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2 ONEWS MARINIJ.COM DROUGHT TODAY IN HISTORY Brown defends excluding farms from water limits aim at "senior water rights" that allow some farms to buy water at a much lower cost than others. "Some people have a right to more water than others. That's historic. That's built into the legal framework of California," he said. "If things continue at this level, that's probably going to be examined, but as it is, we do live with a somewhat archaic water law situation." Distributed by Tribune News Service water user in the state.

Jonas Minton, water policy adviser for the Planning and Conservation League, called the government response "behind the curve." Minton said California should restrict groundwater pumping and plantings of thirsty new crops. Other water experts, however, counter that farms have already been hit by severe cutbacks due to the drought. Brown defended the need to keep water flowing to farmers, but he took "If you don't want to produce any food and import it from some other place, of course you could do that," Brown said. Brown announced the first mandatory drought restrictions in California history on Wednesday, ordering cities and towns across the state to slash their water use by 25. Most of the plan focused on urban uses such as lawns, golf courses and parks.

Critics of the plan argue it is ineffective to largely ignore agriculture the biggest and trees. "Farmworkers who are at the very low end 1 1" 1 i pfn. here are out Brown of work," Brown said. "There are people in agriculture areas that are really suffering." The governor also argued that shutting off water allocations was unnecessary and would displace "hundreds of thousands of people." with accusations including, "MURRDEPvEPv sic RAPIST" The graffiti accusations appeared to be directed at a man who does not live there. "I've lived in this house 28 years and no (man by that name) has ever lived on our property or the property below us, so she has got a mistaken house," Holt said.

Sheriff's deputies identified the man and verified that he was safe. Pittman said there have I The United States launched Intelsat also known as the "Early Bird" communications satellite, into geosynchronous orbit. 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York. 1865 In the closing days of the Civil War, Union forces led by Lt. Gen.

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Actress Eliza Coupe is 34. Actor Bret Harrison is 33. Actor Charlie McDermott is 25. Star report Matriarch of circus family dies at 87 Jenny Wallenda, 87, the matriarch of the famous family of high-flying circus performers, died late Saturday at her home in Sarasota, Florida, according to family members. Wallenda's nephew, Rick Wallenda, said his aunt died following a lengthy illness.

"She had a great life in entertainment, a very rewarding and rich life," he said. Wallenda was the oldest daughter of high wire walker Karl Wallenda and grandmother of daredevil performer Nik Wallenda. Jenny Wallenda's husband, Richard Faughnan, died in 1962when a human pyramid collapsed. Karl Wallenda fell to his death in 1978. Bay Area News Group A Marin Municipal Water District ecologist examines the bark Lagunitas.

The tree was killed by Sudden Oak Death. By Emily Alpert Reyes The Los Angeles Times In a nationally televised interview Sunday, California Gov. Jerry Brown defended his decision to largely target urban areas rather than agricultural users with his historic order to curb water use. During an appearance on the ABC news program "This Week," Brown told host Martha Raddatz that farmers had already fallowed "hundreds of thousands of acres of land" and pulled up vines Fire FROM PAGE 1 der a small boat capsized in the surf off Dillon Beach. "Groneman detained the woman until deputies arrived," Pittman said.

Christine Holt, who lives next door, was awakened by screaming from the fight around 9 a.m., ran outside and discovered her mailboxes and driveway covered in red paint Disease FROM PAGE 1 tan oak, coast live oak, California black oak, Shreve's oak and canyon live oak trees in California. It is the primary cause of tree mortality in coastal California, with more than 3 million trees having died in 15 counties, including Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Solano since its discovery, according to the California Oak Mortality Task Force. The disease pathogen Phytophthora ramorum "is a moisture-loving organism that tends to be more active in the fog belt," said project spokeswoman Katie Harrell. Early detection by volunteers throughout Northern California is essential for containment, and possibly local eradication of the pathogen, said Matteo Gar-belotto, a forest pathologist with the University of California at Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory and one of the Branson FROM PAGE 1 to make the bail amount, which was $75,000, but after five days prosecutors agreed to release her on her own recognizance. Vaccine FROM PAGE 1 would repeal the state's personal belief exemption and require that only children who have been immunized for diseases such as measles and whooping cough be admitted to a school in California.

