(Sacramento, CA) — Several big cities in California have made this year’s list of the top 50 cities in the U.S. that have a problem with rat infestations. Los Angeles placed second, San Francisco is fifth, San Diego is 28th and Sacramento is 33rd, up three spots from last year. Chicago took the top spot.The…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Yuba-Sutter’s September unemployment rate shows a slight improvement from August: 6.3%, down from 6.4%.The unemployment rate last month in Yuba County was 6.2%. It was 6.3% in Sutter County.Overall, the state unemployment rate for September was 4.9%, while nationally it was 3.6%.
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba County Office of Education has scheduled a Fentanyl Awareness Community Event for this evening: 6-7 at the Yuba County Career Preparatory Charter School, 1104 E Street in Marysville.Presentations will include a family member who lost a loved one from a fentanyl overdose, first responders, the Yuba County DA’s officer and…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – At the Tri-Counties Blue Star Moms 15th Anniversary celebration & donation drive Saturday in Yuba City, the organization was presented with proclamations of congratulations and gratitude from our U.S. Representative in the House, Doug LaMalfa, State senator Roger Niello and State Assemblyperson James Gallagher.
(Butte County, CA) – Oroville CHP reports an arrest after a driver led officers on a pursuit exceeding 100 mph.The chase began when the driver failed to pull over last Friday morning at around 7:10, for a vehicle code violation in Palermo. The pursuit started when that driver took off southbound on Palermo-Honcut Highway. Thereafter,…
(Folsom, CA) — A lengthy drug investigation has led to a big stash and an arrest in Sacramento County. Twenty-three-year-old William Rivera was arrested in Folsom late last week after being caught with nearly eight-thousand pills, some of which police say were likely counterfeit.Police say that as they were serving the search warrant, Rivera jumped…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – CHP Yuba-Sutter reports a wrong-way suspected DUI fatal head-on collision just after midnight Wednesday. It occurred on HWY 99 just south of the Yuba City limits.Witnesses tell investigators a Honda Accord, driven by 27-year-old Jonathon Merin Quiroz was driving south in the northbound lanes and collided head-on with a Honda Pilot, killing…
(Placer County, CA) – In Placer County Court yesterday, 36-year-old Josh King of Marysville was sentenced to 17 years in state prison for the robbery of an 89-year-old woman living in a retirement community, in Lincoln, one year ago.King gained access to her property by telling her he “needed to retrieve a ball” in her…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Sutter County Sheriff’s office reports, “prompt and diligent” correction officers “stopped the movement of contraband and potential harm to staff or other inmates.” The incident occurred Wednesday morning, when officers caught an inmate attempting to sneak an approximately 2 foot long metal handle he had removed from a bucket in the…
(Sacramento, CA) — There’s a break in a 1980s murder case out of Sacramento. California D-O-J and Othram Labs collaboration worked Rodney Rumsey’s 41-year-old cold case using Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing.DNA analysis identified distant relatives, and FBI fingerprinting confirmed Rumsey’s identity, turning the case into an active homicide investigation.Othram Labs is continuing similar work across California.
