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A 23-year-old former teacher’saide at Parkway Middle School inSouth San Francisco faces fivefelony counts for an alleged sexualrelationship she carried on with a14-year-old boy she met at theschool, according to the San MateoCounty Dist rict Attorney’s Office.

Maria Virginia Baca allegedlycarried on t he relationship with thestudent starting in the spring of

2015 through the summer months,according to prosecutors. Shepleaded not guilty in courtWednesday.

She allegedly had sex and oralcopulation with the boy on a week-ly basis from May 1, 201 5, to Aug.31, 2015, according to prosecu-tors.

The relationship stopped at theend of summer and on Sept. 12,2015, police responded to the vic-tim’s home on a report of a fight

between the two where Bacaallegedly was trying to dissuade thevictim from telling anyone abouttheir prior relationship, accordingto prosecutors.

Baca had left th e scene, however,by the time police arrived.

The next day, police found Bacain her car on Point View Place inSouth San Francisco with three 15-year-old boys, according to prose-cutors.

Police determined Baca had pro-

vided the boys with marijuana andthat they were all going to smoke ittogether, according to prosecutors.

The charges against Baca includeunlawful sexual intercourse with aminor, dissuading a witness andcontrib uting to the delinquency of aminor.

She remains in custody on$400,000 bail.

Her trial is set to start April 18and she has retained JosephO’Sullivan as h er attorney.

Teacher’s aide accused of sexual relationshipwith 14-year-old boy in South San Francisco

By Samantha Weigel

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Belmont residents and visitorswill soon have a new outdooramenity after the City Councilagreed to set aside $1.2 million tocreate the long-awaited DaveyGlen Park.

The concept of building a park

in the CentralNeighborhoodwas initiatednearly 25 yearsago.

T u e s d a yfinally markeda significantstep towardactually pro-

viding residents in the neighbor-hood with this new park as theCity Council voted to approveputting the project out for bid.Despite prior indications the parkon Davey Glen Drive near ElCamino Real would have beencompleted years earlier, officialsare confident they’ll kick off con-struction in t he coming months.

“We’re almost ready to p ut shov -el to dirt,” said Mayor Eric Reed.“The city as a whole is severelyunder parked and the CentralNeighborhood where Davey GlenPark is located, is significantlyunder parked.”

The city plans to develop abouta third to half of the nearly 1-acrepark with a rain garden to filter

stormwater runoff, a playg round, asmall synthetic turf area, picnicbenches and concrete pathwaysthat will make an excellent placefor kids to l earn how to ride a bike,said Parks and Recreation DirectorJonathan Gervais.

“It’s a once in a generationalexperience,” Gervais said, thrilled

Long-awaited Davey Glen Park comes to BelmontCity first considered Central Neighborhood park nearly 25 years ago, will open by year’s end

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Weather service officials said the rain will start falling Thursday and continue into Friday, with a lull late Friday andSaturday morning. On Saturday afternoon, the rain is forecast to start again and persist through Monday.

A lawsuit against Serra Yellow Caballeges wheelchair users arecharged up to four times more thanthe standard fare.

Five-day storm brewingHeavy rain, highwinds in forecastSTAFF AND WIRE REPORT

Three storm sy stems forecast forThursday through Monday coulddrop up to 8 inches of rain in theNorth Bay mountains and lesseramounts across the rest of the Bay

Area, National Weather Serviceforecasters said.

High winds of 15 to 25 mph withgusts up to 35 mph are also fore-cast, which will make driving dif-ficult, especially for taller vehi-cles. The wind may cause fallentrees and power outages, accordingto th e weather service.

It’s “going to be a little on thebreezy side,” weather service fore-caster Diana Henderson said.

The rain will mean slick roadsand longer commute times.

Weather service o fficials said th erain will st art falling Thursday andcontinue into Friday, with a lulllate Friday and Saturday morni ng.On Saturday afternoon, the rain is

forecast to start again and persistthrough Mon day.

Rain totals in the valleys and

Suit allegesSerra YellowCab inequityDisabled man says companyillegally charged him moreBy Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Daly City-based Serra YellowCab is being sued in federal courtfor allegedly charging wheelchairusers h igher fares.

The lawsuit alleges t he companyviolates federal and state law bycharging wheelchair users up tofour times more than the standardfare because they require accessibletaxis.

The suit was filed Feb. 24 b y theCenter for Independence of Individuals with Disabilities andJoseph Del Aguila who uses awheelchair because of a mobilitydisability and needs a lift o r a rampto board a taxi.

Serra is the only taxi companyto offer wheelchair accessibletaxis for retail taxi service in SanMateo County.

The company’s General ManagerTalib Salamin said Wednesday,however, t hat it i s not the compa-ny’s practice to charge more.

But on one occasion, San Mateoresident Del Aguila was allegedlycharged $35 for a trip of 1.5 miles

which took less than 10 minutes,according to the complaint.Plaintiffs are represented byDisability Rights Advocates, a

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Transit worker finds bag with$15K in cash in middle of road

UPPER DARBY, Pa. — A suburbanPhiladelphia transit worker has found abag loaded with over $15,000 in themiddle of a road and turned it in topolice.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports thatBob Tracey was driving home from

work Monday night when he spottedthe black bag.Tracey says he tho ught it was a p urse.

But when he opened it, he saw dozensof crisp $100 and $20 bills.

The 61-year-old SoutheasternPennsylvania TransportationAuthority worker immediately calledpolice.

Upper Darby Superintendent of Police Michael Chitwood says “to turnthat kind of cash in” makes Tracey“truly a g ood Samaritan. ”

It’s unclear who l ost the money.Tracey says his wife assured him he

did the right t hing , even tho ugh he was$15, 000 richer “for about a half hour.”

Vehicle crash-lands on roof

of Pittsburgh supermarketPITTSBURGH — A vehicle has

crashed onto th e roof of a supermarketin Pittsburgh, and the store has beenevacuated as a precaution.

The crash happened late Tuesdaymorning at a Giant Eagle store in thecity’s Greenfield neighborho od.

The store sits on a lot below someother city streets. Images on WPXI-TVshow the right-rear roof is slightlybelow street level.

It appears the motorist drove off aroad that above the store, through achain-link fence and onto the store

roof. It landed right-side up.Fire Chief Mike Mullen says theimpact tore part of the roofing andgasoline leaked from the car into thestore.

Giant Eagle spokesman DickRoberts says nobody inside the storewas hurt, and Pittsburgh poli ce say thedriver wasn’t hurt either.

Vienna burp leads first tofine, then to expenses-paid trip

VIENNA — A sonorous burp after adoner kebab led to a fine for Viennabartender Edin Mehic. But the belchalso had its benefits — an all-expens-es paid trip to Istanbul, complimentsof a chain famed for the Turkish spe-

cialty.A policeman ticketed and fined

Mehic last month asserting the belchwas to o lo ud — and too clos e for com-fort. But many to ok his side, includingan Istanbul-based company serving the

sliced meat sandwich that saw Mehic’spunishment as a downer for the doner.

The chain on Monday confirmed thatit picked up the tab for the fligh t, h oteland a sightseeing tour during Mehic’stwo-day visi t last week.

And there’s more to what Mehic callshis “dream trip.” The chain’s CEOwrote him a check reimbursing his 7 0-euro ($77 ) fine.

Bullet goes into emptySan Francisco classroom

SAN FRANCISCO — San FranciscoUnified School District officials say astray bullet went through the windowof an empty k indergarten classroom.

District spokeswoman Gentle Blythesays Visitacion Valley ElementarySchool was on lockdown after gun-shot s were reported nearby on Mondaymorning.

No one was injured and no studentswere aware of the gunfire. The bulletwent through a window in a part of school under construction. The class-room was empty and officials say on lyconstructions workers saw the inci-

dent.Police are investigatin g the incident.The district says counseling will be

available for any students who learnabout the incident and want to discussit.

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Actress SharonStone is 58.

This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1876

Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant,Thomas Watson, heard Bell say overhis experimental telephone: “Mr.

Watson — come here — I want to seeyou” from the next room of Bell’sBoston laboratory.

“He who knows, does not speak.He who speaks, does not know.”

— Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher

Actor ChuckNorris is 76.

Actress OliviaWilde is 32.

Birthdays

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Betty Reid Soskin holds the first National Park Service 100th Anniversary half-dollar, which was struck during a ceremony atthe San Francisco Mint on March 9. Soskin, 94, the oldest National Park Ranger in the United States, is currently assigned tothe Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond. The U.S. Mint will produce three NationalPark Service commemorative coins: A $5 gold piece, a silver dollar and a half-dollar.

Thurs day : Rain. Highs in t he lower 60s.South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts toaround 35 mph .Thursday night: Breezy...Rain. Rainmay be heavy at times. Lows in the mid50s. South winds 10 to 20 mph increasingto 20 to 30 mph after midnight.Friday : Breezy... Rain. Rain may beheavy at times. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 20 to 30mph.

