News From Around The County
UPDATED: Monday, May 6, 11:30 a.m. See Original Story and earlier updates below. BELLA VISTA — At 9:35 a.m., CHP’s incident log updated that a tow truck had arrived at the scene of this morning’s reported rollover crash, which left a green Dodge Dakota pickup truck upside down and partially submerged in Little Cow Creek, just south of SR-299E, between […]
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BURNEY — An eagle-eyed Burney couple driving on a rural mountain roadway near Lake Britton Dam thwarted an attempted gas theft from a PG&E excavator yesterday morning, Saturday, May 4. Although the couple were not able to get a description of the man who fled the scene after realizing he had been caught in the act of siphoning the excavator’s […]
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BURNEY — With the next fire season quickly approaching, residents from throughout the Intermountain area are invited to attend an upcoming public meeting that will be focusing on reducing fire danger risks. The meeting, scheduled for May 13, at Burney’s Veteran’s Memorial Hall from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m., is being hosted by Burney Basin Fire Safe Council, Burney Chamber […]
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BURNEY — More details have emerged after Tuesday afternoon’s head-on, rollover traffic collision involving a U.S. Forest Service Hotshot crew and a passenger vehicle in the small mountain Intermountain community of Burney. This week’s crash injured eleven people, including all ten crew members of the Interagency Hotshot fire crew, which is based out of Redding and was reportedly returning to […]
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UPDATED: Wednesday, May 1, 1 p.m. With additional details from scene regarding detonation and road re-opening. BELLA VISTA — Bomb Squad members and other authorities are at the scene of a possible pipe bomb that was reportedly discovered this morning, Wednesday, May 1. Radio traffic and witnesses at the scene have indicated the suspicious device was found by a CalTrans […]
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BURNEY — Nearly two months after a man’s lifeless body was found inside Burney Creek, officials are still working diligently to learn the identity of the victim. Although a full determination of the man’s cause of death is still pending toxicology results, foul play is not suspected to be a factor in the unidentified man’s death, according to Shasta County […]
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BURNEY — A Burney man, already known for committing crimes throughout the Intermountain area, was arrested again after allegedly breaking into, vandalizing, and burglarizing Burney High School’s maintenance shop early Monday morning, April 15. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: SCSO investigating man’s death, after found not breathing No injuries reported after rollover crash near Old Station Drunken Snapchatting leads to Redding […]
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OLD STATION — Officials are at the scene of a rollover traffic accident involving a sedan that overturned and struck a tree this afternoon, Saturday, April 13. According to a CHP incident log, the accident happened near mile marker 7200 along Highway 44, about eight miles east of the junction of highways 89 and 44. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: SCSO […]
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HAT CREEK — Authorities are investigating the death of a man in the Hat Creek area, who was found unconscious and not breathing inside his pickup truck last night, Thursday, April 11. The victim’s truck was found parked on a logging road off Hwy 89, just south of Charlie Bone Rd. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Two recent Shasta Lake incidents […]
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BELLA VISTA — A dispute between family members at a home in the Bella Vista area ended with family members shooting at each other Wednesday evening, April, 10. One of those involved in the shooting was later hospitalized with critical injuries after his brother shot him, in what officials have since called an act of self defense. LEADING THE SCNS […]
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