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    Thursday • Aug. 20, 2015 • Vol XVI, Edition 3

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    By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    A convicted felon arrested lastmonth for carrying a loadedfirearm outside the gates of Disneyland was also arrested threedays later at his home in South SanFrancisco with a loaded Colt .45revolver, according to the SanMateo County District Attorney’sOffice.

    Percival Agular Agoncillo Jr.,44, was arrested July 9 byAnaheim police after visitors atDisneyland notified security thathe may be in possession of aweapon.

    Agoncillo, who goes by Percy,posted $22,000 bail and is due

    back in anOrange Countycourt for ana r r a i g n m e n tAug. 27.

    South SanF r a n c i s c opolice, howev-er, conducted ap r o b a t i o nsearch of A g o n c i l l o ’ s

    home July 12 after learning of hisarrest at Disneyland, DistrictAttorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

    During the search, police sus-pected that Agoncillo was underthe influence of drugs and found a

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    PercivalAgoncillo

    By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    The Peninsula Humane Societyis seeking the public’s help inbringing charges against aBurlingame dog sitter who wasallegedly caught on camera abus-ing an animal.

    A resident witnessed a n eighbo r,

    who runs a dog sitting and board-ing business out of her home nearBurlingame High School, jerk acowering dog up by the neck, s lamthe small dog to the ground andthen slap it multiple times while itwas pinned to the ground, accord-ing to PHS spokesman ScottDelucchi.

    The neighbor filmed the inci-

    dent from a cellphone July 30 andturned it ov er to th e PHS, which isnow seeking help in locating theanimal. This was not the first timethe PHS has received complaintsabout the woman, but it is the firsttime the local nonprofit hasobtained evidence it now believeswill allow prosecutors to filecharges, Delucchi said.

    “We’re pretty confident thatfrom what we’ve seen in th e video,that the District Attorney’s Officehas something they can pursue,”Delucchi said. “But the big ques-tion is, where is that dog? Andthat’s a key part of what we need togive to the District Attorney’sOffice. The dog could be dead, thedog could have a broken bone, the

    dog could be fine, we just don’tknow.”

    Five days after receiving thevideo and confirming it was thebusiness owner, PHS investiga-tors went to her residence andseized 11 dogs, as they were fear-ful for the animals’ health and

    Video shows allegedly abusive dog sitterPeninsula Humane Society seeking help in identifying dog believed to be abused

    By Janie HarTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SAN FRANCISCO — Sales of California homes remained robustin July, with the number of housesand condos sold hitting a nine-year high for the second month ina row, a research firm reportedWednesday.

    CoreLogic Inc. reported an esti-mated 46,065 new and existingsingle-family homes sold inCalifornia in July.

    Supplies, however, remainedthin in July. The CaliforniaAssociation of Realtors onTuesday reported a 3. 3-month sup-ply of single-family homes forsale, below a normal supply of five to seven months.

    There was only a two-monthsupply in the San Francisco BayArea, where sales in t he noto rious-

    ly limited San Francisco and SanMateo markets actually decreased

    California home sales remainrobust, hold at nine-year high

    By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Campuses throughout theHillsborough City ElementarySchool District are safer places forstudents, staff and members of th ecommunity, thanks largely to thecommitment of one hard-workingmom.

    Automated external defibrilla-tors were installed at all districtschools during the summer break,due to the dedication of districtparent Erica Lyon s.

    Lyons, who has two children

    enrolled in the district, said shewas compelled to get the defibril-lators installed after the devicehelped save the life of a family

    member whosuffered a sud-den cardiacarrest last fall.

    Her teenagenephew was at aSan Diego StateUniversity bas-ketball gamewhen a previ-ously undiag-

    nosed medical condition sponta-neously caused a cardiac arrest,which could have cost h im his l ife,if not for Lyons’ mother startingCPR until emergency response

    workers could help resuscitate hi mwith a defibrill ator.

    Lyons said the immediate avail-ability of the device is one of the

    main reasons her nephew is stillalive, and wants the same accessfor her children and their class-mates in Hillsborough.

    “If our family can help saveanother,” she said. “Then it’s allworth it. ”

    In what became her quest tomake the devices available to dis-trict students, Lyons turned toSuperintendent Anthony Ranii,who eventually succumbed to herrelentlessness and adopted theinstallation as one of the district’stargets for the annual fundraisingcampaign b y t he education founda-

    tion.Through the generosity of 

    Mom makes schools heart safeHillsborough resident gets emergency response devices installed

     AUSTIN WALSH/ DAILY JOURNAL

    Ami Antonio, a teacher in the Hillsborough City Elementary School District, administers CPR to a dummy duringa training class for district staff held Wednesday, Aug. 19

    Erica Lyons

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    Three arrested after searchingNYC sewer system for valuables

    NEW YORK — Police say three menhoping to find discarded valuables inNew York City’s hot and putrid sewersys tem have been arrested — after com-ing out empty-handed.

    Two of t hem were nabbed after emerg-ing from a manhole in Brooklyn’s EastFlatbush neighborhood Thursday.

    Police say the third suspect, a part-time employee with the city

    Department of EnvironmentalProtection, was accused of uncoveringthe manhole to l et the two inside.

    Police say Marquise Evans toldauthorities he let David Hannibal andDamion Nieves, both of Brooklyn,into the sewers to search for discardedmerchandise like jewelry.

    All three were charged with criminaltrespassing. Evans was suspended andfaces additional charges of criminalfacilitation and reckless endanger-ment.

    Authorities say the men surfaced afterseveral hours crawling through thesewers.

    It wasn’t clear if they had lawyerswho could comment on their behalf.

    Robbers with machete run whenstore cashier pulls out swordPITTSBURGH — Two ninja-clad

    teens armed with a machete and expect-ing an easy robbery at a Pittsburgh

    convenience store got quite a shockwhen a cashier pulled out a sword andstarted chasing them.

    Surveillance video shows the teensentering Perry Market on Friday nig ht.One goes behind the counter with hismachete and demands money.

    But cashier Jewad Hayih was pre-pared, p ulling out a sword to knock th esmaller weapon out of one teen’s hand.A customer grabbed the second suspect,but he broke free and both teens ranaway.

    The suspects remained at largeTuesday.

    Idaho replaces mile marker 420with 419.9 to thwart stoners

    BOISE, Idaho — If you’re lookin g formilepost 420, you won’t find it inIdaho.

    Idaho transportation officials say t hemile marker has been replaced with419.9 signs to curb thieves eager toown a number associated with marijua-na enthusiasts.

    Turns out, Idaho isn’t alone in thisproblem. States like Washington andColorado have also replaced 420 si gnswith 419.9 after consistently havingto replace them after thefts b y supposed

    sticky-fingered stoners.Adam Rush of the IdahoTransportation Department says offi-cials have replaced the old sign alongU.S. Highway 95 with “MILE 419.9,”

     just south o f Coeur d’Alene.

    Rush added that this is the only 420sign the department has replaced inIdaho, a state kn own for its strict anti-marijuana laws despite being nearlysurrounded by states with relaxed potregulations.

    Most highways in the country don’tcover more than 400 mil es. For exam-ple, Oregon has been spared the spikein sign thefts due to having no high-ways long enough to reach past a 400milepost, even though it recentlylegali zed marijuana.

    “Having a s ign removed from a high -way is pretty rare,” Rush said. “InIdaho, people will shoot at them orwrite on them before stealing themcompletely. We spend more time mend-ing signs than replacing them.”

    Rush said that the department didn’twant to leave the milepost emptybecause the signs can be valuable fordrivers tracking their journey.

    The number “420” has long beenassociated with marijuana, though itsorigins as a shorthand for pot aremurky.

    Washington has two highways longenough to have 420 mileposts thathave both been plagued by thievessnatching the sign over the years, saidBarbara LaBoe, spokeswoman for the

    Washington State Department of Transportation. That all stopped threeyears ago — the same time voterslegalized pot — when officials replacedone of the signs with 419.9 alongHighway 20 near the Idaho border.

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    During World War II, British PrimeMinister Winston Churchill paid trib-

    ute to the Royal Air Force before theHouse of Commons, saying, “Neverin the field of human conflict was so

    much owed by so many to so few.” Exiled Communist revo-lutionary Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Coyoacan,Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a Spanish Communist agentworking at the behest of Josef Stalin.

    “Justice is conscience,not a personal conscience but the

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    In 1833 , Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the UnitedStates, was born in North Bend, Ohio.In 1866 , President Andrew Johns on formally declared theCivil War over, months after fighting had stopped.In 1882 ,  Tchaikov sky’s “18 12 Overture” had its premierein Moscow.In 1910 , a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 peopleand burning some 3 million acres.In 1914 , German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, dur-ing World War I.

    In 1953,   the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it hadtested a hydrogen bomb.In 1964 ,   President Lyndon B. Johnson signed theEconomic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-pover-ty measure.In 1968 , the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nationsbegan invading Czechoslovakia to crush the “PragueSpring” liberalization drive.In 1972,   the Wattstax concert took place at the LosAngeles Memorial Colis eum.In 1977 , the U.S. launched Voyager 2 , an unmanned space-craft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record contain-ing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music andsounds of nature.In 1989,  entertainment executive Jose Menendez and hiswife, Kitty, were shot to death in their Beverly Hills man-sion b y their sons , Lyle and Erik.

