Marysville Yuba Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - February 8, 2008, Marysville Yuba, California 62 40 m ready to rebuild CI Gridley stuns tOrland SPORTS PAGE B1 Febru lary 8,2008 California Single copy 470 + tax WORLD AROUND You Discretionary spending dives With the economy in a Americans are shedding unnecessary saving their cash and voting to discretionary That means later for farewell to fashion and goodbye to family vacations at Disney Page C6 Rampage at council meeting A gunman with a history of acrimony against civic leaders stormed City Hall during a council meeting Thursday killing two police officers and three other people before law enforcers fatally shot Page A3 The latest online poll Mitt Romney's decision to pull out of the presidential race affect To vote in our log on to Our previous poll the Super Tuesday how do you see the November election shaping NUMBER OF 72 McCain vs. 49% McCain vs. 46% 6% reporter Robert LaHue is your guide to all things Sutter Check out his at o FREEDOM inc. Vol. 157 No. 39 1530 Ellis Lake CA 95901 INSIDE Bridge Lottery A2 Calendar A2 Movies B5 Classified Nation A3 Classic Obituaries C2 C5 11 Comics B6 Opinion Crosswords C4 C4 State A3 Entertainment BS Sudoku finance Local Jl Weather At CI DAILY Archer faces sex charges politician pleads not guilty to 7 child molestation counts Earnest Rex Archer bail for former levee district official By Rob Young Rex who fell just 37 votes short of becoming a Yuba County supervisor in 2006, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he sexually abused two girls starting in 2004. 70, whose first name is appeared before Yuba County Judge Julia Scrogin following his noon arrest at the Sheriffs Scrogin appointed a public defender for who was still wearing street He listened quietly as the judge scheduled a Feb. 20 bail hearing and a Feb. 22 preliminary The filed Wednesday by Deputy District Attorney Bradley includes two counts of continuous sexual three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14, oral copulation with a child under 14, and penetration by a foreign object of a child under 16. The abuse occurred between Jan. 1, 2004, and Nov. 30, 2007, according to the Bail was set at It was not immediately clear if Archer would furnish said Scrogin imposed a criminal protective order on Archer prohibiting him from calling the alleged Turn to Baby on board in Yuba City Dad catches newborn in back seat of car Photos by Nick Leticia Marie Acevedo wraps her hands around the fingers of her Nicole at Fremont Medical Center after she was born Wednesday in the back seat of a car at Bridge Street and Clark Avenue in Yuba By Ryan McCarthy Leticia Marie all 4 pounds and 15 ounces of was born Wednesday morning in the back seat of a white Buick with mom and dad racing to the hospital and the red lights of a Yuba City police car is going to be just like the said new father Luis 25. The 9:14 a.m. about a mile from Fremont Medical may have been like a scene dreamed up by a Hollywood a Yuba City native and made the catch of his life when mother Nicole 29, gave and he turned to grab his baby daughter in next thing I I had a baby in my he said at the hospital where the their new baby girl and family members what men can Buchmiller you really need friends can't believe he delivered the new mother can't believe Leticia's arrival into the world was about two weeks sooner than but she and Nicole are doing A family member sped near Bridge Street and Clark Avenue to reach the hospital Wednesday and caught the attention of a Yuba City police who made a U-turn to stop The officer approached the Luis Acevedo smiles when looking into at his can't believe I delivered while Nicole Buchmiller rests in bed at Fremont Medical recognized what was happening and assisted the said Police Department spokeswoman Shawna Buchmiller said that just after her daughter's she heard someone outside a home along Bridge Street yell out Pina 22, sister of the new said she got a call from family members just before Wednesday's birth because she'd worked for nearly two years as a police dispatcher with the Gridley Police She'd be able to advise how to help with Leticia's family members By the time Pina Acevedo could reach the their new daughter had already arrived in the So had a Pina were people standing out of their she said of residents along the Sue director of women's and children's services for Fremont Medical said about 200 babies are born each month at the hospital every year a few arrive before reaching the front if not under circumstances quite as dramatic as those babies are ready to they Chambers With Romney McCain looks ahead By Jill Zuckman Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain moved significantly closer to the Republican presidential nomination Thursday when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney unexpectedly announced he was ending his campaign for a move that enables McCain to train much of his firepower against the Democrats before they have settled on a are a nation at Romney told the disbelieving crowd at the Conservative MORE POLITICS Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in furious race for cash Page A4 Political Action Conference as he explained his decision not to continue to fight the Barack and Hillary have made their intentions clear would retreat and declare The consequences would be whose maverick ways have long aggravated extended an olive branch to the and said that he and Romney plan to sit down and talk about how to unite the party for the general election campaign am acutely aware that I cannot succeed in that nor can our party prevail over the challenge we will face from either Sen. Clinton or Sen. without the port of dedicated whose creativity and energy have been indispensable to the success our party has had over the last the Arizona senator told the which gave him several standing Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee remains in the Republican despite having a fraction of McCain's Advisers to McCain said he would continue to campaign as long as Huckabee Turn to Fraud alleged in Live Oak Homeowners sue KB Countrywide By Alex Veiga Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Two Live Oak couples are suing KB Home and mortgage lender Countrywide Financial claiming the companies schemed with real estate appraisers to inflate prices paid for homes as the housing market began to The filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior also names as a defendants KB Home Mortgage Countrywide Home Loans Countrywide KB Home a joint venture of Countrywide and the and two real estate In a KB Home believe that our full and complete investigation will show these allegations to be without which last month tentatively agreed to be acquired by Bank of America did not immediately respond to seeking The Deborah and Lonnie and David and Dolores all residents of Live are seeking unspecified restitution as well as compensatory and punitive They also want class-action status to cover KB Home customers in California who obtained financing through Countrywide and closed on their purchases between Aug. 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