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By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

After years of civil litigation, aSan Mateo County judge tenta-tively ruled a man was justifiedwhen he shot an intoxicatedintruder who accidentally enteredthe wrong home.

San Mateo County Superior

Court Judge Gerald Buchwaldissued the ten tative ruling Tuesdaythat Joseph Balistreri, a 45-year-old Brentwood resident, reactedappropriately in 2013 when heshot then 24-year-old PatrickO’Neil.

Representatives from both par-ties agreed the entire incident thatoccurred at Balistreri’s elderly par-

ents’ Foster City home around4:30 a.m. March 25, was atragedy.

The unexpected events undoubt-edly changed the lives of bothmen. The District Attorney’sOffice opted not to press chargesagainst either but O’Neil, whomistook the Balistreris’ house forhis friend’s home a few doors

down, ultimately filed the civilsuit against the family a fewmonths later.

“It’s one of those situationswhere it’s a tragic consequence forboth sides. You have what washappening to this family and Mr.O’Neil is trying to get into thehouse, they perceive him as beinga burglar, there was mass hysteria

in the house, they’re scared todeath. It was about 4:30 in themorning. Then there’s the tragicconsequence that this person whowas severely intoxicated, put inmotion the whole domino effect.He created the situation wherebyhe ends up getting shot,” said

Judge rules man justified in shooting intruderCivil lawsuit over 2013 Foster City incident in which drunk man entered wrong home

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The Redwood City Council i s setto pay $4. 5 million to settle a law-suit filed by a neighbor of theDocktown Marina for violatingthe st ate’s public trust laws.

The houseboats at the marinatechnically float on a state water-way that the California AttorneyGeneral’s Office has informallyruled is a violation of the publictrust, meaning i t prevents the gen-eral public from accessing thewater.

The city is set to put aside $3million of the settlement into afund to clean up any environmen-

tal messes thefloating com-munity hascaused toRedwood Creekand to help resi-dents of themarina to relo-cate elsewhere.

The remain-ing $1.5 mil-

lion will be paid to attorney TedHannig, who filed the complaintagainst the city in earlyNovember.

Both Mayor John Seybert andVice Mayor Ian Bain discussed the

Lawsuit over

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cost millionsRedwood City sued for violating publictrust and health and safety concerns

By Juliet WilliamsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO — In his other-wise low-key State of the Stateaddress, Gov. Jerry Brown savedhis most impassioned plea fortransportation issues, telling law-makers they’re going to have to“bite t he bullet and enact new feesand taxes” to pay for repairs toCalifornia’s crumbling highways.

The messageon Thursdaywas targetedmostly atRepublicans inthe stateLegislature, aswell as a few

m o d e r a t eDemocrats whohave resisted

Tax fight over roads coulddominate state Legislature

Ted Hannig

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Burlingame High SchoolPrincipal Di Yim, who was target-ed by the school communityamidst a dispute with a popularteacher, announced her resigna-tion Friday.

Yim said she intends to staythrough th e end of the scho ol year,

before moving out of the area tocare for family members.

“It’s a thing that I’ve beenthinking about for a while,” said

Yim. “It’s per-sonal. I havesome familyo b l i g a t i o n sthat I need totake care of.Though some-times it is hardto take the leap,I have got tothink of the big

picture and what really matters tome as a person and a family mem-ber.”

Yim came under fire from mem-bers of the Burlingame High

School community earlier thisweek, as she was bl amed for a pro-posal to transfer popular econom-ics and government teacher KevinNelson to another campus.

More than 2,000 people signeda petition supporting Nelson inhis dispute with Yim, and somecalled for her to be relieved of herposition.

Students at the school Friday,

Jan. 22, rallied in support of Nelson by wearing black clothesin solidarity with the teacher who

Principal resigning fromBurlingame High SchoolAdministrator engaged in rift with teacher leaving at end of school year

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Students at Burlingame High School Friday, Jan. 22, rallied in support of Kevin Nelson by wearing black clothesin solidarity with the teacher who has been at Burlingame High School for 27 years.

Di Yim

Jerry Brown

See ROADS, Page 24

See LAWSUIT, Page 24

See YIM, Page 23

See SHOOTING, Page 23

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This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1516

King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who withhis late queen consort, Isabella of Castile, sponsored the first voyage of

Christopher Columbus in 1492, diedin Madrigalejo, Spain.

“It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.”

— Oscar Levant, pianist-composer-actor

Actor RutgerHauer is 72.

Singer Anita Bakeris 58.

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SFO Airport Director John L. Martin and Hyatt Corp CEO Mark S. Hoplamazian, sign an agreement Friday to bring a 350-roomGrand Hyatt Hotel to the San Francisco International Airport in 2019.

Saturday night: Mostly cloudy. A slig htchance of showers in the evening. Lows inthe mid 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 20mph.Sunday : Partly cloudy in the morningthen becoming mostly cloudy. Highs inthe mid 50s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.Sunday night: Mostly cloudy in theevening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in th e mid 40s .North winds 5 to 15 mph.

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In 1789 , Georgetown University was established in pres-ent-day Washing ton, D.C.In 1845, Congress decided all nati onal electio ns would beheld on the first Tuesday after the first Mon day i n November.In 1933 , the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,the so-called “Lame Duck Amendment,” was ratified asMissouri approved it.In 1944 , Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (”The Scream”)died near Oslo at age 80 .In 1950, the Israeli Knesset app roved a resolution affirm-ing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.In 1960, the U.S. Navy-operated bath yscaphe (BATH’-ih-skahf) Trieste carried two men to th e deepest kn own poin t inthe Pacific Ocean, reaching a depth of more than 35,000feet.In 1964 , the 24th Amendment to the United States

Constitution, eliminating t he poll tax in federal elections,was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state toendorse it.In 1968, North Korea seized the Navy intelligence shipUSS Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mis-sion . (The crew was released 11 months later.)In 1973 , President Richard Nixon announced an accord hadbeen reached to end the Vietnam War, and would be formallysign ed four days lat er in Paris.

Game attendance hit record num-bers when the New YorkYankees brought Babe Ruth

(1895-1948) to their team in 1920.Yankee Stadium was built the follow-ing year and became known as “TheHouse That Ruth Built.” It was wellknown that Ruth’s popularity made itpossible to finance the new stadium.

***The largest lake in Florida is LakeOkeechobee. The lake is 730 squaremiles with an average depth of only 9feet.

***Downward facing dog, plank , s corpionand happy baby are all names of yogapositions.

***Alain Robert (born 1962), fromFrance, is an “urban climber.” Heclimbs skyscrapers with his bare

hands, sans equipment or ropes. In2003 , he was hired for a publicit y stuntto dress in a Spider-Man costume andscale the 662-foot-tall National Bankof Abu Dhabi, while 100,000 specta-tors looked on.

***The study of moti on is called kinemat-ics.

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While attending high school in St.Paul, Minnesota, Charles Schulz(1922-2000) submitted drawings forhis high school yearbook. The draw-ings were rejected.

***V8 Vegetab le Juice was invented in1933. The Campbell Soup Companybought V8 brand in 1948. One of thefirst sp okesmen th ey hi red for V8 wasmovie star Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).

***The antics of the Garden GnomeLiberation Front were brought t o a haltin 1997 when a leader was convictedand fined by a French court for stealing150 gnomes. The group of prankstersclaimed that gnomes are beingoppressed in gardens around the world.

***Alcatraz operated as a federal prisonfrom 1934 to 1 963. During th at time,36 men tried to escape. Of those, 23were caught, six were shot and killed,two drowned and five disappeared andare presumed drowned.

***Can you name the three largest isl andsin t he world? Do you know what is the

largest isl and in the United States? Seeanswer at end.

***Underneath their thick layer of fat,hippos have pores that emit an oily,pink fluid. The pink sweat keeps the

hippos skin from drying o ut.

***Ariel’s mermaid sisters in “The LittleMermaid” (1989) are Aquatta, Andrina,Arista, Adella, Alana and Attina.

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) neverpatented any of his inventions. Hewanted his ideas to be for the benefit o f the American people, not for his ownprofit.

***John Deere (1804-188 6), an Americanblacksmith, developed the world’sfirst commercially successful steelplow, used in agriculture. Today, J ohnDeere & Company is t he leading man-ufacturer of farm equipment in theworld.

***Jackson 5 was the first group in pophistory to have their first four singleshit number one on the music charts.The songs, all released in 1970, were“I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The LoveYou Save” and “I’ll Be There.”

***Answer: The largest island isGreenland (840,000 s quare miles), fol-lowed by New Guinea (303,000 squaremiles), then Borneo (289,000 squaremiles). The largest island in the UnitedStates is the island of Hawaii (4,000square miles).

Know It All is by Kerry McArdle. It runs inthe weekend edition of the Daily Journal.Questions? Comments? Emailknowitall(at)smdailyjournal.com or call 344-5200 ext. 128.

