Concerns Over Gender Identity Bill Expressed by MJUSD Trustee
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Concerns Over Gender Identity Bill Expressed by MJUSD Trustee

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Seth Stemen, Area 4 trustee for the Marysville Joint Unified School District, delivers a list of transphobic comments during the board meeting…in response to that state bill, preventing school districts from enacting policies that require employees to notify parents if their child prefers to use a different gender identity.With Tuesday’s meeting coming…

Three Sutter County Clerks Charged with Selling Alcohol to Minors
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Three Sutter County Clerks Charged with Selling Alcohol to Minors

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Sutter County Sheriff’s office recently conducted a minor decoy operation with agents of the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. It was carried out at eleven stores and resulted with three clerks caught selling alcohol to underage decoys. The clerks and the stores they worked at are not identified in the…

Marysville Police Launch ‘Get Off Your Apps’ Campaign
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Marysville Police Launch ‘Get Off Your Apps’ Campaign

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Marysville Police Chief Christian Sachs has issued a release announcing the department’s second “Stay Focused, Stay Safe: Get Off Your Apps” hands-free cell phone concentrated campaign of the year, utilizing a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety Administration.It’s all part of an effort to increase patrols focusing on drivers in…

Butte County Reports Second Human West Nile Virus Infection
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Butte County Reports Second Human West Nile Virus Infection

(Butte County, CA) – The Butte County Health Department is reporting their second human West Nile virus infection of the year: A patient over the age of 60, with moderate fever and fatigue symptoms.There have been nine human West Nile virus cases confirmed state-wide this year, including two in Yuba County and one each in…

Prosecutors Recommend Over 6 Years for Yuba City Woman in Church Scam
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Prosecutors Recommend Over 6 Years for Yuba City Woman in Church Scam

(Sacramento, CA) – Federal prosecutors have submitted their sentencing recommendation for Chanell Easton, the former Yuba City woman who pled guilty to wire fraud and then was convicted of aggregated identity theft. The ID theft enabled her to embezzle $361,000 from St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, where she worked. Prosecutors are seeking the maximum allowable sentence…

Police Looking For Additional Victims of Sex Offender
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Police Looking For Additional Victims of Sex Offender

(Sacramento, CA) — The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office believes there may be more victims of a registered sex offender who was arrested back in February. Forty-four-year-old Scott Prange was arrested at a shopping center in Rancho Cordova, after a store clerk saw him shopping for a promise ring with a 15-year-old girl and alerted police.Investigators…