Friday night: Mos tly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of sh ow-ers in the evening... Then a sl ight chance of showers aftermidnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 20 to 30mph... Becoming west 10 to 2 0 mph after midnight. Chanceof showers 30 percent.Saturday : Most ly clo udy. A chance of rain.

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In 1785 , Thomas Jefferson was app oint ed America’s mi n-ister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.In 1864 , President Abraham Lincoln assigned Ulysses S.Grant, who had just received his commission as lieutenant-general, t o th e command of the Armies of the United States.The song “Beautiful Dreamer” by the late Stephen Fosterwas copyrigh ted by Wm. A. Pond & Co . of New York.In 1880 , the Salvation Army arrived in the United Statesfrom England.In 1914 , the Rokeb y Venus, a 17th century paintin g byDiego Velazquez on display at the National Gallery inLondon, was slashed multiple times by Mary Richardson,who was protestin g th e arrest o f fellow suffragist EmmelinePankhurst. (The painti ng was repaired.)In 1933, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake centered off Long

Beach, California, resulted in 120 deaths.In 1949 , Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, alsoknown as “Axis Sally,” was convicted in Washington D.C.,of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)In 1952, Fulgencio Batista once again became leader of Cuba in a bloo dless coup that deposed President Carlos PiroSocarras.In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis,Tennessee, to assassinating civil rights leader MartinLuther King Jr.

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Talk show host Ralph Emery is 83. Bluegrass/countrysinger-musician Norman Blake is 78. Playwright David Rabeis 76. Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean) is 76. ActressKatharine Houghton is 74. Actor Richard Gant is 72. Rockmusician Tom Scholz (Boston) is 69. Former Canadian PrimeMinister Kim Campbell is 69. TV personality/business-woman Barbara Corcoran (TV: “Shark Tank”) is 67. ActressAloma Wright is 66. Blues musician Ronnie Earl (Ronnie Earland the Broadcasters) is 63. Producer-director-writer PaulHaggis is 63. Alt-country/rock musician Gary Louris is 61.Actress Shannon Tweed is 59.

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FOSTER CITYArrest . A 63-year-old man was arrested fordriving under the influence on East

Hillsdale Boulevard before 2:41 p.m.Sunday, March 6 .Accident . A shopp ing cart hit a vehicle onMetro Center Boulevard before 1:39 p.m.Sunday, March 6 .Hazard. Damaged construction fencingwas seen on Chess Drive before 7:39 p.m.Sunday, March 6 .Theft . Paint cans were stolen on MetroCenter Boulevard before 5:43 p.m.Saturday, March 5.Theft . The tire of a bicycle that waschained to a carport was stolen on RockHarbor Lane before 3:02 p.m. Tuesday,March 1.

REDWOOD CITYTheft . Both license plates were stolen

from a black Lincoln Town Car on MapleStreet b efore 10:39 p.m. Sunday, March 6.Arrest . The driver of a white truck wasarrested after hitting a vehicle in a parkinglot on Main Street before 9:12 p.m.Sunday, March 6 .Reckless driving . Several vehicles wereseen speeding on Alameda de las Pulgasbefore 3:58 p .m. Sunday, March 6.Theft . Credit cards in a wallet that was loston Arch Street were used by an unknownperson before 2:29 p.m. Sunday, March 6.

Police reports

Kinda cornySomebody was selling corn without apermit on Spring Street in RedwoodCity before 5:53 p.m. Sunday, March 6.

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Officials in South San Francisco aresearching for opportunities to broaden

access to the life sciences industry forlocal residents who may feel s hut out fromthe city’s thriving biotechnology sector.

Building a connection between young,ambitious students in the community andthe companies which populate the area of the city east of Highway 101 is the focusof the South San Francisco BiotechSummit, held Friday, March 11.

The event, held at Skyline College, isfree and open to the public, but space islimited as capacity is 100 guests androughly 75 have already expressed interestin att ending, according to Pradeep Gupta,South San Francisco vice mayor.

There are more than 200 life sciencescompanies in South San Francisco, offer-ing more than 20,000 jobs, said Gupta,

but only about 3,000 city residents enjoythose often lucrative employment oppor-tunities.

He said he is hopeful the summit willwork to in crease the n umber of local resi-dents who live and work in t heir own com-munity.

“We are trying to create a bridge forthese students, especially those who areunderserved,” said Gupta.

The upcoming event is the second sum-mit meeting, and officials are expected toreview the success of their initiativessince coming together for the first time in2014.

Gupta said he is impressed with theprogress that has been made over the pasttwo years, as education programs havebeen created in local schools which serve

as a pipeline for local students to biotech-nology companies.

City officials and administrators fromSkyline College and the South SanFrancisco Unified School District haveworked to create partnerships which pro-vides students specialized education pro-grams designed to put them on t he path foremployment in the biotechnology indus-try.

Those programs often lean on the helpof local life sciences companies whichhave been willi ng to offer job training andinternships to students who have proven apassion and capability for pursuingbiotechnology jobs, said Gupta.

The prime example of the collaborationbetween agencies is a school program

which offers 25 select South San Franciscostudents an opportunity to take intensivecourses training them for careers in thelife sciences industry, said Gupta.

He said he is hopeful officials can buildon the momentum of the program’s suc-cess to broaden enrollment so all studentswho are interested in the specialized cur-riculum can enroll.

“I want to expand the program to thosewhose lives can change through these pro-grams,” s aid Gupta.

The program is funded with grant moneymade available by Biotech Partners, anonp rofit company based in Berkeley, andwhile vibrant, Gupta said he would like toencourage lawmakers to make more fund-ing available for similar initiatives.

State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, and

Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South SanFrancisco, as well as county SupervisorDave Pine are expected to appear at thesummit and education officials from thelocal school district and Skyline

Community College, along with represen-tatives from companies such as Bayer andGenentech.

Gupta said he wants not only to garnermore support from local legislators, butalso companies which may stand to gainfrom offering opportunities to young,enthusiastic students wishing to join theworkforce.

“It’s not just a one-way street to thosewho need help, but there can be a benefitto th e companies,” said Gupta.

He said collaboration is imperative inmaking sure all interested South SanFrancisco youth have a clear path to suc-cess.

“We are trying t o focus on t he kids whootherwise would be struggling in t he futureby providing a joint collaboration

between the industry, the scho ols, the col-lege, the lawmakers, the county govern-ment and ourselves to work together toprovide guidance and help facilitate themgoin g in th at direction, ” said Gupta.

The South San Francisco BiotechSummit begins 8 a.m., Friday, March 11,at Skyline College, 3300 College Drive,

Buil ding 6, San Bruno. For mo re inf orma-tion , and to RS VP, con tact Leslie Arroy o636-6668.

South City hosts biotech summitProgram focuses on granting local students access to life science jobs

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Police investigate bank robbery

Police in San Bruno are investigating abank robbery that occurred Saturday at aWells Fargo Bank.

Officers responded at 4:13 p.m. to theWells Fargo Bank at 875 El Camino Real ona report a bank robbery h ad just occurred.

Police said the suspect entered the bank,demanded money and fled the area with an

undisclos ed amount of cash.

He fled on foot s outh on El Camino Real.No weapon was seen or menti oned during

the robbery, police said.The suspect is described as a black man,

20 to 30 years old, 6 feet tall and with abeard. He was wearing all bl ack clothi ng.

Anyone with information on the robberyis asked to call the San Bruno PoliceDepartment at (650) 616-7100.

Local brief

Dean of Berkeley law schoolsteps down amid harassment suit

BERKELEY — The dean of UC Berkeley’slaw school went on an indefinite leave of

absence Wednesday afterhis executive assistantsued him over allega-tions of sexual harass-ment and the universityfor, in her view, notdoing enough to preventit.

Berkeley Law DeanSujit Choudhry willremain as a faculty mem-

ber and earn a professor’s salary at theschool while an in terim dean serves in hisplace, Prov ost Cl aude Steele announced in astatement Wednesday.

Choudhry’s assistant, Tyann Sorrell, saidin a lawsuit filed Tuesday that she broughtthe case because the dean acknowledgedkissing and touching her repeatedly butreceived only a temporary pay cut as pun-ishment following a campus inv estigationlast year.

State bill continues effortsto block human trafficking

SACRAMENTO — California Attorney

General Kamala Harris is backing legisla-

tion that would continue a decade-long bid

to coordinate law enforcement agencies’

responses to human trafficking.Harris announced Wednesday that she is

supporting AB1731 by former Assembly

Speaker Toni Atkins of San Diego. Both areDemocrats.

The bill would create apermanent interagencytask force led by th e stateDepartment of Justice.