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    3Thursday • Aug. 20, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCAL

    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO

    Burglary . A woman noticed that some of herclothing and jewelry were missing from herroom at the Travelodge Hotel on South AirportBoulevard before 4:43 p.m. Monday, August10.Theft. A man came home to find $3, 000 miss-ing from his house on Orange Avenue before9:08 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10.Accident. A car veered onto th e sidewalk andhit a cyclist who left the scene uninjured onAirport Boulevard and Grand Avenue before 9p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4 .Suspicious circumstances. A group of men were shooting a BB gun on LongfordAvenue before 8:5 4 p .m. Tuesday, Aug. 4.

    MILLBRAEBurglary . An unknown person smashed avehicle’s window and stole items valued atapproximately $2,370 on the 500 block of Guadalupe Canyon Parkway before 7:15 p.m.Monday, Aug. 10.Stolen property. A man was cited and laterreleased when he was found to be in posses-sion of stolen property and a concealedfirearm on the 100 block of Old BayshoreHighway before 10:29 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10.Hit-and-run. An unknown person hi t a vehi-cle and left without providing any informa-tion on the 500 block of El Camino Realbefore 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.

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    Who borrows a cat?A woman accused her friend of killingher cat after the friend borrowed the catand refused to return it on Linden Avenuein South San Francisco before 10:35p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4.

    By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Officials gave the green light to replac-ing an existing sign with a digital bill-board which will advertise to drivers onthe stretch of Highway 101 throughMillbrae.

    The Millbrae City Council unanimouslyapproved Tuesday, Aug. 18, installing adigital billboard on a piece of city-ownedproperty east of th e highway where a signcurrently stands advertising the city’shotel in dustry.

    Under the approval, advertising compa-ny Outfront Media will pay Millbrae near-ly $5 million over the next 20 years tocontinuously scroll eight second ads allday on a 14-foot tall and 48-foot lon g LEDscreen.

    The company has agreed to pay a$100,000 signing bonus, on top of  $200,000 annually for the first five yearsof the agreement, with a $25,000 escala-

    tion every five years, until eventuallyreaching $300,000 per year for any addi-tional time beyond 20 years. Ultimately,the company has promised to pay $4.85million over the life of the agreement.

    A clause in th e contract also guaranteesOutfront must make additional paymentsto Mill brae if the lease agreement amountsto less than 35 percent of the media com-pany’s gross revenue for the year, and arepresentative from the company said heexpects that t o be a lik ely occurrence.

    “The sig n sh ould generate real good rev-enue for the city.” said Jeff McCuen, realestate manager with Outfront Media.

    The billboard will replace the hotel s ignsouth of the Millbrae Avenue exit fromHighway 101, near the Burlingame border,

    but will feature lit advertisements embed-ded in the 58-foot pole holding the digitalscreen promoting places to stay overnightin Millb rae. The current hotel s ign will b emoved north and mounted on the city’swastewater treatment facilit y.

    Before granting approval, the councilbandied whether there should be spacecarved out on the p ole for businesses ot herthan hotels, but ultimately opted againstthe decision.

    Much of the conv ersation from officialscirculated over whether there would beopportunities for the city to advertisecommunity events on the billboard, andhow much t ime could be set aside.

    Council man Wayne Lee said he wanted toamend the agreement with Outfront guar-

    anteeing the city would be able to haveaccess to a certain amount of time eachyear to run its own advertisements, priorto signing t he lease.

    “We want some meaningful time forevents,” he said.

    But the rest of the council preferred toapprove th e agreement with an eye towardstaying in communication with represen-tatives from Outfront, under the assump-tion officials would be noti fied when th erewould be vacancy availabl e for city use.

    McCuen said the company has similaragreements with other cities throughoutthe Bay Area, and gave assurance that th erewould likely be regular opportunities forthe city to post its own advertisements onthe billboard.

    As the Super Bowl creeps closer to com-ing to Santa Clara in the winter, McCuensaid he expect ed that window of time wouldlikely be entirely booked by advertisers,do to proximity to San FranciscoInternational Airport, but he said much of the rest of the year is up for negotiati on.

    “If there is free space that is no t sol d, wewould obviously offer it up to the city,”said McCuen.

    Officials have said the sign will helpdraw attention to Millbrae, hopefullyencourage people to patronize local busi-nesses, and help establish the city as amore modern and innov ative community.

    “This is a way for the city to branditself,” said Community DevelopmentDirector Deborah Nelson. “We think itwill serve the city well.”

    Before the sign is installed, it needs tobe approved by th e California Departmentof Transportation, which has jurisdictionover Highway 101, and the FederalAviation Administration, because the siteis so close to th e airport.

    Ultimately, officials said they believethe benefits the sign will provide, both interms of branding and revenue, will be abenefit for Millbrae.

    “This is a very important step forwardfor the city,” said Mayor RobertGottschalk.

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    Full speed ahead for digital billboardMillbrae officials OK advertising display over city’s stretch of Highway 101

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    Alert citizen leads police to car burglarsTwo men were caught burglarizing a car at Jack’s

    Restaurant in San Bruno Tuesday evening after an alert citi-zen called police.

    San Francisco residents Danny Luckett, 2 3, and DemaryiaStevens, 2 0, were arrested around 6:37 p.m. in a parking l otat 105 0 Admiral Court, according to San Bruno pol ice.

    A witness reported seeing two suspicious individualslooking into parked cars and police arrived to find Luckett

    and Demaryia burglarizing a car, according to poli ce.Both were booked in jail for burglary, conspiracy andpossession of burglary tools.

    Man arrested on suspicious of smashingwindow, attempting to spit on deputy

    A Pescadero man was arrested Tuesday night after heallegedly threw a beer bottle th rough the window of a homeand threatened to shoot the residents, according to the SanMateo County Sheriff’s Office.

    Deputies were first called to a home in the 300 block of Stage Road in Pescadero just after 9 p.m. on a report that asuspect had thrown a beer bottle through a livi ng room win-dow and then left on a bicycle.

    After the deputies left, the suspect allegedly returned tothe home and threatened to shoot the victim and his familybecause th ey had called the poli ce.

    When deputies located the suspect riding a bicycle near-by, h e fled on foot in to a field. Deputies detained him aftera struggle during which h e allegedly tried repeatedly to s piton a deputy.

    Christian Rodriguez-Hernandez, 21, was found to be onfelony prob ation and was arrested on suspicio n of violati ngprobation, obstructing o r resisting an officer, making ter-rorist threats, battery on an officer and vandalism.

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    school community members, roughly$20,000 was raised to purchase thedefibrillators and make them availableat all school campuses, as well as thedistrict office.

    Ranii said due to the Hillsboroughcommunity’s reliance on school cam-

    puses for access to open space andparks, the devices would not onlymake schools more safe for studentsand staff, but the general public aswell.

    He credited Lyons for spearheadingthe effort to get the defibrillatorsinstalled.

    “She really made it happ en,” he s aid.With the devices now in place,

    teachers and staff throughout the dis-trict gathered Wednesday, Aug. 19, atNorth Hillsborough School to receivetraining on how to use the defibrilla-tors, and also conduct CPR, which aretwo of the necessary steps in savingthe life of a person suffering a cardiacarrest.

    The training was conducted by the

    Via Heart Project, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization whichalso helped the school district installthe defibrillators.

    Roughly 180 school staff memberreceived an hour-long i nstruction fromJoe Kinson, a former firefighter inBelmont, on appropriate CPR tech-nique, focused largely on administeringchest compressions to dummies repre-senting a victim of a sudden cardiacarrest, and later the process of using

    the defibrillator.Liz Lazar, executive director of theVia Heart Project, said having thedevices on school sites combined witha staff educated on how to respond tocardiac emergencies can be vital inurgent situations.

    There is a limited amount of time,typically between four and six min-utes, that someone who has experi-enced a cardiac arrest can go withoutreceiving care before they begin tosuffer irreparable brain damage, saidLazar.

    And learning how to administerurgent care in the precious momentsprior to emergency response person-nel arriving can have a profoundimpact on whether a patient lives or

    dies, and what type of quality of lifethey might have after surviving thecardiac arrest, said Lazar.

    She also credited Lyons for bringi ngthe classes and devices to the schooldistrict, because it requires a passion-ate advocate to collect the resourcesand organize the community to getbehind the effort.

    “It really does take a local championto get t his done, ” she said. “And that’swhat Erica is. ”

    For her part, Lyons expressedimmense pride and satisfaction in see-ing the collaborative effort come tofruitio n to make Hillsb orough campus-es much safer.

    “It has been amazing to see our com-munity come together,” she said.

    Yet, despite her tireless efforts togenerate the initiative, rally supportfor the fundraising , hav e the defibrill a-tors installed and bring the trainingclasses to the district staff, Lyonsremained understated and humble.

    “I’m just a mama bear that gets it allgoing, ” she said.

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    LYONS

    loaded Colt .45 revolver in a kitchendrawer. Police also found anotherhandgun, shotgun ammunition and asmall amount of methamphetamine,according to the District Attorney’sOffice.

