News From Around The County
From PG&E: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) urges the public to take extra safety precautions as water flows are increased on two weekends in October for whitewater recreation on a portion of the Pit River in eastern Shasta County. The higher flows will occur below the Pit 1 Dam the weekends of October 6-7 and October 20-21. Flows will […]
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ANDERSON — A probationer with felony warrants was arrested earlier this evening, Monday, Oct. 1, after authorities found the man digging for “cool stuff” inside an Anderson Police Department dumpster. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Big-rig and sedan tangle on 299 in Bella Vista Officials investigating after woman’s body found in Yreka Shasta County’s Most Wanted Criminals & Arrests – Updated […]
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BELLA VISTA — Officials are at the scene of a rear-end collision between a tractor-trailer big-rig and sedan that happened earlier this evening on SR-299 near Dry Creek Rd. in Bella Vista. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Officials investigating after woman’s body found in Yreka Shasta County’s Most Wanted Criminals & Arrests – Updated Weekly UPDATE: Local man killed in McArthur […]
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YREKA — Officials are investigating after a deceased woman was found wedged between two residential fences on the 300 block of Lawrence Ln., early Monday evening. A resident who found the victim’s partially decomposed body later told investigating officers they were led to the gruesome find by the smell. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Driver and dog confirmed dead after Dorris […]
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Compiled from SCSO and Redding PD Most Wanted: Jamie Lee Bowman Post Date:09/27/2018 4:00 p.m. Jamie Lee Bowman DOB: 08/02/1968 6’00 / 270 LBS Blonde Hair / Blue Eyes Charge: Drunk Driving Felony Offense Most Wanted: Joseph Lee Anderson Post Date:09/27/2018 3:55 p.m. Joseph Lee Anderson DOB: 12/27/1972 5’08 / 240 lbs Brown Hair / Brown Eyes Charge: Possession […]
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UPDATED: Thursday, Sept. 27, 7 p.m., With additional details and GoFundMe link Original story: Local man ID’d after motorcycle smashes into McArthur utility pole MCARTHUR — A local man riding an off-road motorcycle died Monday evening, Sept. 24, when he failed to negotiate a curve on SR-299 and his motorcycle smashed into a utility pole just west of McArthur […]
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HORNBROOK — A man is recovering and officials are investigating after the victim was reportedly shot in the Hornbrook area, early this morning, Tuesday, Sept. 25. Sheriff’s officials are now working to determine where the shooting actually occurred and what may have led to the incident, which officials believe happened in the area of Tarpon and Moonfish drives, east of […]
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CORNING — Officials are at the scene of a single-vehicle, minor-injury wreck involving a tractor-trailer big-rig that overshot an off ramp and crashed through the fence of an equestrian center earlier this morning, Tuesday, Sept. 25. The accident happened in the area of I-5 and Liberal Ave. in Corning, according to a California Highway Patrol incident log. LEADING THE SCNS […]
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UPDATED: Friday, Sept. 28, 1:30 p.m. See original story below. DORRIS — Officials have identified a Van Nuys woman who died after her vehicle smashed through a railroad crossing arm and drove at high-speed into the path of an oncoming Amtrak commuter train. 35-year-old, Ashley Jennifer Hinson, was identified yesterday as the victim killed in the collision with Amtrak’s Coast […]
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REDDING — Authorities are investigating a two-vehicle, rollover traffic collision that happened Thursday afternoon, Sept. 20. There were no reported injuries related to the crash on Churn Creek Rd., just north of Hartnell Ave., in Redding. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Anderson medical aid call leads to violent confrontation, arrest Supervisors unanimously vote to add 20 mental health beds at SRMC […]
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