News From Around The County
UPDATED: Thursday, Sept. 6, 5:43 p.m., With additional details and information UPDATED: Thursday, Sept. 6, 1:25 p.m., With lane closures updated See original story below. OAK RUN — Officials updated shortly before 1:20 p.m. that both directions of travel on SR-299 were re-opened and the victims had been transported from the scene and were headed to Mercy Medical Center in […]
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BIG VALLEY SUMMIT — Emergency personnel are at the scene of a fiery, single-vehicle accident involving a pickup truck that overturned between McArthur and Nubieber earlier this evening. The crash happened on SR-299, near Big Valley Summit, according to a CHP incident log. CHP and other emergency personnel were dispatched to the scene at 7:14 p.m., after receiving reports of an […]
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UPDATED: Thursday, Sept. 6, 7:51 p.m., With coroner’s release of victim’s name SHASTA LAKE — Officials have released the identity of a Redding woman who died after she was struck and crushed by a large log her friends had rolled down a hill while visiting Woods Island, on the Pit River Arm of Shasta Lake. Authorities are calling the fatal […]
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PALO ALTO — An Angel Flight West pilot was killed and his two passengers were injured after a small airplane crashed into the bay near the city’s airport. Air Traffic Control radio traffic indicated the pilot was possibly unfamiliar with the airport and had to execute a “go-around” and make a second approach at the airfield after he “came in […]
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Fall River Resource Conservation District Board and Staff members recently joined Range Manager Julie Allen as they toured some of the pastures at McArthur Swamp with the goal of observing first hand the condition of the land’s infrastructure as part of their ongoing conservation efforts for the area. At RCD’s monthly board meeting after the tour, the environmental conservation organization […]
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ANDERSON — An out of compliance and unregistered sex offender was arrested last Saturday evening, Aug. 25, after an alert citizen spotted and recognized the man inside Anderson’s Wal-Mart. The store where the man was found and arrested is at 5000 Rhonda Rd., and several fast food restaurants and a T-Mobile store share the Supercenter’s parking lot. LEADING THE SCNS […]
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RED BLUFF — A traffic stop in Tehama County yesterday led to the seizure of more than $2 million in methamphetamine, according to CHP-Red Bluff. Two people were arrested and remain in jail on multiple felony charges. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: UPDATE: MONTGOMERY CREEK: Redding man killed in Hwy 299 head-on wreck ID’d Bomb squad disposes “rotting & unstable” dynamite […]
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ANDERSON — The discovery of rotting and unstable dynamite during a code enforcement inspection of a private Anderson residence forced residential evacuations and road closures, while bomb squad members safely disposed of the potentially dangerous items. The dynamite was found at a home on Barney Rd. late Thursday afternoon, Aug. 30, and the discovery caused officials to close Barney Rd. […]
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BURNEY — When someone stole all the flowers off the back of a wagon in downtown Burney earlier this year the entire community seemed to notice, with many area residents decrying the increase of thefts and vandalism in the small mountain community of just 3,200 residents. Sadly, the beautiful, donated wagon – which sits at the corner of Main and […]
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UPDATED: Saturday, Sept. 1, 3:30 p.m. See original story below. MONTGOMERY CREEK — Family members and friends of a Redding man who died in a head-on collision on Highway 299, Thursday morning, Aug. 30, have identified the victim killed in the wreck as Chris Liso. Liso was president of Liso Pest Control and he was driving one of his company’s […]
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