News From Around The County
UPDATED: Thursday, Jan. 7, 6 p.m., With traffic condition update and other information. BURNEY, Calif. — A tractor-trailer combo that jack-knifed and crashed in heavy fog along SR-89 overnight led to multiple calls and confusion about the big-rig’s location, as well as an hours-long citizen-led search for its driver throughout the early morning hours today, Thursday, Jan. 7. The accident […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — California Highway Patrol has confirmed a big-rig driver died while traveling on a remote dirt logging road in the Intermountain area near Burney, about ten miles south of SR-299E early this morning. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Family heirlooms lost in Burney fire that destroyed coop, shed UPDATE: Suspect dead, Walmart reopened, video emerges, after “wild” Redding crime […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Officials say nobody was injured but many irreplaceable family heirlooms were destroyed after a fire erupted in a Burney chicken coop and spread to a nearby shed and surrounding vegetation Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 29. Although nobody was injured in the fire, the blaze destroyed the chicken coop, “leaving five chickens homeless and confused as to where to […]
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Sarah Lindgren-Akana of NorCal Missing and Murdered Indigenous People contributed to this report. BURNEY, Calif. — When 16-year-old Angelo Graves’ family prepared for bed last Friday evening and said goodnight to their son they had no idea he had plans to run away from home. However, once his family was asleep, that’s exactly what the teen did; slipping out of his […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — When Kristi Laughlin, owner of Kristi’s Unique Boutique in Burney, woke to an early morning message from a friend telling her that it appeared her business had been broken into sometime in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Oct. 27, she feared the worst. By the time she arrived at her store around 10:30 a.m., Shasta County […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Authorities say a convicted Burney felon who is prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition was arrested after firing a rifle at his roommate during a disagreement involving two chainsaws early Thursday evening, Oct. 22. The violent encounter and arrest happened at a private residence on the 37000 block of Bue Way, southwest of Grogan St. and Birch […]
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UPDATED: Thursday, Oct. 1, 1:15 p.m. See Original Story below. BURNEY, Calif. — In a follow up interview with California Highway Patrol, CHP Public Information Officer Morton confirmed to SCNS this afternoon that a 32-year-old, Alturas woman was arrested after fleeing the scene of a non-injury “sideswipe” traffic collision involving at least two big rigs and possibly involving several other […]
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UPDATED: Saturday, Sept. 19, 4:20 p.m. See Original Story and Photos below. BURNEY, Calif. — A Hat Creek woman is continuing to recover today after a solo-vehicle rollover accident that happened on Mountain View Rd. in Burney early Friday morning, Sept. 18. The crash, which left a second woman with minor injuries, was the first of two rollover accidents to […]
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SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — California Highway Patrol officials have reported an uptick in traffic collisions involving bears throughout the Intermountain area of Shasta County along State Route 299E, between the city of Redding and Burney area. At least seven bear strikes and near collisions with bears have been reported to CHP over the last few weeks and officials are cautioning […]
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REDDING, Calif. — Authorities say a woman was arrested after speeding through a stop sign and plowing into an off-duty Redding police officer earlier this morning, Saturday, Aug. 22. Both drivers were sent to an area hospital after the rollover crash, which happened at the intersection of Airport Rd. and Hartnell Ave., according to officials. SEE OTHER RECENT SCNS HEADLINE […]
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