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Actress Jeanne Moreau is 88. Actress Chita Rivera is 83.

Actor-director Lou Anton io is 82. Jazz musician Gary Burton

is 73 . Actor Gil Gerard is 73 . Rhythm-and-blues singer Jerry

Lawson is 72. Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., is 69. Singer

Anita Pointer is 68. Rock musician Bill Cunningham is 66.

Rock singer Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) is 63. Former Los

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57. Actress Gail O’Grady is 53. Actress Mariska Hargitay is

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SAN MATEO

Hit-and-run. A Toyota RAV 4 fled after get-ting into and accident with a silver PTCruiser near East 39th Avenue and PacificBoulevard before 8:05 p.m. Thursday, Jan.14 .Burglary . A car’s window was smashed anda purse was taken at the Peninsula FamilyYMCA on South Grant Street before 6:30p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14.Suspicious person . A man was seen run-ning around in the street on NorthKingston Street before 9:4 7 a. m. Thursday,Jan. 14.Suspicious circumstances. A man toldpolice there were aliens in his house onCottage Grove Avenue before 9:33 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 12.Arres t. A 24-year-old man was arrested forshoplifting at Sears in Hillsdale Shopping

Center before 8:46 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12.

MILLBRAEArres t. A man was arrested for attemptingto flee when officers pulled him over for aroutine traffic stop on Cambridge Roadbefore 1:06 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20.Embez zl ed rental car. A person wasreported for failure to return a rental car afterthe contract terms were up on the 400 blockof Millbrae Avenue before 1:38 p.m.Wednesday, J an. 20.

Police reports

Clean getawayA man who left his laundry unattendedin a shared laundry room had four loadsof clothing stolen on EdgewaterBoulevard in Foster City before 8:34p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2 0.

By Keith Burbank BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

A state of emergency was declared Fridayin Pacifica because of storm damage to pri-vate and public property, including a citysea wall, according to city officials said.

“El Niño is hitting the city’s coastlinevery hard and creating almost dailyreports of i mpacts to both public and pri-vate property,” City Manager LorieTinfow said in a statement. “We need stateand federal assistance to respond to thegrowing list of failing public infrastruc-ture including the Beach Boulevard sea-wall failure.”

Since Dec. 15, storms have damaged thePacifica Pier, the Milagra Watershed Outfalland the Beach Boulevard sea wall near SantaMaria Avenue.

Some private properties have also beenaffected. Apartment buildings at 320 and330 Esplanade Ave. have been declareduninhabitable and must be demolished,while another property at 310 EsplanadeAve. is being watched to be sure residentsremain safe.

Areas along the coast are losing bluff topas well.

City officials are keeping an eye on ero-sion along the coast with an eye to protect-ing roads and utilities.

“We hope all property owners along thecity’s coastline are aware of how fluid theweather situation is and take appropriateprecaution s,” Tinfow sai d.

The City Council will decide whether toconfirm the declaration of an emergency atthe council’s meeting on Monday.

Pacifica was also hit hard in the El Niñowinter of 1997 t o 19 98. A number of homeson Esplanade Drive were declared uninhabit-able due to heavy erosion and landslidesthat caused the bluffs under them to crumbleinto the sea.

Pacifica officials declare state of emergency

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — A former SanFrancisco city commissioner and two otherpeopl e accepted $20, 000 from an undercov-er FBI agent in exchange for politicalaccess and preferential treatment in theawarding of city contracts, prosecutors saidFriday.

District Attorney George Gascon said hisoffice charged former city commissionerNazly Mohajer, former city employee ZulaJones and political consultant KeithJackson with four counts of bribery each.

They have also been charged with moneylaundering.

Gascon declined to release any additio naldetails about the allegat ions . He cited a fed-eral prot ective o rder.

“All I can tell you is that we have beeninvestigating irregularities in local govern-ment for quite some time,” Gascon said,

noting the investigationwas continuing.

Jackson pleaded guiltyto a racketeering chargelast year as part of a fed-eral probe that alsoensnared state Sen.Leland Yee andChinatown gangsterRaymond “Shrimp Boy”Chow.

Chow’s attorney, Curtis Briggs, said in acourt filing in Chow’s case that the FBIalleged that Jones and Mohajer solicitedbribes for Mayor Ed Lee.

Briggs ci ted documents turned over to himby th e government as p art of the process of mounting a defense for his client as thesource of the FBI allegation.

Lee has denied the allegation. He has notbeen charged with a crime.

“Mayor Lee is deeply disturbed by the

alleged criminal activi-ties of Mr. J ackson, Ms.Jones and Ms. Mohajerand strongly condemnsthem,” Christine Falvey,a spokeswoman for themayor, said. “There isabsolutely no place inSan Francisco for thiscorruption.”

It was not clearwhether Jackson and Mohajer had attor-neys. Gascon said they had not been arrest-ed and were being given a chance to turnthemselves in.

A woman who picked up the phone at theoffice of Jackson’s attorney in his federalcase said the attorney, James Brosnahan,was not representing Jackson on the statecharges.

A call to a law firm representing Joneswas not immediately returned.

Three charged in S.F. public corruption case

Nazly Mohajer Zula Jones

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Woman jogging with babystroller sexually battered

San Mateo County sheriff’sdeputies are looking for a manwho sexually b attered a woman inHalf Moon Bay Wednesday n ight .

Deputies said they received areport at 6:54 p.m. of battery atJohnson Pier.

The victim to ld deputies sh e wasgrabbed by a man while jogging

with a baby stroller on th e coastaltrail before the suspect fled onfoot.

Sheriff’s officials said the vic-tim was not injured in the inci-dent.

The suspect is described as 5 feet5 inches tall, with a medium build

and last seen wearing a dark hoo d-ed sweatshirt or jacket.

Anyone with information aboutthis incident can contact the SanMateo County Sheriff’s Office at(650) 599-1664.

Two arrested at Target onsuspicion of selling meth

Two people were arrestedWednesday on suspicion of theftand possession of drugs at a storein San Bruno, according t o pol ice.

Police s aid officers responded at11:03 a.m. t o reports of theft at aTarget located at 1150 El CaminoReal.

During the investigation,

police said they approached 22-year-old Gerald Revilla of SanFrancisco after store employeesidentified him as a shopliftingsuspect.

Upon further investigation,police said they found that bothRevilla and 43-year-old VictoryMangawang of South SanFrancisco were in possession of illegal drugs.

Police said Revilla was arrested

on suspicion of petty theft andpossession of heroin, as well asprior arrest warrants, andMangawang was arrested on s uspi-cion of possession of metham-phetamine for th e purpose of sale.

Both suspects were booked into jail .

Local briefs


SACRAMENTO — Six NorthernCalifornia Democrats are breakingfrom Gov. Jerry Brown to demanda vote on hi s proposed tunnels tosend water to Southern Cali fornia.

Democratic AssemblywomanSusan Talamantes Eggman of Stockton said Friday that she’llintroduce a bill t o ask v oters aboutthe $15.5 billion project.

The Democratic governor hasproposed building two massivetunnels in the San Jo aquin Deltato supply residents and farm-

land further so uth.Brown’s office declined to com-

ment.Eggman says she’s joined by

Democratic Assembly membersSusan Bonilla, Jim Cooper, JimFrazier and Kevin McCarty, as wellas Republican AssemblywomanCatharine Baker and DemocraticSen. Lois Wolk.

A wealthy Stockton farmer whoopposes the tunnels has alreadyqualified a ballot measure torequire voter approval before thestate could issue bonds worth morethan $2 billion.

Democrats break with governor,demand vote on water tunnels

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Flint lead problem couldbe eased by recoating old pipes

Flint’s mayor has floated a shockingly high price tag to fixthe Michigan city’s lead-contamination problem: $1.5 bil-lion to replace damaged pipes. Gov. Rick Snyder put the fig-ure at $700 million.

In the meantime, officials and water experts are hopeful thatthere is a l ess drastic and far cheaper step — using a chemicalto recoat existing p ipes and contain the lead. If it works, thatcould make the water safe enough to drink until the damage tothe system can be fully assessed.

The problem is that nobody knows how badly the pipeswere damaged after the state’s disastrous decision in 2014 touse the Flint Riv er as the city’s drinking water source withoutadding a chemical to control corrosion. That caused lead toleach into the water for a year and a half and contributed to aspike in child lead poisoning before city and state officialsfully acknowledged the problem.

“I don’t think anybody knows how long it will take or theamount of corrosion built up in the pipes,” longtime cityCouncilman Scott Kincaid said.

The city l ast fall resumed buying Detroit water, drawn fromLake Huron, and experts said they believe lead levels arealready dropping with the addition of phosphate, which helpsform an interior coating on the pipes to p revent lead leach-ing.

Appeals court: KansasConstitution protects abortion rights

WICHITA, Kan. — The Kansas Court of Appeals refusedFriday to implement the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on acommon second-trimester abortion method, ruling in a splitbut groundbreaking decision that the conservative state’sconstitution protects abortion rights in dependently from theU.S. Constitution.

