Playlist 6/2/11

ADELE-ROLLING IN THE DEEP

BLACK EYED PEAS-JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH

BRITNEY SPEARS-TILL THE WORLD ENDS

BRUNO MARS-THE LAZY SONG

JENNIFER LOPEZ W/PITBULL-ON THE FLOOR

TINIE TEMPAH W/ERIC TURNER-WRITTEN IN THE STARS

HOT CHELLE RAE-TONIGHT TONIGHT

JASON DERULO-DON’T WANNA GO HOME

JESSIE J. W/B.O.B.-PRICE TAG

LADY GAGA-THE EDGE OF GLORY

LMFAO-PARTY ROCK ANTHEM

LUPE FIASCO-THE SHOW GOES ON

MARTIN SOLVEIG & DRAGONETTE-HELLO

NEW BOYZ W/THE CATARACS & DEV-BACKSEAT

ONE REPUBLIC-GOOD LIFE

PITBULL W/NE-YO, AFROJACK AND NAYER-GIVE ME EVERYTHING

SELENA GOMEZ AND THE SCENE-WHO SAYS

TAYLOR SWIFT-THE STORY OF US

WIZ KHALIFA-ROLL UP

BEYONCE-RUN THE WORLD (GIRLS)

BIG TIME RUSH-BOYFRIEND

CHRIS BROWN W/LIL WAYNE & BUSTA RHYMES-LOOK AT ME NOW

DAVID GUETTA W/FLO RIDA AND NICKI MINAJ-WHERE THEM GIRLS AT

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS W/USHER AND LIL WAYNE-DIRTY DANCER

NICKI MINAJ-SUPER BASS

FAR EAST MOVEMENT W/SNOOP DOGG-IF I WAS YOU (OMG)

MAROON 5-NEVER GONNA LEAVE THIS BED

NEON TREES-YOUR SURRENDER

NICOLE SCHERZINGER W/50 CENT-RIGHT THERE

RIHANNA-CALIFORNIA KING BED

THE READY SET-YOUNG FOREVER

News 5/31/11

SECOND POSSIBLE DEATH OFF MENDO COAST REPORTED JKB 5/31/11

• TWO PEOPLE APPARENTLY DIED OFF THE MENDOCINO COAST OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND WHILE DIVING FOR ABALONE.

A 68 YEAR OLD LITTLE RIVER MAN DIVING WITH FRIENDS BECAME UNRESPONSIVE WHILE SWIMMING BACK TO SHORE AT AROUND 9:40 MONDAY MORNING. IT IS THOUGHT THE MAN MIGHT HAVE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK OR OTHER MEDICAL EVENT IN THE WATER. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.

MEANWHILE AUTHORITIES ARE CONTINUING TO SEARCH FOR A MISSING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MAN WHO DISAPPEARED SATURDAY WHILE DIVING WITH A FRIEND 3 MILES SOUTH OF FORT BRAGG. THE OTHER DIVER WAS RESCUED. 37 YEAR OLD WILLIAM KIM OF LOS ANGELES REMAINS MISSING. THE DIVERS WERE UNABLE TO RETURN TO SHORE ON THEIR OWN WHEN THEY ENTERED THE OCEAN AT PINE BEACH AND GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE BREAKING SURF.

EMERGENCY LANDING FOR PLANE JKB 5/31/11

• THE PILOT OF A SMALL PLANE WAS ABLE TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL EMERGENCY LANDING IN A HAY FIELD IN SOUTHEAST SANTA ROSA ON SUNDAY.

THE PLANE, DESIGNED FOR AEROBATICS, LANDED SAFELY AT ABOUT 9;30 AM IN THE FIELD NEAR TAYLOR MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THE PILOT, CRAIG LITTLE OF SANTA ROSA SAID HE EXPERIENCED ENGINE TROUBLE SHORTLY AFTER TAKING OFF FROM THE SONOMA COUNTY AIRPORT.

D.A. INVESTIGATES SHERIFF INCIDENTS JKB 5/31/11

• LAKE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DON ANDERSON ANNOUNCED ON FRIDAY THAT HIS IN INVESTIGATING TWO RECENT INCIDENTS INVOLVING THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT.

THE FIRST IS A POSSIBLE VIOLATION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF MEMBERS OF THE HELLS ANGELS MOTORCYCLE GANG THAT WERE PREVENTED FROM ENTERING THE COUNTY MAY 14TH, WHEN A RIVAL MOTORCYCLE GANG, THE VAGOS, HELD A GATHERING IN LAKEPORT. THE SECOND INCIDENT BEING INVESTIGATED IS AN ARMED CONFRONTATION BETWEEN CLEARLAKE POLICE OFFICERS AND UNDERCOVER LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES DURING A DRUG BUST THAT TOOK PLACE AFTER SHERIFF FRANK RIVERO FAILED TO NOTIFY CLEARLAKE POLICE CHIEF CRAIG CLAUSEN OF THE UNDERCOVER OPERATION.

ROLL OVER ACCIDENT JKB 5/31/11

• TWO PEOPLE WERE LUCKY TO ESCAPE WITHOUT INJURIES WHEN THEIR CAR OVERTURNED DOWN A STEEP EMBANKMENT OFF HIGHWAY 175 AT THE HOPLAND GRADE YESTERDAY.

THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT AROUND 3:45 PM. A MALE DRIVER AND FEMALE PASSENGER WHERE SHAKEN UP, BUT OTHERWISE UNINJURED. THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS NOT RELEASED.

DRUG AND WEAPONS ARREST JKB 5/31/11

• A MAN WALKING IN AN ALLEY WAY NEAR A CLOSED BUSINESS ON SOUTH STATE STREET AT 1:35 AM WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND GLOVES CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF A UKIAH POLICE OFFICER ON FRIDAY MORNING.

A QUICK CHECK REVEALED THAT 36 YEAR OLD JAMES RAY OF UKIAH WAS WANTED ON TWO ARREST WARRANTS FOR PROBATION VIOLATIONS. A SEARCH OF HIS PERSON FOUND HIM TO BE IN POSSESSION OF TWO SMALL BAGS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND A LOADED 9 MM PISTOL THAT WAS CONCEALED IN THE FRONT WAISTBAND OF HIS PANTS. RAY WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT ON DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES.

VANDALISM INVESTIGATION JKB 5/31/11

• LAKE COUNTY AUTHORITIES ARE TYING TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON OR PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR SPRAY PAINTING NAZI SWASTIKAS WITH THE LETTERS C O P S AT EACH CORNER ON A ROAD IN HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE AND ON A BARN ON HIGHWAY 29 IN LOWER LAKE.

THE INCIDENTS WERE DISCOVERED MAY 26TH. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT.

BROADBAND RESOLUTION ADOPTED JKB 5/31/11

• BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS WILL HOPEFULLY BE WITHIN REACH OF MOST COUNTY RESIDENTS WITHIN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

THE MENDOCINO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED A RESOLUTION LAST WEEK TO ACQUIRE UNIVERSAL AND AFFORDABLE BROADBAND SERVICES FOR AT LEAST 75% OF COUNTY RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. THE RESOLUTION WAS BROUGHT FORWARD BY THE BROADBAND ALLIANCE OF MENDOCINO COUNTY.

