News From Around The County
BURNEY, Calif. — Officials today are continuing to investigate an incident that seriously injured a Burney woman last night, Saturday, April 3. The incident, which was initially reported as a vehicle versus pedestrian hit and run, allegedly happened in the area of Mountain View Road and Hudson Street, just north of Main Street. However, a CHP official today told SCNS, […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Shasta County Sheriff’s officials who last Sunday confirmed exclusively to SCNS that a murder investigation was underway after the beating death of a Burney man have announced that a suspect has been identified and arrested in the ongoing investigation. The victim, 61-year-old, Mark Anderson, who was affiliated with the Burney Church of Christ as a caretaker and […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Although Shasta County Sheriff’s Office officials have said they were not yet ready to release any specific details or information, an SCSO Sergeant confirmed to SCNS this afternoon that a homicide investigation is underway in the small, Intermountain area town of Burney. The victim, confirmed as Mark Anderson, of Burney, recently died after an unspecified altercation that […]
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SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — Concerned family and friends who have been searching for missing Pit River Tribal member Nick Patterson, 26, who has been missing since January, 2020, are holding a prayer vigil and rally for the missing man today, Saturday March 20. The rally is scheduled to go from 3 p.m. until sunset. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Gunfire within […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Authorities say a shotgun-wielding felon and wanted parolee who caused a school and district office lockdown after discharging his firearm was arrested earlier this morning, Tuesday, March 16. A second person was also arrested after the shooting, which happened within a half-block of the Fall River Joint Unified School District’s Burney office on Tamarack Avenue. The suspect, […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — When Melissa Sweet moved to the Intermountain community of Hat Creek more than 20 years ago, she was drawn to the secluded and rural mountain area by the quiet and slow pace of mountain living. With the nearest town of Burney just a few miles away, Melissa thought the area would be the perfect community to bring […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Authorities say a 63-year-old Burney woman was fatally struck by a driver who then fled the scene of the deadly collision last night, Thursday, March 11. The fatal incident happened on SR-299E near Hudson Street. Witnesses to the incident have said the vehicle struck and dragged the victim, before leaving her to die in the middle of […]
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JOHNSON PARK, Calif. — Intermountain area firefighters from multiple area fire stations spent nearly three and a half hours knocking down eight separate but possibly related fires early Thursday morning, March 4. The fires included a large log deck blaze at a lumber yard and seven additional grass and vegetation fires within a half-mile radius. Authorities have since said the […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Already on felony probation, a convicted arsonist was arrested again after a series of incidents that included lighting two fires, vandalizing a video dispensing machine, and then resisting arrest in the Intermountain area town of Burney Friday afternoon, Feb. 19. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Proposed Wiley Project intended to reduce fire dangers in the Lassen National Forest […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — A high-speed vehicle pursuit that raced through the small, Intermountain area towns of Johnson Park and Burney sent other motorists scrambling out of the way of the fleeing Camaro earlier this evening, Friday, Jan. 15. The driver eventually stopped on Plumas Street near Superior Avenue, where he and three other occupants fled on foot. Two of the […]
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