The 7-7 ruling — released on the anniversary of the U.S.Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision — could be used byabortion rights supporters to challenge other state lawsrestricting abortion. If the decision is upheld, it would allowstate courts to protect a woman’s right to end her pregnancybeyond federal court rulings.

Tie votes uphold the ruling being appealed, meaningFriday’s ruling sides with a Shawnee County judge who put th e2015 law on hold while he considers a lawsuit challenging theban. The lawsuit has yet to go to trial, but the judge said theKansas Constitution’s general language about personal liber-ties extends to abortion rights — which the appeals court alsosupported, indicating how it may rule if it gets the full case.

Armed group’s leaderbalks at FBI talks without media

BURNS, Ore. — The leader of an armed group occupying anational wildlife refuge in Oregon met briefly with a federalagent Friday, but left because the agent wouldn’t talk with himin front of the media.

The short meeting occurred as the standoff over federal landuse policies stretches to the three-week mark and as Oregonofficials are putting increased pressure on federal authoritiesto take action against Ammon Bundy’s group.

Bundy arrived at the airport in Burns late Friday morning,where the FBI has set up a stagi ng area. On Thursday, Bundywent to the airport and spoke to an FBI negotiator over thephone.

By Don ThompsonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO — Californians facea watershed year as they prepare todecide whether to resume executionsthat stopped a decade ago or end thementirely.

While advocates jo ckey to put bothchoices before voters this fall, offi-cials overseeing the 746 condemnedinmates on t he nation’s largest deathrow are pushing ahead with plans touse a single lethal drug to meet legalrequirements amid a nation wide sho rt-age of execution drugs.

Supporters said at a public hearingon Friday that crime victims havewaited too long for justice as the statedragged its heels in adopting a newmethod of execution.

“The family members of the victimsare dying before the murderers,” saidMichele Hanisee, vice president of the

Association of Deputy DistrictAttorneys of Los Angeles County.“Meanwhile, ironically, the state of California moves ahead with anassisted suicide law that would allow

doctors to p rescribe the same drugs forsuicide that death penalty opponents

will call inhumane when used for exe-cutions.”Opponents said at the hearing that

the state risks botching death sen-tences if it moves too quickly in

making the change.The California Department of

Corrections and Rehabilitation willconsider nearly two-dozen commentsfrom the hearing and written com-ments from about 12, 000 peopl e as itdevelops i ts final regulations.

California eyes one-drugexecutions amid debate

By Brett JohnsonBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

The state’s overall unemploymentrate increased slightly last month butmany Bay Area counties showedimprovement , according to data releasedFriday by the California Employment

Development Department.California Employment DevelopmentDepartment officials s aid the unemploy-ment rate increased to 5.8 percentstatewide in December, based on amonthly survey.

This represents a slightly worse fig-ure than in November, when unemploy-ment was 5. 7 percent, according t o the

data. There was an estimated decrease of 10,0 00 Californians holding jobs sinceNovember.

But it is an improvement overDecember 2014, when the statewideunemployment rate was 7.1 percent.The employment total increased by334,000 jobs since then, according to

the data.A separate survey, which departmentofficials said is larger and less variable,indicated that nonfarm payroll jobsactually increased by 60,400 lastmonth.

As far as the Bay Area’s unemplo yedworkers, San Mateo County still hadthe lowest number this December at a

steady 3. 1 percent.Marin County and San Francisco did

close the gap, dropping .1 percent eachin the unemployment figures to 3.2 and3.3 percent, respectively.

There was the same slight improve-ment in counties with a higher percent-age of unemployed workers. Alameda

County dropped to 4.3 percent andContra Costa County to 4.5 percent.But the unemployment rate in Solano

County remains higher than all eightother Bay Area counties at an unchanged5.6 percent.

Unemployment figures are taken froma federal survey of 5,500 householdsthroughout the state.

Slight uptick in state unemploymentCertain Bay Area counties see a drop, San Mateo County at 3.1 percent

The state is proposing to let corrections officials choose from four types of powerfulbarbiturates to execute prisoners, depending on which drug is available.

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John Aloysius BroganJohn Aloysius Brogan, born June 5, 193 1,

died Jan. 8, 2016, peacefully at hisBurlingame home sur-rounded by his family.

He was born inAllentown, Pennsylvania,and grew up inPhiladelphia before set-tling in California in1965. John was the ownerof Brogan Clear Writing

Seminars, author of ClearTechnical Writing, held abachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree from theUniversity of Pennsylvania. He was a memberof Mensa.

John was a loving husband and father. Hespent hours playing with and teaching hisfive children, working in his backyard, help-ing his neighbors and fixing things aroundthe house. He enjoyed philosophical discus-sions and debating anything of an intellectu-al nature.

He is survived by his wife, Pat, his five chil-dren Rosie (Clay), Johnny, Bernadette(Casey), Mary (Jonathan) and Michael(Kristen), his three grandchildren Charlotte,Austin and Bernadette, sister Catherine

Tinney, brother Tom, and many nieces,nephews and loved ones.

A small memorial service will be held at hishome Jan. 30. Please contact the family fordetails. In lieu of flowers, please considermaking a donation in his name to: The BrainSupport Network, PO Box 7264, Menlo Park,CA 94026, www.brains upportnetwork.org.

Reno ManfrediReno Manfredi of Burlingame, California,

died at the Palo Alto VA hosp ital, in the com-pany of his wife Vivian and daughter DianeJan. 18, 2016.

He was 86.Reno is survived by his wife of 61 years,

Vivian, daughter Diane Manfredi, son-in-lawJason Carver, grandson Jackson Carver, of Aptos, California, nephew David Lonich(Linda) of Santa Rosa, California, nieceDenise Rocha (Igor) of Paso Robles,California, and four great nephews. He waspreceded in death by his parents, Virgilio andItalia Manfredi of Burlingame, California.

Reno was born Jan. 5, 1930, in SanFrancisco, graduating from Galileo HighSchool in 1948. He spent two years in theArmy, including a year on the front lines inKorea.

Reno will be remembered as a loving hus-band, father, grandfather and friend. He was an

outstanding elevator constructor and a mentorto h is friends and coworkers. He will be great-ly missed.

A memorial is scheduled for 11 a.m. Jan. 30,2016, at Chapel of The Highlands 194Millwood Drive, Millbrae, CA 94030. Areception will fol low.

Memorial donations can be made in lieu of flowers to The Palo Alto VA Hospi tal paloal-to.va.gov/giving or California Waterfowlcalwaterfowl.org/memorial-giving.

Becky BoudreauxBecky Boudreaux died peacefully surrounded

by her loving family Jan. 19, 201 6, at homein Eagle, Idaho. After a valiant battle withbreast cancer, she spent the last weeks of herlife in home hospice care.

Becky was a longtime resident of Belmont,is fondly remembered as a loving wife andmom who did everything she could for herfamily. She was active in th e community, sup-porting her children’s education and activi-ties, as well as local Belmont projects. Shewas a well-loved mom amongst her children’sfriends. She worked for many years at Sears inSan Mateo.

In 2003, Becky moved back to Idaho andstarted a new chapter with her husband Richard

in Eagle. Becky is sur-vived by her husbandRichard, her childrenMichael, Lisa, Bobby andRonny, her granddaughterGiovanna and along withmany other relatives,friends and acquaintances.

Donations in lieu of flowers can be made toyour local food bank.

Dawn Dillaman ShoquistDawn Dillaman Shoquist, born March 10,

1955, died Jan. 8, 2016, at Stanford Hospital.Dawn grew up in Redwood City and lived in

Santa Cruz. She is sur-vived by her motherMarjorie Dillaman, onechild Kimberly Vine, twosisters Linda Janowitz andKaren Milne all of Redwood City, California.She is also survived by herhusband, MarshallShoquist of Santa Cruz.

“Her extreme sweetnesswill be missed forever.”

A memorial service for Dawn will be 2 p.m.Feb. 6 at Peninsula Covenant Church, 3560Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City, CA.

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By Ken Thomas and Lisa LererTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Recall this 2008 story-line: Hillary Clinton enters the presidentialcampaign as the Democratic front-runner,runs into an inspirational candidate whogenerates big crowds and enthusiasm. Andshe winds up in a dogfight in Iowa.

Sound familiar? With 10 days left beforeIowa’s l ead-off caucuses, Clinto n fin ds her-self in a heated contest against insurgentrival Bernie Sanders reminiscent of her2008 face-off with then-Sen. BarackObama. The Vermont senato r has soared to anip-and-tuck race in Iowa and holds anadvantage in New Hampshire, puttingClinton back on the brink in her secondpresidential bid.

Clinton lost Iowa in 2008, a setback thatshe never fully recovered from againstObama, who went on to win the White

House. This time she hopes a larger fieldorganization in Iowa and an escalation of her critiques of Sanders’ record and messagemight undercut h is momentum.

