Articles by Hank Sims

October 2015

So Close! Drug-Toting Weott Teen Tries, Fails to Ditch SoHum CHP

(UPDATED) Apartment Building Fire Near Samoa Bridge Pisses Off Cats

Los Angeles Times Reports on Fraught Relations Between Hoopa Valley Tribe, Sheriff’s Office

Devil’s Playground/Palco Marsh Maintenance Plan on Tomorrow’s Eureka City Council Agenda

(UPDATING) Firefighters Tackle Two Small Fires in Arcata and Cutten, Even as Rain Dumps Out of the Sky

Two Rifles Taken in McKinleyville Ace Hardware Break-in, Sheriff’s Office Says

Last Chance for Fortuna-Area Property Owners to Vote on Fire Assessment Fees Tonight

Big Rig Loses a Wheel at Broadway and Fifth

Burning the Land to Restore It: A Yurok Tribal Council Put the Flame to Dozens of Acres Last Week

IT’S FLU SEASON! County Health Department Runs Down Your Flu Shot Options

Two Hoopa Men Arrested in Wyoming Traffic Stop With 57 Pounds in the Hyundai

National Weather Service Ups the Chances of a Wet Humboldt Winter

East Eureka Crash Slows Southbound 101 Traffic

(UPDATED) Man Missing in Remote Area of Trinity County

Willow Creek Man Arrested on Weed Charges After Basically Begging Deputies to Get a Search Warrant, Sheriff’s Office Says

Two Arrested With Suspected ‘Home Invasion Kit’ In a U-Haul Near Willow Creek

Fortuna Man Named as Suspect in Mother-in-Law’s Murder; Sheriff’s Office Makes Arrest After Eight-Year Investigation

Eureka Sexual Assault Suspect in Custody After Brief Foot Chase

SMOOTH MOVE: That Oregonian Map of Firearm Deaths Making the Rounds is Tremendously Misleading

Sheriff’s Office Investigating Fickle Hill Home Robbery

Electrical Fire at Dementia Care Facility in Henderson Center

(UPDATED) Sheriff’s Office SWAT Operation Underway at Pine Street and West Del Norte in Eureka

Big Waves Coming! Hurricane Oho to Bash Our Shores With Monster Breakers

The Humboldt Bay Power Plant Is Not Exploding

RESCUE SQUAD! Humboldt Bay Fire Launches Two-Man Lifesaving Team w/ Tricked-Out Truck

King Salmon Woman Found Guilty of Battering Her Neighbor With Baton, Pepper Spray

(UPDATED) ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Murder Suspect From Salinas May Have Spent Last Night Behind Bayshore Mall, Eureka Police Say

LoCOLLOQUY: Leo Sears Writes LoCO About His Lawsuit’s Timing, and of His Alleged Train Non-Buffdom

On the Eve of Harbor District Election, Rail Buffs File Conflict of Interest Suit Against Sitting Commissioner

The Boom to End All Booms Just Hit Eureka

A Guy Tried to Break Into a Car Across the Street From Tonight’s Anti-Crime Rally, EPD Says

Humboldt Bay Fire Knock Down Garage Fire in Midtown Eureka

They’re Mad As Hell: ‘Anti-Crime’ Rally in Front of the Bayshore Mall This Evening

Fortuna K-9 Cop Locates Fleeing Felony Warrant Suspect Hiding Under Insulation

(UPDATE) Body Found in Scotia This Afternoon

Eureka Man Arrested for Attempted Murder After Shooting at Guy Who Owes Him Money, Sheriff’s Office Says

Coroner Identifies Pedestrian Killed on 101 Over the Weekend as 29-Year-Old Eureka Man

September 2015

Probation Search in Arcata Yields Grow Op, Hash Lab and Handgun Stolen in Pacific Outfitters Heist

Missing Orleans Hunter Found, Helivaced to Hospital After ‘Four-Day Ordeal,’ Booked Into Jail on Outstanding Felony Warrants

Fortuna BK Burglary Suspect Picked Up Near Loleta Cheese Factory

Man Accidentally Shoots Himself, Nearly Dies; Sheriff Reminds You That Concealed Carry Permits Available

SoHUM: County Commission Wants to Hear About How Your Human Rights Are Being Violated

BUSTED! Fortuna PD Takes Rio Dell Police Escapee Into Custody

(UPDATE) Firefighters Extinguish AA Bar Blaze, Cause of Fire Still Unknown

Traffic Tied Up in Both Directions on Broadway Near Pierson’s After Bad Collision

Arcata Begs Residents to Get Just a Teeny Tiny Bit More Serious About Water Conservation

DA: Eureka Man Faces Maximum of 17 Years After Being Found Guilty of Breaking EPD Officer’s Nose, Other Charges

Glow-Eyed South Broadway Burglary Suspect Nabbed, EPD Says

‘Sheriff Allman Made a Grave Mistake’: Pinoleville Pomo Vow to Challenge Mendo’s Weed Raid on Tribal Territory

Humboldt Bay Fire Responding to Report of a Body Found in the Bay