Harris was SanFrancisco’s districtattorney in 2006 when

she sponsored an earlierbill that outlawed sex and labor trafficking.That measure also allowed restitution fortrafficking victims and created a temporarygroup to report on the problem inCalifornia.

California Democrat renewspush for statewide soda fee

SACRAMENTO — A Santa MonicaDemocrat is reviving a proposal intendedto curb Californians’ sugar intake afterrecurring legislative defeats.

Assemblyman Richard Bloom announcedWednesday that he is introducing legisla-tion to impose a 2-cent-per-ounce chargeon sugary beverages.

Fees coll ected under AB2782 would bene-fit clinics that address obesity, diabetes andoral health.

At least seven bills seeking warninglabels or extra charges on sugary drinksfailed in the Democratic-controlledCalifornia Legislature between 2010 and2015.

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SACRAMENTO — A longshot proposalintroduced Wednesday would makeCalifornia the first state to al low Uber driv-ers and all other independent contractors tounionize.

The legislation comes one week after theU.S. Chamber of Commerce sued Seattleover the nation’s first city ordinance allow-ing for-hire drivers to organize labor coali-tions.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-SanDiego, authored the California proposal toallow “gig” workers not formally recog-nized as employees to jointly negotiatetheir pay and working conditions. The pro-posal would open the door to unionizedtruck drivers, real estate agents, barbers,fundraisers and other independently con-

tracted workers o peratingon a si ngle platform.

Federal law does notextend collective bar-gaining rights to inde-pendent contractors.Attorneys for the U.S.Chamber have invokedthos e federal antitrust andlabor laws to fight theSeattle ordinance.

Gonzalez and her legaladviser, labor attorney Rich McCracken,believe the states have the right to super-vise a process by which independent con-tractors would be able t o organi ze.

The Internet Associati on, whose membersinclude most majo r cloud and mobile app li-cation-based businesses, opposed the pro-pos al Wednesday.

Independent contractors couldunionize under California bill

Sujit Choudhry

Kamala Harris

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New legislation would allow Uber drivers and all other independent contractors to unionize.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton squared off Wednesday after a testy debate in Michigan on Sunday in which they argued about trade and economic issues.

By Nancy Benac and Lisa LererTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — Fighting for Florida andbeyon d, Hillary Clinto n and Bernie Sanderstangled in an intense debate Wednesdaynigh t ov er who’s the true friend of AmericanHispanics, trading accusations over guest

worker programs “akin to slavery” and theembracing of “vigilantes” against immi-grants.

They had even worse things to say aboutRepublican front-runner Donald Trump.

Facing off just six days before Floridagives its verdict on the presidential race,Clinton faulted Sanders for repeatedly vot-ing against a 2007 comprehensive immi-gration reform bill; he faulted her foropposing a 2007 effort to let people whowere in the country illegall y obt ain driver’slicenses.

Had the immigratio n package p assed backthen, Clinton said, “a lot of the issues weare still discussing today would be in therearview mirror.”

Sanders retorted that he opposed the leg-islation because it included a guest worker

program “akin to slavery.”The debate opened with a question that

appeared to startle Clinton.Univision’s Jorge Ramos asked her if she

would drop out of the race if indicted overthe handling of her email while secretary of state.

“Oh for goodness, that is not going tohappen,” Clinton declared. “I’m not even

answering that question.”The FBI is investigating the possibility

of mishandling of sensitive informationthat passed through Clinton’s private emailserver.

Sanders, as he has in the past, declined tobite on the issue, saying, “The process willtake its course.” He said he’d rather talk

about the issues of wealth and incomeinequality.

Both candidates were bidding for momen-tum after Sanders surprised Clinto n with anupset victory in Michi gan on Tuesday.

Clinto n stressed that she has a strong l eadin the delegates, declaring, “This is amarathon , and it is a marathon t hat can onlybe carried by t he ki nd of campaign I am run-ning.”

Sanders said his Michigan surprise wasevidence that his message is resonating.

“We are going to con tinue to do extreme-ly well,” he said, adding that he expects toconvince superdelegates who are backingClinton to switch to his column.

Immigration commanded considerableattention for good reason: Florida is hometo nearly 1. 8 million Hispanics, including

about 15 p ercent o f the state’s Democrats.Hispanic voters have made up about 10

percent of vot ers in th e Democratic primar-ies so far this year, and Clinton has beengetting about two-thirds of their votes toabout one-third for Sanders. The Vermontsenator stresses that he’s making progresson winning over younger Hispanics.

Clinton at one point accused Sanders of

supporting legislation that would have ledto indefinite detention of people facingdeportation, and for standing withMinutemen vigilantes. He called thatnotion “ridiculous” and “absurd,” andaccused Clint on of pi cking s mall pieces outof big legislative packages to distort hisvoting record.

“No, I do not support vigilantes and thatis a horrific statement and an unfair state-ment to make,” h e said.

For all the disagreements, the overalltone o f the candidates was considerably l esstense than their Sunday faceoff. Sanderseven paused at one point to make fun of hisown pronunciation of “huge” as “yuge.”

Both found agreement in poi ntin g to GOPfront-runner Trump as markedly worse onimmigration than either of them.

Clinton mocked Trump’s plan for a wallon the Mexican border, saying he’d build“the most beautiful tall wall, better thanthe great wall of China” to be “magically”paid for by Mexico. That, she said, is a fan-tasy.

Sanders said that in the immigrationdebate “we do no t, as Donald Trump and oth-

ers have done, resort to racism and xeno-

phobia and bigotry.”There were any number of areas of agree-

ment, including the need to reduce studentloan debt. Sanders said he’d come up with aplan “many months before she did.”

“Thanks for copying a very good idea,”he said.

The candidates squared off soon after a

testy debate in Michigan on Sunday inwhich th ey argued about trade and economicissues of particular interest in t he industrialMidwest.

With Missouri, Illinois, Ohio among t hestates that will be voting on Tuesday, thecandidates returned to a pointed matterthey’d already argued about three days earli-er, scuffling over Sanders’ vote against2009 legislation that bailed out the autoindustry, among others. Sanders said heopposed the bill because it also bailed outbig banks that had fueled the recession tobegin with. Clinton stressed she’d made adifferent judgment to side with th e automak-ers.

Overall, 691 delegates are at stake onTuesday, including 99 in Florida, whichawards all i ts delegates to the winner rather

than dividing them up proportionately.

Who’s best for Hispanics? Clinton, Sanders debate

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DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

In a narrow vote the Belmont CityCouncil agreed to again extend exclusivenegotiatio ns with a developer to const ructhousing at the Firehouse Square site — alocation bein g eyed as a potential catalystfor urging others to help bolster the for-

mation of a more centralized downtown.The city has sought to sell its 1.25-acre

prop erty, purchased with fo rmer redevelo p-ment agency funds, to t he real estate firmSares Regis.

Located near El Camino Real at 1350Civic Lane, the property was once home toone of the city’s first fire stations and isnow occupied by a few small retail estab-lishments and vacant buildings.

Instead, the city would like to see amixed-use housing development as itworks to finalize its Belmont VillageSpecific Plan — a propos al to rezone someparcels near the city’s main business dis-trict by City Hall and El Camino Real toallow for more housing with the hopes of creating a recognizable downtown.

Sares Regis reportedly made a prelimi-nary propos al to create a condominium andtownhome complex with between 56 to 6 1units as well as about 4,000 square feet of commercial space. The exact terms of saleare not public, as the negotiations havetaken place in closed session.

Yet as the process has dragged on foryears and the council already agreed to mul-tiple extensions to the contract requiring

it to work exclusively with Sares Regis —which would have expired Wednesday,March 9 — some thought it was time toopen up property to oth er offers.

Mayor Eric Reed and Vice Mayo r CharlesStone voted against extending the con-tract another 60 days, despite staff indi-cating in a report they were close to final-izing the terms of the sale and a develop-ment agreement.

Stone noted neither the city nor SaresRegis is to blame for negotiations drag-ging on , but believes its time to consideralternate offers.

“It’s simply been quite a long time thatthis option was open and I was hopingafter the last [extensio n] that we’d be ableto come to some final deal, but wehaven’t,” Ston e said. “Votin g no and notextending did not mean that Sares Regiscouldn’t keep negotiating with us. If theywanted to do a deal, th ey could have keptcoming to us. It just [would have] freed upthe property for others who might beinterested in starting to look, or for thecity to put together a request for propos-als.”

The holdup may b e twofold. Sares Regis

representatives have noted the company isconcerned the city might need to finalizethe environmental review of the BelmontVillage Zone b efore the sale can p roceed.

Some councilmembers have notedthey’re hoping to maximize the level of affordable housing on the site and haveyet to be satisfied.

A representative of Sares Regis said thecompany hadn’t yet conferred with staff

after the meeting as of Wednesday after-noon, but is still committed to the proj-ect.