    Agoncillo is on probation for anarrest by the California HighwayPatrol in October 2011. He was con-victed of felony possession of drugswhile in possession of a firearm andmisdemeanor drunken driving , accord-

    ing to th e District Attorney’s Office.

    In September 2012, he was sen-tenced to three years supervised proba-tion and 120 days in county jail. Underthe terms of his probation, Agoncillomust abstain drugs and alcohol, besubject to search and seizure at anytime and possess no weapons orammunition, according to the DistrictAttorney’s Office.

    Agoncillo remains in custody in SanMateo County jail on $150,000 bailand is due in court Sept. 15 for a pre-liminary hearing, according to theDistrict Attorney ’s Office.

    Anaheim police said Agoncillo wascontacted in the esplanade areabetween Disneyland and CaliforniaAdventure poss essing a lo aded weaponwithout a permit.

    Agoncillo was allegedly holding theweapon when pol ice arrived.

    When he saw the officers, Agoncill oallegedly attempted to put the gun inhis back pocket, however, he wastaken into custody before he enteredthe park.

    The motive for the attempted shoot-ing remains unclear. Officers believeAgoncillo may have had plans to aimat visitors within the park, accordingto CBSLA.com.

    The As sociated Press contributed tothis report.

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    5Thursday • Aug. 20, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNAL STATE

    By Juliet Williamsa THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brownurged lawmakers Wednesday t o reach anagreement on how to pay for billions

    of dollars in needed road and highwayrepairs in California, without commit-ting support for any current proposals.

    Brown’s administration saysCalifornia faces a $ 59 b illion backlogin infrastructure repairs over the nextdecade. He called a special session of the state Legislature to address it, butlawmakers have been slow to act.

    Democrats are floating several pos-sible tax increases to repair potholesand bridges, b ut Republican lawmakerswhose votes would be needed haverejected the ideas. They are instead urg-ing the st ate to shift money from otherprograms to pay for i nfrastructure.

    Brown joked that as governor in1982 it was Republicans who wantedhim to raise the gas tax, but he talked

    them down to a lower figure before heagreed.

    “I can understand where theRepublicans are coming from but thepotholes don’t wait, the congestiondoesn’t wait,” he said at a n ews confer-ence Wednesday in Oakland, where hemet with local leaders and Assembly

    Speaker Toni Atkin s, D-San Diego.“I’m not going to try to say where

    the revenue’s going to come from, ho w

    we’re going to get it,” he said.Lawmakers from both parties agree

    the state’s transportation tax structureis out of date and heavily reliant on agas tax that has not increased in 20years. Today’s cars are more fuel effi-cient and electric car drivers pay littleto maintain the roads they drive on.

    Transportation advocates and law-makers have proposed a variety of fixes, including hiking fees on gas,

    vehicle registration and licenses; re-directing money used to pay off statedebt back to road projects; and con-verting carpool lanes into paid toll-ways. Brown’s administration isstudying how to eventually tax driversfor miles traveled instead of gas guz-zled.

    Gov. Brown urges lawmakers toaddress transportation funding

    By Julia HorowitzTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SACRAMENTO — A citizens boardtasked with overseeing projects fundedby a California ballot measure intend-ed to generate clean-energy jobs will

    move up its first meeting to earlySeptember, Senate President Pro TemKevin de Leon said Wednesday.

    The Los Angeles Democrat’sannouncement came after TheAssociated Press reported Monday thatthe board has never met and had notplanned to meet until October orNovember.

    Voters approved Propositi on 39 i n2012 to raise taxes on corporationsand send billions of dollars to schoolsfor energy efficiency projects.

    School districts are applying forfunding, but so far the measure hasgenerated barely one-tenth of the

    promised jobs, and the state has nocomprehensive list of work done orenergy saved. De Leon, the stateEnergy Co mmissio n and Tom Steyer, abillionaire and philanthropist whocampaigned with a personal $30 mil-lion t o pass th e measure, maintain theprogram is on track.

    “We’re taking our time because I

    think t hat we want to do things right,”de Leon said at a news conference onlate-term legislation. “We want tomake sure there’s accountability andtransparency.”

    Though de Leon initially indicatedhe would be open t o a legis lative h ear-

    ing on the proposition, his staff laterclarified that the only hearing will beby th e Citizens Oversight Board. Theysaid, however, that there is no reasonthe bo ard should have met soon er.

    Democrats and Republicans havecalled for a legislative hearing toexamine how Proposition 39 funds arebeing spent.

    Board moves up meeting to review green jobs measure

    San Francisco districtattorney expands Uber lawsuit

    SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco district attorneyannounced Wednesday the expansion of a consumer-protec-tion lawsuit aimed at Uber’s claims about driver backgroundchecks.

    District Attorney George Gascon said Wednesday that thegrowing ride-hailing company contin ues to unfairly claim itis rigorously checking the background of its drivers. Gascon

    said Uber can’t make that claim unless it puts it driversthrough the same fingerprinting process required of taxi driv-ers in California.

    Gascon made his comments a day after his office filed anexpanded lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court accusingUber of false advertising. The expanded lawsuit claims Uberfailed to uncover the criminal records of 25 California driv-ers, including several registered sex offenders and a convict-ed murderer.

    “This is really only scratching the surface,” Gascon said ata news conference.

    Gascon and Los Angeles County District Attorney JackieLacey filed the original lawsuit in December.

    Report: Groundwaterpumping in California has land sinking

    FRESNO — Vast areas of California’s Central Valley aresinkin g faster than in th e past as massive amounts of ground-water are pumped during the historic drought, state officials

    said Wednesday, cit ing new research by NASA scient ist s.The data shows the ground is sinking nearly two inches

    each month in so me places, putting roads, bridges and vitalcanals that deliver water throughout the state at growing riskof damage.

    Sinki ng l and has occurred for decades in California becauseof excessive groundwater pumping during dry years, but thenew data shows it is happ ening faster as the s tate endures itsfourth year of drought.

    “We are pumping at historic levels,” said Mark Cowin,head of the California Department of Water Resources. Headded that groundwater levels are droppin g to record levels —up to 100 feet lower than previously recorded.

    Western wildfires burnunchecked as resources stretched thin

    BOISE, Idaho — This summer’s massive fires have strain edresources across the West to the point that wildfire managers

    are being forced to let some fires burn unchecked, and thathas renewed a longstanding debate about whether it is betterto fight a fire — or to so metimes just let it burn out.

    Drought and heat have combined to make this one of themost active fire seasons in the Lower 48 in recent years.Nearly 29,000 firefighters are battling some 100 largeblazes across t he West, b ut it hasn’t been enough. In north-ern Idaho, private citizens have even jumped on fire lines tohelp overwhelmed firefighters.

    Around the state

    Democrats are floating several possible tax increases to repair potholes and bridges,but Republican lawmakers whose votes would be needed have rejected the ideas.

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    Stanford student gets courtprobation for blocking bridge

    One of the 68 Stanford University stu-dents who shut down the San Mateo-

    Hayward Bridge on theMartin Luther King Dayholi day in a “Black LivesMatter” protest was sen-tenced to two years courtprobation Wednesday,According to the SanMateo County District

    Attorney’s Office.Maxine Fonua, 22,

    must also pay nearly$700 in fines and restitu-

    tion and must complete 22 hours of publicservice work, according to prosecutors.

    In total, the California Highway Patrolarrested 68 i ndividuals and cited them all forblocking traffic on the bridge.

    About 100 people, many o f them Stanfordstudents, blocked eastbound traffic justbefore 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, in what wasdescribed as a “Reclaim MLK” rally to high -light injustices black people face in thecountry.

    Man pleads not guiltyfor attempted murder

    A Daly Cit y man arrested Aug. 7 i n SouthSan Francisco on suspicion of attemptedmurder pleaded not guilty in courtWednesday, according to the San MateoCounty District Attorney’s Office.

    Jose Antonio Nava, 21, remains in cus-tody on $3 million bail and is due back incourt Aug. 26.

    Nava has an affiliation with a knowncriminal street gang, according to police.

    At about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6,police responded to a report of gunshots inthe area of Chestn ut and Grand avenues and,shortly after, a 29-year-old mechanic fromSan Mateo showed up at Seton MedicalCenter in Daly City with a non-fatal gun-shot wound to his head, according topolice.

    Officers determined that th e victi m was ina vehicle driven b y two s uspected San Brunogangmembers and were together b ecause th emechanic was goi ng to inspect the vehiclefor repairs. While the three were driving inSouth San Francisco, a man on foot nearChestnut and Oak avenues fired at them.

    The next night, officers with the SanMateo County Gang Task Force noticed aman matching the description of the victimwalking in the area of Willow Avenue andMarcie Circle in South San Francisco, clos eto where the shooting took place.

    When officers attempted to sp eak to hi m,he ran and discarded a loaded firearm, accord-ing to police.

    The gun was determined to have been thesame used in the shooting and the man,

    identified as Nava was arrested.

    CHP arrests twoafter street racing event

    California Highway Patrol o fficers arrest-ed two people early Wednesday morni ng inSan Mateo County on suspicion of felonyevading and other offenses, according to th eCHP.

    CHP officers from the Redwood City

    office received a report at about 12:30 a.m.of street racing by multiple vehicles onCañada Road between State Route 92 andEdgewood Road.

