Appeal-Democrat (Newspaper) - July 29, 1995, Marysville-Yuba City, California schools on the Yuba County superintendent of searches through a database on the which is now being offered to Yuba County See Page Sutter industrial park Page Page will be sunny and rather 99 65 details on 29,1995 Marysville-Yuba copy 470 + sentenced to drowning death of her ing is. escorted from court after recommend life in S.C. - A jury swiftly rejected the death penally for Susan sentencing her to life in prison Friday after her lawyer argued she js tormented enough in her own of for drowning her two young She will be eligible for parole in 30 nine days last Smith insisted that a black man had her car as she drove on a empty back She begged tearfully on nationwide television for her safe at last confessing Nov. 3 that she had popped the car's safety brake and rolled it down a ramp into John D. Long Lake with the boys still strapped cried again Friday as she was led from the courtroom after the jury announced its unanimous reached after just IVi hours of David sat later telling reporters he and his family were but it wasn't our choice on what penalty she was to whose wrenching testimony about losing his sons reduced several jurors to said he could not imagine visiting his ex-wife in jail and was thinking of moving away from Union to escape the never forget what Susan has done to me and my I'd have to to her And I'll never forget Michael and he that's something Yuba County sheriff's deputy carries the mangled remains of a bicycle after a man was hit and killed by a Union Pacific train Friday morning in killed by train in was taking a shortcut across the railroad M. Marysville man was struck and killed by an oncoming train Friday morning as he bicycled across the railroad tracks near the E Street Bridge in County sheriffs deputies identified the victim as Reginald Dean 36, of 31 Third apparently tried to pedal over the tracks when a train crossing the Union Pacific Railroad the Yuba River hit him about 9:25 collected scattered parts and the gnarled frame of the blue bicycle from the The force of the collision knocked both wheels off the body was found lying between the rails about 200 feet from the point of The short train a single locomotive trailing only a boxcar and tank car came to rest another 200 feet from the who lives in a trailer park adjacent to the said she heard the horn as it crossed the but she did not witness the incident Murphy said she did not hear the squeal of brakes from the County Undersheriff said it's unknown how fast the train was traveling at the time of the Finch could offer no further details about the death comes at a site where children and adults are found regularly on the have people dodging across here all the said Sgt Shaun is a heavy pedestrian pedestrians and bicyclists come off the bridge into signs on southbound Highway 70 indicate it is illegal for them to A concrete underpass runs beneath the bridge and trestle allowing safe access to Garden Avenue in West a gap in a fence presents an albeit shortcut across the area residents and passers-by gathered at the uses Nobody use the ramp they come across the said Velvia Matthews of West who rode up to the scene on her said she bicycles to Marysville twice a always crossing the about everyone who walks from Linda comes this said who conceded she's had at least one close call with a train at the know it's against the I know they'll shut this down a middle-aged Marysville man was run over by a train and killed on the tracks near the Twin Cities Rescue budget accord shows signs of falling Senate leader at impasse over welfare - A fragile state budget agreement was in jeopardy Friday after the Senate leader and Gov. Pete Wilson angrily accused each other of changing positions on welfare President Pro Tem Lockyer said he thought he had an understanding with the Republican governor to cut welfare by up to nearly 10 percent for only one year to help erase budget red he said Wilson was now insisting that the cut should be is not a budget agreement if these are not one-year said He denounced the Wilson administration for thinking they will get their way by refusing to work things are talking about blind and disabled When the state is short of money they should have to make But anyone who suggests that they should be forced to live in poverty as a permanent unfit to hold high Lockyer said Lockyer had reneged on his earlier support of multi-year welfare agreement included permanent reductions in welfare and other entitlement Wilson said in a no time was there any agreement to limit these reductions to one fiscal can only be regarded as a breach of Wilson to BUDGET aren't banking on more funds from the to have to deal I further on down the Tommy Pope defended his decision to seek the death saying he would do it community can begin to Pope taken a tremendous toll but it's something that had to be opinion in a town of 10,000 shifted from favoring the death sentence shortly after the growing more sympathetic as Smith's troubled including to experts of the two largest school districts in the aren't counting on an extra nickel in advance of today's showdown on the state budget the proposed agreement would increase school how it would shake out over the next year said Gene assistant superintendent for business in Yuba City all smoke and he said with a a cautious I don't want to get my hopes said Sandra budget guru for Marysville to line from Redding to R. feasibility of a new passenger train including possible stops in the is being studied by the Butte County Association of service would use existing railway lines and could eventually provide train service from Redding to San Jose and to as far south as is the one area of California that has not been studied for railway said Celia senior planner and project manager for the Butte County initial phase of the Northern California Valley Intercity Feasibility is trying to determine if their is enough ridership interest and whether it is cost effective to establish service from Redding to feasibility study is the first of two phases in the The second a more detailed look at the has a budget of second phase would include looking at the best including a study of needed line repairs and system McAdam Environmental issues also would be addressed during the second part of the if it is found that after the first phase that railway service is not we will not continue with the second McAdam said the system would provide north state residents an alternative to driving in the northern Sacramento may be used by people who are but the to TRAINS Freedom Newspaper Vol. 135, No. 6 1530 Ellis Lake Drive Calif. 95901 741-2345