The legislation would also require schools to notify parents of immunizations rates at their children's schools. The Reed Union School District in Tiburon is among the entities backing the legislation. It did so at the urging of leukemia survivor Rhett Krawitt, 7, and his family, because his health depends on herd immunity since he can't be immunized himself. The nine-member Senate Health Committee is only the first legislative panel required to vote on the bill. If it passes there, it must make its way in the coming weeks through the Senate education, judiciary and appropriations committees, then wind its way through committees in the state Assembly.

Ultimately it must clear both Democratic-controlled chambers and be signed by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. But on this issue, that's no guarantee the bill will pass, said Bill Whalen, a top aide to former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and now a fellow at Stanford's At that time, the resident called the sheriff's department and the woman was taken to a mental health facility for counseling. "She is obsessed with the house.

We're trying to figure out what this obsession is," Pittman said. "The other part is that she has a fixation for this fellow and we're trying to determine exactly what that originates from." No injuries were reported during the incident. The estimated property FRANKIE FROST IJ ARCHIVES on a fallen oak at Lake fected." In 2014, a survey of 172 trees in Marin showed about 12 percent of the trees had symptoms of the disease. Of the 24 trees sampled, 21 tested positive for the disease, according to the map. ership from the University of Pennsylvania.

Price resigned his position on Oct. 6 after news organizations began making inquiries about his arrest. Damon Kerby, former head of Mark Day School in San Rafael, has been interim headmaster since who are either too young or unable to receive vaccines because of a health condition. As of late March, 178 cases had been reported in the U.S. by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since the December outbreak began.

State health officials say if no new cases are reported by April 17, the outbreak will be considered over. 'Full-scale assault' Critics of Pan's bill say it's important to put the outbreak into perspective. "We ought not let a handful of measles cases at Disneyland turn into a full-scale assault on civil and human rights in America," Brian Stenzler, president of the California Chiropractic Association, wrote in a letter to senators on the health committee. Stenzler's group is one of many opponents, from individual parents to groups like the California-based Million Mamas Movement, lining up against the legislation. Last month, Stenzler said his members met with 112 of the state's 120 legislators or their staff to discuss their opposition to SB 277.

He emphasized that his group is not anti-vaccine some members, he said, have vaccinated their children. But, he added, the association does not believe vaccines are 100 percent safe, so "if there is risk, there must be choices." been several arson reports in the neighborhood over the past four or five days, and in one instance, a jar or flammable liquid was left intentionally left near some dry vegetation. "The sheriff's office has had contact with the suspect in April 2014," Pittman said. "The contact was with regard to the same house she tried to set on fire today. The resident in 2014 answered a knock to find the suspect at the door asking to move into the house." be digitized so it can be viewed using a free smart-phone application.

"We simply couldn't generate the necessary people power without them," Garbelotto said. "The app can be used to determine the risk for an oak to be in Newman School in New Orleans, the Abington Friends School in Philadelphia and Cambridge Friends School in Massachusetts. Price holds a master's degree in educational administration from Columbia University and a doctorate in educational lead optimistic. "I have confidence that when my colleagues are presented with the science and the truth about why we need to stop preventable diseases and protect every student's right to a safe school, SB 277 will pass," he said. California is one of 20 states that allow exemptions based on parents' personal beliefs.

In Missouri, the personal belief exemption applies only to day care, preschool and nursery school. Pan convinced his colleagues to pass a law in 2012 that required parents to meet with a medical professional and attest that they had discussed the risks of not vaccinating their child before they could opt out. But droves of parents are still taking advantage of California's exemption. In 2000, fewer than 0.77 percent of California kinder-gartners had vaccination exemptions. By 2014, the rate had more than tripled to 2.5 percent, or 1 in every 40 children.

Fifty-seven of the 134 people who contracted measles in California during the recent outbreak were not vaccinated, while another 25 people had had at least one dose of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, state health officials reported. Records were unavailable for other vaccinations. Health experts say such outbreaks endanger people damage from the fire was not available. Pittman said it was confined to a wall about 20 by 15 feet on the side of the carport. A team of investigators from the Marin County Sheriff's Office and the Marin County Fire Department were on the scene collecting evidence Sunday afternoon.