    A CHP unit tried to stop a ChevroletTrailBlazer speeding so uth on Cañada Road,CHP officials said.

    The driver of the Chevrolet did not stop,but instead accelerated and led officers on apursuit onto Interstate 280, according to t heCHP.

    A CHP unit at the same time as the otherpursuit saw a Subaru WRX racing on CañadaRoad just south of State Route 92. A CHPofficer tried to sto p th e Subaru but the driverled the officer on a pursuit west on StateRoute 92 toward Half Moon Bay, CHP offi-cials said.

    The officer was able to arrest the suspect

    when the vehicle st opped on State Route 35 just south of State Route 92 , according tothe CHP.

    Officers booked both suspects into theSan Mateo County Jail, CHP officials said.Their names were not immediately beingreleased.

    According to the CHP, 15 to 20 or morepeople were racing early Wednesday morn-ing and officers were only abl e to apprehendthe two.

    Anyone who witnessed the races is beingasked to contact Officer Stone or OfficerWalker at the CHP Redwood City office at(650) 369-6261.

    New app launched byBurlingame promotes transparency

    Communicating with city officials andneighbors in Burlingame will now be aseasy as “checking in” on a smartphone.

    Burlingame Mayor Terry Nagel recentlyannounced the launch of a new app calledaccessBurlingame, which is designed tohelp local residents, businesses, and visi-tors to access city services on their mobiledevices.

    The free app allows users to report cityissues and request non-emergency servicesregarding flooding, street lights, parks,playgrounds, traffic, parking, litter and thelike, according to the Office of CityManager Lisa Goldman.

    AccessBurlingame will also be a mobile-friendly way to obtain information such as

    the cit y’s calendar and city council agendasand minutes.

    “I’m thrilled that the city has taken a bigstep in improving communications withour community, ” Nagel said in a st atement.“Our society is increasingly mobile, andproviding a way for community members tointeract with the city on th e go is n ot onlyconvenient but empowering.”

    AccessBurlingame also aims to promotetransparency, making it possible for usersto comment and communicate with otherresidents on common matters that interest

    them, according to the Office of the CityManager. The app encourages users toupload real-time photos, descriptions, andlocation information with the app’s map-ping feature.

     Juvenile has cellphone stolenwhile texting family member

    A suspect grabbed a cellphone from a juveni le who was walkin g in the North FairOaks neighborhood of unincorporatedRedwood City o n Tuesday, according to theSan Mateo Co unty Sheriff’s Office.

    Dispatchers sent deputies at about 6:30p.m. to th e 400 block of MacArthur Avenueon a report of grand theft, s heriff’s officialssaid.

    The juvenile was texti ng a family member

    when a man grabbed his cellph one and fled.The suspect, who deputies described as aman in his 20s, ran west on MacArthur andthen south on Middlefield Road to a whiteToyota Sienna van, according to the sher-iff’s office.

    The suspect got in th e van, which was lastseen traveling north on Middlefield Roadtoward Douglas Avenue, sheriff’s officialssaid.

    Anyone with more information about thecase is being asked to get in touch withDetective Hector Acosta at (650) 363-4064or by email at [email protected] can remain anonymous by calling(800) 547-2700.

    Man beaten by suspects inNorth Fair Oaks attempted robbery

    Several suspects beat a man up Tuesdaynight during an attempted robbery in theNorth Fair Oaks area, according to the SanMateo County Sheriff’s Office.

    The 39-year-old victim told investigatorshe was walking east on Fifth Avenue around10:30 p.m. beneath the overhead traintracks near Williams Avenue when he wasattacked by three men, sheriff’s officialssaid.

    The suspects tried to take the victim’scellphone, searched his waist area andpunched and kicked him until he fell to theground.

    When he began yelling for help, the sus-pects ran away and were last seen runningeast on Fifth Avenue toward Middlefield

    Road. The victim s uffered minor i njuries tohis face, upper torso and knees, sheriff’sofficials said.

    The three suspects involved in the attackwere described as Hispanic men around 19 to20 years old. One was clean-shaven with athin build and was wearing a black hoodedsweatshirt and khaki pant s, according to thesheriff’s office.

    A fourth suspect might also h ave acted asa lookout. He was described as a clean-shaven white man with black hair in aponytail around 26 to 27 years old who was

    wearing a white tank top.Anyone with i nformation on the attack is

    asked to con tact Detective Hector Acosta at(650) 363-4064 or [email protected] tips can be made by calling(800) 547-2700.

    Two arrested for drugs, ID theftTwo San Francisco men were arrested for

    being in possession of drugs with the i ntentto sell at a San Bruno hotel Sunday night,according to police.

    Kai Lamont, 33, and ChristopherFournell, 34, were contacted in the parkinglot o f the Ramada Limited Hotel on th e 500block of El Camino Real around 11:57p.m., according to San Bruno police.

    A search of the men, their vehicle andhotel room revealed an amount of narcoti cs

    consis tent with being po ssessed for the pur-pose of sales. Items associated with fraudand identity theft were also seized, accord-ing to police.

    Lamont and Fournell were booked intocounty jail on narcotic and identity theftrelated charges, according to p olice.

    Man arrested for assaultingcop and one suspect at large

    A man was arrested Monday for punchinga San Bruno cop at the Shops at Tanforanafter fleeing from police while his femalecohort escaped.

    Officers responded to the Target at 1150 ElCamino Real regarding a report of creditcard fraud around 3:44 p.m., according toSan Bruno p olice. The two suspects fled onfoot into the nearby J.C. Penny where

    Stone Joshua, a 20-year-old Antioch resi-dent, threw a glass display table at a policeofficer then punched him in the face, accord-ing to police.

    The officer was treated at the scene forminor injuries.

    Joshua was arrested for assault likely tocause serious injury, battery on a policeofficer, resisting arrest and credit card fraud,according to police.

    The second suspect escaped and isdescribed as a black woman between 25 and32 years old, approximately 150 pounds.She was last seen wearing a blue and whitefootball jersey, according to police.

    Anyone with information is asked to con-tact police at (650) 616-7100.

    Local briefs

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    Sam Carmelo LimaSam Carmelo Lima died peacefully Aug.

    17, 2015, at the age of 98. Beloved hus-band of the late Jane Hillsman Lima, fatherof Rosalie Steinway, father-in-law of Edward Steinway, stepfather of DavidHillsman, Peggy Jubala and KathyMcKean, grandfather of Denise Kennedy,Edward Steinway and Steven Steinway,great-grandfather of Anthony and KathrynSteinway, Nicholas and Matthew Kennedyand Tiersa Jon es. Brot her of Frank Lima andthe late Lena Parrinella, Anthony Lima andFrank Cozzo.

    Friends may visit 3p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday,Aug. 20, at Duggan’sSerra Mortuary 500Westlake Ave., DalyCity, where a vigil serv-ice will be h eld at 7 p .m.A funeral mass will becelebrated 11 a.m. Fridayat ImmaculateConception Church,

    3255 Folsom St., San Francisco,Internment Holy Cross Cemetery.

    Obituary

    By Marilynn MarchioneTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Scientists have finally figured out howthe key gene tied to obesity makes peoplefat, a major discovery that could open thedoor to an entirely new approach to theproblem beyond diet and exercise.

    The work solves a big mystery: Since2007, researchers have known that a genecalled FTO was related to obesity, but theydidn’t know how, and could not tie it toappetite or other known factors.

    Now experiment s reveal th at a faulty ver-sion of the gene causes energy from food tobe stored as fat rather than burned. Genetictinkering i n mice and on human cells in th elab suggests this can be reversed, givinghope th at a drug or other treatment might bedeveloped to do the same in people.

    The work was led by scien tis ts at MIT andHarvard University and published onlineWednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

    The discovery challenges the no tion that“when people get obese it was basically

    their own choice because they choose to eattoo much or not exercise,” said study leaderMelina Claussnitzer, a genetics specialistat Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel DeaconessMedical Center. “For the first time, genet-ics has revealed a mechanism in obesitythat was not really suspected before” andgives a third explanation or factor that’s

    involved.Independent experts praised the discov-

    ery.“It’s a big deal,” said Dr. Clifford Rosen,

    a scientist at Maine Medical CenterResearch Instit ute and an asso ciate editor atthe medical journal.

    “A lot of people think the obesity epi-demic is all about eating too much,” but ourfat cells play a role in how food gets used,he said. With th is discovery, “yo u now havea pathway for drugs t hat can make th ose fatcells work differently.”

    Several obesity drugs are already on themarket, but they are generally used forshort-term weight loss and are aimed at thebrain and appetite; they don’t directly tar-get metabolism.

    Scientists find how obesity geneworks and a clue to treatment

    By Rick CllahanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    INDIANAPOLIS — Longtime Subwaypitchman Jared Fogle agreed Wednesday toplead guilty to allegations that he paid forsex acts with minors and received childpornography in a case that destroyed hiscareer at the s andwich-shop chain and couldsend him to prison for more than a decade.

    Prosecutors alleged that Fogle knew theporno graphy had been secretly produced bythe former director of h is charitab le founda-tion, which sought to raise awareness aboutchildhood obesi ty and arranged for Fogle tovisit schools and urge children to adopthealthy eating and exercise habits.

