Tag: Lassen

Search continuing for man accused of robbing Standish gas station

UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 10:39 a.m., With newly released information and video footage from Lassen County Sheriff’s Office Originally Published: Sunday, March 27, 4:42 p.m. STANDISH, Calif., — Authorities who are continuing to ask for the public’s help in identifying and locating an alleged gas station and convenience store armed robbery suspect recently released video footage that showed the handgun-wielding […]

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Stranded in deep snow for six terrifying days, Lassen County woman found safe after extensive search

LASSEN COUNTY, Calif., — Authorities say a Little Valley woman is lucky to be alive after spending six days stranded on a rural dirt road when her vehicle became stuck in deep snow. The 52-year-old victim, Sheena Gullett, reportedly became separated from her companion while trying to walk to safety last week and survived on a ration of one yogurt […]

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Airborne re-seeding continuing throughout Lassen and Plumas areas damaged by last year’s Beckwourth Complex wildfire

Bureau of Land Management staff from the agency’s Eagle Lake Field Office last week began a re-seeding project aimed at dropping tons of shrub and grass seed on rugged, inaccessible wildlife habitat areas that were destroyed in last summer’s Beckwourth Complex wildfire. The massive wildfire, which was the result of two earlier lightning-caused fires that eventually merged, burned for several […]

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Questions, concerns growing, “nerves rattled”, after second early morning Westwood shooting

WESTWOOD, Calif., — Authorities today are continuing to investigate the shooting of a man near Birch and 7th streets in Westwood early this morning, July 26. The victim sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg and was treated and since been released from an area hospital. Although officials have said this morning’s shooting was not believed to be related to […]

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CHP’s Northern Division Air Ops busy with trio of high-altitude hoist rescues in five days

NORTH STATE REGION, Calif. — Constantly training for high-altitude, technical hoist rescues, California Highway Patrol’s Northern Division Air Operations aviation crew members are always prepared to launch at a moment’s notice for such emergencies. However, it was a busier week than usual with three separate and unrelated rescues performed in the North State region over the last week. The first […]

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Pair dead after two-vehicle Hwy 44 crash

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — Authorities have confirmed that two people were killed in a two-vehicle traffic collision that occurred on Hwy 44, near Bridge Creek Road and two miles east of the Lassen Park Entrance, early Thursday evening, March 11. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Driver sought after hit and run kills Burney woman, 63 No injuries after vehicle crashes through […]

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BREAKING: Officials headed to rollover crash, car submerged, in Poison Lake

UPDATED: Sunday, May 5, 11:15 a.m. LASSEN COUNTY —  CHP and other rescue personnel have arrived at the scene of this morning’s rollover crash involving a car that crashed into Lassen County’s Poison Lake and came to rest upside down and partially submerged. According to a CHP incident log and official radio traffic, the first arriving CHP personnel  found all […]

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One injured in 299E “T-Bone” crash in Lassen County

One person sustained minor injuries this morning after a pickup truck pulled out onto Highway 299E and was struck broadside by a vehicle that had been traveling along the rural, two-lane highway. The accident happened just east of mile marker 21.00, between the unincorporated communities of Beiber and Juniper Junction, in Lassen County. The crash was just one of three […]

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UPDATE: Excessive speed, intoxication, suspected in fatal McArthur rollover

Writer’s note: A previous version of this report used information gathered from CHP-Redding’s online incident log; which in turn had used appended information gathered from CHP-Susanville’s incident log. CHP later confirmed several time discrepancies caused by delays in information appended from one CHP log to the other. I apologize for any confusion caused by the earlier report and the time […]

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SCSO releases details of ST business owner arrested for murdering woman he had been dating

Shasta County Sheriff’s officials announced this morning the arrest of a Shingletown business owner late last week who they allege was responsible for the murder of a woman whose “badly burned” body was found in the area of Battle Creek Reservoir, west of Old Station and north of Viola, in the Lassen National Forest. Due to the condition of the […]

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