NEW MONUMENT FOR JONESTOWN VICTIMS DEDICATED JKB 5/31/11

• A CONTROVERSIAL NEW MONUMENT FOR THE 917 PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THE 1978 MASS MURDER, SUICIDE AT JONESTOWN, GUYANA WAS DEDICATED AT EVERGREEN CEMETERY IN OAKLAND ON SUNDAY.

MEMBERS OF SOME OF THE VICTIMS FAMILIES SOUGHT TO BLOCK THE MONUMENT BECAUSE IT CONTAINS THE NAME OF PEOPLES TEMPLE LEADER JIM JONES ALONG WITH THE NAMES OF THOSE FOLLOWERS WHO DIED. A JUDGE LAST WEEK DENIED A MOTION TO BLOCK THE MONUMENT DEDICATION AT THE CEMETERY WHERE MORE THAN 400 OF THE UNIDENTIFIED AND UNCLAIMED JONESTOWN VICTIMS ARE BURIED IN A MASS GRAVE. MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE CEREMONY.

LAST GRADUATE WALKS AT URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL JKB 5/31/11

• AFTER MORE THAN A CENTURY OF EDUCATING YOUNG WOMEN IN SANTA ROSA, URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRATED ITS LAST GRADUATE ON SUNDAY.

SCHOOL OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED THE CLOSING OF THE ALL GIRLS SCHOOL LAST NOVEMBER DUE TO FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. 18 YEAR OLD HALEY ELIZABETH WILD-SICHI OF SANTA ROSA BECAME THE LAST YOUNG WOMAN THAT WILL EVER RECEIVE A DIPLOMA FROM URSULINE, CLOSING OUT THE SCHOOLS 130 YEAR HISTORY. NEIGHBORING CARDINAL NEWMAN WILL BECOME CO-ED NEXT YEAR.

MENDO COUNTY RECEIVES GRANT JKB 5/31/11

• MENDOCINO COUNTY HAS RECEIVED JUST SHORT OF $281,000 FROM THE HOPLAND BAND OF POMO INDIANS THAT WILL HELP PAY FOR SHERIFFS PATROL DEPUTIES THAT SERVICE THE HOPLAND SHO-KA-WAH CASINO, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AND ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG PROGRAMS.

THE CASH AWARD COMES FROM THE INDIAN GAMING SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION FUND AS NEGOTIATED UNDER THE TERMS OF THE TRIBAL STATE GAMING COMPACTS.

News 5/30/11

FATAL ACCIDENT JKB 5/30/11

• A WILLITS WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A HEAD ON COLLISION ON SHERWOOD ROAD NEAR BROOKTRAILS THURSDAY MORNING.

48 YEAR OLD SANDRA YOUNG DIED WHEN HER CAR WAS STRUCK BY 64 YEAR OLD HELEN LESLIE, ALSO OF WILLITS. ACCORDING TO POLICE LESLIE LOST CONTROL OF HER VEHICLE AND CROSSED THE CENTERLINE AT AROUND 11:20 AM. YOUNG, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT, DIED AT THE SCENE. LESLIE SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES.

HIT & RUN ACCIDENT JKB 5/30/11

• UKIAH POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THE DRIVER OF SMALL PICK UP TRUCK WHO STRUCK A MAN AND HIS YOUNG SON AS THEY WERE CROSSING STATE STREET IN A CROSSWALK AT THE CORNER OF WEST CHURCH STREET SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

ONE VEHICLE STOPPED TO LET THE PAIR CROSS, BUT THE PICK UP DID NOT. THE FATHER SUFFERED A SEVERE BUT NON LIFE THREATENING LEG INJURY. HIS SON, REPORTED TO BE 4 YEARS OLD, SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES. THE PICK UP SPED OFF. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THIS INCIDENT IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE UKIAH POLICE DEPARTMENT.

FIERY ROLL OVER CRASH JKB 5/30/11

• A LAYTONVILLE WOMAN SUFFERED MAJOR INJURIES WHEN SHE WAS EJECTED DURING A FIERY ROLL OVER CRASH ON HIGHWAY 101 JUST SOUTH OF THE MENDOCINO COUNTY LINE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

ACCORDING TO THE CHP, ROBERT WALBURN OF LAYTONVILLE WAS DRIVING SOUTHBOUND IN HIS PICK UP TRUCK WHEN HE ALLOWED THE VEHICLE TO LEAVE THE ROADWAY AND TRAVEL UP AN UNIMPROVED SHOULDER AT AROUND 6 AM. THE TRUCK ROLLED SEVERAL TIMES AND CAUGHT FIRE. 20 YEAR OLD HEATHER WALBURN WAS EJECTED FROM THE PICK UP. SHE WAS AIRLIFTED TO SANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AS OF LAST NIGHT. ROBERT WALBURN AND A 5 YEAR OLD CHILD WERE TREATED AND RELEASED AT THE SCENE.

BODY POSITIVE ID JKB 5/30/11

• AUTHORITIES HAVE POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED THE BODY FOUND IN THE WRECKAGE OF A PLANE SOUTH OF LAKE TAHOE AS THAT OF WELL KNOWN LOCAL AREA WINEMAKER ROBERT BUDGE BROWN.

THE 78 YEAR OLD BROWN WAS THE OWNER OF CLEAVAGE CREEK CELLARS IN NAPA, AND TULIP HILL WINERY IN NICE. HIS PLANE DISAPPEARED FROM RADAR MAY 18TH.

MISSING DIVER JKB 5/30/11

• AUTHORITIES ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR A MISSING ABALONE DIVER WHO DISAPPEARED OFF THE MENDOCINO COAST 3 MILES SOUTH OF FORT BRAGG.

ANOTHER DIVER, REPORTED TO BE HIS DIVING PARTNER WAS RESCUED SHORTLY AFTER THE U.S. COAST GUARD RECEIVED A CALL THAT TWO DIVERS WERE IN DISTRESS SOMETIME AFTER 3 PM SATURDAY. THE 2ND DIVER HAD STILL NOT BEEN LOCATED BY SUNDAY EVENING. NO OTHER DETAILS, INCLUDING THE NAMES OF THE DIVERS, HAS BEEN RELEASED.

3.7 QUAKE AT THE GEYSERS JKB 5/30/11

• THE GEYSERS WERE RATTLED BY A 3.7 MAGNITUDE QUAKE ON SATURDAY, THE 14TH QUAKE 3.0 OR LARGER TO STRIKE THE AREA SINCE THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.

THE QUAKE OCCURRED AT 3:55 PM AND WAS CENTERED 2 MILES EAST OF THE STEAM FIELDS, AND 4 MILES SOUTH WEST OF COBB.

POT BUST JKB 5/30/11

• 3 MEN FROM SAN JOSE WERE ARRESTED FOR A MARIJUANA GROWING OPERATION ON BUS MCGALL ROAD SOUTH OF UKIAH LAST WEEK.

AGENTS WITH THE MAJOR CRIMES TASK FORCE SEIZED 250 MARIJUANA PLANTS, 20 POUNDS OF PROCESSED MARIJUANA, FIREARMS, APPROXIMATELY $75,000 IN CASH AND A HONEY OLD LAB. 64 YEAR OLD DAVID BUENO, 33 YEAR OLD SHAWN HOWELLS, AND 28 YEAR OLD DAVID GAROFOLO WERE ARRESTED AT THE SITE WITHOUT INCIDENT.