    Authorit ies s aid Fogle o ffered to pay adultprostitutes a finder’s fee if they could con-nect him with minors for sex acts, in cludingsome as young as 14 or 15 years old.

    “This is about using wealth, status andsecrecy to illegally exploit children,” U.S.

    Attorney Josh Minkler said.A tight-lipped Fogle sat in federal court

    with h is h ands clasped and quietly answered“no” when the judge asked whether he hadany question s about his rights . He is expect-ed to enter the formal plea at a later date toone count each of travelling to engage inillicit sexual conduct with a minor and dis-tribution and receipt of child pornography.

    The agreement released by prosecutorssaid Fogle will pay $1.4 million in restitu-tion to 14 minor victims, who will eachreceive $100,000. He will also be requiredto register as a sex offender and undergotreatment for sexual disorders.

    The government agreed not to seek a sen-tence of more than 12 1/2 years in prison,and Fogle agreed not to ask for less thanfive years, according to co urt documents.

    Fogle to plead guilty to sexacts with minors, child porn

    REUTERS

    Jared Fogle, center, is led from federal court in Indianapolis, Ind.

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    By Rachel Zoll and Emily SwansonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK — A new survey has foundfewer than half of U.S. Roman Catholicssaid they kn ew of Pope Francis’ bombshellencyclical on curbing climate change —and only a fraction of t hose h eard about itfrom the pulpit — in the month after hereleased the document wit h an unprecedent-ed call for the church to take up his mes-sage.

    Forty percent of American Catholics and31 percent of all adults said they wereaware of the encyclical, according to thepoll by the Associated Press-NORC Centerfor Public Affairs Research and YaleUniversity. Among Catholics who knewabout the document, just 23 percent saidthey heard about it at Mass.

    The survey, conducted July 17-19, pro-vides an early measure of the impact of theencyclical in the U.S., where Francis is

    expected to press his teaching on th e envi-ronment in his first visit to the countrynext month.

    The U.S. is home to some of thestaunchest objectors to mainstream sci-ence on climate change and to govern-ment intervention aimed at easing glob-al warming, along with a segment of Catholics who think the pope should betalking far more about marriage and

    abortion than the environment.In the encyclical, released June 18,

    Francis called global warming a largelymanmade problem driven by overcon-sumption, a “structurally perverse” worldeconomic system and an unfettered pursuitof profit that exp loited the poor and riskedturning the Earth in to an “immense pile of filth.” He urged people of all faiths and nofaith to save God’s creation for future gen-erations.

    Environmental advocates hoped theencyclical would transform public discus-sion of climate change from a scientific toa moral issue. But Catholics in th e surveywere not significantly more likely thanAmericans in general to think of globalwarming in moral terms. Just 43 percent o f Catholics and 39 percent o f all adults saidthey considered global warming a moralissue. A very small percentage viewed cli-mate change as having a connection toreligion or poverty.

    “That’s unfortunate,” said Dan Misleh,executive director of th e Catholic ClimateCovenant, which works closely with theU.S. bishops on environmental protectionand has distributed model sermons andparish bulletin inserts on the encyclical.“There’s a clear human impact. That’sgoing to be our challenge — to explainthat this environmental question is reallya human th riving question. ”

    The document had a rollout unlike anyother. The encyclical was introduced at theVatican by a secular climate scientist and a

    top Orthodox Christ ian leader, with si mul-taneous news conferences by Catholicleaders in many countries and the chimingof church bells for emphasis. Francisunderscored the importance of the docu-ment by sending it to the world’s bishopswith a handwritten n ote.

    But questions arose about whetherAmerican b ishop s and parishio ners wouldembrace the message with any enthusiasm.

    While t he bis hops for decades have i ssuedstatements calling environmental protec-tion a religious duty for Catholics, the

    issue has not been atop their public agen-da.For years, the U.S. Conference of 

    Catholic Bish ops has focused its resourceson upholding marriage as the union of aman and a woman, seeking religiousexemptions from laws the bis hops con sid-er immoral, fighting abortion and clergysex abuse, and bringing back fallen-awayCatholics.

    Minority of U.S. Catholicsknow pope’s climate views

    REUTERS

    Pope Francis blesses during his Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican.

    By Raphael SatterTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    LONDON — Hackers say they haveexposed unfaithful partners across theworld, posting what they said were the per-

    sonal details of millions of people regis-tered with cheating website AshleyMadison.

    A message posted by the hackers along-side their massive trove accused AshleyMadison’s owners of deceit and incompe-

    tence and said the company had refused tobow to their demands to close the site.

    “Now everyone gets to see their data,”the st atement said.

    Ashley Madison has long courted atten-tion with its claim to be the Internet’s lead-ing facilitator of extramarital liaisons,boasting of having nearly 39 millionmembers and that “thousands of cheatingwives and cheating husbands sign up everyday looking for an affair.”

    Its owner, Toronto-based Avid Life MediaInc., has previously acknowledged suffer-ing an electronic break-in and said in astatement Tuesday it was i nvestigating thehackers’ claim. U.S. and Canadian lawenforcement are invol ved in the probe, thecompany said.

    The Asso ciated Press wasn’t immediatelyable to determine the authenticity of theleaked files, although many analysts who

    have scanned the data believe it is genuine.TrustedSec Chief Executive Dave

    Kennedy sai d the informatio n dump in clud-ed full names, passwords, street addresses,credit card information and “an extensiveamount of internal data.” In a separateblog, Errata Security Chief Executive RobGraham said the information releasedincluded details such as users’ height,weight and GPS coordinates. He said menoutnumbered women on th e service five-to-one.

    Avid Life Media declined to commentWednesday beyo nd its s tatement. The hack-ers also didn’t immediately return emails.

    The prospect of millions of adulterouspartners being publicly shamed drew wide-spread attention but the sheer size of thedatabase — and the technical savvy neededto navig ate it — means it’s unlikely to leadto an immediate rush to divorce courts.

    Hackers expose millions on cheating site; some in U.S. government

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    By George JahnTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    VIENNA — Iran will be allowedto use its own inspectors to inves-tigate a si te it h as been accused of using to develop nuclear arms,operating under a secret agreementwith the U.N. agency that normal-ly carries out such work, accordingto a document seen by theAssociated Press.

    The revelation on Wednesdaynewly ril ed Republican lawmakersin the U.S. who have been severe-ly critical of a broader agreementto limit Iran’s future nuclear pro-grams, signed by the Obamaadministration, Iran and fiveworld powers in July. Those crit-ics have compl ained that the wider

    deal is unwisely built on trust of the Iranians, while th e administ ra-tion has insisted it depends onreliable in spections.

    A skepti cal House Speaker JohnBoehner said, “President Obamaboasts his deal includes ‘unprece-dented verification .’ He claims i t’snot b uilt on trust. But the adminis-tration’s briefings on these sidedeals have been totally insuffi-cient - and it still isn’t clearwhether anyone at the WhiteHouse has seen the final docu-ments.”

    Said House Foreign AffairsCommittee Chairman Ed Royce:“International inspections shouldbe done by international inspec-

    tors. Period.”The newly disclosed side agree-

    ment, for an investigation of theParchin nuclear site by the U.N.’sInternational Atomic EnergyAgency, is linked to persistentallegations that Iran has workedon atomic weapons. That investi-gation is part of the overarchingnuclear-limits deal.

    Evidence of the inspectionsconcession is sure to increasepressure from U.S. congressionalopponents before a Senate vote of disapproval on the overall agree-ment in early September. If theresolution passes and PresidentBarack Obama vetoes it, oppo-nents would need a two-thirdsmajority to override it. Even

    Senate Majority Leader MitchMcConnell, a Republican, hassuggested opponents will likelylose a veto fight, though that wasbefore Wednesday’s disclosure.

    John Cornyn of Texas, the sec-ond-ranking Republican senator,said, “Trusting Iran to inspect itsown nuclear site and report to theU.N. in an open and transparent

    U.N. to let Iran inspectalleged nuke work site

    REUTERS

    House Speaker John Boehner speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill.

    Israel suspends detentionof Palestinian hunger striker

    JERUSALEM — Israel’sSupreme Court on Wednesday sus-pended the detention order againsta Palestinian prisoner who hasbeen on a hunger strike for 65days, releasing him while hereceives medical care in a ruling

    that his relatives and supportershailed as a victory.

    The decision means thatMohammed Allan will no longerbe shackled to hi s bed and his fam-ily will be able to visit him in thehospital, where his lawyer said heremains sedated and unconscious.

    The court’s action did little toresolve a debate ov er Israel’s p rac-tice of holding suspects withoutcharge, known as administrativedetention, or a new law that per-mits the force-feeding of hungerstrikers.

    Before he fell unconscious Aug.14, Allan had appeared set to bethe first test of the law.

    In Greece, red tape, typos addto Syrian refugees’ ordealIDOMENI, Greece — According

    to their Greek travel papers, thetwo young Syrian brothers areboth 110 years old, born to differ-ent parents.

    The officials who processedthem upon arrival were so over-whelmed by the crush of migrantsentering Greece that they botchedthe paperwork.

