(Sacramento, CA) – Governor Newsom is saying “no” to the idea of Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes in the Golden State. Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have let cannabis retailers prepare and sell non-cannabis food and beverages and sell tickets to live performances at their cafes.Democratic Assemblyman Matt Haney had authored the bill, with Haney…
(Healdsburg, CA) – Residents near Healdsburg might feel a little shaken up today after being hit by a pair of earthquakes. The two shakers struck Sunday, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.The U.S. Geological Survey says the first earthquake was magnitude 3.0 and hit about 15 miles northeast of Healdsburg after 8:30…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A fundraiser in the form of a car wash is scheduled tomorrow, to cover funeral expenses for Rico Moreno. He was the partially-blind, homeless man fatally struck on Stabler Lane by a vehicle on the morning of September 27. Tributes have been non-stop on Yuba-Sutter social media, singing the praises of a…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) — The Yuba City Police Department said Thursday that there have been “several reports of elderly victims being manipulated and having their debit cards stolen” within the last month.According to a press release from the department, suspects involved in these scams first look over the shoulders of their victims to see them input…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) — Federal officials announced that a 58-year-old Washington state woman pleaded guilty Thursday to a multiyear scheme involving a Sutter County business that netted her more than $900,000.According to The Appeal-Democrat, the U.S Attorney’s office says Tamara Mannisto of Ocean Park, Washington, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud after an investigation…
(Paradise, CA) — Michael Zuccolillo, the former Vice Mayor of Paradise, who was found guilty of three sex-related crimes on Aug. 18, was sentenced to 30 days in county jail and 24 months of probation in Butte County Superior Court Thursday. The judge had stated that Zuccolillo did not seem remorseful about his actions and…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) — Northern California is expected to experience above-average precipitation next week. There’s a 40- to 60-percent chance of rain in the Yuba-Sutter area/Sacramento Valley, foothills, Northern Coast Range, and the Sierra Nevada from Monday through Friday.The National Weather Service says increased rainfall comes as a weather system moves into California and the Pacific…
(Undated) — Starting next year, California workers can accrue up to five days of paid sick leave. This is an increase from three, under a new bill signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. It also allows employees to roll over five paid sick days to the next year.California is one of at least 18 states requiring…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) — Juan Carlos Medina, of Marysville entered a plea deal to arson and forcible rape on Wednesday morning, one month after dousing a 59-year-old woman in hand sanitizer and setting her on fire.According to the Yuba County District Attorney’s Office, on Sept. 7, Medina reportedly burned the victim after a verbal altercation and…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) — The Sutter County District Attorney says that, while Wendy Ann Munson, the Nuestro Elementary School teacher who was arrested by the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office on Monday morning for allegedly driving to school and teaching while under the influence of alcohol, has been released from jail, but that charges have not been…