"The poor thing was deranged," Holt said. "I feel very badly for her, but thank God nothing worse happened." California bay laurel leaf infections generally precede oak and tanoak outbreaks, and volunteers will be trained to identify and collect symptomatic bay leaves and record sample locations during the training. Timely detection of the disease on bay laurel leaves is crucial, researchers say, as the risk of infection is highest if infected bay trees are within 200 yards of oaks. "We have to think of an infected bay laurel as an infected mosquito carrying an infectious disease like malaria," Garbelotto said. New volunteers are encouraged to bring their iPhone or Android smart-phones to upload the free "SODmap mobile" app, which will help fill in distribution maps of the disease.

Information about the app can be found at www. sodblitz The Bay Area News Group contributed to this report. Follow Megan Hansen's blog at http: blogs.marinij.com bureaucratsandbaking. October, but he is leaving in June. Two other candidates who applied to be interim headmaster next year met with parents on March 24 and 27.

A search committee is recruiting a permanent replacement to start in July 2016. His arguments will be bolstered when Kennedy brings his skepticism about vaccines to a Commonwealth Club event Tuesday in San Francisco and then the state Capitol on Wednesday. Kennedy co-wrote a book about the dangers of thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative in some vaccines, which he alleges was linked to autism, a belief that has been widely discredited by the CDC and multiple scientific studies. But as a precaution, the Food and Drug Administration in 1999 recommended removing thimerosal from vaccines routinely given to infants. Dorit Reiss, a professor and vaccine law expert at UC San Francisco's Hastings College of the Law and a mother who supports the bill said courts have established the right of a state to compel individuals to receive a vaccination.

They have also upheld local government mandates that require vaccinations as a prerequisite for enrolling in school. And unlike Oregon and Washington, where legislation failed, Reiss believes one major factor is different here: "California was the place where the measles outbreak started." Contact Tracy Seipel at tseipel mercurynews. com or 408 920-5343 and follow her at Twitter.com taseipel. foremost experts on sudden oak death. In 2008, Garbelotto began enlisting the help of volunteers to survey trees and collect samples in their locales.

He's asking people to volunteer to help out again. Their findings will Hall has pleaded not guilty and her case remains unresolved. A status conference is set for May 5. Price moved to Marin in 2007 to take the job at Branson, which has 320 students and annual tuition of $39,475. Previously, he was head of the Isidore Hoover Institution.

"People think this is about people who are anti-science and not trusting of the government when in fact if you look at a map of California as to where the vaccine rates are the lowest, they're not in the Central Valley or Orange County, they're in places like Marin County and Santa Monica," both Democratic strongholds. An informal survey of Senate Health Committee members by this newspaper found that three will vote yes, one is "leaning yes," one will vote no and the other four are undecided. The debate on the bill comes at a time when the controversial issue that erupted across the country after a December measles outbreak in Disneyland has all but disappeared from the headlines. In the days leading up to Wednesday's hearing, the chorus of opponents has been growing louder in the offices of the nine senators on the health committee. They say they are being flooded with emails, letters and calls appealing to them to kill the bill.

Among the critics expected in Sacramento this week Robert F. Kennedy whose crusade that questions the safety of vaccines helped doom legislative efforts in Oregon. 'SB 277 will pass' Pan, a Sacramento Democrat, said he is cautiously LOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS Daily 3 Afternoon: 0, 9, 3 Daily 3 Evening: 2, 3, 4 Daily 4: 2, 3, 1, 1 Fantasy 5: 9, 15, 17, 33, 39 DAILY DERBY 1st: 6, Whirl Win 2nd: 10, Solid Gold 3rd: 5, California Classic Race time: 1:44.86 SUPER LOTTO PLUS Saturday's drawing: 1, 4, 20, 27, 36 Mega number: 15 Saturday's jackpot: $23 million MEGA MILLIONS Friday's drawing: 10, 36, 47, 63, 74 Mega Number: 2 Tuesday's estimated jackpot: $30 million POWERBALL Saturday's drawing: 33, 39, 40, 41, 54 Powerball: 28 Saturday's jackpot: $60 million.

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