    Escalating bureaucratic chaos ismaking life even harder for thou-sands of Syrian refugees alreadygrappling with exhaustion, h ungerand uncertainty — as they seek asafe haven from war back home.

    Around the world

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    Dow 17,348.73 -162.61 10-Yr Bond 2.13 -0.07

    Nasdaq 5,019.05 -40.29 Oil (per barrel) 40.91

    S&P 500 2,079.61 -17.31 Gold 1,133.00

    Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on theNew York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEAmerican Eagle Outfitters Inc., down $1.37 to $16.90 The teen clothing retailer reported better-than-expected second-quarterprofit and revenue, while same-store sales jumped. Target Corp., up 57 cents to $80.87 The retailer raised its annual profit outlook as it also reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and revenue.Barrick Gold Corp., up 24 cents to $7.90 The gold and copper mining company’s stock gained ground as theprice of gold increased following a downturn in prices a day prior.Yum Brands Inc., up $1.89 to $86.09 The parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell named Micky Pant the newCEO of its China division as it works to reverse a sales skid.Hormel Foods Corp., up 72 cents to $61.22 The maker of Spam canned ham and other foods reported better-than-expected profit, but revenue missed Wall Street forecasts.

    Lowes Companies Inc., up $1.35 to $74.37 The home improvement retailer’s second-quarter revenue beat analystestimates as customer stocked up on things like appliances and outdoorpower equipment.NasdaqDot Hill Systems Corp., up $4.50 to $9.68Seagate Technology will buy the electronic data storage system makerin a deal valued at $645 million, excluding cash on hand.Staples Inc., down 3 cents to $14.12 The office supply chain’s second-quarter profit fell on declining salesand it warned that a strong dollar will cut into earnings.

    Big movers

    By Ken SweetTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK — Stocks posted solidlosses on Wednesday as investors gotmixed signals from the Federal Reserveover the possibility of an interest ratehike in September. Energy stocks fellas the p rice of oil plummeted.

    The Dow Jones industrial averagelost 162.61 points, or 0.9 percent, to17, 348. 73. The Standard & Poor’s 500index lost 17.31 points, or 0.8 per-cent, to 2,079.61 and the Nasdaq com-posite index lost 40.30 points, or 0.8percent, to 5,019.05.

    The minutes from the FederalReserve’s July meeting gave no spe-cific clues on whether the centralbank’s officials were poised to raiseinterest rates in September. Stocksrecovered some of their l osses after therelease of the Fed minutes, but themodest recovery dissipated and themarket basically ended the day roughlywhere it was most of the session.

    In the minutes, Fed officialsappeared to move closer to raising

    interest rates for the first time in near-ly a decade but remained concerned thatthe economic slowdown in Chinacould pose risks to the U.S. economy.Policy makers also exp ressed concernsthat inflation, no ting th e recent sharpdecline in commodity prices, remainstoo low to justify an interest rateincrease.

    “We don’t come away from the min-utes feeling more confident about ourcall for a September rate hike as wemight have hoped,” said MichelleGirard, an economist at RBS.

    Bond yields fell sharply as bondtraders took the Fed minutes as a signthat interest rates were going toremain at near-zero levels for severalmore months. The U.S. 10-yearTreasury note fell to a yield of 2.12percent from 2. 19 percent on Tuesday.Most t raders believe th e Fed will eitherraise interest rates in September orwait until early 2016.

    “In their h eart of hearts Fed officialswant to raise interest rates this year.But with commodity prices as low asthey are, it could give the Fed pause,”said Alan Rechtschaffen of UBS.

    Benchmark U.S. crude dropped

    $1.82 to $40. 80 a barrel in electronictrading on the New York MercantileExchange. Brent crude, a benchmarkfor international oils used by manyU.S. refineries, fell $1.96 to $46.88per barrel. Oil’s losses deepened afterdata from the U.S. go vernment sho wedoil inventories rose much more thanexpected last week.

    Energy stocks followed crude oillower. Marathon Oil fell 7 percent,Chevron fell 3 percent and ExxonMobil fell 2 percent, respectively.

    In other futures trading on theNYMEX, wholesale gasoline fell 8.8cents to close at $1.559 a gallon.Heating oil fell 4.1 cents to close at$1.51 8 a gallon. Natural gas rose 1.2cents to close at $2.716 per 1,000cubic feet.

    Overseas, China’s stock marketroiled Asian and European stocks, onfears that the country’s currency, theyuan, will continue to erode. Chinesestocks ended higher but only after aturbulent day th at in cluded sharp los s-es early on. The Shanghai CompositeIndex closed up 1.2 percent afterplunging as much as 5 percent.

    European stocks ended the day downroughly 2 percent.The euro rose to $1.1065 while the

    dollar was down against the JapaneseYen at 124. 08 yen.

    Gold closed up $11. 00 to $1,12 7.90an ounce, silver rose 39 cents to$15.18 an ounce and copper fell apenny to $2. 27 a pound.

    Stocks lower as Fed minutes keep rate increase in play“We don’t come away from the minutes

    feeling more confident about our call for aSeptember rate hike as we might have hoped.”

    — Michelle Girard, an economist at RBS

    By Joyce M. RosenbergTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK — Hundreds of new Internetaddress suffixes that are alternatives to“.com” have been coming on the market

    since early 2014 and more are on the way.Companies and organizations are buyingdomains, or website addresses, with suffix-es like “.coffee”, “.energy” and “.legal.”

    WHERE DO DOMAINSUFFIXES COME FROM?

    The Internet Corporation for AssignedNames and Numbers, or ICANN, the agencythat oversees online addresses, issues thembased on applications and payments frombusinesses and organizations.

    WHEN HAVE SUFFIXESBEEN ISSUED IN THE PAST?

    “.com,” “.edu,” “.gov,” “.org,” “.net” and

    “.mil” were issued in the 1980s when theInternet was in its infancy. ICANN wasformed in 1998, and in 2000, it approved“.aero,” “.biz,” “.coop,” “.info,” “.muse-um,” “.name” and “.pro.” Starting in 2004,it approved “.asia,” “.cat,” “.jobs,”

    “.mobi,” “.t el” and “.travel.”Suffixes for countries, such as “.us” and

    “.uk” (for the United Kingdom), have beenissued periodically during the last threedecades. Some of the names, like “.co”assigned to Colombia, are also used byU.S. companies.

    HOW MANY SUFFIXES IS ICANNIN THE PROCESS OF APPROVING?

    ICANN has been processing about1,300 applications, and more than 700have been approved, according tospokesman James Cole. Sales of nameswith some of these suffixes began earlylast year. More, including “.mba” and

    “.soccer,” are going on sale to the publicthis month.

    CAN BRANDS GET THEIROWN SUFFIX FROM ICANN?

    Yes. Companies including Google andinternational bank Barclays have appliedfor and received their own suffixes. Otherslike FedEx are in the process of gettingtheirs. That gives them jurisdiction overthe suffix; many bi g companies want theirown suffixes to prevent anyone else fromusing or abusing them.

    WHO CONTROLS OTHER SUFFIXES?ICANN releases the suffixes to whole-

    salers known as registries. These reg-istries may offer names with those suffixesto companies or individuals who are will-ing to pay a premium to stake a claim on asought-after name. For example, th e LatinAmerica and Caribbean Federation of 

    Internet and Electronic Commerce, the reg-istry for “.lat, ” first sold domains to majorcorporations that wanted to appeal toHispanics in the U.S. and people in LatinAmerican countries. It then opened upsales to th e general public Aug. 1.

    Registries also sell suffixes to regis-trars, companies like GoDaddy that aredomain retailers.

    HOW DOES A BUSINESS ORINDIVIDUAL GET A DOMAIN?HOW MUCH DOES ONE COST?

    There are hundreds of compani es th at selldomains under various suffixes. Some alsohost websites for businesses and people.

    Domains can range from a few dollarsinto the millions of dollars if someoneelse already owns it. Many companies areusing the new domain suffixes becausethey couldn’t get the “.com” domain theywanted without spending a l ot o f money.

    Move over .com, here comes .coffee, .legal and more

    By Anne D’Innocenzio

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK — Target is on its way back.Shoppers are visiting the company’s

    stores more often and spending more oneach trip, the Minneapolis-based discount-store chain said Wednesday. The companyraised its annual profit outlook and said itssecond-quarter net income more thantripled.

    The upbeat report is evidence efforts tospruce up fashions and other merchandise

    are paying off for CEO Brian Cornell, whohas led the company for a year with march-ing orders to reinvent the “cheap chic”retailer after a series of prob lems.

    “I think we’re making very goo d progressright now,” Cornell told investors during aconference call Wednesday. “But we’re notsatisfied. We know we’ve got more work todo to meet the needs of the guests every timethey shop.”

    Target’s results are among one of thebrighter spots in retailers’ second-quarterearnings season, which mostly wraps upthis week.

    Department store chains Macy’s andKohl’s both reported last week declines in

    second-quarter profit and weak sales asshoppers have been pulling back buyingtraditional items like cloth ing and gravitat-ing more toward services or going out toeat.

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largestretailer, announced Tuesday a 15 percentdrop in second-quarter income and cut itsannual outlook as its investment in itsstores, e-commerce and increases in wagesfor hourly workers are dragging downresults. But those efforts are perking upsales and traffic.