D.A. INVESTIGATES SHERIFF INCIDENTS JKB 5/30/11

• LAKE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DON ANDERSON ANNOUNCED ON FRIDAY THAT HE IS INVESTIGATING TWO RECENT INCIDENTS INVOLVING THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT.

THE FIRST IS THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT DECISION TO BLOCK MEMBERS OF THE HELLS ANGELS MOTORCYCLE CLUB FROM ENTERING THE COUNTY MAY 14TH WHEN A RIVAL MOTORCYCLE GANG THE VAGOS HELD A GATHERING IN LAKEPORT. THE 2ND INCIDENT BEING INVESTIGATED WAS AN ARMED CONFRONTATION BETWEEN CLEARLAKE POLICE AND UNDERCOVER LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES DURING A DRUG BUST, WHEN SHERIFF FRANK RIVERO FAILED TO NOTIFY CLEARLAKE POLICE OF THE UNDERCOVER OPERATION.

News 5/27/11

AIR FRANCE CRASH DETAILS RELEASED JKB 5/27/11

• AUTHORITIES SAY INFORMATION FROM THE BLACK BOX RECORDER OF AIR FRANCE 447, RECOVERED FROM 13,000 FEET BELOW THE OCEAN, SHOWS THE JUMBO JET STALLED, BEFORE IT PLUNGED INTO THE SEA, KILLING ALL 228 PEOPLE ABOARD 2 YEARS AGO.

THE FINDINGS INDICATE THE AIR SPEED SENSORS OUTSIDE THE PLANE ICED OVER, CAUSING THE AUTO PILOT AND AUTO THRUST SYSTEMS TO DISENGAGE. IT ALSO GAVE FALSE DATA TO THE PILOTS WHO THEN MADE A CRITICAL ERROR BY PUTTING THE NOSE OF THE PLANE UP, CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO STALL. THE JET THEN BEGAN A 3 AND A HALF-MINUTE PLUNGE TO THE SURFACE OF THE OCEAN. THE AIRCRAFT WAS IN WORKING CONDITION AND FLYABLE, AND CRASHED ONLY DUE TO LOSS OF AIRSPEED.

KIDNAPPED GIRL SPOTTED IN LAKEPORT JKB 5/27/11

• A 3 YEAR OLD GIRL WHOS FATHER ALLEGEDLY ABDUCTED HER FROM HER HOME IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, MAY HAVE BEEN SPOTTED AT LEAST TWICE IN LAKEPORT.

22 YEAR OLD NICHOLAS RIGGLE HAD BEEN IN LAKE COUNTY IN MARCH AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE RETURNED TO THE AREA WITH HIS 3 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AVA, AND A WOMAN NAMED MARCY GEARHART, WHO ALSO USES THE LAST NAME OF RIGGLE. A WOMAN AND CHILD MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION OF AVA AND GEARHART WAS SPOTTED AT BRUNOS SHOP SMART ON LAKEPORT BLVD. AND AT CHASE BANK ON MAIN STREET IN LAKEPORT ON TUESDAY. RIGGLE, GEARHART AND THE GIRL ARE BELIEVED TO BE TRAVELING IN A 1989 FORD COACHMEN MOTOR HOME WITH A LICENSE PLATE NUMBER OF 2PWF894. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUSPECTS, VEHICLE OR CHILD IS ASKED TO CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY.

NOR CAL TORNADOES JKB 5/27/11

• AT LEAST 3 TORNADOES WERE REPORTED IN A SPARSELY POPULATED RURAL AREA JUST SOUTH OF CHICO YESTERDAY EVENING.

THE STORM THAT SPAWNED THE TORNADOES PASSED THROUGH THE AREA JUST AFTER 6 PM. A VIDEO SHOT FROM A NEWS CREW HELICOPTER SHOWED ONE OF THE TWISTERS FORMING AND TOUCHING DOWN NEAR DURHAM, ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHICO. NO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS REPORTED, THOUGH THERE WERE 4 MINOR ACCIDENTS IN THE AREA ATTRIBUTED TO THE STORM.

HOUSE FIRE JKB 5/27/11

• FIRE INVESTIGATORS CONFIRMED ON MONDAY THAT A FIRE THAT DESTROYED AN OCEAN DRIVE HOME IN FORT BRAGG WAS STARTED BY A LAMP AND OLD COUCH.

THE OWNER OF THE HOME SAID A LAMP HAD GOTTEN KNOCKED ONTO THE COUCH AND BEGAN TO SMOLDER. SHE PUT THE FIRE OUT HERSELF AND THEN LEFT A SHORT WHILE LATER. SHE RETURNED AT AROUND 4 PM TO FIND THE HOUSE IN FLAMES. ONE END OF THE STRUCTURE WAS FULLY ENGULFED BY THE TIME FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED. THE HOME WAS CONSIDERED A TOTAL LOSS EXCEPT FOR THE GARAGE. NO ONE WAS INJURED.

CHP MAXIMUM ENFORCEMENT WEEKEND JKB 5/27/11

• THE UNOFFICIAL START OF SUMMER BEGINS TODAY WITH THE LONG MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, AND THAT OF COURSE MEANS THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE TRAFFIC ON THE ROADWAYS.

IT ALSO MEANS THE CHP WILL BE OUT IN FORCE LOOKING FOR THE UNSAFE, AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE DRIVER. THEY ARE ALSO MAKING AN EXTRA EFFORT THIS YEAR TO SPOT DRIVERS WHO FAIL TO BUCKLE UP. THE MAXIMUM ENFORCEMENT WEEKEND WILL BEGIN AT 6 PM TONIGHT AND CONTINUE UNTIL MIDNIGHT MONDAY. FROM ALL OF US HERE AT THE STATION, WE HOPE YOU AND YOURS HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

STATE UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASES JKB 5/27/11

• ACCORDING TO THE LATEST FIGURES FROM THE CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, THE STATES UNEMPLOYMENT RATE EASED DOWN SLIGHTLY IN APRIL, DROPPING A TENTH OF A PERCENT TO 11.9.

LOCAL AREA COUNTIES FOLLOWED THAT TREND WITH SLIGHT DECREASES OF THEIR OWN. MENDOCINO COUNTYS UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR APRIL WAS RECORDED AT 11.6 %, LAKE COUNTYS AT 18.2% AND SONOMA COUNTYS AT 9.8%.

LOWER ELECTRICITY RATES JKB 5/27/11

• THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED A REQUEST BY PG&E TO LOWER THE TOP RATE THAT RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS WILL PAY FOR THEIR ELECTRICITY BEGINNING THIS SUMMER.

THE NEW RATE APPROVAL IS EXPECTED TO DROP THE TOP ELECTRIC RATE BY MORE THAN 15%. THE RATES FOR THE LOWEST 2 TIERS WILL REMAIN THE SAME.

$3 MILLION MUSEUM FACELIFT JKB 5/27/11

• A $3 MILLION DOLLAR GRANT WILL GIVE THE GRACE HUDSON MUSEUM IN UKIAH A SIGNIFICANT FACE LIFT.