Yet there may be a silver lin ing forClinton’s 2016 campaign: Unlike Obama,Sanders is a self-described “democraticsocialist” and has done little to expand hissupport beyond white liberal voters whopopulate the first two presidential contests.Clinton has locked down nearly all of theestablishment support — governors, mem-bers of Co ngress and Democratic l eaders —who can help her in a lengthy primary.

And, for n ow, t he former secretary of st atehas an advantage in a series of Southern-heavy primaries and caucuses after Iowa andNew Hampshire. The question is whetherthat edge vanishes if Sanders defeats

Clinton in the first two contests, a distinctpossibility.

“Bernie’s appeal is powerful and it res-onates with a certain l ane of the Democraticelectorate for sure, yo ung voters, independ-ent voters,” said Steve McMahon, aDemocratic strategist who advised HowardDean’s 2004 presidential campaign. “Butit’s ultimately not a winning general elec-tion message, it’s a protest message. It’sdifficult to see it grow to the point itbecomes a real threat to Secretary Clinton ’scampaign.”

Clinton led in Iowa throughout the falland into December but polls released thismonth have depicted a much tighter raceagainst Sanders. At campaign stops,

Clinton has ramped up her criticism of Sanders, questioning the practicality of his

agenda to provide universal health care, hisvoting record on gun control and his for-eign policy credentials.

Her campaign has seized upon Sanders’suggestions that the U.S. should normalizerelations with Iran, saying it makes him anoutlier compared with Obama and Clinton.Driving the foreign policy message,Clinton released a new ad on Friday, inwhich the narrator says, “She’s the one

leader who has what it takes to get everypart of the job done.”

Though less provocative, it offers paral-

lels to Clinton’s “3 a.m.” ad againstObama, which ask ed voters who they wouldwant to answer the early morning phonecall to respond to a global challenge.Sanders’ campaign took issue with t he ad’scontention that Clinton was “leading thediplomacy that keeps us out of war,” point -ing to her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraqwar.

“Slick televi sion ads can’t hide her hawk-ish record,” said Sanders spokesmanMichael Briggs.

Sanders, li ke Obama, has s ought to offer amore uplifting, aspirational message. Hislatest ad, “America,” shows off his massiverallies and a genial image of th e 74-year-oldlawmaker to the tune of the famous 1968song by Simon and Garfunkel.

It presents a window into how Sanders has

tapped into a key part of the Obama coali-tion: white liberal voters and young voters.Both were critical in Obama’s Iowa victo ryin 2008 and will be counted upon heavily,along with i ndependent vot ers who can reg-ister for the Democratic caucuses if theychoose.

But one major question entering Iowa iswhether there will be enough of these vot-ers. In 2008, Obama fueled a massiveturnout in Iowa — about 240,000 peopleparticipated, compared to about 125,000 in2004 — and few expect crowds anywherenear that 2008 size.

Hillary Clinton faces challenge inIowa caucus reminiscent of 2008

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Hillary Clinton meets supporters at the Hillside town hall meeting in Manchester, N.H.

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CITY GOVERNMENT• The Burlingame Planning Commission will consider a

propo sal to b uild 730,0 00 square feet of office space spli t betweenfour large building s at 300 Airport Blvd., o n the si te of the formerBurlingame Drive-In.

The Planning Commission meets 7 p. m., Monday, Jan. 25, i nCouncil Chambers, 501 Primrose Road.

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The Dene high school campus of the La Loche Community School is seen in an undatedphoto. Four people were killed and two critically injured in a school shooting in a remote partof Saskatchewan.

By Bradley KlapperTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Obama administra-tion’s $1.7 billion payment to Iran to settlean arcane, decades-old financial dispute isprompting questions among Republican law-makers trying to pi ece together the full scopeof last weekend’s dramatic U.S.-Iranian pris-oner swap and the lifting of many Americansanctions on Tehran.

The announcement’s t iming, just after con-firmation that three Americans left Iranianairspace, is leading to calls for investiga-tions and shedding light on a little-knownfund that the p resident can dip into when hewants to resolve international financial dis-putes. Legislative efforts are already afoot tocurtail that ability.

U.S. officials deny claims th at the paymentwas a bribe to ensure the release of a total of five Americans traded for the freedom of seven people in legal trouble in the U.S. ov erbusiness deals with Iran.

Sunday’s financial settlement betweenWashington and Tehran was largely lost amidU.S. elation over the release of theAmericans and global interest in the latestbenchmark in Iran’s nuclear transformation.With the United Nations’ confirmation thatIran satisfied the terms of last summer’s

nuclear agreement, it immediately recoupedtens of billions in frozen assets and earnedthe chance to gain significantly more fromsuspended oil, trade and financial sanctions.

The much smaller U.S.-Iranian agreementconcerned more than $4 00 mill ion i n Iranianmoney, dating back to before the 1979Islamic Revolution and the end of diplomaticties, which the U.S.-backed shah’s govern-ment used to buy American military equip-ment. The Iranians got th at money back lastweekend and some $1.3 billio n in i nterest.

The administration said the settlement wasdecided on its merits, with officials arguingthat Iran demanded more than $3 billion and,at some points during the talks, much morefor an agreement.

Lost amid the U.S.-Iran news, $1.7billion deal now raising questions


WASHINGTON — Errors by three airmentroubleshooting a nuclear missile in itslaunch silo in 2014 triggered a “mishap”that damaged the missile, causing the AirForce to withdraw the airmen’s nuclear certi-fication and launch an accident investiga-tion , officials s aid Friday.

In a statement released to the AssociatedPress, t he Air Force declined to provide keydetails or a copy of th e report produced lastyear by an Accident Investigation Board,saying the information was classified as toosensitive to be made public.

Under the Air Force’s own regulations,

Accident Investigation Board reports aresupposed to be made public. The Air Forcedid release a brief summary to the AP after itsought answers about the mishap. The sum-mary said the full report was classified onNov. 9, 2015, by Gen. Robin Rand, thefour-star general who commands Air Forcenuclear forces.

The accident hap pened May 17, 2014 , butthe Air Force only explained the conse-quences on Friday after repeated inquiries bythe AP starting in January 2015.

The Air Force said the accident caused noinjuries and did not risk public safety. The

damaged missile was removed from it s si lo.

Air Force: Human error damagednuclear-armed missile in launch silo

By Rob GilesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TORONTO — A gunman opened fire at ahigh school and a second location in an abo-riginal community in northern Saskatchewanon Friday, leaving four dead and at least twoinjured, officials said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said fromDavos, Switzerland that a suspect was in cus-tody. Trudeau initially said five died, butpolice later corrected that to four.

“This is every parent’s worst nightmare,”he said. “The community is reeling. ”

Kevin Janvier told the Associated Press

that his 23-year old daughter Marie, ateacher, was shot dead by the gunman. Hesaid police told him that the gunman firstshot two of his siblings before killing hisdaughter.

“He shot two of his brothers at his homeand made his way to the school ,” he s aid.

“I’m just so sad.”Marie was Janvier’s only child. He said he

didn’t know if the shooter knew his daughter.Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief

Supt. Maureen Levy said the gunman wasarrested outside the school but declined torelease details about him.

Levy said she wasn’t sure how many suf-fered injuries. The prime minister earlierdescribed two injuries as critical.

“At the present time there are four individ-uals deceased,” Levy s aid.

Levy declined to release more details,saying the investigation is in its earlystages. She declined to give the sex or

ages of t he deceased.A student who was just returning from

lunch when shots were fired said his friendsran past him urging him to get out.

“‘Run, bro, run!” Noel Desjarlais-Thomas,16, recalled his friends saying to him as theyfled La Loche’s junior and senior highschool.

“There’s a shotgun! There’s a shotgun!They were just yelling to me. And then I washearing those sho ts, t oo, s o of course I start-ed running .”

Shootings at schools or on universitycampuses are rare in Canada. However, thecountry’s bloodiest shooting occurred Dec.

6, 1989 at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique,when Marc Lepine entered a college class-room at the engineering school, separatedthe men from the women, told the men toleave and opened fire, killing 14 womenbefore killing himself.

The grade 7 through 12 La LocheCommunity School is in the remote Deneaboriginal community of La Loche,Saskatchewan. The school’s Facebook p agesaid it would remain on lockdown until theRoyal Canadian Poli ce resolve the matter. Itasked the public to stay away.

It was unclear how many died at the school .Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall earlier

confirmed the shooting.“Words cannot express my shock and sor-

row at the horrific events today in La Loche.My thoughts and prayers are with all the vic-

tims, their families and friends and all thepeople of t he community,” he s aid in a state-ment.

Four dead after shootingsin northern Saskatchewan

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WASHINGTON — A storm thatarrived postcard-pretty in thenation ’s capital Friday was morphi nginto a painful, even paralyzing bliz-zard with gale-force winds pushingheavy snow and coastal flooding.One in s even Americans could get at

least half a foot of snow by Sunday,and Washing ton could see snowdriftsmore than four feet hig h.

