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A Fort Bragg man was sentenced Friday to six years in state prison for raping the 13-year-old daughter of what had been a close family friend.
Tags: California, Fort Bragg, Humboldt, Northern California
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Adventist Health has committed $58 million to build a new Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, allowing plans to proceed after six years of fund raising. “I’m ecstatic,” said Margie Handley, who heads the hospital foundation’s board and whose family donated 33 acres south of town for the hospital.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, Northern California, Willits
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State court officials in December announced they’re moving forward with plans to build a new Mendocino County Courthouse, and there’s every likelihood the $119.9 million project won’t be downtown, potentially sucking some of the life from Ukiah’s core.
But after 19 years of running a booming business across from the Ukiah courthouse, Zach Schat is worried.
Tags: California, court, downtown, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, law, lawyer, Mendocino, Northern California, Ukiah
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Mendocino County authorities have arrested a Laytonville man for suspicion of murder after finding the dead remains of a man reported missing two weeks earlier on the property where both lived.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, Laytonville, Mendocino, Mendocino County, murder, Northern California
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It’s a race against time to save Capt. Fletcher’s Inn, a dilapidated but important remnant of the bustling 1800s logging town that once thrived where the Navarro River meets the Pacific Ocean in Mendocino County.
Tags: California, coast, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, logging, Mendocino, Mendocino County, Northern California, Pacific Ocean
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Developers spent a record-breaking $917,375 on a failed ballot measure that would have allowed them to bypass Mendocino County’s planning process and build the county’s largest commercial development.
Tags: ballot, California, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, Mendocino, Mendocino County, Northern California
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The largest in a series of small earthquakes that shook The Geysers area early Saturday was a magnitude 3.4, according to preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Tags: earthquake, The Geysers
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The state Historical Resources Commission on Friday officially deemed Confusion Hill, the gravity-defying tourist stop in northern Mendocino County, a California Point of Historical Interest.
Tags: California, Confusion Hill, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, Mendocino, Mendocino County, Northern California
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Two brothers were arrested Thursday in connection with a vandalism-triggered home invasion robbery north of Ukiah Jan. 17, law officials said.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, law, Northern California, robbery, Ukiah
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A Point Arena man was arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with an unprovoked pepper spray assault, law officials said. Marucs Meloy, 19, allegedly walked up to Emilio Rivera, 29, as he stood in the doorway of his Port Road apartment and sprayed him in the face, said Mendocino County Sheriff’s Capt. Kurt Smallcomb.
Tags: assault, California, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, law, Mendocino, Mendocino County, Northern California, Point Arena
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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. predicts more customers who are delinquent on their bills will have their power shut off once the utility completes the installation of new meters. The so-called SmartMeters allow the company to cut power without sending a crew to a customer’s home.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, Northern California, PG&E, San Francisco
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Thousands of non-violent California prison and jail inmates become eligible Monday to have their sentences reduced substantially by getting greater credit for time served time. Generally, qualifying inmates will half their sentences, and in some cases less, instead of the current two-thirds.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, inmate, Northern California
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The California Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out limits on how much pot that medical marijuana patients can possess, but the ruling spread confusion among law enforcement agencies.
Tags: California, court, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, law, law enforcement, marijuana, medical marijuana, Northern California, pot
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About 600 customers were without power in both Sonoma and Mendocino counties on Thursday morning as trees continued to uproot themselves from soil left soggy by recent storms.
Tags: coast, Mendocino
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Telephone land lines were silent Wednesday in the northeastern Mendocino County communities of Covelo and Laytonville as the weather continued to pound the North Coast. The phone-line loss affected 911 emergency phone service, a cause of concern for law and emergency officials. But it had little effect on most people.
Tags: California, Covelo, Humboldt, Humboldt County News, law, law enforcement, Laytonville, Northern California
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