THE MUSEUM WAS ONE OF 44 SITES TO RECEIVE FUNDING FROM $94 MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS UP FOR GRABS FROM THE NATURE EDUCATION FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM. THE MONEY WILL BE USED TO PUT IN A SERIES OF TRAILS, COURTYARDS AND GARDENS AROUND THE GRACE HUDSON MUSEUM AND SUN HOUSE THAT WILL CELEBRATE THE CULTURE OF POMO INDIANS.

PEETS COFFEE WANTS IN JKB 5/27/11

• PEETS COFFEE AND TEA LOOKS LIKE THEY WANT TO BECOME PART OF THE DOWNTOWN UKIAH LANDSCAPE, AFTER WRITING A LETTER TO THE UKIAH CITY COUNCIL ASKING THEY BE EXCLUDED FROM THE FORMULA FAST FOOD BAN THAT IS BEING CONSIDERED FOR THE DOWNTOWN AREA.

A NEW DOWNTOWN ZONING CODE BEING PUT TOGETHER BY THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD BAN FORMULA BASED FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS. THE COMMISSION HAD PREVIOUSLY CONSIDERED HAVING EXEMPTIONS FOR COFFEE SHOPS, ICE CREAM PARLORS, BAKERIES, AND HOT DOG STANDS, BUT CHANGED THEIR MIND AND VOTED TO REMOVE ALL EXEMPTIONS. A POLL OF DOWNTOWN BUSINESS OWNERS FOUND AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY FAVORED LEAVING THE EXEMPTIONS IN PLACE.

STATE HOMICIDE RATE FALLS JKB 5/27/11

• THE HOMICIDE RATE IN CALIFORNIA HAS REACHED ITS LOWEST LEVEL IN 45 YEARS.

IN THE LATEST FIGURES RELEASED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA D. HARRIS SHOWED THE NUMBER OF HOMICIDES REPORTED IN 2010 DECLINED BY 9.6% FROM 2009, AND HIT ITS LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1966. NEARLY EVERY CATEGORY IN VIOLENT CRIMES, AND PROPERTY CRIMES ALSO DECREASED IN 2010. LARCENY OVER $400 WAS THE ONLY CATEGORY THAT SHOWED AN INCREASE. IT ROSE BY 0.7%.

News 5/25/11

MISSING GIRL COULD BE IN LAKE COUNTY JKB 5/25/11

• AUTHORITIES BELIEVE A 3 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO WAS ABDUCTED FROM HER MOTHERS HOME IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, MAY HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO LAKE COUNTY.

AVA RIGGLE WAS LAST SEEN ON MAY 6TH AT HER MOTHERS HOME OUTSIDE VICTORVILLE. INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT SHE WAS TAKEN BY HER FATHER, 22 YEAR OLD NICOLAS RIGGLE AND AN ADULT FEMALE. HE WAS SEEN IN LAKE COUNTY IN MARCH AND MAY HAVE RETURNED WITH THE CHILD. HE WAS LAST SEEN DRIVING A 1989 FORD COACHMEN MOTOR HOME WITH CALIFORNIA LICENSE PLATE NUMBER OF 2PWF894. AVA WEIGHS APPROXIMATELY 50 POUNDS AND HAS LIGHT BROWN HAIR AND BROWN EYES. NICOLAS RIGGLE IS DESCRIBED AS BEING 6 FEET TALL, 150 POUNDS WITH BROWN HAIR AND BLUE EYES. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHILD, THE FATHER, OR MOTOR HOME IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT.

TOUR BUS CRASH JKB 5/25/11

• 13 PEOPLE SUFFERED MINOR TO MODERATE INJURIES WHEN A TOUR BUS CRASHED NEAR FAIRFIELD MONDAY.

THE DRIVER SAID SHE WAS HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE BRAKES BEFORE DRIVING OFF INTERSTATE 80 WHILE RETURNING TO SAN FRANCISCO FROM SACRAMENTO. THE BUS WAS CARRYING 49 PASSENGERS. THE INJURED WERE TAKEN TO LOCAL AREA HOSPITALS, TREATED AND RELEASED.
MENTAL EVALUATION ORDERED FOR WOMAN JKB 5/25/11

• CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST A SANTA ROSA WOMAN WHO IS ACCUSED OF FALSELY REPORTING THAT SHE WAS RAPED BY A POLICE OFFICER HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED UNTIL SHE CAN UNDERGO A MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION.

PROSECUTORS SAY 24 YEAR OLD DANIELLE CHARTER LIED ABOUT A NUMBER OF ASSAULTS SHE CLAIMED TOOK PLACE AFTER SHE WAS ARRESTED ON NOVEMBER 30TH 2009. AN INVESTIGATION DETERMINED HER CLAIMS OF RAPE TO BE BASELESS AFTER NOTING THE TRIP FROM HER HOME WHERE SHE WAS ARRESTED TO THE COUNTY JAIL TOOK ONLY 7 MINUTES.

FRANK S. PETERSON DIES JKB 5/25/11

• FORMER JUDGE, DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND STATE SENATOR FRANK S. PETERSEN HAS DIED.

PETERSON PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN FORT BRAGG ON MONDAY. PETERSEN GRADUATED FROM FORT BRAGG HIGH SCHOOL IN 1940, SERVED IN THE NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II AND BEGAN PRACTICING LAW IN UKIAH IN 1952. HE BEGAN WORKING FOR THE MENDOCINO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN 1954 AND WAS APPOINTED D.A. 6 YEARS LATER. HE WAS ELECTED AS A STATE SENATOR IN 1962. WHILE STILL SERVING IN THE LEGISLATURE, PETERSEN WAS APPOINTED TO THE SUPERIOR COURT WHERE HE SERVED AS JUDGE FOR 22 YEARS, PRESIDING IN 18 COUNTIES. HE RETIRED IN 1988 AND RESUMED PRACTICING LAW IN 1990. HE RETURNED TO THE BENCH IN 1993 AND WORKED UNTIL JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. HE WAS 88.

POTTER VALLEY RODEO TO GO ON AS PLANNED JKB 5/25/11

• THE 65TH ANNUAL POTTER VALLEY RODEO WILL TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR, DESPITE CONCERNS OVER THE OUTBREAK OF A DEADLY EQUINE HERPES VIRUS.

18 CASES OF THE VIRUS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED IN 12 COUNTIES STATEWIDE. ALL OF THE CASES HAVE OCCURRED AMONG CUTTING HORSES, MOST OF WHICH ATTENDED THE NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN OGDEN UTAH AT THE END OF APRIL. THE DECISION TO GO FORWARD WITH THE EVENT WAS MADE AFTER POTTER VALLEY RODEO BOARD MEMBERS MONITORED THE PROGRESSION OF THE OUTBREAK AND CONSULTED WITH LOCAL VETERINARIANS.

KEYSSAR TO HOLD EVENTS IN UKIAH JKB 5/25/11

• NOTED AUTHOR, REGISTERED NURSE AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE MENDOCINO COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE JUDITH REDWING KEYSSAR WILL HOLD TWO EVENTS IN UKIAH DEALING WITH THE JOURNEY FROM BIRTH TO DEATH.