The first flakes were lovely, butforecasters warned that much, muchmore was on its way.

Not that anyone will see the worstof it: Much heavier snow and windgusting to 50 mph should createblinding whiteout conditions oncethe sto rm joins up with a low pressuresystem off the coast, said BruceSullivan , a forecaster at the NationalWeather Service’s Weather PredictionCenter in College Park, Maryland.

Two feet or more of snowfall isforecast for Washington and

Baltimore, and nearly as much forPhiladelphia. New York City’sexpected total was upped Friday to afoot or more. But Sullivan said “thewinds are going to be the real prob-lem; that’s when we’ll see possiblepower outages.”

The result could create snowdriftsfour to five feet high, so even meas-uring it for records could be difficult,he said.

By evening, wet, heavy snow wasfalling in th e capital, maki ng downedpower lines more likely, and yetmany people remained on the roads,Washington Mayor Muriel Bowsersaid. “Find a safe place and staythere,” sh e beseeched.

Anyone trying to travel in thismess risks getting stuck for hours,marooned in odd places, or killed,authorities warned. At least sevenpeople died in storm-related crashesbefore the worst of the s torm, i nclud-ing Stacy Sherrill, whose car plum-meted off an icy road in Tennessee.Her husband survived after climbingfor hours up a 300-foot embank ment.

“They’re slipping and sliding allover the place,” said Kentucky StatePolice Trooper Lloyd Cochran — assoon as one wreck was cleared, o thercars slammed into each other, caus-ing gridlock for hours on interstatehighways.

Conditions quickly became treach-erous all along the path of the storm.Arkansas and Tennessee got eightinches; Kentucky got more than a

foot, and states across the DeepSouth grappled with icy, snow-cov-ered roads and power outages. Twotornadoes arrived along with thesnow in Mississippi.

The storm could easily cause morethan $1 billion in damage, weatherservice director Louis Uccellini said.

All the ingredients have cometogether for a massive snowfall: Thewinds i niti ally picked up warm waterfrom the Gulf of Mexico, and now thestorm is taking much more moisturefrom the warmer-than-usual Gulf Stream as it rotates slo wly over mid-Atlantic states, with the District of Columbia in its bull’s-eye.

Beginning postcard-pretty,but snowstorm is deadly

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A man walks in the snow after a winter storm arrived in Washington, D.C.

French plan to prolongstate of emergency over terror threat

PARIS — President Francois Hollande announced on Fridaythat the French government will ask parliament to approve athree-month renewal of the state of emergency put into placeafter the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 peopl e.

It would be the second time the measure has been prol onged.The president’s office said Hollande cited “the terrorist

threat” in asking the go vernment to present a bill at the Feb.

3 Cabinet meeting seeking a three-month extension of thestate of emergency. The current state of emergency is to expi reFeb. 26.

A state of emergency gives special powers to authorities,making it easier to place people under house arrest and con-duct s earches.

Critics contend the measure impinges o n person al freedomsto li ttle effect.

In a first, the Council of State, France’s highest administra-tive court, o n Friday annulled one ho use arrest after the personin question, put under guard in December, fi led suit.

The Interior Ministry had claimed the man, not identifiedby name, was linked to radical Islamists and was caught lastMay taking photographs of an apartment where a journalistfrom Charlie Hebdo —attacked last March in a newsroommassacre — was living under special protection. The manconvinced the court his mother lives in the next b uilding andwas making a phone call — not taking photographs.

Nearly 400 people had been placed under house arrestthrough the state of emergency, according to an officialbreakdown in late December.

Tunisia imposes nationwidecurfew amid growing unrest

KASSERINE, Tunisia — Tunisia’s president vo wed Friday toend the cycle of unrest that has pummeled towns across thecountry as authorities imposed a nationwide curfew — fiveyears after the nation, convulsed by protests, overthrew itslongtime ruler and moved onto the road to democracy.

President Beji Caid Essebsi warned that Tunisia could fallprey to Islamic State group militants in neighboring Libyaprofiting from the instability.

The violent demonstrations over unemployment opened anew front of concern for Tunisia, already struggling from afoundering economy and the threat of terrorism after threemajor attacks last year.

The week of increasingly violent demonstrations was trig-gered Sunday when a young man who was turned down for a

government job climbed a transmission tower in protest andwas electrocuted.

His death had unsettling resonance: The suicide five yearsago of another unemployed youth set off the popular uprisingthat overthrew Tunis ia’s autocratic leader, Zine El Abidine BenAli, and gave rise to the “Arab Spring” uprisings. This NorthAfrican country has been the only Arab Spring nation toavoid a chaot ic aftermath and take the road to democracy.

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Nasdaq 4,591.18 +119.12 Oil (per barrel) 32.16

S&P 500 1,906.90 +37.91 Gold 1,098.20

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:NYSESchlumberger NV, up $3.75 to $65.20 The world’s largest oilfield services company said it cut 10,000 jobs andalso said it will buy back $10 billion in stock.American Express Co., down $7.58 to $55.06 The credit card company plans to cut $1 billion in spending in responseto the strong dollar and tough competition.Williams Cos., up $3.70 to $19.74 The pipeline company rose as energy prices continued to bounce back.General Electric Co., down 35 cents to $28.24GE’s fourth-quarter revenue fell short of analysts’ estimates and itsindustrial division struggled.D.R. Horton Inc., up $1.06 to $27.71Home building stocks rose after the National Association of Realtors saidsales of previously occupied homes jumped almost 15 percent in

December.Legg Mason Inc., down 56 cents to $31.21 The asset manager took a big loss and its revenue fell short of analystforecasts.Kansas City Southern, up $2.87 to $67.41 The railroad’s shares rose after its fourth-quarter profit surpassed WallStreet projections.NasdaqApple Inc., up $5.12 to $101.42 The world’s most valuable publicly traded company led a rally in techstocks.

Big movers

By Marley Jay THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks madetheir biggest gain in more than amonth on Friday as oil prices surged,lifting energy stocks. Tech stocks also

climbed as Apple jumped the mostsince August.Energy companies soared after the

price of U.S. crude jumped 9 percent.Oil prices reached their lo west l evel in12 years earlier this week, but they

jumped the las t two days .The gain Friday, combined with a

smaller increase the day before, gavethe market its first weekly advanceafter three weeks of declines. It’s beena dismal st art to the y ear so far, and onWednesday the Dow Jones industrialaverage tumbled as much as 565points before recouping some of itsloss.

Much of the volatil ity has b een driv-en by wild swings in t he price of crudeoil, which many investors see as a

barometer for how well the globaleconomy is doing. A sharp drop in oilprices over th e last year and a half hasdecimated profits at oil companies,and many exp ect the damage to con tin-ue as global production of oil far out-strips demand.

As for market turbulence, manyexpect more of that, too.

Jim Paulsen, chief investmentstrategist for Wells CapitalManagement, said he thinks the S&P500 will s lide to around 1,80 0 before areal recovery comes. That’s beloweven the darkest moments fromWednesday’s midday swoon.

“It’s going to continue to be a strug-gle,” he said. “Everyone will be con-vinced we’re heading for recession,everyone will be convinced we’re in abear market.”

On Friday the Dow Jones industrialaverage rose 210.83 points, or 1.3percent, to 16,093.51. The Standard &Poor’s 500 i ndex had its b est day sinceearly December, gaining 37.91points, or 2 percent, to 1,906.90. TheNasdaq composite index made itsbiggest gain since September, adding119.12 points, or 2.7 percent, to4,591.18.

For the week, the Dow rose 0.7 per-cent, the S&P 500 climbed 2 percentand the Nasdaq increased 2.3 percent.

European markets also rose Friday

on hopes for more economic stimulusfrom the region’s central bank. InJapan, the Nikkei 225 index had itsbest day in four months as investorshoped the Bank of Japan will also stepin.

In energy trading, U.S. crude rose$2. 66 to $32. 19 a barrel in New York.Brent crude, a benchmark for interna-

tional oils, rose $2.9 3, or 10 percent,to $32. 18 a barrel in London. U.S. oi lclimbed 21 percent over the last twodays and it has recovered about half i tsloss es from earlier in the year.

Among energy stocks, pipelineoperator Kinder Morgan rose $1. 46, or10.5 percent, to $15.3 4 after it jumped16 percent Thursday. Pipeline compa-ny Williams Cos. added $3.70, or 23.1percent, to $19.74. Devon Energygained $1.45, or 6 percent, to $25. 63.

Goldman Sachs analyst JeffreyCurrie said energy prices have fallenso far that the industry is making realcuts in production. “We are now at aprice level that is creating real funda-mental change,” he said.