In an interview last month, DrewHudacek, Sares Regis’ chief investmentofficer said the Firehouse Square locationis ideal.

“We lov e the mid-Peninsula and SiliconValley locatio ns. We love transi t-orient-ed, we love downtowns, we’re very com-mitted. We were an infill builder beforeinfill was a buzzword. This location hasall the th ings we look for. It’s a great com-munity and it’s a blight ed site we hope t o[improve],” Hudacek said previously.

He noted the city had options to eitherhave affordable units included within theproject or take less money for the land.

Although the city’s mayor and vicemayor appeared ready to open t he table toother developers, new Councilman DougKim said he voted to giv e the negotiatio ns

one last chance.“I would have thought by now we wouldhave the structure of a deal in place,because these kinds of real estate deals g etdone when both have a win-win. Fordevelopers it ’s making a profit, b ut for thecity, it’s about more. It’s about of coursereturn on t he public’s investment, but it’salso about our policy objectives for thesite,” Kim said, noting objectives for the

site have been s omewhat of a moving tar-get and agreed no one’s at fault. Still, “Isaid last night, this is your final exten-sion, if we can’t figure out if there’s a dealthere in 60 days, th en let’s turn the page.”

Kim added they’re not far off the markand is ho peful th ey’ll find a mutually-ben-eficial agreement.

But wanting to maximize an affordablehousing component on the site appears toremain a major g oal.

“The intent of the city was always to getan inclusionary p roject as I understand it,”Stone said, referring to the sit e being pur-chased with former redevelopment agencyfunds. “I’m in favor of trying to help withthe housing affordabili ty crisis as b est wecan on parcels of land the city owns forredevelopment.”

Kim agreed noting having inclusionaryunits, or affordable residences built withinthe project, is important to addressing theregional problem.

“This whole is sue really is our best sho tto make a statement about what a littlecity on the Peninsula can do to help withour housing crisi s. … We don’t have end-less amounts of land to really have our

housing policies make a huge differenceon where the Peninsula goes with thisissue; we have limited infill si tes to makethis work. So this is by far our best site tomake a statement,” Kim said. “But I thi nkthe council has pretty much said ‘perfec-tion is th e enemy of good.’ … And I hopeSares Regis feels with a little bit morenegotiating, we can finally get somethingdone.”

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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority LeaderHarry Reid is goin g out punching.

Never one to back down from a politicalfight, the five-term Nevada Democrat hasbeen relentlessly pounding Republicansover their insistence that President BarackObama’s successor fill the vacancy on theSupreme Court. Each day of the Senate ses-sion , th e 76-year-old Reid, who is retiring atthe end of his term, stands on the floor and

rails against the GOP, casting them asobstructionists and lackeys of presidentialfront -runner Donald Trump.

“Republicans have not always been thisirrational and vicious,” Reid saidWednesday, calling the GOP the “party of Trump, the caucus of Trump, the conferenceof Trump.”

Republicans, led by Majority LeaderMitch McConnell, R-Ky., remain united.They counter that the American peopleshould decide in November who will choo sethe next justice, especially with primaryvotes already cast in nearly half the states.An Obama pick would tilt the ideologicalbalance of what has been a mostly conserva-tive court for decades, and the GOP basewants none of it.

So no confirmation hearing, no vote, nomeeting with Obama’s pick to replace thelate Justice Anton in Scalia.

“I think it’s very important that we con-tinue to harp on the fact that all we’re askingpeople to do is their job,” Reid told theAssociated Press in an interview in hisSenate o ffice on Tuesday.

The Democrat said he has talked to WhiteHouse Chief of Staff Denis McDonoughabout a possible nominee, but declined todisclose his recommendation.

Reid, a former middleweight boxer andU.S. Capitol police officer, is famous — orinfamous if you talk to Republicans — forbare-knuckles politics. The election-year

fight over the Supreme Court nominee under-scores that the stakes extend beyond thecourt to the presidency and majority con trolof the Senate.

At play is Reid’s own Nevada seat whereDemocrat Catherine Cortez Masto, thestate’s former attorney general and Reid’schoice, li kely will face Republican Rep. JoeHeck in a costly and competitiv e race.

The partisan l ines in the Senate have neverbeen sharper.

“It’s absolutely clear to me that SenateRepublicans stand firmly behind the ideathat the peop le should have a say in th is crit-ical issue,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said it’s notas if Republicans “don’t have time. It’s notas if there aren’t enough calendar days or ses-sion days to do the job. It’s that from the

beginning, they just decided that this wasthe hill that they wanted to die on.”

NASA salvages Mars missionthat should have launched by now

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s nextMars mission is s till alive.

Instead of scrapping the grounded MarsInSight spacecraft, the space agencyannounced Wednesday it’s shooting for a2018 launch. The robotic lander was sup-posed to lift off this month, but ended upsidelined in December by a leak in a keyFrench instrument. Project managers saidthe device should be redesign ed in time.

May 2018 represents the next availablelaunch window. Opportunities to launch toMars arise just every two years, bas ed on th ealignment of Earth and its neighbor.

The InSight spacecraft aims to study theinterior of Mars by drilli ng deep withi n. Thesensors for the French seismometer need tooperate in a vacuum chamber in order tomeasure subtle ground movements. The vac-uum chamber was leaking. The other mainscience instrument, a German heat-flowprobe, was ready to fly. It’s unknown howmuch the two-year delay will cost. NASA’sonly oth er option was to kill the project.

John Grunsfeld, head of NASA’s sciencemission directorate, said the scientificgoals are compelling and the repair plansare sound.

Air Force vet guilty of tryingto join Islamic State group

NEW YORK — A U.S. Air Force veteranwas convicted Wednesday of terrorism

charges for attempting to jo in th e Isl amic Stat egroup and die a martyr,the first verdict frommore than 70 cases the

government has broughtagainst Americansaccused of trying to sup-port the militant group.

An anonymous jury inBrooklyn began deliber-

ations Tuesday afternoon in th e case against48-year-old Tairod Pugh, of Neptune, NewJersey. He was convicted of attempting toprovide material support to terrorists andobstruction of an official proceeding.

“I think he’s sad,” Pugh’s attorney, EricCreizman, said as he left the courthouse. “Ifeel bad for his family.”

“Right now it’s just disappointing,” hesaid of the verdict. “This was an interestingcase in that there was no direct evidence —everything was circumstantial.”Reid rails against GOP

united against ObamaSupreme Court choice

By Tami AbdollahTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The moment a U.S. offi-cial press ed a computer key, dozens of secu-rity ex perts who g athered in an undergroundcontrol room girded themselves for a cyber-attack — a drill meant t o thwart the ki nds of

intrusions that have recently crippledhealth networks and retail giants.The weeklong event run by t he Homeland

Security Department and host ed by the U.S.Secret Service is now a decade old. But offi-cials say t his week’s exercises are becomingmore important as both the government andprivate sector have reeled from breaches of personal data.

More than 1,000 U.S. cybersecurity pro-fessionals are participating in — and test-ing how well they respond to — a mockattack, said Gregory Touhill, a HomelandSecurity Department deputy assis tant secre-tary for cybersecurity protecti on. They’ll beworking together for three days in

Washington and across the nation.“Retail and health care have been in the

headlines — and, frankly, in the crosshairsfor a l ot of criminals ,” Touhill said Tuesday.Household names like Target Corp., TheHome Depot, UCLA Health Systems andAnthem Inc. have all faced recent cyberat-tacks that compromised millions of their

customers’ data.U.S. officials wouldn’t detail the attackscenarios unfolding this week because theysaid it would tip off the drill’s participants.But they said their event has one, overarch-ing scenario, with roughly 1,000 smallerevents — spurred by a phone call, an emailor a news article — th at could be indicatorsof an looming cyberattack.

Suzanne Spaulding, a top HomelandSecurity cyber official, said the “challengeis here and now.” She pointed to a “night-mare” scenario last December, in whichhackers attacked the Ukrainian electricalgrid and cut power to about a quarter-millionpeople.

U.S. cyber pros testing skills inexercise meant to stop attacks

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By Elena BacatorosTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IDOMENI, Greece — After welcominghundreds o f thousands of people in to i tsheartland, Europe seems to be finallyclosing its doors.

The thousands of people massing atGreece’s northern border are incredulousthey won’t be allowed onward to its pros-perous countries, but after a year of dithering European leaders seem resolvednow to keep all but a select few fromgoing any further.

“This is horrible, unbelievable,unbearable. There is war in my country,and they are closing the border,” saidMahmoud Hassan, a 23-year-old Syrian.“Where are we supposed to go? Please if you can do anyth ing — help us. The situ-ation is very, very terrible.”

