Articles by Hank Sims

December 2016

SCANNER TRAFFIC INDICATES: Crazy River Rescue Last Night, as Man Floats Downstream With Disabled Truck

Mail Theft Suspect Leads Mendo Cops on Hairy High-Speed Chase From Ukiah to Willits; Shots Fired at Officers

Teenager Arrested on Serial Burglary Charges Yesterday Also Responsible for Last Week’s Shooting on G Street, Police Believe

The New York Times Wants to Know if Betty Chinn is the Best Californian

How to Not Poison Your Holiday Guests: Tips From the County’s Environmental Health Division

Need to Take the Bus to Redding? Highway 299 May Be Closed, But You Can Ride This Bonkers Public Transit Scenic Route

THOSE SIRENS! The Eureka Police Department Took About 60 Kids Out Shopping for Christmas Presents This Morning

Deputies Find Vehicle Associated With Redway Homicide Attempt Stashed Deep in the Alderpoint Hills; No Arrests Yet

Impromptu Holiday Geyser Erupts on Eureka’s West Side

HELP! Are There Any Christmas Trees Still for Sale Anywhere in Humboldt County?

(UPDATE) Another Two Manila Homicide Suspects Taken Into Custody Last Night

Highway 299 Won’t Open Again Until January

Jury Convicts 70-Year-Old Eurekan of Sexual Abuse of Autistic Child, Says District Attorney

Sheriff’s Deputies Arrest Third Person in Connection With Monday Homicide in Manila

McKinleyville Girl Struck, Killed While Walking on Central Avenue Last Night; Driver Held on DUI-With-Injury Charges

The Rain Came Down! Many County Roads Are Flooded Out This Morning

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