THE FIRST EVENT, A WORKSHOP, IS SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY JUNE 3RD FROM 9 AM TO 4:30 PM AT THE UKIAH VALLEY MEDICAL CENTERS MILLER CONFERENCE CENTER. THE 2ND EVENT, A MULTI MEDIA PRESENTATION ENTITLED LAST ACTS OF KINDNESS, WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE SAME DAY AT 7 PM AND WILL BE HELD AT YOGA MENDOCINO AT 206 MASON STREET.

STATE PRISON POPULATION MUST BE REDUCED JKB 5/25/11

• THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS RULED THAT THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA MUST REDUCE ITS PRISON POPULATION, BY TRANSFERRING PRISONERS TO LOCAL JAILS.

ABOUT 33,000 STATE PRISONERS WILL BE RELEASED OR TRANSFERRED STATEWIDE OVER THE NEXT 2 YEARS TO ALLEVIATE OVERCROWDING. IT IS UNKNOWN EXACTLY HOW MANY OF THE PRISONERS WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO MENDOCINO COUNTY, AND IF THE COUNTY WILL BE REIMBURSED BY THE STATE FOR THEIR CARE. ACCORDING TO SHERIFF TOM ALLMAN, THE INFLUX OF NEW PRISONERS WILL CREATE AN IMMEDIATE NEED TO HIRE MORE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS.

News 5/24/11

WOMAN ADMITS TO DROWNING DAUGHTER JKB 5/24/11

• A MCKINLEYVILLE WOMAN HAS ADMITTED TO DROWNING HER 2 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IN THE TRINITY RIVER.

30 YEAR OLD CLAUDIA PEDREROS INITIALLY TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT SHE COULDNT REMEMBER HAVING A DAUGHTER OR HOW SHE GOT TO TRINITY COUNTY. SHERIFFS DEPUTIES FOUND PEDREROS WALKING NAKED ALONG HIGHWAY 3 NEAR COFFEE CREEK ROAD ON FRIDAY. THE BODY OF HER DAUGHTER, 2 YEAR OLD SOPHIA PEDREROS PARKER WAS FOUND A HALF MILE SOUTH OF THE TRINITY RIVER CAMPGROUND WHERE PEDREROS CAR WAS FOUND. ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS PEDREROS HAS A HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS.

SAN QUENTIN RIOT JKB 5/24/11

• 4 MEN SUFFERED STAB WOUNDS AFTER A RIOT INVOLVING MORE THAN 200 INMATES BROKE OUT IN THE DINNING HALL AT SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON SUNDAY NIGHT.

GUARDS WERE ABLE TO QUELL THE RIOT USING NON LETHAL BULLETS AND PEPPER SPRAY. 3 OF THE INJURED INMATES WERE RETURNED TO THE PRISON AFTER BEING TREATED FOR STAB WOUNDS. A 4TH REMAINED HOSPITALIZED. NO GUARDS WERE INJURED DURING THE MELEE. THE CAUSE OF THE RIOT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

FATAL ACCIDENT JKB 5/24/11

• ONE MAN WAS KILLED AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN WERE INJURED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON ELK MOUNTAIN ROAD IN LAKE COUNTY YESTERDAY.

ACCORDING TO THE CHP, 29 YEAR OLD CARLOS NARVAES OF NICE WAS DRIVING HIS MINI VAN SOUTHBOUND 2 MILES NORTH OF PITNEY LANE WHEN HE LOST CONTROL, COLLIDED WITH AN EMBANKMENT AND OVERTURNED AT AROUND 5 PM. NARVAES, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT, DIED AT THE SCENE. A 4 YEAR OLD BOY WHO WAS NOT PROPERLY RESTRAINED, AND A 2 YEAR OLD BOY WHO WAS, BOTH SUFFERED MODERATE INJURIES AND WERE FLOWN TO HOSPITALS OUT OF THE COUNTY FOR TREATMENT.

CLEARLAKE POLICE CONFRONT DEPUTIES JKB 5/24/11

• THERE WERE SOME TENSE MOMENTS LAST THURSDAY WHEN CLEARLAKE POLICE, RESPONDING TO WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A HOSTAGE SITUATION IN A HOME, INSTEAD ENCOUNTERED UNDERCOVER NARCOTICS AGENTS FROM THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT THEY DIDNT KNOW WERE THERE.

CLEARLAKE POLICE OFFICERS HELD THE DEPUTIES AT GUNPOINT FOR SEVERAL MINUTES UNTIL THE PROPER IDENTIFICATIONS COULD BE MADE. LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF FRANK RIVERO ADMITTED THAT HIS OFFICE DID NOT NOTIFY THE CLEARLAKE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE UNDERCOVER OPERATION BECAUSE, IN HIS WORDS, THE SITUATION DEVELOPED QUICKLY AND HE WANTED TO MAINTAIN THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE. CLEARLAKE POLICE CHIEF CRAIG CLAUSEN SAID RIVEROS DECISION PLACED THE LIVES OF DEPUTIES, POLICE OFFICERS, AND SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS IN JEOPARDY.

CONFRONTATION OVER MARIJUANA JKB 5/24/11

• DEPUTIES AND CHP OFFICERS RESPONDED TO THE GOLDEN RULE TRAILER PARK YESTERDAY WHEN A 20 YEAR OLD MAN CALLED POLICE TO REPORT THAT HE HAD GOTTEN RIPPED OFF WHEN HE TRIED TO BUY A HALF POUND OF MARIJUANA YESTERDAY.

THE VICTIM SAID THE SUSPECT, LATER IDENTIFIED AS 77 YEAR OLD WILLIAM GREEN, TOOK HIS MONEY, REFUSED TO GIVE HIM ANY MARIJUANA, SPRAYED HIM WITH LIGHTER FLUID, THREATENED TO SET HIM ON FIRE AND POINTED A GUN CASE AT HIM TO MAKE HIM THINK HE HAD A GUN. WHEN INTERVIEWED, GREEN SAID THE VICTIM OWED HIM MONEY FROM THE SALE OF MARIJUANA GROWING EQUIPMENT, AND HE WANTED IT BACK. BECAUSE GREEN SUFFERED FROM MAJOR MEDICAL ISSUES, HE WAS ISSUED A CITATION TO APPEAR IN COURT ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.

BURGLARY ARRESTS JKB 5/24/11

• TWO MEN WERE ARRESTED AFTER THEY WERE FOUND WEARING ITEMS THEY HAD STOLEN DURING A BURGLARY EARLIER THE SAME DAY.

27 YEAR OLD ANTIONE WEBB AND 32 YEAR OLD WILLIAM CACCHIOLA, AND A THIRD UNKNOWN SUSPECT, WERE SPOTTED BY THE OWNER OF POWER HOUSE SCREEN PRINTING STEALING ITEMS FROM THE BUSINESS ON KUNZLER RANCH ROAD AT AROUND 6 PM YESTERDAY. A SEARCH OF THE AREA FAILED TO LOCATE THE SUSUPECTS AT THE TIME. JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT DEPUTIES WERE CALLED TO AN AREA ON NORTH STATE STREET ON REPORTS OF TWO MEN YELLING AT EACH OTHER. THE TWO MEN TURNED OUT TO BE WEBB AND CACCHIOLA, WHO WERE BOTH FOUND WEARING STOLEN SWEATSHIRTS. BOTH WERE ARRESTED. THE SEARCH FOR THE THIRD SUSPECT IS CONTINUING.