A relentless rain Wednesday after anovernight thunderstorm added to the mis-ery in the overflowing camp at Idomeni,which now consists of thousands of small camping tents set up in nearbyfields and along railway tracks.

The camp turned into a sodden, muddymess, with refugees huddling in tents andunder ponchos handed out by volunteersto ward off the worst o f the wet and cold.Parents covered their children with what-ever they could, sometimes resorting to

plastic bags. In th e brief intervals in therain, long lines formed in the mud forsandwiches, tea and soup.

A lucky few managed to set up theirtents on the train station platform,whose awning provides some shelter,while others slept in disused train car-riages.

EU and Turkish leaders agreed at a sum-mit Monday to the broad outlines of adeal that would essentially outsourceEurope’s refugee emergency. They saidpeople arriving in Greece having fled waror poverty would be sent back to Turkey

unless they apply for asylum. For everymigrant sent back, the EU would take inone Syrian refugee, thus trying to pre-vent th e need for people to set out on dan-gerous sea journeys, often arranged byunscrupulous smuggl ers.

But Greece has a notoriously slow asy-lum process, and a crippling six-yearfinancial crisis that has left unemploy-ment at about 25 percent. Few of thosestuck in Idomeni could envisage a futurein Greece as a viable optio n.

“Greece is a poo r country, for us and for(its) people,” said 17-year-old AhmedMerza from Syria’s Qamishli, who hadbeen in the camp for eight days. “I don’tknow anythin g. It’s bad news for us, lik ea bomb.”

Shortly after the summit, countries

along the Balkan route decided to allowthrough only people with valid EU visasand nobody has crossed through t he gatein the razor wire-reinforced fence inIdomeni since 6 a.m. Monday.

For the nearly 14,000 people in andaround the camp, the news about the bor-der closures was a crushing blow, withmany just unable to fathom how Europecould turn away peo ple fleein g war. A fewdozen sat o n the railway tracks in p rotest— a frequent occurrence in the camp,where refugees occasionally try to blockthe passage of freight trains to presstheir point.

“We’re not here to stay. We are here topass only,” said Sami Yanes, a 24-year-old information technology student fromthe Syrian capital of Damascus ho ping tocontinue his studies in Germany.

“We are going to keep protesting andkeep doing what we are doing until theykno w we are human being s and we deservesimple human rights,” he said as he saton the tracks in the pouring rain afterseven nights sp ent in the camp.

“This is my path,” he said, indicatingthe railroad leading into Macedonia. “I’mgoing to stay here until my path isopen.”

Europe effectivelyshuts its borders,

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By Foster KlugTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea firedtwo short-range ballistic missiles into thesea on Thursday, South Korea’s militarysaid, a likely show of anger at continuingspringtime war games by rivalsWashington and Seoul and another ratchet-ing up of hostility on the already anxiousKorean Peninsula.

The South Korean Defense Ministry saysthe missiles were fired from NorthHwanghae province, flew about 500 kilo-meters (310 miles) and fell into the wateroff the country’s east coast. They arebelieved to be Scud-type missiles, saidministry spo kesman Moon Sang Gyun.

Such missile firings by t he North are notuncommon when animosity rises here.North Korea hates t he massive annual mil-itary drills staged by Seoul andWashington, calling them invasion prepa-rations. The allies say the drills, which

thi s year are described asthe biggest ever, defen-sive and routine.Pyongyang is alsoangry over tough UnitedNations sanctions fol-lowing i ts recent nucleartest and long-rangerocket l aunch.

The firings come a dayafter North Korea caused

a new stir by publicizing a p urported mock-up of a key part of a nuclear warhead, withleader Kim Jong Un repeating a claim thathis country has developed miniaturizedatomic bombs that can be placed on mis-siles.

The North’s Rodong Sinmun newspapercarried photos on its front page showingKim and nuclear scientists standing b esidewhat outside analysts say appears to be amodel warhead part — a small, silverishglobe with a ballistic missile or a modelballistic missile in the background.

Seoul: North Korea fires short-rangeballistic missiles during war games


WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 in 3 patientswho needs a kidney transplant is especiallyhard to match, and new research suggests apainstaking treatment to help thosepatients tolerate an incompatible organ isworth considering.

More hospitals have begun offering so-called desensitization therapy to help h igh-risk patients who have a willing but non-matching living donor receive an organtheir bodies otherwise would reject. Somespecialty centers have reported success butit wasn’t clear how well the app roach would

work when used widely.

Now an analysis from nearly two dozentransplant centers found patients who tookthat chance had better long-term survivalthan those who st ayed on th e waiting list,whether or not they eventually found amatch from a deceased donor.

“Desensitization is still not for everytransplant center,” said senior author Dr.Dorry Segev of Johns Hopkins University,which helped pioneer incompatible trans-plants. But the findings show “you don’tneed a compatible living donor to make atransplant happen today — you just need aliving donor.”

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By Jon GambrellTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates— Iran test-launched two ballis ticmissiles Wednesday emblazonedwith the phrase “Israel must bewiped out” in Hebrew, Iranian

media reported, in a sho w of powerby the Shiite nation as U.S. VicePresident Joe Biden’s visitedJerusalem.

The new missi le firings were thelatest in a series of tests in recentdays, aimed at demonstrating thatIran will push ahead with its bal-listic program after scaling back-ing its nuclear program under thedeal reached last y ear with th e U.S.and other world powers.

Israel, long an opponent of Iran, offered no comment on thetest, though Biden issued a strongwarning over any possible viola-tion of th e nuclear deal.

“A nuclear-armed Iran is anabsolutely unacceptable threat to

Israel, to th e regio n and the UnitedStates. And I want to reiteratewhich I know people still doubthere. If in fact th ey break the deal,we will act,” he s aid.

Biden’s comments came aftermeeting Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, who stron g-ly o ppos ed the nuclear deal.

The tests, however, don’t vio-

late the accord. The landmark deal,which led to Iran dramaticallyscaling back its nuclear program,

does not include provisionsagainst missile launches.Also, when the nuclear accord

came into effect on Jan. 16, theSecurity Council lifted most U.N.sanctions against Tehran includ-ing a ban it had imposed in 201 0on Iran testing missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads — a banthat likely would have covered

some of the missile fired thisweek. To deal with th e restriction sin the nuclear agreement, the

councill adopted a resolution lastJuly which among other measures“calls on” Iran not to carry outsuch tests.

At the United Nations, there islikely to be a debate about whetherIran is st ill required to abide by th eballistic missile test ban undercouncil resolutions.

Iran says none of its missiles

are designed to carry nuclearweapon s and so the resolutio ns donot apply.

One Security Council diplomatsaid the tests don’t violate thenuclear deal, b ut “there are oblig a-tions on Iran” that stem from theresolution and “they n eed to abi deby those obligations.” he said.Another diplomat acknowledged,“We’re not mounting an argumentthat it’s a binding oblig ation.”

The two diplomats, speaking on

condition of anonymity becausethey were not authorized to speakon the t ests, said the council stillhas to consider the reportedlaunches and if verified determinewhether it is a violation and if sowhat action to take.

Iran state TV trumpeted

Wednesday’s test as officialsboasted that it demonstrated thecountry’s might against lon gtimenemesis Israel.

Video aired on state TV showedthe golden-hued Qadr H missilesbeing fired from a crevice b etweenbrown peaks identified as being i nIran’s eastern Alborz mountainrange. The rockets hit targetssome 1,400 kilometers (870miles) away off Iran’s coast intothe Sea of Oman, state media andIran’s semiofficial Fars newsagency reported.

The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet,which patrols that region,declined to comment on the test.

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of

the Revolutionary Guard’s aero-space divisio n, was quoted as say-ing the test was aimed at showingIsrael that Iran could hit it. Israelis within 1,100 kilometers (660miles) of Iranian territory.

“The 2,000-kilometer (1,240-mile) range of our missiles is toconfront the Zionist regime,”Hajizadeh said.

Iran fires missiles marked with ‘Israel must be wiped out’

By Abdi GuledTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOGADISHU, Somalia —Hoping to capture a high-profile

target, Somali forces hopped off helicopters a couple of miles(kilometers) from an al-Shabab-controlled town, slipped throughthe dark and got into a fierce fire-fight that reportedly killed morethan 10 Islamic extremists, U.S.and Somali officials said.

U.S. forces were serving in anadvisory role and provided thehelicopter transportation for themission, said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman.The U.S. forces accompanied theSomali troops on the mission,but did not “go all th e way to th e

objective,” he said.A Somali intelligence official

told the Associated Press that theperson they wanted to get wasapparently killed during the fight.

“It was a high-profil e target, andchances of capture were chal-lenged by a stiff resist ance by mil-itants guarding the house targetedby th e special forces, which forcedthe commando to resort to the killor capture method,” the officialsaid. He spoke to AP on conditionof anonymity because he was notauthorized to speak to th e press onthe matter.

