Articles by Hank Sims

December 2016

LOLETA HAY-TASTROPHE: Cannibal Island Road Closed After Hay Truck Goes Haywire

Mudslide Closes Northbound 101 Near Fernbridge; Detours Available

Both Toys For Tots’ Burglary Suspects Arrested; One Charged With Possession of Tear Gas

Smug’s Pizza in Old Town Held Up at Gunpoint; Robber Took Register Money, Tip Jar

Police Searching Area Around Winco After Report of Armed House Burglar; Children’s Center Locked Down

LoCO Supercommenter ‘Shrox’ Talks Star Trek and Graphic Art on KHUM

Highway 299 is Going to Be Closed For a Long, Long Time

(PHOTOS) A Couple of Dudes Actually Stole Two Bins Full of Donated Toys For Poor Kids From the Mall, Eureka Police Say

FLOOD WATCH! A Hard Rain is Going to Fall, Says the National Weather Service

POLL: What Will You Be Mad About Today?

Eureka Police Chief Names the Four Officers Who Opened Fire in Last Week’s Downtown Officer-Involved Shooting

Your Congressman Has a New Podcast! Here’s the Details on ‘Off the Cuff,’ With the Huff!

Highway 299 is Closed Again!

20-Year-Old Shot Dead in Manila Early This Morning; Victim Found Lying in the Middle of Highway 255

EUREKA POLICE: That ‘Abducted Child’ Case Friday Was Not a Case of Abduction At All, It Turns Out

(UPDATING) Highway 101 Closed at Piercy (But You Can Still Get Through)

Eureka Home Taped Off as Police — Out of an ‘Abundance of Caution’ — Investigate a Death Inside

Fight, Attempted Robbery at Humboldt State; University Police Seek Info on Two Students Who Fracased With Non-Student

‘Domestic Disturbance’ Call Leads Deputies to 368 Pounds of Weed, Ton of Guns

(UPDATE: AFTERSHOCKS!) EARTHQUAKE! 6.8 6.5 Rocker Strikes Offshore

CHIEF MILLS: Suspect in Last Night’s Shooting Expected to Survive; Investigators Unclear if He Fired on Officers

(UPDATING) SHOTS FIRED DOWNTOWN: One Person Down After Eureka Police Engage in Firefight on Fifth Street; Highway Closed

Two Once-Busted Humboldters Get Healthy Settlement From State of Iowa

TODAY’S WEATHER: Winds and Cold Temperatures in Forecast Prompt National Weather Service to Issue ‘Emergency Shelter Alert’

WATCH: Sector Humboldt Bay Airlifts a Guy Who Fell Off a Trinidad Bluff Today

IT’S GONNA SNOW! National Weather Service Issues Hazardous Weather Outlook For the High Country

Someone Found a Big Bag of Meth at a SoHum Gas Station Today, Sheriff’s Office Says

Marijuana Robbery in Fieldbrook Last Night; After High-Speed Chase, Two Suspects Arrested and One at Large

SoHum Deputies Track Down Witness in Tulare County Child Murder Case

Man Goes Missing in the Alderpoint Area; Sheriff’s Office Seeks Help Finding Him

November 2016

US Bank in Henderson Center Robbed This Afternoon; Officers Searching For Suspects

SNOW RESCUE! Sheriff’s Office, Highway Patrol, PG&E Spend Two Days Getting to Stranded Woman

Missing Eureka Four-Year-Old Safe and Sound; Apparent Misunderstanding Led Father to Assume Custody of Child, Sheriff’s Office Says

(PHOTOS) No One Shreds Crazy Unsafe Surf Like the United States Coast Guard

CANNA-CLAUS NOT COMING TO TOWN: Eureka Man Busted on Ohio Freeway With 71 Pounds of Xmas-Wrapped Weed, Extracts

Father and Son Plead Guilty to 2015 Hoopa Murder; Suspected Light Package of Weed Led to Shooting of Three People, Prosecutors Say

Helicopter Circling Ridgewood Drive/McKay Tract Area With Searchlight

Suspect in String of Ten Armed Robberies Arrested After Hiding From Police in the Woods

The Jail’s New High-Tech Mail-Scanning Gear Caught Someone Trying to Smuggle In Narcotics, Sheriff’s Office Says

Someone Seems to Have Smashed Their SUV Into Petco Last Night

(UPDATE: CLOSED AGAIN!) Highway 299 Closed in Trinity County After Rock Slide

Benbow Inn Held Up at Gunpoint Last Night; Sheriff’s Office Seeking Suspect

Felony Warrant Suspect Tried/Failed to Evade Arrest Via Subfloor Hidey-Hole, Police Say; Guns, Burgled Items Found

(PHOTOS, VIDEO) Arcatans Turn Out To Afternoon Trump Protest, Marching from HSU to the Plaza

‘We Are Investigating to the Fullest Extent’: Fortuna Police Chief Speaks to Yesterday’s Alleged Planned Attack on School Rally

(UPDATES) ‘Not My President!’ About 200 Attend Anti-Trump Rally Tonight in Eureka, March From Gazebo to Courthouse and Back

Two Fortuna Students Arrested for Planning ‘Mass Casualty Event’ at Fortuna High School Today

Trinidad Car Burglary Suspect Taken Into Custody at Moonstone; Gun, Drugs, Burglary Tools Found on His Person

(VIDEO) At Least Three People Reported Injured After Explosion, Fire at Rio Dell Home

Garberville Beat Deputy Spots, Arrests Suspect in Domestic Violence/Robbery Case