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(Washoe County, NV) — Authorities in Nevada believe they have found the body of 48-year-old Patricia Portella-Wright, a missing woman from Kings Beach in Placer County.The remains were discovered down a steep embankment off Mount Rose Highway in Washoe County. Portella-Wright was reported missing on August 9th. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office is awaiting confirmation…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(Oroville, CA) – The Oroville Police Department is searching for a shooting suspect. Officers responded yesterday morning to a report of a shooting at the Motel 6 and identified the suspect as 45-year-old Jacob Marmon of Oroville. An arrest warrant has been issued. Marmon is caucasian, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds and…

(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…

(Roseville, CA) — Students at Creekview Ranch School in the Roseville area were evacuated Wednesday morning following a bomb threat. The call came in at 9:50 a.m. Placer County Sheriff’s deputies cleared the campus, finding no threat.All students were safely evacuated, and classes later resumed.

(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…

(Butte County, CA) – The Butte County Sheriff’s office reports the arrest of an Olivehurst man in Oroville.Deputies were dispatched last Saturday morning at around 6:00 to a home on Lower Honcut Road after the homeowner called 911 and reported seeing a man on her security cameras, attempting to open a door and get into…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Reminders from both the Yuba City Police Department and the Sutter County Sheriff’s office that the new school year begins today.That means back to observing the 25 mph speed limit in school zones, increased pedestrian activity and to be aware that when school buses have flashing yellow lights, slow down – and…