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News 5/23/11

MISSING LOCAL WINEMAKERS PLANE FOUND JKB 5/23/11

• THE SINGLE ENGINE PLANE OF A WELL KNOWN LOCAL AREA WINEMAKER WHO WENT MISSING LAST WEEK, WAS FOUND BY SEARCH CREWS IN RUGGED SNOW COVERED TERRAIN JUST SOUTH OF BEAR RIVER RESERVOIR IN AMADOR COUNTY LATE THURSDAY.

78 YEAR OLD ROBERT BUDGE BROWN, THE OWNER OF CLEAVAGE CREEK CELLARS IN NAPA, AND TULIP HILL WINERY IN NICE WAS REPORTED MISSING WHEN HIS PLANE DISAPPEARED FROM RADAR AT AROUND 4 PM ON WEDNESDAY. OFFICIALS SAY A BODY WAS RECOVERED FROM THE WRECKAGE. A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION IS PENDING.

7 RESCUED ON TOMALES BAY JKB 5/23/11

• 7 PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT WEARING LIFE JACKETS WERE RESCUED AFTER THEIR 12 FOOT ALUMINUM BOAT CAPSIZED IN ROUGH WATERS ON TOMALES BAY SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

A SONOMA COUNTY SHERIFFS HELICOPTER TRANSPORTED THE 7 BACK TO SHORE AFTER THEY HAD BEEN STRANDED ON A SUBMERGED SANDBAR AT AROUND 1 PM. NO ONE WAS INJURED.

TWO MEN FISHING NEAR THE MOUTH OF BODEGA BAY HARBOR WERE ABLE TO SAVE THEMSELVES AND SWIM TO SHORE AFTER THEIR BOAT CAPSIZED ABOUT 100 YARDS FROM SHORE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. BOTH FISHERMEN WERE WEARING LIFE JACKETS.

E-QUAKE JKB 5/23/11

• A 3.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE SHOOK AN AREA BETWEEN UKIAH AND LAKEPORT EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.

THE QUAKE OCCURRED AT 1:53 AM AND WAS CENTERED 6 MILES WEST OF LAKEPORT AND 10 MILES SOUTH EAST OF UKIAH. THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE OR INJURIES.

POT AND MONEY SEIZED JKB 5/23/11

• 3 MEN FROM 3 DIFFERENT STATES WERE ARRESTED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE A LARGE AMOUNT OF MARIJUANA FROM A COVELO MAN IN UKIAH ON THURSDAY.

POLICE SEIZED MORE THAN $100,000 IN CASH AND 20 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA FROM A ROOM AT THE COMFORT INN AND SUITES ON AIRPORT PARK BOULEVARD. 34 YEAR OLD TIMOTHY CURTIS OF COVELO WAS ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION AND SALES OF MARIJUANA. THE OTHER THREE MEN FROM ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA, WERE ALSO ARRESTED.

SCHOOL BUS CRASH ARREST JKB 5/23/11

• A WOMAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER SHE CRASHED INTO A SCHOOL BUS WITH CHILDREN ABOARD THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

57 YEAR OLD SANDRA JEAN BURNETT WAS DETERMINED TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS WHEN SHE ALLOWED HER CAR TO DRIFT OVER THE CENTERLINE WHILE DRIVING ON KELSEY CREEK DRIVE AT AROUND 2:40 PM. THE DRIVER OF THE BUS, 39 YEAR OLD SHAWN DALE ROGERS, LESSENED THE IMPACT BY SLOWING DOWN AND TAKING EVASIVE ACTION TO AVOID THE COLLISION. BURNETT SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES AND 4 CHILDREN COMPLAINED OF PAIN, BUT NO ONE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.

ELDERLY MAN SAVED AFTER CAR GOES IN LAKE JKB 5/23/11

• AN ELDERLY MAN IN HIS LATE 70S WAS SAVED BY A WOMAN WHO SAW HIS CAR CRASH INTO CLEAR LAKE ON FRIDAY.

ACCORDING TO THE CHP, THE MAN WAS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY 20 WHEN HE REPORTEDLY FELL ASLEEP AND DRIFTED OFF THE ROAD AND INTO THE LAKE AT AROUND 5:30 PM. A WOMAN WHO WITNESSED THE EVENT DOVE INTO THE WATER AND RESCUED HIM. NO OTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE INCIDENT HAVE BEEN RELEASED.

UKIAH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT EVALUATIONS JKB 5/23/11

• UKIAH TEACHERS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICIALS APPARENTLY DO NOT SEE EYE TO EYE WHEN IT COMES TO SUPERINTENDENT LOIS NASH.

THE UKIAH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNANIMOUSLY GAVE NASH A POSITIVE EVALUATION, DESPITE AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF UKIAH TEACHERS ASSOCIATION MEMBERS WHO RESPONDED TO A SURVEY REPORTED THAT THEY DONT HAVE CONFIDENCE IN NASH AS SUPERINTENDENT. MORE THAN 87% OF THE SURVEY RESPONDENTS AGREED THAT NASHS CONTRACT SHOULD BE TERMINATED AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. ACCORDING TO TRUSTEE OFFICIALS, THE BOARD EVALUATED NASH BASED ON EXPECTATIONS SET BY THE BOARD ALONE. NASH SAID SHE BELIEVED THE QUESTIONS IN THE SURVEY WERE LEADING AND PURPOSELY SOLICITED NEGATIVE RESPONSES.

ATV VS CAR ACCIDENT JKB 5/23/11

• A CLEARLAKE MAN SUFFERED MAJOR INJURIES WHEN HE RODE HIS 3 WHEELED ATV INTO THE SIDE OF A CAR ON THURSDAY.

44 YEAR OLD LAURENCE MENDES WAS TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED ON HIS ATV WHEN HE RAN A STOP SIGN AT THE INTERSECTION OF OAK AND 6TH STREETS AT AROUND 5 PM. HE COLLIDED WITH THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE OF A CAR DRIVEN BY 22 YEAR OLD BRUCE WELLS OF CLEARLAKE. MENDES, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A HELMET, WAS EJECTED FROM THE ATV. HE WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF THE COUNTY FOR TREATMENT OF SEVERE HEAD INJURIES.

8 ARRESTED IN SEX OFFENDER SWEEP JKB 5/23/11

• 8 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED DURING A 2 DAY SEX OFFENDER SWEEP IN MENDOCINO COUNTY LAST WEEK.

DEPUTIES CONDUCTED THE SWEEP LAST WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY TO MAKE SURE THE OFFENDERS WERE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THEIR PROBATION AND PAROLE. 8 MEN WERE ARRESTED FOR A NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS, BUT ONLY ONE WAS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED TO PROPERLY REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.

News 5/19/11

WOMAN DIES AFTER PICK UP GOES IN RIVER JKB 5/19/11

• A HUMBOLDT COUNTY WOMAN DIED WHEN SHE WAS UNABLE TO ESCAPE FROM A PICK UP TRUCK THAT HAD PLUMMETED 400 FEET OVER AN EMBANKMENT OFF HIGHWAY 101 AND INTO THE EEL RIVER LATE TUESDAY.