Another Somali intelligenceofficial prov ided a simil ar accountto AP. The exact target of t he raid,if any, remains unclear.

The spokesman for the U.S.

Africa Command, Col. MarkCheadle, said the U.S. forces gotout of the aircraft but “stayed in asafe area to observe the actions onthe objective.”

He said the U.S. forces did not firetheir weapons during the mission.He said the Somali troops success-fully conducted the mission.

There were no U.S. casualties,Davis said.

More than 10 militants werekilled, said other U.S. officialsWednesday who spoke on condi-tion of anonymity to discuss anoperation that has not beenannounced publicly.

Roughly 50 U.S. special opera-tions troops have been operatingin Somalia on a rotational basisfor the last few years.

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By Bernard CondonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Stocks rose onthe seventh anniversary of thebull market on Wednesday as crudeoil resumed its climb from a 13-

year low.The gains were modest as

investors await key policy deci-sions from Europe’s central bankon Thursday and from the U.S.Federal Reserve next week.Energy companies rebounded frombig drops the day before, gaining1.5 percent.

The stock market has beenclimbing for three weeks asreports on hiring, retail spendingand manufacturing suggest theU.S. economy is strengtheningand that fears that a slowdown inChina would tip the U.S. intorecession are overblown. TheStandard and Poor’s 500 index isup 9 p ercent from its mid-Februarylow.

“People are becoming moreoptimistic and markets are recov-ering,” said Seth Masters, chief investment officer at ABBernstein. The hope is th at “mon-etary authorities are committed todoing what it takes and not derailit.”

The Dow Jones industrial aver-age climbed 36.26 points, or 0.2percent, to 17,000.36. TheNasdaq composite i ncreased 25. 55points, or 0.6 percent, to4,674.38. The S&P 500 climbed10 points, or 0.5 percent, to1,989.26.

The gains were broad, with nineof 10 industry sectors of the S&P500 ris ing. The jump in crude sentseveral energy companies soar-ing. Chesapeake Energy climbed8 percent, Devon Energy rose 7percent and Newfield Exploratio n

rose 6 percent.The S&P 500 has tripled since

bottoming out at 676.53 exactlyseven years ago during the finan-cial crisis. Stocks have beenpushed up by higher corporateearnings, though not in the pastyear, and by the Federal Reserve’sunprecedented efforts to encourageinvestors to take more risk bylowering interest rates on bondsand other safer assets.

The current bull market is thethird-longest of the 11 sinceWorld War II, according toresearch firm S&P Capital IQ.

Chief Investment Officer

Krishna Memani of OppenheimerFunds said he’s optimi stic th e bullmarket will extend its run becausemodest economic growth meanslittle inflation, and no need for theFederal Reserve to move tooquickly to reverse its stimulus

policies.“We believe this will be one of

the longest economic expan-sions, and thus one the longestbull markets, we have experi-enced,” he said. “Easy money st illrules.”

The Federal Reserve meets nextweek, but most investors do notthin k it will raise short-term inter-est rates it controls from nearzero. It raised them for the firsttime in n ine years in December.

At the end of its policy meetingon Thursday, the European Cent ralBank is widely expected toannounce more efforts to stimu-

late the 19-country eurozone.Possible moves include anothercut in the deposit rate for fundsfrom commercial banks to evenfurther below zero. The hope isthat will get banks to stop hold-ing onto their money and lend

more.The ECB also could increase it s

bond-buying program to pumpmore money into the region’seconomy.

Among U.S. st ocks making bigmoves Wednesday, Air TransportServices jumped $1.96, or 17 per-cent, to $13.73 after turning insolid results and saying it willoperate an air transport networkfor Amazon. Pet-food companyBlue Buffalo Pet Products rose$4.19 , or 23 percent, $22 .75 afterposting strong earnings.

Chipotle Mexican Grill fell$18.06, or 3 percent, to $506.63.

The restaurant chain closed aMassachusetts store after a localhealth board said an employeethere tested positive fornorovirus. The agency also foundtwo other suspected cases. Theclosure follows a series of food

scares that sickened customers atits restaurants around the country.The stock is down 23 percent inthe past 12 months.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX andBritain’s FTSE 100 were each up0.3 percent. The CAC-40 inFrance rose 0.5 percent. The threeindexes each fell nearly 1 percentthe day before.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225index lost 0.8 percent while SouthKorea’s Kospi rose 0.3 percent.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped0.1 percent.

Prices for in dustrial and preciousmetals ended mostly lower. Goldslipped $5.50 to $1,257.40 anounce, silver fell two cents to

$15.37 an ounce and coppergained one cent to $2.23 a pound.

In energy trading, a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.79,or 5 percent, to $38.29. Brentcrude, which is used to p rice inter-national oils, gained $1.42, or3.6 percent, to $41.07 a barrel.Wholesale gasoline rose 8 .3 centsto $1.471 a gallon, heating oilrose 3.3 cents to $1.233 a gallonand natural gas rose four cents to$1.75 2 per 1,000 cubic feet.

U.S. government bond pricesfell. The yield on the 10-yearTreasury note rose to 1.88 percentfrom 1.83 percent.

Stocks post slight gains, led by oil and gasDOW JONES INDUSTRIALS

High: 17,048.50

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Close: 17,000.36

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S P 500: 1989.26 +10

NYSE Index: 9,924.82 +56.30

Nasdaq: 4674.38 +25.55

NYSE MKT: 2211.00 +14.40

Russell 2000:

1072.76 +4.89

Wilshire 5000: 20,479.58 +100

10-Yr Bond: 1.89 +0.06Oil (per barrel): 38.30

Gold : 1,253.80

Square revenue topsestimates in 1Q after IPO

SAN FRANCISCO — Square’sstock rose in aftermarket tradingWednesday after the mobile pay-ment servi ce reported greater-than-expected revenue in its first quarteras a p ublicly t raded company.

The San Francisco company s aidits revenue rose to $374. 4 millionin the fourth quarter, about $33million more than analysts hadforecast. Square said it handled$10.2 billion in transactions overthe three-month period, up 47 per-cent from a year ago.

However it continued to losemoney. After dividends paid to pre-ferred shareholders, it lost $80.5million, or 34 cents per share.

Square stock gained 21 cents, or1.8 percent, to $12.24 aftermar-ket.

The stock traded as high as$14.78 on its first day and fell to$8.06 last month.

Obama administrationexpands ‘TechHire’ initiative

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — TheWhite House is adding 15 newcommuniti es to its “TechHire” ini-tiative for getting low-skilledworkers jobs in the tech economy.

The expansion comes a yearafter President Barack Obamaannounced the program and daysbefore he’s scheduled to speak atthe South by Southwest technolo-gy festi val in Austin, Texas.

The initiative pairs privateemployers with cities and states tocreate accelerated training pro-grams such as coding boot camps.

The newest communities i ncludetwo states — Hawaii and Virginia— and 13 cities from Flint,Michigan, to Jackson,Mississippi. No federal money istied to the distinction.

By Justin PrichardTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Newlyreleased video shows the momenta Google self-driving car learnedthe hard way not to tussle with apublic bus.

The collision happened onValentine’s Day, when a Googlevehicle struck the side of a publicbus in the Sili con Valley city o f Mountain View. Footage recordedby cameras on the bus shows aLexus SUV, which Goog le has o ut-fitted with sensors and camerasthat let it drive itself, edging intothe path of the bus that wasrolling by at about 15 mph.

It was the first time in severalyears of testing on public roadsthat a Google s elf-drivin g car pro-totype caused a crash. Google hasblamed other drivers for past colli -sions during testing, but, in afirst, accepted at least partial

responsibility for this crash.The Santa Clara Valley

Transportation Authority releasedthe video and post-crash photosthis week to the Associated Pressunder a public records request.

Though it was a low-speed colli-sion, the impact crumpled theLexus’ front left si de, flattened thetire and tore off the radar Googleinst alled to help t he SUV perceiveits surroundings.

The Lexus had to be towed.Neither the Google employee inthe driver’s seat — who must bethere under California law to takethe wheel in an emergency — northe 16 people on the bus wereinjured.

The transit agency has conclud-ed based on the footage that thebus driver was not responsible,spokeswoman Stacey HendlerRoss said. An independent claimsadjustor has not yet determinedliability, sh e said.

Video shows Google self-driving car hit bus

By Michael Liedtkeand Sarah Skidmore Sell


SAN FRANCISCO — Tax-filingseason is turning into a ni ghtmarefor thousands of employees whosecompanies have been duped byemail fraudsters. A major ph ishi ngscheme has tricked several majorcompanies — among them, themessaging service Snapchat anddisk-drive maker SeagateTechnology — into relinquishingtax documents that exposed theirworkers’ incomes, addresses andSocial Security numbers.