    But Target isn’t getting hurt by that shiftaway from clothing, s howing that shop perswill still buy the right item at the rightprice.

    Target’s shares edged higher while thebroader markets slumped.

    Cornell succeeded Gregg Steinhafel,whose abrupt departure in May 20 14 capp eda tumultuous year for Target. It was hurt by amassive credit-card breach before Christmas2013 that sent shoppers temporarily flee-ing. The company also botched a majorexpansion into Canada that the companypulled the plug on earlier this year.

    Cornell aims to reinvent Target as a morenimble force amid fierce competition.

    Target is getting its grooveback: Turnaround takes hold

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    By R.B. Fallstrom

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    ST. LOUIS — Yadier Molina’s 100thcareer home run in the bottom of the eighthinning snapped a tie and the St. LouisCardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 4-3on Wednesday night.

    Molina added an RBI single in the firstand rookie Stephen Piscotty homered in thethird for St. Louis, which took two of threefrom the NL West-contending Giants. The

    Cardinals are 77-43 ov er-all and 46-19 at home,both top s in the majors.

    Kevin Siegrist (5-0)allowed a walk in theeighth and TrevorRosenthal earned his38th save in 40 chances,striking out pinch-hit-ting pitcher MadisonBumgarner to end it.

    Siegrist won both of the games in the series

    and the Cardinals wrapped up a 6-3 homes-tand with three 2-1 series wins and havewon six consecutive series overall.

    Molina led off the eighth b y lining an 0-1 breaking ball from Hunter Strickland (2-3)into the left field stands for his fourthhomer of the year.

    Brandon Crawford and Kelby Tomlinsonhad two hits and an RBI apiece for theGiants, who missed a chance to pull onegame behind the Dodgers.

    Piscotty’s second career homer put the

    Cardinals ahead 2-0 in the third, twoinni ngs after center fielder Juan Perez scaledthe wall to rob him of a long ball in on e of the top defensive plays of the season atBusch Stadium.

    The Giants’ Matt Cain ended a run of fourpoor starts, allowing two runs in sixinni ngs, and contributed a bases-loaded sac-rifice fly. The Cardinals’ Jaime Garcia gaveup three runs in 6 1-3 in nings.

    Giants’ bullpen can’t hold lead, fall to Cardinals

    By Chris BidermanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SANTA CLARA — New right tackle ErikPears is doing all he can to fit int o the 49ershuddle.

    The 6-foot-8 Pears has a big void to fillafter former starter Anthony Davis, 25,unexpectedly retired in June. The 49erssigned Pears in March to a two-year deal,thin king the 10 -year veteran would back up

    both Davis and left tackleJoe Staley, a duo onceconsidered one of thebest in the league.

    San Francisco headsinto the new season

    expecting new starters atfour of the five offensiveline positions, with onlytwo players remainingfrom the line that reached

    the Super Bowl in 2013. Staley will stay atleft tackle, while Alex Boone is earmarkedto shift from right guard to left guard,replacing Pro Bowler Mike Iupati, whosign ed with the Arizona Cardinals.

    Turnover has been a theme for the 49ersthis offseason, after parting with headcoach Jim Harbaugh and seeing a n umber of key veterans leave, including running backFrank Gore, defensive end Justin Smith andlinebacker Patrick Willis.

    The turnover has lowered outside expecta-tion s, fueling Pears and other new membersof the 49ers’ offensive line.

    “You got to have that chip on your shoul-der, got to have that edge to you,” saidPears. “And if you’re not, and you get a lit-tle soft, you’re going to g et taken advantageof.”

    A starting role won’t be new for Pears,who started 44 games over the l ast four sea-sons with the Buffalo Bills. He played rightguard last season for the first time in hiscareer, but is more comfortable at tackle.

    Throughout training camp and one presea-son game, the 49ers have seen enough of Pears to feel confident about his insertioninto the st arting lineup.

    “I think just last week alone, you got to

    Pears fitting in on O-line

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    Erik Pears started 44 games the last four season with buffalo before signing with the 49ers inthe offseason. He was expected to be a backup but is now looking like a starter.

    Matt Chavez’s baseball career

     just took ano ther U-turn. A2007 Burlingame graduate,

    who s et the school ’s sin gle-season homerun record with 10 his senio r year,Chavez was signed by the San DiegoPadres organization after tearing up thePacific Association of ProfessionalBaseball with the San Rafael Pacifics, anindependent organization.

    If that name sounds familiar, it ’s thesame team that

    recently made head-lines for using acomputerized strikezone for a game acouple weeks ago.

    Chavez, a firstbaseman, said hewill join the Padres’high-A team at LakeElsinore that playsin th e CaliforniaLeague — the same

    league in which the San Jose Giants andStockton Port play. Chavez said he wastold not only would he finish out the sea-son with Lake Elsinore, he would getinvited to spring training with a chanceto l atch on with the club’s double-A teamnext season.

    Chavez knows, however, that th ingscan change and change quickly, so he y ouwon’t catch him day dreaming about nextyear when there is still plenty of work todo this season.

    “I really have to go out and take on thechallenge and make a name for myself,”Chavez said by phone in San Mateo,where he was visiting his grandmotherbefore flying out to Southern CaliforniaThursday morning .

    After signing with the Pacifics late inthe 2014 season, Chavez has absolutelydominated in 2015. His 31 home runs notonly set a si ngl e-season PAPB record,

    See 49ERS, Page 16

    Chavez signs

    with Padres’organization

    See LOUNGE, Page 16

    See GIANTS, Page 13

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    Erik Pears

    Yadier Molina

    By Rob MaaddiTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    PHILADELPHIA — Chase Utley is reunit-ing with J immy Rollin s in Hollywood.

    The Philadelphia Phillies traded the six-time All-Star second baseman to the LosAngeles Dodgers on Wednesday for Triple-Aoutfielder Darnell Sweeney and Single-Aright-hander John Richy.

    Utley didn’t play in the Phillies’ 7-4 winover Toronto, but got a standing ovation

    afterward and he ti pped his cap to the crowd.“The hardest part is leaving the city of 

    Philadelphia,” Utley said. “They’ve been sosupportive of me for so long and I can’tthank them enough.”

    Utley had to waive his no-trade rights to goto his hometown Dodgers and he alreadycleared waivers. He joins Rollins, the fran-chise’s all-time hit s l eader and his double-playpartner for 12 seasons. The NL West-leadingDodgers lost second baseman Howie Kendrickto a hamstring in jury earlier this month.

    “I think it would be a lot of fun,” Rollinssaid after the Dodgers lost to Oakland earli-er in th e day. “He knows th is t eam. He wentto school over at UCLA, plays well atDodger Stadium, actually he beats up theDodgers when in a Phillies uniform. If everything goes through and he’s here, it’dbe nice to see him playing some homegames there at a place that he’s comfortablehitting. ... He can add a lot. Hopefully, No.1, first and foremost, that he’s healthy andhe’s in a good case. The way he’s swung t he

    bat since he’s been playing, anyone can usethat. We can definit ely use it.

    “He does have experience, he’s a toughguy. He brings that with him. More thananything that there will be some newexcitement in the clubhouse. He has achance to play some meaningful baseballlate in the y ear again.”

    Utley is batting .217 with five homersand 30 RBIs in 249 at-bats. But he has a hit

    Phillies trade Chase Utley to Dodgers

    See UTLEY, Page 14

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    SPORTS12 Thursday • Aug. 20, 2015  THE DAILY JOURNAL

    By Michael WagamanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NAPA — Derek Carr was only on the fieldfor two series in the Raiders’ preseason-opening win over the St. Louis Rams. Thatwas more than enough time for the second-

    year quarterback to realize how much betterhis supporting cast is.That includes up front, particularly at cen-

    ter, where Rodney Hudson is at the heart of Oakland’s revamped offensiv e li ne.

    Despite having new starters at three posi-tions, the Raiders starters held up well inthe opener and didn’t give up a single sackduring their brief stint against the Rams.That’s a small s ample size but Carr thinks i tcould be an indication of things to come.

    “I had time to sit back there and gothrough my reads,” Carr said Wednesday. “If we can keep doing that . we’re going to goas they go, and that’s every team in theNFL. I’m excited about them. I t hink they’re

    the best.”Hudson is certainly

    being paid like one of the best.

    A second-round draftpick by the Kansas CityChiefs in 2011, Hudsonsigned a $44.5 million,five-year contract withthe Raiders in th e offsea-son. The deal, whichincludes $20 million in

    guarantees, made Hudson the highest-paidplayer on Oakland’s roster.

    The Raiders didn’t have a p roblem payi ngthat much for a player who has started 31games the past two seasons and whoallowed just two sacks in 2014.

    “It basically all starts with him,” coachJack Del Rio said. “Every play starts withhim. I knew that he was, I think, an emerg-ing player in the league, having goneagainst him twice a year. I felt like he was

    one of, if n ot the best center in the leagueand I had a lot of respect for his game. Wewere able to acquire him and I’m very excit-ed about that.”

    Since joining the Raiders, Hudson hasmade his p resence felt in a variety o f ways.