20 YEAR OLD AMANDA KLEMM OF MCKINLEYVILLE WAS A PASSENGER IN THE TRUCK DRIVEN BY 19 YEAR OLD NOAH CARTER OF EUREKA. ACCORDING TO THE CHP, CARTER LOST CONTROL IN RAINY WEATHER AS HE ENTERED A CURVE NORTH OF LEGGET AND PLUNGED OVER THE SIDE OF THE CLIFF AT AROUND 10:30 PM. THE TRUCK SANK IN APPROXIMATELY 40 FEET OF WATER. CARTER WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE THE SINKING TRUCK BUT KLEMM COULD NOT. OFFICIALS SAY ALCOHOL OR DRUGS DO NOT APPEAR TO BE A FACTOR IN THE CRASH.

BURGLARY ARREST JKB 5/19/11

• A WILLITS MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR STEALING JEWELRY AND AN IPOD FROM A NEIGHBORS HOUSE AFTER SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE FROM A NEARBY BUSINESS WAS USED TO PLACE HIM AT THE SCENE.

18 YEAR OLD BRUCE EVAN CARTWRIGHT JR. ADMITTED TO HIS INVOLVEMENT AFTER AUTHORITIES CONFRONTED HIM WITH THE VIDEOTAPE ON TUESDAY, THAT HAD A VIEW OF THE VICTIMS HOUSE FROM AN ADJACENT PARKING LOT. CARTWRIGHT HELPED AUTHORITIES RECOVER SOME OF THE STOLEN ITEMS. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE COUNTY JAIL WITH BAIL SET AT $50,000.

MOLESTATION SENTENCE JKB 5/19/11

• A FORMER WILLITS SCHOOL TEACHER WHO PLEADED GUILTY THE ONGOING MOLESTATION OF A GIRL THAT BEGAN WHEN THE VICTIM WAS JUST 12 YEARS OLD, WAS SENTENCED TO 6 YEARS 8 MONTHS IN PRISON YESTERDAY.

28 YEAR OLD MEGHAN ALLISON STEWART ADMITTED TO MOLESTING THE VICTIM, WHO IS NOW 19, BETWEEN 50 AND 100 TIMES FROM SEPTEMBER OF 2004 TO AUGUST OF 2007 WHILE SHE WAS WORKING AS A SOCCER COACH WITH A LOCAL LEAGUE IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY. STEWART WAS ARRESTED JANUARY 4TH AT BAECHTEL GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL IN WILLITS WHERE SHE WAS HIRED TO TEACH PE IN AUGUST OF 2010.

COUNTERFEIT BILLS JKB 5/19/11

• A RASH OF COUNTERFEIT $100 BILLS HAS TURNED UP IN LAKE COUNTY DURING THE PAST WEEK AND THE LAKEPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT IS URGING BUSINESSES TO BE VIGILANT.

PHONY $100 BILLS WERE PASSED AT TWO SEPARATE BUSINESSES ON SOUTH MAIN STREET IN LAKEPORT ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AND UMPQUA BANK REPORTED THAT COUNTERFEIT $100 BILLS FROM DIFFERENT BUSINESSES THROUGH OUT KELSEYVILLE AND LAKEPORT HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED. AUTHORITIES ARE ENCOURAGING LOCAL BUSINESSES TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH IDENTIFYING COUNTERFEIT BILLS.

LIFE SENTENCE IN RAPE JKB 5/19/11

• A 25 YEAR OLD SANTA ROSA MAN WILL NEVER BE RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER A SONOMA COUNTY JUDGE GAVE HIM THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE POSSIBLE YESTERDAY IN THE RAPE OF AN 87 YEAR OLD WOMAN AT KNIFE POINT.

KEVIN MARQUICE COULTER ANTHONY WAS ALREADY SERVING A 25 YEARS TO LIFE SENTENCE FOR A PRIOR RAPE CONVICTION. JUDGE VIRGINIA MARCOIDA SENTENCED HIM TO ANOTHER 25 YEARS TO LIFE SENTENCE PLUS AN ADDITIONAL 84 YEARS FOR THE RAPE OF THE ELDERLY WOMAN THAT OCCURRED IN 2005.

ABANDONED BUILDING USED BY TRANSIENTS TORN DOWN JKB 5/19/11

• AN ABANDONED BUILDING ON EAST GOBBI STREET THAT WAS BEING USED BY TRANSIENTS AS A MAKE SHIFT SHELTER, AND THAT HAD BECOME AN ONGOING PROBLEM FOR FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE AND LOCAL BUSINESS OWNERS, WAS TORN DOWN TUESDAY MORNING.

THE SHED, LOCATED AT 292 EAST GOBBI STREET BEHIND TAPESTRY FAMILY SERVICES WAS APPROVED FOR DEMOLITION IN JANUARY. A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE SHED A PUBLIC NUISANCE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO GO BEFORE THE UKIAH CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT TURNED OUT TO BE UNNECESSARY.

MARIJUANA BILL JKB 5/19/11

• GROWING MARIJUANA IN CALIFORNIA COULD SOON BE A MISDEMEANOR IF THE LEGISLATURE PASSES A BILL SPONSORED BY STATE ASSEMBLYMAN TOM AMMIANO.

THE BILL, WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY MENDOCINO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY C. DAVID EYSTER, WOULD CHANGE MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FROM A MANDATORY FELONY TO A SO-CALLED WOBBLER OFFENSE, GIVING DISTRICT ATTORNEYS THE OPTION OF CHARGING CULTIVATION OPERATIONS AS EITHER A MISDEMEANOR OR A FELONY. THE BILL PASSED OUT OF COMMITTEE YESTERDAY AND WILL NOW HEAD TO THE ASSEMBLY FLOOR FOR CONSIDERATION.

BOS APPROVES LIBRARY MEASURE FOR BALLOT JKB 5/19/11

• THE MENDOCINO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVED A MEASURE THAT WILL BE PLACED ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT THAT WILL ASK VOTERS TO SUPPORT A 1/8TH CENT SALES TAX INCREASE TO HELP FUND COUNTY LIBRARIES.

THE TAX, IF APPROVED WOULD APPLY IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY AND ITS 4 CITIES, AND WOULD END AFTER 16 YEARS. THE MEASURE WILL NEED A 2/3RDS MAJORITY TO PASS.

News 5/18/11

HIGH SPEED CHASE AND DRIVE BY SHOOTING JKB 5/18/11

• A CLEARLAKE POLICE OFFICER WAS INJURED LATE MONDAY NIGHT WHEN HE CRASHED HIS PATROL CAR DURING A HIGH SPEED CHASE.

THE OFFICER, WHOSE NAME WAS NOT RELEASED WAS TREATED AT ST. HELENA HOSPITAL FOR NON LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. THE MAN HE WAS CHASING, 28 YEAR OLD JOSHUA SMITH OF CLEARLAKE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE AFTER ABANDONING HIS VEHICLE ON BIG CANYON ROAD. HE REMAINS AT LARGE. THE CHASE, WHICH REACHED SPEEDS OF 100 MILES AN HOUR, BEGAN AFTER OFFICERS RESPONDED TO A CALL THAT SMITH HAD DRIVEN PAST THE HOME OF A WOMAN IN VIOLATION OF A COURT ORDER AND THREATENED TO HARM HER WITH A KNIFE. SMITH ALREADY HAD WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST IN LAKE COUNTY AND IS A SUSPECT IN A HOME INVASION ROBBERY THAT OCCURRED LAST WEEK.