The scam, which involved fake

emails purportedly sent by topcompany officials, convinced thecompanies involved to send out

W-2 tax forms that are ideal foridentity theft. For instance, W-2data can easily be used to filebogus tax returns and claim fraudu-lent refunds.

The embarrassing breakdownshave prompted employers to apol-ogize and offer free credit monit or-ing to employees. Such measures,however, won’t necessarily shieldunwitting victims from theheadaches that typically followidentity theft.

“This mistake was caused byhuman error and lack of vig ilance,and could have been prevented,”

Seagate’s chief financial officer,Dave Morton, wrote in a March 4email to the company’s employ-

ees about the breach.The swindlers behind the taxscam are exploiting human gulli-bility rather than weaknesses incomputer or Internet security.They have targeted company pay-roll and personnel departments, inmany instances with emailsclaiming to be requests from thecompany CEO asking for copiesof worker W-2s.

The schemes are so widespreadthat the IRS sent a March 1 noticealerting employers’ payrolldepartments of the spoofingemails. The agency said the

scheme has so far claimed “sever-al victims,” but declined Tuesdayto disclose how many other

employers had reported releasingW-2s t o unauthorized parties. TheIRS said it’s seen a 400 percentincrease in phishi ng and comput-er malware incidents this tax-fil-ing season.

The federal alert didn’t comesoon enough for Snapchat, whichon Feb. 28 revealed that its pay-roll department had been duped byan email impersonating its CEO,Evan Spiegel. The Los Angelescompany didn’t specify ho w manyemployee W-2s it released.Snapchat didn’t respond torequests for comment Tuesday.

Snapchat, Seagate among companies duped in tax-fraud scam

Business briefs

IS THIS THE FIRST

CRASH FOR A GOOGLE CAR?

No.The Feb.14 crash is the first in which Googlehas acknowledged its car made a mistake thatled to a collision.Google has reported that between September2014 and November, its prototypes drovethemselves about 400,000 miles on city streetsnear its Silicon Valley headquarters withoutcausing a collision.Its fleet has likely driven an additional 100,000miles since then,though the company won’t bespecific. According to Google’s accounting, itscars have been hit nearly a dozen times on thestreets in or around its Mountain Viewheadquarters since road testing began in spring2014.

HOW DID THE CRASH HAPPEN?

The Lexus intended to turn right off a majorboulevard but stopped after detectingsandbags around a storm drain near theintersection, according to an accident reportGoogle filed with the California Department of Motor Vehicles.Photos show two small, black sandbags oneither side of a drain at the curb. The right lanewas wide enough to let some cars turn andothers go straight, but to avoid driving over thesandbags, the Lexus needed to slide to its leftwithin the lane. The bus and several other carsthat drove straight were to the left of the Lexus,in the same lane.

When the light turned green,several cars aheadof the bus passed the SUV.Google has said thatboth the car’s software and the person in thedriver’s seat thought the bus would let the Lexusinto the flow of traffic. The Google employeedid not try to intervene before the crash.“This is a classic example of the negotiationthat’s a normal part of driving — we’re all tryingto predict each other’s movements.In this case,we clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn’t moved there wouldn’t have beena collision,”Google wrote of the incident.WHAT DOES THE VIDEO SHOW?

The footage shows angles from eight onboardcameras.In one clip, passengers gazing out on a sunnyafternoon are jolted to attention by a scraping,

crunching sound and the impac t, which causesseveral hand straps to sway.In another clip, the Lexus RX450 can be seenbouncing off the side of the bus. Photos showa long scratch mark traversing the side of thebus. The car’s radar unit ended up wedged inthe crack where two side passenger doors of the bus join, cracking a glass panel.A camera trained on the driver shows him openhis mouth in surprise, then gesture as if to say,“Why did you just hit my bus?”Damage to the bus was between $2,000 and$3,000, the transit agency said Wednesday.Google would not disclose the cost to fix itscar.

Things to know about the crash

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No one will be surprised to see the top-seed-ed Half Moon Bay boys’ basketball team cruiseto a 60-32 win over No. 16 Lick Wilmerding-SF in the first round of the Northern CaliforniaDivision IV tournament.

The fact of the matter is, however, it was alot tougher win for the Cougars than the finalscore indicated. After playing what coach RichForslund said was his team’s best two games in

the consolation bracket of the Central Coast Sectiontournament, the Cougarsstruggled after a fast startagainst the TigersWednesday night in Half Moon Bay.

“We’re going to have to

play better,” Forslund

said. “The competition is

going to get fiercer.”Half Moon Bay will now host No. 9 Liberty

Ranch-Galt at 6 p.m. Saturday. The Hawksknocked off No. 8 Gridley, 76-65.

Early on, the Cougars looked like that teamthat blasted its way to two straight CCS OpenDivision wins after losing their opener andthey showed why they are the No. 1 seed inNorthern California.

Half Moon Bay simply overwhelmed LickWilmerding in the opening eight minutes.The Tigers had no answer for the Cougars’ 6-7 center Austin Hilton, who feasted on easylayups off razor-sharp passes. They had no

answer for a Cougars team that connected on10 of 12 shots in the opening quarter. Thedefense was playing at a fever pitch with fivesteals and they generally steamrolled theTigers.

When the smoke cleared, Half Moon Bayheld a 22-5 lead at the end of the first quarter.

“We talked about coming out with energy,”Hilton said. “Show why we are the No. 1 seed.”

Hilton, who came into the game averag-ing 16 points p er game, had 12 in the first

Cougars start fast, end strong in Nor Cal opener

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Menlo-Atherton took care of business inthe opening game of the NorthernCalifornia Division I girls’ basketball play-off tournament.

Despite an erratic shooting performance— M-A hit just 31.8 (22 of 69) from thefloor — the No. 4-seed Bears strong-armedNo. 13 Washington for a 56-44 victoryWednesday night at M-A.

With the win, the Bears advance past thepoint of last season’s first-round elimina-tion to North Salinas in the Nor Cal tour-ney. It also avenges M-A’s first-round toWashington back in 2006 — the Eagles’

last victory in the Nor Cal tournament.“It’s big,” M-A head coach Markisha

Coleman said of the victory. “One goalgoing into the season was to get furtherthan last year; that was our first goal any-way. Now we’re advancing on and we’relooking to keep playing well and take themone game at a time.”

Sophomore center Greer Hoyem tabbed adouble-double with 22 points and 13rebounds, but the Bears were far from a one-woman show. Each of M-A’s 13 players onroster got minutes. Starters Ofa Sili (ninepoints) and Megan Sparrow (seven points)were M-A’s other key shoo ters, but senio rguard Annali sa Crowe came off the bench fora six-point outburst, sinking a pair of 3-poin ters in t he thi rd quarter.

Point guard Ilana Baer helped spark a 7-0

run to open the game. She totaled sevenrebounds and three assists throughout, buttotaled four boards and two assists in thefirst quarter alone.

Then after Washington closed it to 7-6,Sili and Sparrow drilled back-to-back 3s togive t he Bears a comfortable margin, whichthey’d enjoy for the rest of the night.Sparrow scored all seven o f her points in thefirst quarter and would finish with ninerebounds th roughout.

“I feel we’ve been coming out slow thelast few games,” Sparrow said. “So one of our goals was to come out hungry and wedid. And we were able to build off that.”

Eagles no issue for M-A

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Menlo-Atherton sophomore center Greer Hoyem posts up on Washington senior Kelly Wangin Wednesday’s Northern California Division I playoff opener at M-A. Hoyem recorded adouble-double with 22 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Bears to a 56-44 victory.

Last weekend, I experienced myfirst, true international sportingevent.

My wife — who you may recall is a bigrugby fan — and I hi t Las Vegas fo r theUSA Sevens International RugbyTournament, part of a series of tourna-ments held around the world during whichteams accumulate points to determine aworld sevens champion.

The seven-a-side game is a scaled-downversion of the more traditional 15-a-side

game, which playstwo, 40-minutehalves.

The sevens game is

built for televisionand is one of the rea-sons why it will bepart of t his summer’sOlympic games inRio. Sevens featurestwo, seven-minutehalves with a two-minute halftime.

Games are over in less than 20 minutes,which allows for multiple games playedduring the day.

My wife and I attended the final matchesof pool play and the beginning of theknock-out phase on Saturday and thechampionship rounds Sunday. We spentabout a total of 12 hours at Sam BoydStadium and watched matches from 10:30a.m. to roughly 5 p.m.

And we could have stayed longer. Butsix hours of anything is long enough inmy book.

And this was a true, international tour-nament. None of that nonsense you seewhen global soccer teams make the roundsof the United States during their offsea-son, participating in these pseudo “tour-naments” during which the squad’s B-teamis trotted out to disappointed fans.

