(Oroville, CA) – A homeless Oroville man in custody after being convicted of stabbing two other homeless men, is facing additional charges after allegedly assaulting a correctional officer yesterday.Chance Vincent was scheduled for sentencing for the 2022 stabbings this Friday. However, that has now been delayed until proceedings regarding the battery of that correctional officer…
(YWA release) – Tim Truong, Yuba Water Agency’s chief dam safety engineer, has been elected to the board of directors for the United States Society on Dams, a leading organization dedicated to advancing the safe and sustainable operation of dams and levees and building a solid community of dam management professionals. Truong will serve a…
(Chico, CA) – CHP reports that on the north edge of our listening area, a pedestrian was hit and killed by a big-rig. The accident occurred late Sunday night at 11:07, on southbound HWY 99 at Esplanade.The driver, 49-year-old Eliasar Seadler of Oroville pulled to the right shoulder immediately after the collision. Both lanes were blocked…
(Roseville, CA) — A landmark fentanyl-related trial is getting underway in Placer County.On Monday, the jury was selected in the trial of a 20-year-old man facing homicide charges after a person overdosed on fentanyl in December of 2021. This is the first time someone in Placer County is going on trial for murder in a…
(Davis, CA) — The man accused of killing two people and seriously injuring a third person in a series of stabbing attacks in Davis is back in a courtroom.On Monday, prosecutors began presenting evidence for a judge to decide whether former U.C. Davis student Carlos Dominguez should stand trial for the stabbing spree last April….
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – CHP reports a pedestrian was killed late Saturday night. The accident occurred just before 11:00 when 61-year-old Fred Bowerman of Oroville was driving a Chevy Trailblazer north on HWY 70 in Yuba County, and hit a pedestrian who “crossed into the direct path of travel, and was struck, causing fatal injuries.”The identity…
(CHP Oroville release) – Around 4:00 AM, on February 24, 2024, officers from the Oroville CHP responded to a distress call reporting a solo vehicle traffic collision on Kusel Road and Custer Lane in an unincorporated area of Butte County.Upon arrival at the scene, officers discovered a vehicle with a deceased female still inside. Subsequent…
(Sacramento, CA) — A man is behind bars after leading Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase in North Highlands. But, he may have done more than just run from the law on Saturday night. Investigators believe he may have also been impersonating a deputy.The man, who was driving a stolen Ford Crown Victoria,…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Follow up to the school bus collision KUBA reported on during yesterday morning’s commute: CHP reports at around 7:30, in heavy fog, the Meridian school bus driver (with 19 students on board), 64-year-old William Rickett of Marysville – with the rooftop fog strobe activated, – was at a stop-sign on South Tarke…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Sutter County Fire Department reports that they, with assistance from Pleasant Grove, East Nicolaus and Yuba County crews, rescued an employee from a silo at Van Dyke’s Rice Dryer on Wednesday. The employee had reportedly fallen in from the top of the silo. Once rescued, the victim was taken to the…
