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Mack 10-year-olds fall to Chico to end memorable summer season
A memorable summer season ended for the McKinleyville 10-year-old Little League All-Stars on Tuesday night. Playing in the championship round of the Section 2 tournament in Cottonwood, the young McKinleyville players fell 13-11 to Chico Central, just two wins shy of qualifying for this year’s NorCal state tournament. “It...
Murder, torture, arson alleged as Redding trial over killing of Jimmy Schwerdt begins
Jurors got their first glimpse Tuesday into the evidence against the man accused of killing a member of a well-known Redding family heavily involved in Enterprise High School athletics and academics. The trial of Steven Schlapia got underway Tuesday in Shasta County Superior Court and in her opening remarks, Senior...
Oroville man charged for illegally wandering in a Thompson Fire evacuation zone
BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. - An Oroville man who was arrested after being found illegally wandering within the closed area of the Thompson Fire and then escaped while handcuffed was arraigned in court on Tuesday on multiple felony and misdemeanor counts, Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey said. 22-year-old Zackary Mason...
BINTF agents seize over 340 grams of meth from home in Oroville
OROVILLE, Calif. - Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force Agents executed a search warrant in Oroville on Tuesday, which led to the seizure of over 300 grams of meth. BINTF said they served the search warrant on Oak Street. During the service of the search warrant, agents said they located and...
Orinda Man Appointed to Employment Training Panel
Kumani Armstrong, of Orinda has been appointed the Assistant Director/Chief counsel at the Employment Training Panel. The Employment Training Panel (ETP) provides funding to employers to assist in upgrading the skills of their workers through training that leads to good paying, long-term jobs. According to the release by Governor Gavin...
How much did CalPERS claw back from retiree who grossly inflated his pension?
File this in your “stitch-in-time-saves-nine” (and perhaps millions of dollars) file. We suggest this because you probably don’t have an “if you pay a retiree from a tiny city more than a half-million dollars a year as pension, you might want to look more closely” file — but rest assured that the California Public Retirees’ Employment System now has a file like that.
Apple tries to ease California housing crisis close to home
A new Apple initiative addresses California’s housing-affordability crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company said Wednesday. In partnership with the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund, Sobrato Philanthropies and Destination: Home, Apple launched the Bay Area Housing Innovation Fund with an initial investment of $50 million. The fund...
PennWest Presidential Transition Committee Announced
CLARION, Pa. — After announcing the formation of a presidential transition committee in June, President Jon Anderson announced members of the committee on Tuesday, July 16, just one month into his tenure as leader of Pennsylvania Western University. The committee will play a key role in advancing engagement and...
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