Apple, which h as los t about a quarterof its value in the last six month s, rose$5.12, or 5.3 percent, to $101.42.Microsoft gained $1.81, or 4 p ercent,to $52 .29. Facebook added $3.78 , or 4percent.

France’s CAC 40 added 3.1 percentand Germany’s DAX rose 2 percent.

Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 2.2 per-cent.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index rose 5.9percent. Earlier this week the indexentered a bear market, meaning it wasdown 20 percent from a recent peak.South Korea’s Kospi gained 2.1 per-cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Sengadded 2.9 percent.

Energy stocks lead a broad rally

By Paul WisemanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The world’s cen-tral banks are under pressure to dosomething about slumping economiesand panicky stock markets.

The question is, can — or will —they do much that would help?

The head of the European CentralBank signaled this week that there’s“no li mit” to how far the ECB would goto restore the health of the continent’sfragile economy.

The Bank of Japan is consideringexpanding its easy-money policies as

soon as next week to fight feeblegrowth and dangerously low inflation.

And, in the view of many econo-mists , th e Federal Reserve may have torethink its p lans to s lowly but steadilyraise U.S. in terest rates. The Fed meetsnext week.

“Everything is going South,” saysformer Fed official Joseph Gagnon,senior fellow at the Peterson Institutefor International Economics . “I predict(the Fed) will not be raising rates inthe next few meetings — and maybenot in the first half of the year.”

So far, t he global economy h as ben-efited modestly at best from the cures

central ban ks have o ffered. The WorldBank and the International MonetaryFund this month once again downgrad-ed their outlook for the global econo-my. Like other analysts, they havepersistently overestimated thestrength of the worldwide recoveryfrom the Great Recession despite theextraordinary efforts of major centralbanks.

Around the world, stock marketshave been p ounded for weeks, in l argepart by fear and uncertainty over adecelerating Chinese economy, theworld’s second-biggest and long avital source of global s trength.

Weak growth, shaky marketsput pressure on central banks

By Josh Boak THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — U.S. home salesrebounded in December after new regu-lations had delayed the completion of purchases in November. And totalsales in 2015 were the most in nineyears.

The National Association of Realtors said Friday that sales of existing homes climbed 14.7 percentlast month to a seasonally adjusted

annual rate of 5.46 milli on. Sales hadpreviously plummeted as the industryadapted to new mortgage disclosurerules — a temporary downturn beforedelayed sales were finalized inDecember.

“This is a great way to cap off 2015,” said Jennifer Lee, a senioreconomist at BMO Capital Markets.

Last month’s rebound concluded ayear that produced the highest annualsales total since 2006. Steady jobgrowth and low mortgages drew more

buyers into the market, causing bothsales and prices to climb.

Americans bought roughly 5.26million homes in 2015, a 6.5 percentincrease over 2014. The median salesprice rose 6.8 percent to $222,400.

The Realtors forecast that sales willstay flat in 2016 and that the medianprice will rise more than 4 percent. Aprice increase that big would com-pound a problem for many would-bebuyers: A rising proportion of homesare unaffordable.

Home purchases rebound; 2015 had most sales in 9 years

Google to pay $140 million in back taxes in BritainSAN FRANCISCO — Google will pay about $140 million

in British back taxes in a concession driven by a shift inhow the Internet company will measure its success in theUnited Kingdom. The amount translates into 130 millionpounds.

The accord disclosed Friday comes amid mounting criti-cism that Googl e and other major U.S. companies have beenscrimping on their tax bills with a variety of accountingmaneuvers that have rankled governments around the world.

In the United Kingdom, for in stance, Google h as been fac-ing accusations that it hasn’t been paying its fair share of taxes in a country that represents its second largest marketoutside the U.S. Similar complaints have been leveledagainst at Facebook , Amazon. com and Starbucks in th e U.K.

Google has been minimizing its tax bill for years in theU.K. by keeping its headquarters in Ireland, where rates arelower.

Starbucks closing Teavana‘tea bars’ in NYC, Beverly Hills

NEW YORK — Starbucks is retreating from Teavana “teabars” that first opened in New York City a little more thantwo years ago and mimicked the coffee chain’s namesake

stores, except with tea.The company says it will convert th e three tea bars in New

York City t o Starbucks st ores this spring and close anoth erlocation in Beverly Hills. A fifth lo cation in Seattle near itsheadquarters will remain op en as a way to tes t new ideas. Thestores served made-to-order tea drinks and some food items,with places to sit much like at Starbucks st ores.

The closure of the tea bars will not affect the more than350 Teavana retail locations, which primarily sell packagedteas and appliances, the company said. Starbucks acquiredthe Teavana chain in late 2012, noting the rapidly growingtea market glo bally.

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How dominant was the Mills g irls’ basket-ball team against visiting rival Capuchino?

A running clock was used in the fourthquarter with the Vikin gs up 73 -33 with 6 :26to play.

“I knew there was a running clock (rule),but I’ve never been in a situation where weneeded it,” said Mills coach Dave Matsu.

Mills would go on to post an 81-38 victo-ry.

The Vikings played what Matsu believeswas the best game any of his teams haveplayed in his decade with the scho ol. It wasthe first time since he started coaching theVikin gs th at one of his team eclipsed the 80-poin t barrier. Mills did it with stron g shoo t-ing, even stronger defense and ferociousrebounding. The Vikings shot 54 percentfrom the field for the game, connecting on33 of 61 attempts. They dominated theboard, out-rebounding t he Mustangs 45-18 .They also came up with 1 7 steals.

“That was one o f our best games in my fouryears here,” said Julia Gibbs, Mills’ senior

post. “I was really, really happy. It was thewhole team (who played well).”

Gibbs finished with a game-high 26poin ts and pulled down 13 rebounds.

The biggest question coming into thegame for Mills (5-1 PAL South, 10-7 over-all) was how it would respond coming off ablowout 61-38 loss to Menlo-AthertonWednesday.

The Vikings responded quite well.“This was a statement game,” Matsu said.

“People were looking at the box score (fol-lowing the loss to M-A). Mills got blownout by 25? The way we bounced back says a

lot about this team.”Fetapa Maka hit her second bucket of the

game early in the first quarter to tie th e gameat 4 for Capuchino (0-6, 6-12), but Millstook off from there. The Vikin g went on an18-3 ov er the final 4:08 o f the first quarter totake a 22-7 after eight min utes of play.

The Vikings used their defense to jump-start th eir offense. Kaela Stonebarger cameup with a s teal and layup to begin the run andthing s just snowballed. Gibbs followed withsix straight points, including a steal and

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Half Moon Bay center Austin Hilton, left, fights his way to the hoop against Zeppelin Dufourin the Cougars’ 64-47 win over archrival Terra Nova Friday night.

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

After Half Moon Bay center Austin Hiltondrew two offensive fouls within the op ening1:09 of Friday’s rivalry matchup with TerraNova, it was clear backup center MiroCavanagh was going to see some seriousminutes.

A 6-4 junior, serious minutes marks newterritory for Cavanagh, who has playedsparingly in this his first varsity season.But the varsity rookie was up to the task,coming off the bench to po p a team-high 1 6points en route to Half Moon Bay’s 64-47

win at home over its archrival.The glut of early fouls was a foreshadow-ing of the physical matchup to come, as theseason’s first meeting between the twoteams oftentimes resembled more of a rugbymatch than a basketball g ame.

“I really don’t like playing physical butthat got really fun tonight,” Cavanagh said.“Just going over guys and making shots,it’s the best feeling i n the world.”

Terra Nova guard Jared Milch demonstratedsome high-flying feats of his own. TheTigers’ only returning player from last year’ssquad that shared the Peninsula AthleticLeague North Divis ion t itle with the Cougars,Jared Milch shouldered much of t he responsi-bility of trying t o keep his team in the gameFriday. But even with Jared Milch scoring agame-high 25 p oints, trying to k eep up with

Half Moon Bay proved a tall order.“After Jared, none of these guys haveplayed varsity basketball, ” Terra Nova headcoach Kenny Milch said. “So when yo u putthem in against a top dog like Half MoonBay, it’s like — welcome to the club.”

The Cougars (6-0 in PAL North, 17-1overall) led from the get-go , j umping out toa 6-0 lead while keeping Terra Nova off theboard for a majority of the first quarter. TheTigers (2-4, 8-9) scored their first pointswith 2:40 remaining in the opening quarteron a p air of free throws by Jared Milch. Theydidn’t convert their first field goal, also byJared Milch, until there was 1: 55 remaining.

Half Moon Bay leading wire-to-wire was a

HMB hammers Tigers

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Even when the Woodside boy s’ soccer teamis in disarray, it’s still the best team in thePeninsula Athletic League Ocean Division.

The first-place Wildcats (6-0 in PAL Ocean,7-3-2 overall) maintained their strongholdon the Ocean Division Friday, showing off their depth in a 3-2 win at El Camino. Despitehaving si x players arrive late to th e game —including the formidable junior forward tan-

dem of Juan Castillo and Manny Delgado —Woodside was able to keep the Colts (2-4, 3-5) in check until the full force of its startinglineup was on the field.