    Long before practice begins each day, the26-year-old goes from the team hotel to theweight room. There, he begi ns a meticulousregimen of stretching then gets in a quickworkout before joining his teammates onthe field for another three hours of practice.

    As the weeks have gone on, Hudson hasnoti ced some of the other offensive lin emenfollowing his lead.

    “One of our strengths i s we’re all workingtogether,” Hudson said. “We have a close-knit group. Everybody’s working together,trying to help each other out. That’s impor-tant. The older guys are helping t he youngerguys and we’re just going to keep pushingforward.”

    The Raiders allowed only 23 sacks in

    2014 in spite of Carr having very little helparound him.

    General manager Reggie McKenzieemphasized improving Carr’s situation inthe offseason, pointing to the obviousholes at receiver and in the backfield. Yetwhen free agency began, one of the firstmoves Oakland made was to sign Hudson.

    “I’ve been in three or four offenses i n mycareer, and a lot of them have similaritiesand a lot of th em have differences,” Hudsonsaid. “I think this is a good fit for me.”

    Hudson finished last season as the third-ranked center in the NFL, according toProFootballFocus.com. Only six-time ProBowl selection Nick Mangold of the NewYork Jets and Travis Frederick of the DallasCowboys g raded out hi gher than Hudson.

    “He’s a hard worker,” left guard GabeJackson said. “To have a guy like that, thathas the credibility he does, it makes it agood fit kn owing you’re playing alongsidea person like that.”

    Raiders benefit from addition of Hudson

    RodneyHudson

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Luke Kuechly sitson the edge of a six-foot wide, two-foot deepmetal tub filled with ice and water contemplat-ing the shock h is body is about to endure.

    “Oh, I dread it every t ime,” Kuechly says witha grin.

    But he gets in. He always gets in.Kuechly knows from past experience if he

    doesn’t keep with his ritual of spending at least10 minutes soaking in the ice his body simplywon’t feel as good the next day at practice.

    The cold tub method is one part of the 2012NFL Defensive Player of the Year’s recoveryroutine, particularly at training camp when th eweather is hotter, the practices more grueling

    and the recovery time shorter.Kuechly isn’t alone.Players around the NFL use all sorts of meth-

    ods to recover from the rigors of training camp.Some use hot tubs. Some, like Panthers wide

    receiver Kelvin Benjamin, will change fromcold tub to hot tub and then go back to the coldtub.

    Some players do yoga, while others stretch

    and use foam rollers before turning in for thenight.

    Some wear compression shorts as theyattend team meetings . Others use the NormaTecsystem, a contraption that looks like a blow-up air brace that runs up the length of a player’sleg. It uses sequential pulse technology to helpheal muscles and joints , speeding the recoveryprocess.

    And then there’s 32-year-old linebackerThomas Davis, who takes recovery to anentirely different level. Davis brings to camphis own hyperbaric chamber; they retail atabout $6,500 for a lower-end base model.

    Hydration is critical, too.The Panthers are required to drink 16 ounces

    for every pound they lose during practice.

    Titans wide receiver Hakeem Nicks and tightend Anthony Fasano both said getting goodsleep is vital.

    “When you do get back to the hotel, get tobed as fast as possible,” said the 31-year-oldFasano, entering his 10th season. “And just dosome proper stretching. You know you aregoing to get tight and stuff like that, so injuriescan really hurt you this time of year.”

    Panthers head athletic trainer RyanVermillion tries to impress upon incomingplayers the importance of taking care of theirbodies. It’s not like college: The season islonger and more physically draining in theNFL.

    Vermillion borrows an analogy from formerPanthers coach and current Bears coach JohnFox, who would tell his players their bodies arelike a Lamborghini, and they need to be t akencare of as such.

    “We try to make sure they understand the waythey prolong their careers, the way they pro-long their ability to make money and providefor themselves and their families, is to takecare of their bodies,” Vermillion said. “If youdon’t take care of your body, your career in the

    NFL is going to be short.”Chiefs strength and conditioning coach

    Barry Rubin likes players to participate insome slow tempo runs after practices, followedby consuming protein shakes or bars, and thento rotate between soakin g in a cold tub and hottub.

    NFL teams seem willing to do just about any-thing to help players recover faster, and protect

    the investment they’ve made in their employ-ees.

    The Panthers provide soft tissue rubs,acupuncture and dry needling. They also havemassage therapists and chiropractors to workwith the players during the season — all free of charge.

    This year at training camp at WoffordCollege every Carolina player is equipped witha small device from STATSports built into theback of their DriFit practice shirt to help mon-itor how much energy they exert during prac-tice. Using an advanced GPS system with anaccelerometer, the device tracks the move-ments of players on the field.

    It monitors the number of yards players run,their accelerations, and the stress load on the

    body. It helps teams know when a player is get-ting fatigued so they back off his workload orhold him out of practice to prevent injury.

    “We are starting to be more confident in thethings that we are learning from it. It’s anotherway to help take care of these guys,” said BrettNenaber, a Panthers athletic performance ana-lyst who monitors and analyzes the informa-tion.

    Training camp recovery methods vary

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    The Cardinals manufactured the tying runin the seventh on two hits, one of them anunintentional swinging bunt by BrandonMoss, and a fielder’s choice RBI. RookieTommy Pham’s headfirst slide dislodged theball from catcher Andrew Susac on MattCarpenter’s grounder to second.

    Big sticks

    Crawford has nine ex tra-base hits during acareer-high 13-game hitting streak. ...

    Piscotty leads St. Louis with a . 333 battingaverage since making his major league debutJuly 21. ... Molina broke a tie with theGiants’ Buster Posey for nin th among activ ecatchers in homers.

    Trainer’s room

    OF Angel Pagan (knee) is expected to beactivated off the DL on time Aug. 25 .

    Up next

    Jake Peavy (3-5, 4.1 8) is 5-2 with a 2.5 2ERA in eight career starts againstPittsburgh.

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    A’s 5, Dodgers 2Dodgers ab r h bi A’s ab r h bi

    Rollins ss 4 1 1 2 Burns cf  4 3 3 1Crwfrd lf  4 0 0 0 Canha 1b 3 0 2 0AGnzlz 1b 4 0 0 0 Valenci 3b 4 0 0 1

     Turner 3b 3 0 0 0 Phegly c 2 0 0 0Ethier rf  3 0 0 0 Vogt ph-c 0 0 0 1Grandal c 3 0 0 0 Smlnski lf  4 0 1 1VnSlykedh 2 0 0 0 Fuld pr-lf  0 0 0 0Cllspoph-dh1 0 0 0 Butler dh 2 0 0 0

    Pedrsn cf  2 1 0 0 Reddck rf  3 0 0 0KHrndz2b 3 0 1 0 Semien ss 3 0 0 0

    Sogard 2b 3 2 2 0Totals 29 2 2 2 Totals 28 5 8 4

    Los Angeles 002 000 000 — 2 2 0

    Oakland 100 002 02x — 5 8 0

    DP—Los Angeles 3.LOB—Los Angeles 2,Oakland 4.2B—K.Hernandez (11),Burns (13),Smolinski (2). HR—J.Rollins (12).SF—Vogt.

    Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO

    A.WoodL,8-8 5.2 5 3 3 3 1Hatcher 1.1 0 0 0 0 0Ji.Johnson .1 2 2 2 1 1Avilan .1 0 0 0 0 0Baez .1 1 0 0 0 0Oakland IP H R ER BB SO

    ChavezW,7-12 8 2 2 2 2 6PomeranzS,2 1 0 0 0 0 0

    Umpires—Home, Tim Timmons; First, Tim Welke; Sec-ond,Chris Segal; Third,Todd Tichenor.T—2:34.A—26,122 (35,067).

     Yankees’ Bird doubles downon first major league home run

    NEW YORK — Rook ie Greg Bi rd hit a pairof soaring two-run drives for his first majorleague homers, supporting an overpowering

    effort by Nathan Eovaldiand leading the New YorkYankees to a 4-3 victoryover the Minnesota

    Twins on Wednesday for athree-game sweep.Eovaldi (13-2) did not

    allow a baserunner untilChris Hermann singledwith one out in the sixth.Topping 100 mph on the

    scoreboard radar a handful of times, Eovaldiwas touched for three runs in the inning whenhe lost command of his s econdary pitches.

    In seven electric innings, Eovaldi gave upfour hits and struck out eight. He walkedthree in improving to 8-0 in his last 11starts since June 20.

    Dellin Betances pitch ed a perfect ni nth forhis eighth save — first since July 1 — forthe AL East l eaders, winners of six of seven.

    MLB brief 

    Greg Bird

    By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    OAKLAND — Jesse Chavez struck out sixover eight innings to win for just the secondtime in s ix s tarts, and the A’s beat theNational League West-leading Dodgers 5-2on Wednesday for a two-game sweep.

    Billy Burns hit a tying double for Oaklandin th e sixth then s cored the go-ahead run onDanny Valencia’s double-play grounder twobatters later.

    After the low-budget A’s won 5-4 in 10innings Tuesday night, they beat baseball’sbiggest spender again to win consecutivegames following a seven-game skid on arecent road trip through Toronto andBaltimore.

    Back home in the East Bay, Jimmy Rollin shit a two-run ho me