No, the USA Sevens InternationalRugby Tournament featured the 16 bestsevens teams in the world — includingTeam USA, which many experts believecan contend for a medal in Rio.

See M-A, Page 14

Living it up

in Las Vegas

See LOUNGE, Page 15

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

A controversial call snatched akey run away from Terra Nova, andMenlo School was able to capital-ize for a 2-1 win in a marathon 10-inning non-league baseball gameWednesday at Menlo.

Tied 1-1 in the top eighthinning, Terra Nova (2-1 overall)appeared to take the lead whenNate Gordon cross ed the plate on a

long fly ball off the bat of KobeChristo . But Gordon was called outon appeal for leaving third basetoo early. Two innings later,Menlo (5-1) walked off with thewin on an RBI by RJ Babiera todrive home Jared Lucian from thirdbase with the game-winner.

“You never want to blame any-thing on the umpire, but for me, Ithought I tagged up for sure,”Gordon said. “The outfielder wasrunning back … so I knew there

was no way for hi m to get me tag-ging up.”

It was a strange p lay all th e wayaround. With th e bases loaded andone out, Christo lifted a deep flyball to left field, but the runner atsecond base, Jacob Braslaw, wasalmost all the way to third whenthe ball was caught by Menlo leftfielder Willie Brazil; and in scram-bling to get back to second base,Menlo had a clear shot to doubleup Braslaw, which would have

negated the go-ahead run. Brazil’sthrow, however, was off line, andthe swipe tag by the second base-man Lucian was dropped, allowingBraslaw to sneak back in by theskin of his battling gloves.

But the Knights appealed theplay at t hird base immediately, andthe home plate umpire called himout, causing Terra Nova third basecoach Ruben Anchondo and first-

Menlo outlasts Terra Nova in non-league thriller

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Menlo’s Jared Lucian ties the score at1 in the fourth with an RBI double.

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Stanford men one anddone in Pac-12 tourney

LAS VEGAS — Dejounte Murray scored 25points, Marquese Chriss had 18 and 10rebounds, and Washington routed Stanford 91-68 Wednesday in the opening game of the Pac-12 tournament.

Washington (18-13) entered the Pac-12 tour-nament hoping boost its slim NCAATournament chances. The eighth-seededHuskies got off to a strong start againstStanford, building a 17-point lead in the game’sfirst six minutes.

Washington continued to pour it on after thatopening burst, shooting 50 percent to earn aspot in Thursday’s second round against top-seeded Oregon.

Stanford (15-15) stumbled through the regu-lar season and fell flat in its lone postseasongame, potentially putting coach JohnnyDawkins’ job in jeopardy.

Dorian Pickens had 17 points to lead theCardinal, who were 3 of 21 (14 percent) from 3-point range.

USF fires Rex Walters

after eight seasonsSAN FRANCISCO — University of San

Francisco men’s basketball coach Rex Waltershas been fired after eight seasons.

Athletic director Scott Sidwell made theannouncement Wednesday.

Walters went 127-127 with a 63-65 record inthe West Coast Conference. The Dons had win-ning seasons three times during his tenure, withthe most successful finish being 21-12 in2013-14 with an NIT bid as Walters won WCCCoach of the Year.

USF was 15-15 this season and 8-10 in theWCC for fifth place. The Dons lost in the WCCtournament quarterfinals.

Basketball briefs

By Josh Dubow


ALAMEDA — The Oakland Raiders havefilled another hole in free agency by agree-ing to a four-year contract with formerSeattle pass rusher Bruce Irvin.

Irvin confirmed he was leaving the

Seahawks to join the Raiders on hisInstagram account Wednesday. He thankedthe fans in Seattle, management and histeammates, saying they will always be con-nected for winning t he Super Bowl in 2014 .He added he is excited for a new chapter inhis career and hopes to bring a title toOakland.

Irvin is the second big-money free agentto agree to a deal with the Raiders in freeagency, inking a contract worth a reported$39 mil lion . Oakland had previously agreedto a five-year deal worth up to $60 million

with offensive linemanKelechi Osemele.

With plenty of moneyto spend this offseason,Raiders general managerReggie McKenzie islooking to add the finalpieces to make Oakland aplayoff team after miss-

ing the postseason for13 straight years.

One of those holes was at pass rusher to jo in Khalil Mack, who had 15 sacks lastseason. With Justin Tuck retired and AldonSmith suspended until November, theRaiders went after a player very familiar todefensiv e coordinator Ken Norton Jr.

Irvin was a first-round pick by Seattle in201 2 and Norton was on the Seahawks staff for Irvin’s first three seasons. Irvin had 22sacks in four years, in cluding 5 1 /2 last sea-

son. Irvin is also versatile enough to bestrong ag ainst th e run and play in coverage.

But the Raiders will be counting on himto improve a pass rush that relied too heav-ily on Mack last season. No one else onOakland had more than four sacks.

After winning just 11 games the first

three years under McKenzie’s leadership,the Raiders went 7-9 last s eason under first-year coach Jack Del Rio. They are hopefulof being a contender in the AFC West in2016 because of a young core led by DerekCarr, Mack and receiver Amari Cooper.

The other posit ions the Raiders are target-ing in free agency are the secondary to finda replacement for retired safety CharlesWoodson, and a starting cornerback to pairwith David Amerson; a runnin g back t o pairwith Latavius Murray; another offensivelineman; and possibly a middle linebacker.

Raiders reach deal with pass rusher Irvin

By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA CLARA — Free agen t n ose tackl eIan Williams has reached a new five-yeardeal to remain with t he San Francisco 49 ers,a person with direct knowledge of the agree-ment said Wednesday.

The person sp oke to The Associated Presson condition of anonymity at the start of the NFL’s new calendar year because thecontract hadn’t been announced.

Williams has emerged as an importantmember in the middle of San Francisco’sonce-stout defense, which lost linebackerPatrick Willi s to retirement last March, fol -

lowed by Chris Borlandand veteran defensive endJustin Smith. AldonSmith also was released,then joined the OaklandRaiders before being hitwith a yearlong suspen-sion.

The 26-year-oldWilliams had 65 tackles,a sack and a forced fum-

ble while startin g all 16 games last year dur-ing the 49ers’ 5-11 season. San Franciscomissed the playoffs for the second straightseason and first-year coach Jim Tomsulawas fired, replaced by Chip Kelly inJanuary.

Williams returned from two different dev-astating injuries to contribute to the 49erslast season for an entire year.

He began 2013 as starting nose tackle,then sustained a season-ending lower leginjury in a Week 2 loss that year on a cutblock by Seattle right guard J.R. Sweezy.Williams underwent four surgeries near theankle— havin g screws and plates put in andthen removed — and began the 2014 train-ing camp on the physically unable to per-form list following an offseason setback.

He broke his leg in a Week 10 game dur-ing the 2014 season and wound up endingon injured reserve for the second straightyear.

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OAKLAND — Stephen Curry made a zippycrossover to shed his defender then bankedin a 5 5-footer at the h alftime buzzer, and theGolden State Warriors extended their recordregular-season home winning streak to 46by beating the Utah Jazz 115-94 onWednesday night.

Klay Thompson scored 23 points whileCurry wound up with 12 points and 10assists on a quiet night in which he strug-gled to find his stroke early. DraymondGreen added 17 p oints , seven rebounds andfive assists as Golden State (57-6) improvedto 28 -0 at Oracle Arena this s eason.

Curry is 4 for 11 on shots from 40-plus

feet (36.4 percent) thisseason and 13 of 27(48.1) from 30 feet andbeyond. He missed hisfirst five shots and four3s b ut dished out six first-quarter assists.

Trey Burke led the Jazzwith 18 points off thebench, while RudyGobert had 15 rebounds.

Curry hit a 3 for his first points 3:12before halftime to avoid his first scorelesshalf since Nov. 23, 2012, at Denver. Currythen let it fly from beyond half court as theclock expi red for yet anoth er jaw-droppin g 3

for a 52-41 lead at the break, taki ng off in anall-out sprint for t he tunnel without celebrat-ing as his teammates collectively threwtheir arms in the air in admiration and awe.

Curry was whistled for a technical late inthe th ird after what he th ought was a chargeagainst Joe Ingles got called a block.

Marreese Speights scored seven of hi s 16poin ts in the second quarter to provide a lift

off the bench. Much of the s econd team con-tributed to an 11-2 run and locked down ondefense before Curry returned 4:47 beforehalftime.

Leandro Barbosa added 13 points. AndreIguodala, the NBA Finals MVP, returned toplay 22 min utes after missing th e two previ-ous games and three of the last four withtightness in his left hamstring. His absencehad kept the Warriors from consistently

being able to use their smaller lineup.

Curry has 304 3-pointers after becomingthe first player in NBA hist ory with 300 i n aseason Monday night agains t the Magic. Heand Thompson have combined to make 5003s for a sec

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