“I can put any 11 players on the field andit’s a strong lineup,” Woodside head coachDarrell Ring man said.

Friday marked the first game this season inwhich Castillo and Delgado did not start, butthe duo emerged in the second half to com-bine for the game-winning goal in the 72ndminute, as Delgado put a nice move on the El

Camino defense to assist Castillo with hissecond goal of the year.

The goal was redemptio n for an offside callfive minutes prior to nullify a would-be goal.It was Delgado that got behind the back rowfor that one, taking a quick pass fromCastillo. But as Delgado put the ball in theback of the net for what he thought to be hisfifth goal of the season, the attack was whis-tled dead, despite Delgado’s objections to thereferee.

“I did not agree with that call at all,”

Delgado said. “I know I started behind thedefender and I was behind the ball. It wouldhave been a cool go al.”

Having been friends since the first-grade,Castillo and Delgado share a strong chem-istry. The thing is , th e two had never playedtogether before this year. And while theyarrived late for the game, th ey had a good rea-son. While driving to Colt Field, they wereapproaching a stopligh t when the two cars in

Woodside tops EC to maintain stronghold in Ocean

By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND — Stephen Curry banked in ashot from midcourt with a h and in his face atthe halftime buzzer after his three-quartercourt swish at the end of the first was justlate and he finished with 39 points and atriple-double, helpi ng coach St eve Kerr win

his season debut in the

Golden State Warriors’122-110 victory over theIndiana Pacers on Fridaynight.

Kerr returned from aleave of absence datingto Oct. 1 for complica-tions following two backsurgeries, and defendingchampion Golden Statedelivered for him b y win-

ning its 38th straighthome game at OracleArena to match the 1985-86 Celtics for third-longest home winningstreak all-time. TheWarriors are 20-0 at ho methis season.

Curry added 12 assistsand 10 rebounds for hissecond triple-double of

the season and seventh of his career. Thereigning MVP shimmied after his h alf-courtshot and pounded his chest following his201st 3-poin ter at the 6:26 mark of the thirdquarter.

Golden State has 10 triple-doubles thisseason — Draymond Green has the othereight — to match the franchise record alsodone in 1959-60. Curry has 30 or morepoints in s ix of his last eight games, whileGreen added 22 po ints and 11 rebounds.

Curry also became the first player in NBAhistory to make 200 3-pointers in four

Warriors topIndy in Kerr’sseason debut

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Boys’ basketballBurlingame 68 San Mateo 47

Despite a couple of key players battling ill-ness, the Panthers beat the Bearcats for the 26thstraight time Friday night.

The last time Burlingame lost to San Mateowas a 62-58 decision back in February of 2001.

Vinnie Ferrari l ed Burlingame (5-1 PAL South,13-4 overall) with 15 points. SophomoreCallum Spurlock knocked down four 3-pointers

on his way to a 14-point night. BassellMufarreh, who was sick last week, scored 11points — nine coming in the fourth quarter.Tyler Garlitos was held out of the first half because of sickness, but still finished with n inesecond-half points.

San Mateo (1-5, 8-10) was led by BaileySadrilan, who finished with 12points. Da’hareeha Allen chipped in nine pointsfor the Bearcats.

Sacred Heart Prep 65 Eastside Prep 42

Down 29-25 at halftime, the Gators outscoredthe Panthers 28-2 in the third quarter to takecontrol of the game.

Andrew Daschbach led SHP (6-0 WBAL, 8-7overall) with 12 points. Connor Moses added11, while Tevin Panchal and Justin Harmoneach chipped in nine points apiece.

Girls’ basketballHillsdale 49 Aragon 43

Down 15 points going into the fourth quarter,the Knights outscored the Dons 31-10 over thefinal eight minutes — hitting seven 3-pointersalong the way — to stay undefeated in PeninsulaAthletic League South Division play.

Emily Nepomuceno led Hillsdale (6-0 PALSouth) with 13 point s.

Menlo School 70 Castilleja 33

The Knights led 17-2 after the first quarter and37-10 at halftime as they cruised to a West BayAthletic League Foothill Division victory.

Sam Erisman led Menlo (4-0 WBAL Foothill,14-3 overall) with 20 points. Mallory Northadded 17.

Carlmont 64 Sequoia 31

The Scots outscored the Cherokees 23-7 inthe first half and limited Sequoia to just 12 first-half points.

Alexa Bayangos scored a game-high 19points to lead Carlmont (3-3 PAL South, 10-8overall). Megan Olazar recorded her first careerdouble-double for the Scots, scoring 10 pointsand pulling down 12 rebounds.

King’s Academy 54 Crystal Springs 17

The Knights led 26-5 at halftime and werenever challenged the rest of the way.

Sharleen Garcia led Crystal Springs witheight points.

Pinewood 76 Sacred Heart Prep 45

Riley Hemm poured in 24 points for theGators, but it wasn’t enough to beat the Nor Calpowerhouse Panthers.

Hemm hit six 3-pointers for SHP (0-3 WBALFoothill, 12-4 overall).

Boys’ soccerMenlo-Atherton 2 Aragon 0

The Bears handed the Dons their secondstraight loss in Peninsula Athletic League Bay

Division play.Ethan Oro continue his hot play for M-A (5-1PAL Bay), picking up a goal and an assist. JeanClaverie opened the scoring off an assist fromOro. Riu Sakaguchi assisted on Oro’s goal.

Burlingame 3 Half Moon Bay 1

The Panthers earned their first Bay Divisionwin and moved out of the division cellar,leapfrogging the Cougars.

Half Moon Bay (0-5-1 PAL Bay) got its goalfrom Edgar DeLeon.

San Mateo 6 Terra Nova 1

The Bearcats stayed unbeaten in PAL OceanDivision play with a rout of the Tigers.

Five different players scored for San Mateo

(4-0-2 PAL Ocean, 7-2-2 overall), led byAlejandro Alvarez, who scored twice. Vidhu Rajhad a goal and an assist, with Jose Millan, PedroValdivia and Byron Hernandez rounding out thescoring.

Obemar Salazar, Edgar Jimenez, Mark Rigel,Marcos Fonseca and Bruno Brasileiro all hadassists for the Bearcats.

Sacred Heart Prep 1 Crystal Springs 0

Peter Love scored the game’s only goal in thefirst half as the Gators (3-1-1 WBAL, 6-4-3)took sole possession of third place in theWBAL standings.

Crystal Springs falls to 3-2-1 in league play.

Boys’ basketball — ThursdayPinewood 58 Menlo 52

The Knights (3-3 in WBAL Foothill, 5-11overall) couldn't overcome a big Pinewood firstquarter in which Menlo was outscored 25-14.This despite a 20-12 Menlo run in the secondquarter to close to within 3. The second-placePanthers (5-1, 8-6) were paced by KyleMurphy's 12 points. Menlo senior Jared Lucianhit three 3-pointers en route to scoring a game-high 19 points, while Will Roth added 11.

Girls’ soccer — ThursdayCarlmont 2 Burlingame 1

The Scots (3-1-1 in PAL Bay, 4-5-2 overall)won in dramatic fashion scoring the game-win-ning goal in the game's final minute. AmitNetanel notched the winning goal from closerange, taking an assist pass from Alyssa Fagel.Carlmont had to play from behind afterBurlingame (2-2-1, 7-3-1) got on the board inthe first half. After the Panthers took the 1-0lead deep into the second half, however,Carlmont's Amelia Armstrong ti ed it in the 71stminute.

Menlo 3 Castilleja 1

The Knights (3-0-1 in WBAL Foothill, 7-4-1overall) remained unbeaten in WBAL play witha convincing win over Castilleja (1-1-1, 2-6-4).Junior Cleo King and senior Zoe Enright each

scored in the first half to give Menlo a 2-0 cush-ion. Then after Casti cut the lead in half,Knights sophomore Hunter MacDonald scoredon assists from King and Enright to put thegame on ice.

Menlo-Atherton 7 Half Moon Bay 0

The Bears exploded for six, second-half goalsto beat the Cougars in a PAL Bay Divisionmatch up.

Katie Guenin scored two more goals for M-A(4-1-1 PAL Bay, 6-3-1 overall), whileJosephine Cotto and Julia Moreton each hadtwo assists. Ali Sivilotti, Talia Missan, LaurenCollinsworth, Sarah McLeod and Casey Loveall scored once for the Bears. Nicole Salz addedan assist as well.

Mercy-Burlingame 4 Mercy-SF 0

Hayley Chawke and Kathleen Napier eachscored two goals to lead the Crusaders over theSkippers.

Shannon Grady assisted on two of the goalsfor Mercy-Burlingame (3-0-1 WBAL Skyline,5-3-1 overall), while Giana Zamagni and EmilyNaughton assisted on the other two goals.

