keeps getting better

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Draymond Green drives against Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favors in Golden State’s Nov. 30 win.

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By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Notre Dame-Belmont head coach JenAgresti has prov en quite the ambassadorfor high school volleyball.

When Agresti’s Encore Navy 16-1club team took third place at the U.S.Volley ball Girls ’ Junio r NationalChampionship in June, the power-packed roster featured several of theTigers’ core players, including thedynamic outside hit ter tandem of current

juniors Katie Smoot and Tammy Byrne.The wealth of Encore’s talent is so

much richer though, as evidenced by th eshowing at Saturday’s state champi-onship at Santiago Canyon College inOrange. Of the five Northern Californiachampions, each roster boasts a playerfrom Agresti’s Encore team — includinglibero Alexa Roumeliotis and defensivespecialist Chloe Johnson of Menlo-Atherton in the Division I bracket.

Encore’s roster also includedArchbishop Mitty middle blockerCandice Denny and libero KateFormico; the Monarchs will play for theDivision II state title against VillageChristi an-Sun Valley at 5:30 p .m.

Divisio n V Northern California cham-pion Branson-Ross — taking onUpland Christian Academy-RanchoCucamonga at 10 a.m. — is run byEncore setter Amy Wentzel.

And this year’s Encore squad will addsetter Tori Dilfer, a junior for DivisionIII Nor Cal champion Valley Chris tian,playing in Saturday’s state finalsagainst Olympian-Chula Vista at 3 p.m.

Notre Dame-Belmont (31-10) isvying for the Division IV title, takingon Southern California championLaguna Blanca-Santa Barbara Saturdayat 12:3 0 p. m. And judging by the fanfarethe Tigers have enjoyed over the past

week, their Nor Cal crown is an entirely

different experience — though just asprestig ious — as Encore’s b ronze-medalfinish at nationals.

“It’s a completely different experi-ence, [high school] and the club experi-ence, because ... the school spirit is alot different,” Agresti said. “Fifty per-cent of the school showed up to[Tuesday’s Nor Cal championship]game.”

And with that t urnout, the Notre Damestudent body was merely gett ing warmedup. The entire school celebrated Fridaymorning with an official sendoff for theTigers as they shippe

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