Articles by Hank Sims

November 2016

Unknown Thousands of Votes Still Left to Count, But Most Humboldt County Races Can Be Definitively Called

ELECTION NIGHT RESULTS! Live all night! Follow along!

BREAKING NEWS (CAR): News Channel 3 Rig Involved in Two-Vehicle Crash Near the Elections Office

Another Late-Night Stickup: Tall Man Robs Central Avenue 76 Station at Gunpoint, Flees

Two Alleged Weed Ripoffs Took Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies on A Wild Chase Around Highway 36 Yesterday

PG&E Assures You That Those Helicopters Flying Around This Week Are Not Jade Helm

ELECTION DAY! Today’s the Day When Everything Goes to Hell, Or Maybe Not

Catburglar or Catburglars Snatch Wallet and Keys From Elderly Fortuna Man, Who Was Sleeping

Blue Lake House Burglar Nabbed in the Act Thanks to Alert Neighbor, Sheriff’s Office Says

Would-Be Jail Smuggler’s Body Cavity Found to Contain Self-Harming Substance or Object, Sheriff’s Office Says

Today’s House Fire in Eureka Human-Caused, Suspicious in Nature, Says Humboldt Bay Fire

Eureka Gas Station, Motel Both Held Up at Point of a Shotgun Last Night; Suspect At Large

Sheriff’s Office Probation Search Reveals King Salmon ‘Drug House’

Eureka POP Unit Finds Weed, Meth and Guns in L Street Drug House; Three Arrested

(PHOTOS) Willits Bypass Ceremoniously Opened Today With Huge, Dignitary-Filled Party on a Freeway Viaduct

(GRAPHIC PHOTOS) Sheriff’s Office Releases Gallery of Satanist Graffiti That Adorned Fields Landing Church on Halloween Night

Hoopa Valley Tribe Inks Deal With Wood Products Manufacturer to Fill Old Hoopa Modular Facility

Mobile Hash Lab Suspected in Arcata Car Fire; Two Ohio Residents Taken to San Francisco Burn Center for Treatment

Police, Fire and Insurance Agencies Offer $1,000 Reward to Find Person(s) Responsible for McK Fire

Vandals Graffiti Fields Landing Church With ‘Vulgar Words and Depictions,’ Sheriff’s Office Says

(UPDATE: TWO INJURED) Burning Car Sends Up Plume of Smoke Over Arcata

WHOOPS! Public Works ‘Smoke Test’ in Old Town Prompts Large Emergency Response From Eureka Firefighters

October 2016

LoCO Voted Early, and So Can You! Here Is How to Do That.

A Car Put a Great Big Hole Through One of Humboldt State’s Mission-Style Entrance Signs Last Night

Woman Arrested For Attempted Homicide For Assaulting Drug Store Employee With Hammer

The Skies Above McKinleyville are Filled With Unusual Aircraft

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Suspect in Yesterday’s Hoopa Standoff Fired Weapon ‘In the Direction Of’ Deputies

DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Arcata Police Officer Justified in May Shooting of Stick-Wielding Man

(UPDATE) Law Enforcement Massed in Hoopa for Barricaded Subject; Highway 96 May Be Closed

Fugitive From 24-Year-Old Federal Case Apprehended After Scuffle With Fortuna Police Officers

Look Out, Garberville! There’s A New Deputy in Town

Suspicious Fire on Eureka’s Union Street Early This Morning

It is Time, Once Again, For SOHUM’S MOST WANTED

MALL LIVES MATTER: Walmart Evacuated After Poison Freon Gas Spewed From Broken Freezer Pipe

Suddenlink Has Restored Service to Eel River Valley, But You May Need to Reboot Your Modem

You Have Until Midnight to Register or Reregister to Vote, Humboldt, But You Can Do It Online Lickety-Split

Fiber Cut Takes Out Suddenlink Internet Services, Some Cell Phones in the Eel River Valley

Sheriff’s Office Responds in Force to Walnut Avenue After Several Silent 911 Calls

(UPDATE) McKinleyville Gym Under Construction Leveled By Major Fire This Morning

FROM the MAILBAG: How Many Jews Work at LoCO?

(UPDATED) MISSING WOMAN: Fortuna Police Searching for Missing 81-Year-Old

YOU PASS! YOU FAIL! Eureka Police Handing Out Burglary Grades to Owners of Parked Cars, and Many of Them Not Doing So Hot

Elderly Woman Drives 200 Feet Off City Streets Into Sequoia Park, Prompting Large Emergency Response

Seven Arrested in Yesterday’s Salyer Home Invasion Weed Robbery; Most Suspects From Hoopa/Weitchpec Area

Local U.S. Marshals Arrest Man on the Lam From Alleged Assault on Ashland Cop

Here’s Your Chance to Comment on Jefferson Public Radio’s Story About Humboldt County Comment Threads

Trailers Are Malfunctioning All Around Eureka Today

(UPDATE) Law Enforcement Massing in Salyer; ‘Active Shooter’ Reported on Fountain Ranch Road

CALTRANS: Highway 101 Opened to One-Way Controlled Traffic; Full Cleanup May Take Weeks

Some Folks Decided to Go Out a-Sailing During Weekend Storms, So Sector Humboldt Bay Rescued Their Sorry Asses