South City 2 San Mateo 1

The Warriors handed the Bearcats their firstPAL Ocean Division loss of the season.

Kristyn Waller scored off an assist from

Aimee Goell for the only goal for San Mateo (4-1 PAL Ocean, 8-3-2 overall).

Wrestling — ThursdayEl Camino 46 Capuchino 27

The Colts (2-1 in PAL Bay) (1-2). NataliVasquez (108-pound division) and SidneyBrooks (115s) started the night with back-to-back pins. Paoli Maralit (122s) then won bydecision and Tyler Mercado (128s) by technicalfall to give El Camino a hammerlock on the dualmeet victory. Misael Turcios (140s), RomanReich (154s) and Justin Ilao (197s) also won onthe mat for El Camino before Jerrel Pelesauma(222s) and Gion Seisa (287s) both won by for-feit to close out the meet.

Local sports roundup


INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Even after wins,and there were a bunch of them, the Cavaliersdidn’t celebrate. Everything was too easy forthem, way too easy.

Loaded with talent, they’re lacking chem-istry and cohesion. A championship roster

without championship heart.David Blatt took the fall.The second-year coach, who guided the Cavs

to the NBA Finals in 2015 and had them sit-ting atop the Eastern Conference standings

this season, was shock-ingly fired on Friday bygeneral manager DavidGriffin.

Griffin didn’t think thetitle-chasing Cavalierswere handling prosperity,expectations or acting

like a championship teamunder Blatt, who was 83-40 in less than two sea-

sons. Griffin saw a team going in the wrongdirection.

“Sometimes you can win games in thisleague in the regular season and get worse,”Griffin said at a hastily-arranged news confer-ence at the team’s practice facility. “We wereregressing over a period of time. I’m in ourlocker room a lot, and I knew that there’s justa disconnect there right now. There’s a l ack of spirit and connectedness that I just couldn’t

accept. And frankly, h alfway through the sea-son, I think we have the time to right the ship.“I know that sounds crazy when we’re sit-

ting with a 30-11 record. I understand that. Butwe were 30-11 with a schedule that was reason-

ably easy. And I’m judging a lot more thanwins and losses.”

Griffin said he did not consult superstarLeBron James, who never seemed comfortablewith Blatt in charge, or any of Cleveland’sother players.

Griffin did meet with owner Dan Gilbert,who supported the move to fire his th ird coach

in four seasons.“Over the course of my business career Ihave learned that sometimes the hardest thingto do is also the right thing to do,” Gilbertsaid.

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When the NewEngland Patriots last visited Denver, theybrought along a perfect record and talk of asecond undefeated season.

They left with t heir first los s and the startof a streak in which they won just twice intheir final six games — a streak that costthem their chance to host the AFC champi-onship this weekend.

“Obviously, we were all disappointedwith the way that game played itself out,”special teamer Matt Slater said this week ashe prepared for the rematch of the Nov. 29game that Denver won 30-24 in overtime.“It’s no mystery we had a rough s tretch therefor a couple of weeks, where we weren’t per-forming up to the level that we’re used to.We’re thankful for another opportunity togo into that hostile environment and con-tribute.”

New England earned its fourth Super Bowlchampionship last year, but the vi ctory tourwas tainted by another round of cheatingallegations and the possible suspension of

quarterback Tom Brady in the scandal that

came to be known as“Deflategate.” WhenBrady’s suspension wasoverturned on the eve of the 2015 opener, thePatriots played like theywere on a mission toteach the rest of theleague a lesson — win-

ning t heir first 10 gamesheading into the

Thanksgiving weekend matchup with theBroncos.

With No. 1 quarterback Peyton Manninginjured, New England opened a 21-7 leadearly in the fourth quarter. But backup BrockOsweiler led the Broncos to three straightscores before Patriots kicker StephenGostkowski tied it in the final seconds tosend the game into overtime.

The Patriots went backward on the open-ing drive of OT, t hen Denver won i t on C.J.Anderson’s 48-yard touchdown run. Alsotroubling for New Englan d was a k nee inj urythat knocked Pro Bowl tight end RobGronkowski out of the game (but only kepthim out for on e week).

“I think we took away a lot of confidence

from that game, when webeat them,” Broncosoffensive lineman RyanHarris said this week.“No doubt, (they are)looking to get somerevenge.”

With Gronkowski outfor the next week and

Julian Edelman on thesideline for the last

seven weeks o f the regular season (and muchof their offensive line shuffling to accom-modate the injuries there), the Patriots lostfour of their last six games. The uncharac-teristically po or finish left them at 12-4 —good enough for a 12th AFC East tit le in 13seasons but tied with the Broncos in therace for home-field advantage through theplayoffs.

Denver took the No. 1 seed by vi rtue of itsvictory over New England; when theBroncos beat Pittsburgh in the divisionalround last weekend, that meant the AFCchampionship game would be played atMile High Stadium.

“The game is in Denver, s o we’re goin g toshow up and play it,” Patriots coach Bill

Belichick said.The loss at Denver exposed one of the few

remaining gaps in Brady’s resume. Thethree-time Super Bowl MVP is only 6-8 inhis career against the Broncos, and 2-6 inDenver — perhaps the biggest reason theregular-season loss was so costly.

Brady seemed surprised when told of thatrecord this week, but he said he lo oked for-

ward to the opportunity to improve it.Noting that a lot of teams have bad recordsagainst the Broncos, who have won theirdivision five straight years and reached theSuper Bowl in 20 13, Brady said that t he ele-vation and home crowd help boost what isalready a st rong team.

“The level o f competitio n and the qualityof their players and coaches is what makesit a great team and a great organization,”Brady said, echoin g terms that are often saidabout the Patriots. “They’ve been that wayfor a long time. So, they have a great tradi-tion there and we’ve played a lot of goodBronco teams.

“Beat them a couple times, but they’vebeat us most of the time,” he said. “So I’dlike to g et to that No. 3 in the win columnthis weekend.”

Last time: Without Manning, Broncos beat Pats in OT

Brock Osweiler Tom Brady


SEATTLE — Seattle Seahawks running back MarshawnLynch may be “leaning toward retirement,” general managerJohn Schneider said in a p air of radio i nterviews Friday.

Schneider said in separate interviews with KIRO-AM andKJR-AM that he believes Lynch i s leanin g to ward calling ita career after an in jury-filled 2015 season.

Schneider first app eared on KIRO, the t eam’s flagship sta-tion, saying t he team was goin g to gi ve Lynch time and lee-way to decide what he wants to do, but added he was “underthe impressio n,” Lynch was leaning toward retirement.

Later on KJR, Schneider hedged his comments slightly,but reiterated that he thought Lynch was considering step-ping away.

“I really, honestly don’t know at this point,” Schneidersaid. “If you put a gun to my head I would say he is leaningtoward retirement. But I think with Marshawn you never real-ly k now. He’s a fierce competitor. We just h ave to handle it

the right way in terms of showing h im asmuch respect as we possibly can foreverything he’s done for this organiza-tion.”

Lynch was limited to just seven regular-season games in 2015, first bothered byhamstring and calf iss ues and later miss-ing t he final seven regular-season g ameswith an abdominal injury that required

surgery. Lynch returned for the NFC divi-sional playoff game at Carolina but wasmostly a non-factor with the Seahawks

falling behind 14-0 in the op ening moments of the loss .Lynch was limit ed to just 111 carries and 417 y ards in the

regular season, the first season of his career where injurieshave been a significant factor. He has contemplated retire-ment in the past and will turn 30 in April. And Seattleappears to h ave an heir apparent after rookie Thomas Rawlshad four 100 -yard games filling in for Lynch.

Seattle GM: Lynch may beleaning toward retirement

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they too k a time-out to offer assistance to thepeople in the accident, Ring man said.

“There were four (players) in the car andthere was an accident in front of them,”Ringman said. “They got out to help. Howcan I fault that?”

Ringman’s makeshift st arting lineup keptWoodside in the driver’s seat until their star

juniors arrived though, sending the game intohalftime tied 0-0.

Woodside opened the second half with ahead of steam and it paid off when senio r mid-fielder Luis Garcia broke the scoreless tie inthe 43rd minute. Garcia curled around the backrow for a decent look, b ut didn’t get a lot o n aforward shot from 20 yards out. The attemptwent directly at the El Camino goalkeeper,but Garcia followed it as the ball spun off thegoalie’s hands and past him, leaving Garciaalone in th e keeper’s box for an easy empty-net score.

But El Camino — having exhibited tena-cious midfield play to close the first half —slowly changed the tide.

“I was very happy with their play today,”Colts head coach Ken Anderson said. “Theydidn’t give up. For me, we had chances toscore goals and didn’t get them. But we stayedin there with a lot o f fight.”

El Camino’s reward came in the 58thminute when it scored to tie it 1-1. The Coltsearned a close throw-in to senior midfielderKelvin Rosales,

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