POLICE ARE ALSO INVESTIGATING WHETHER HE WAS CONNECTED TO A DRIVE BY SHOOTING THAT TOOK PLACE ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS THE HIGH SPEED CHASE. THE CHASE WAS CALLED OFF WHEN POLICE RECEIVED THE CALL ABOUT THE SHOOTING THAT OCCURRED JUST BEFORE 11 PM. A 16 YEAR OLD MALE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTED TO ST HELENA HOSPITAL WITH A SINGLE NON LIFE THREATENING GUNSHOT WOUND TO HIS UPPER HEAD. DETAILS OF THE SHOOTING WERE NOT RELEASED, BUT IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE SUSPECT FLED IN A VEHICLE, AND THAT THE INCIDENT MAY HAVE BEEN GANG RELATED. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT EITHER OF THESE INCIDENTS IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE CLEARLAKE POLICE DEPARTMENT. CALLERS MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS.

ARSON FIRE SET BY SON JKB 5/18/11

• A 17 YEAR OLD BOY WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER ALLEGEDLY SETTING FIRE TO HIS MOTHERS HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE HOME.

THE BOYS MOTHER CALLED 911 AT 8:10 AM AND REPORTED THAT HER SON WAS BREAKING THINGS AND HAD SPREAD LIGHTER FLUID AND TOILET PAPER THROUGH THE HOUSE AND TRIED TO LIGHT A FIRE IN THE BATHROOM. THE HOME WAS HEAVILY INVOLVED IN FLAMES BY THE TIME FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED MINUTES LATER. THE BOY WAS ARRESTED AND TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL FOR A MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION BEFORE BEING BOOKED INTO THE LAKE COUNTY JUVENILE HALL.

E-QUAKES JKB 5/18/11

• THE EARTHQUAKE THAT SHOOK AN AREA 6 MILES NORTH-NORTH EAST OF UKIAH YESTERDAY WAS DOWNGRADED FROM A 3.8 TO A 3.7 BY THE US. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THIS MORNING.

THAT QUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED AT 8:20 AM, WAS FOLLOWED BY 3 AFTERSHOCKS RANGING IN SIZE BETWEEN 1.3 AND 2.5 IN MAGNITUDE. 11 QUAKES HAVE STRUCK THE SAME AREA SINCE SATURDAY.

TWO HIKERS DIE A YOSEMITE JKB 5/18/11

• TWO HIKERS HAVE DIED AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, BECOMING THE PARKS FIRST ACCIDENTAL FATALITIES OF THE YEAR.

ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, KENT BUTLER OF AUSTIN TEXAS DIED FRIDAY AFTER SLIPPING ON A ROCK SLAB WHILE HIKING THE MIST TRAIL, A ROUTE MADE WET AND SLICK BY MELTING SNOW. BUTLER FELL INTO THE MERCED RIVER, BECAME LODGE IN ROCKS AND APPARENTLY DROWNED. JAMES DUNBAR OF BERKELEY ALSO DIED FRIDAY AFTER HE SUSTAINED A SEVERE HEAD INJURY WHEN HE TRIPPED AND FELL WHILE RUNNING DOWN THE STEEP UPPER YOSEMITE FALL TRAIL. AN AVERAGE OF 12 TO 15 DEATHS OCCUR IN THE PARK EACH YEAR, RANGING FROM SLIPS AND FALLS TO DROWNINGS AND DEATHS FROM NATURAL CAUSES.

DRUG AND WEAPONS ARREST JKB 5/18/11

• FORT BRAGG POLICE FOLLOWING UP ON A SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE THAT WAS SPOTTED NEAR THE FORT BRAGG MINI STORAGE, ARRESTED A MAN ON DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES SUNDAY EVENING.

33 YEAR OLD NICKOLAS BOLLMAN WAS STOPPED AND FOUND TO BE DRIVING ON A SUSPENDED LICENSE. A SEARCH OF HIS VEHICLE TURNED UP DANGEROUS IMPACT AND CUTTING WEAPONS PLACED WITHIN EASY REACH OF THE DRIVERS SEAT. HE WAS ALSO FOUND IN POSSESSION OF APPROXIMATELY 3 AND A HALF GRAMS OF CRYSTAL METH, AND A GLASS SMOKING PIPE. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE COUNTY JAIL WHERE HE IS BEING HELD ON $15,000 BAIL.

EQUINE HERPES OUTBREAK JKB 5/18/11

• AN OUTBREAK OF EQUINE HERPES MYELOENCEPHALOPATHY, OR EHM, HAS BEEN DETECTED AROUND THE STATE AND HORSE OWNERS ARE BEING ADVISED TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE DISEASE.

ACCORDING TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, THE ILLNESS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN 10 HORSES IN CALIFORNIA. ONE HORSE IN KERN COUNTY WAS EUTHANIZED AFTER SHOWING SEVERE NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISEASE. ALL OF THE INFECTED HORSES RECENTLY ATTENDED THE NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATIONS WESTERN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ODGEN, UTAH, HELD IN LATE APRIL AND EARLY MAY. EQUINE HERPES IS EXTREMELY CONTAGIOUS AMONG HORSES. ANIMALS THAT SHOW SIGNS OF THE DISEASE NEED TO BE QUARANTINED IMMEDIATELY. THE DISEASE IS NOT TRANSMISSIBLE TO HUMANS.

MENDO COUNTY CEO ANGELOS SALARY UNDER FIRE JKB 5/18/11

• THE SALARY OF MENDOCINO COUNTY CEO CARMEL ANGELO CAME UNDER FIRE AT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING YESTERDAY AFTER DRAWING THE IRE OF MEMBERS OF SEIU LOCAL 1021 WHO WERE IN ATTENDANCE.

THE UNION REPRESENTS COUNTY WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN ASKED TO TAKE A 15% PAY CUT. THEY VOICED THEIR CRITICISM WHEN THE SAME PAY CUT WAS NOT IMPOSED ON ANGELOS $150,000 A YEAR SALARY WHEN THE BOARD AGREED TO EXTEND HER CONTRACT BY 2 YEARS YESTERDAY. 2ND DISTRICT SUPERVISOR JOHN MCCOWEN CAME TO ANGELOS DEFENSE BY SAYING SHE HAD ALREADY TAKEN A PAY CUT WHEN SHE TOOK OVER THE JOB IN 2009 FOR $30,000 A YEAR LESS THAN FORMER CEO TOM MITCHELLS ANNUAL SALARY OF $180,000 A YEAR. THE ITEM WAS ON THE BOARDS CONSENT CALENDAR, BUT PULLED FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION BY SUPERVISOR KENDAL SMITH WHEN IT WAS NOTED THAT ANGELOS NEW CONTRACT WASNT INCLUDED WITH THE AGENDA MATERIALS OR POSTED ONLINE WITH THE AGENDA. THE CONTRACT EXTENSION WAS PUT TO A VOTE A FEW MINUTES LATER HOWEVER AND PASSED 4 TO 1 WITH SUPERVISOR SMITH DISSENTING.