News From Around The County
RED BLUFF, Calif. — Recent complaints of speeding and reckless driving in and around the City’s school zones, Redding PD conducted a targeted speed enforcement operation in the area of Vista Middle School earlier today. The operation resulted in several motorists being issued a variety of citations, including one who was cited for traveling nearly twice the legal 25 mph […]
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REDDING, Calif. — Authorities say the armed robbery of an elderly woman’s winnings from the Win-River Casino late Thursday night, April 28, ultimately led to the arrest of an Oroville pair after a brief standoff at a Red Bluff apartment complex the following evening. The victim was hospitalized with a laceration to her arm after being dragged from her car […]
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UPDATED: Thursday, April 1, 1:38 p.m., With additional details and release of victim’s name. Originally Published: Wednesday, March 31, 11:38 p.m. LAKE CALIFORNIA, Calif. — Authorities have identified a Cottonwood woman who was killed after a solo-vehicle traffic collision in Lake California Tuesday evening, March 30. A passenger in the car when the fatal accident occurred received minor injuries and […]
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COTTONWOOD, Calif. — Saying, “Not on our watch”, Shasta County Sheriff’s Office announced that a side-by-side UTV stolen from West Valley High School in Cottonwood over the weekend was recovered and a man was arrested earlier today, Wednesday morning, March 24. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Wanted parolee’s arrest ends Shasta Lake barricaded standoff BREAKING: Homicide investigation underway after Burney man’s death […]
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REDDING, Calif. — Authorities say a wanted PRCS felon with eight outstanding warrants who has been arrested eleven times in the last two years was arrested again after leading officers on a dangerous, 100 mph pursuit from Redding to Red Bluff yesterday afternoon, March 21. The man was apprehended after sliding down a hotel laundry shoot, right into the waiting […]
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COTTONWOOD, Calif. — A wanted Redding felon with four felony warrants was arrested after leading deputies on a short, high-speed pursuit and attempting to hide in the backyard shed of a Cottonwood mobile home yesterday morning, Friday, March 19. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Gunfire within half-block of FRJUSD’s Burney office forces lockdowns, bus diversions – Two arrested Prayer vigil and […]
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COTTONWOOD, Calif. — A family of four, including two children, ages 11 and 3, were seriously injured while another driver reportedly sustained minor injuries in a two-vehicle, roll-over traffic collision involving two pickup trucks in Cottonwood Tuesday morning, March 18. The crash, which left three of the seriously injured victims trapped inside the mangled wreckage of their truck, happened along […]
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COTTONWOOD, Calif. — Authorities today confirmed they are continuing their investigation after human remains were discovered in an unincorporated area just outside Cottonwood’s city limits, in Shasta County last week. The remains were found in the area of Cottonwood Creek near the Interstate 5 overpass, Saturday, Jan. 23, according to officials. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Sheriff’s Office, NWS urges residents […]
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COTTONWOOD, Calif. — Authorities last night announced the arrest of two men they say were responsible for a double shooting that left one person dead and another seriously injured and clinging to life in West Cottonwood early Tuesday morning, Nov. 3. Officials had previously said the property where the couple was shot was being used as an illicit marijuana growing operation. […]
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UPDATED: Thursday, Nov. 5, 12:30 p.m., With additional details from Shasta County Sheriff’s Office Originally published: Wednesday, Nov. 4, 10 a.m. SEE RELATED UPDATE: Seattle men arrested in Cottonwood deadly shooting COTTONWOOD, Calif. — Authorities investigating a double shooting that left one person dead in West Cottonwood early Tuesday morning, Nov. 3, say the property the couple was shot at […]
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