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Mariners Beware: Massive Communications Outage Hits Coast Guard Command Center
The Internet-O-Pocalypse we reported on earlier this evening has hit the Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay Command Center, knocking out its communication system, which could interfere with the center's…
Fundraising Roundup for Eureka Elections: Incumbents Widen Money Gap
…Still, more than 85 percent of the money raised to fight Measure R is off the books. Major supporters of the measure include unions, with the Building and Construction Trades Council chipping…
Eureka Man on Probation For Possession of Stolen Property Pulled Over, Arrested for Possession of Stolen Property
…The deputy saw the truck did not have commercial license plates as required by law. The deputy ran a DMV records check on the license plate, and discovered the plate was registered…
Sheriff’s Office: Who is the Zero Who Tagged the Hell out of Two McK Churches?
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On 10-24-2014, at approximately 7:00 p.m. the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office was notified by two passing motorists who reported witnessing…
EPD: Apologetic Armed Robbery Suspect Returns to Scene of Crime, Surrenders
From the Eureka Police Department: On October 26, 2014, at approximately 6:14 a.m., Eureka Police Department officers were dispatched to the report of an armed robbery that had just occurred…
PASTOR BETHANY: Messy and Clean
Maggie had been coming to their home for Bible study, arriving dirty, off the sidewalk and out of the gutters with a load of personal items attached to her bike handlebars and…
DEAD RECKONING: Nighttime for the Living and the Dead
It's almost universal, that feeling you get when you go to a cemetery for the first time in months or years; see all the weather-blasted stones and markers lined off…
Commercial Structure Fire on West End Rd.
…Crews are currently working with the owner of the building to develop a plan to safely enter the building and extinguish the fire. The cause of the fire is currently unknown, but…
Arcata Police Searching For ‘At-Risk’ Missing Person
…On 10/24/14 at about 3:00 PM, the Arcata Police Department received a missing person report on Randy Markin, 55 years old from Arcata. Markin was last seen at his…
Survivorman Not Sure He’ll Survive Pot Farms, Meth Labs and Rain
…never ending….maybe its all the smell of pot in the air - every bend in the road you smell a new flavour of pot - deep in the surrounding hills there are numerous…
HITCHED, Oct. 25, 2014
Whether the weather cooperates or not, when people in Humboldt file to have their love recognized by the government, their names go in HITCHED. Even when it's windy as hell, you…
Storm Watch
Surf conditions as seen from Shelter Cove.[Courtesy of Sunny Fortuna Cams] Hopefully, you are all cozy in your homes with a big pot of stew bubbling on the stove and your…
Young Man Dies in Humboldt, His Dog, Pepper, Needs to Go to His Mom
When her young owner died tragically, Pepper eventually ended up in the Humboldt County Animal Shelter. Community members helped the young man's heartbroken mother locate her son's pet. Now the…
Look Out, Toto, High Winds on the Way, Even a ‘Slim Chance’ of a Tornado
Graphic from the US National Weather Service in Eureka (Like their Facebook page here.) The US National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory from 11 p.m. tonight til 5 p…
DOLLISON’S DOCKET: How Will the Marriage Equality Debate End, Given That It’s Already Over?
Without a doubt the hottest legal issue that continues to percolate in our federal Court system is the issue of marriage equality (or, as some term it, “gay marriage”). The rapid transformation…
(CHP UPDATE) High-Speed CHP Golf Cart Pursuit on 299 Ends in Ditch (VIDEO/PHOTOS)
(Photos courtesy of LoCO superfriend Bob Pagliuco; video via James Shepherd) LoCO is piecing together information about a pursuit that occurred this morning near the Highway 101/Highway 299 interchange involving multiple…
[UPDATE—Now Open!] Avenue of the Giants Blocked by Tree
…Caltrans estimates the closure will last one to two hours. ###Original post: According to CHP dispatch a tree has fallen across Hwy 254 (the Avenue of the Giants.) The tree is across…
EPD: Violent Crime in Eureka Down, Property Crime Up
…The Eureka Police Department hopes that sharing this information will drive a greater awareness of crime and demonstrate our desire to work with the community. The attached two graphs show the violent…
HCSO: Two Arrested, Driver With Suspended License, Passenger With Two Plus Pounds of Marijuana
…After the deputy stopped the truck, he spoke with the driver who was identified as Jacob Paul Swagert, 25 years old from Eureka. Swagert told the deputy he did not his driver…
Flatmo’d: Pablo of the North
In this edition of Flatmo'd — your Lost Coast Outpost's ever expanding coaster scribble museum collecting the works of future Simpsons star Duane Flatmo — our man highlights oft-overlooked, visionary ice…
(AUDIO) Let’s Talk About This Lovely Rain We’re Having!
…Listen to Berkowitz and Kennedy talk about the weather in the interview below: (AUDIO) Rain!
Nearly 1,000 Marijuana Plants, Firearms, Much Cash Discovered in Related Arcata Homes; One Arrested
…Officers from the Arcata Police Department served a search warrant at a residence in the 3200 Blk of Spear Ave on Wednesday morning, October 22nd. Upon searching the property, officers located a…
Blue Lake Burglary Suspect Leaves Bud on Porch, Avoids Taser Zap, Eventually Arrested
…Deputies responded and checked the area for Hall with no success. The investigating deputy met with the citizen and learned Hall had forcibly entered the residence and barn on the property. The…
Your Week in Ocean: In Which Congressman Jared Huffman Invites You To Bring It (To the Seaside Social)
…The 'Do-Nothing' Congress But can anything actually get done in the 113th Congress? It hasn’t exactly been the most productive of legislatures. The public expects little. “The public is right…
19-Year-Old Fleeing ‘Higher Ground’ Arrested With Torn Pants
…Upon the arrival of officers minutes later, an unknown suspect could be heard fleeing from the area of the business. Stolen property from the business was found to be strewn through the…
Speaking Of … EPD Make Home Burglary Arrest
…Detectives contacted Achane and arrested him for the warrant. During the course of the investigation officers found Achane to be in possession of stolen property from a burglary that was reported earlier…
Evasive Motorcyclist Identified, BOLO Issued
…The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the suspect involved in the pursuit on 10-16-2014, as Jason Andrue Meisner, 40 years old, from Eureka. A be-on-the lookout…
Multiple Contributing Factors to Fatality on 299 Says CHP
…California Highway Patrol (CHP) Humboldt Area is in the process of investigating a fatal traffic collision that occurred the early morning of Thursday, October 16 on State Route 299, west of the…
Thirty-Four-Year-Old Transient’s Death Not Suspicious, Says Coroner
…On Oct 17 2014, at approximately 10:20 hours, a deceased male was found on Samoa Blvd, route 255, south in the vicinity of K and V streets. We determined the death…
Eureka Has a Daytime Home Burglary Problem
…Button down the hatch. — Andrew Mills (@amills_andrew) October 22, 2014 This morning, LoCO noticed the above tweet sent out by Eureka Police chief Andy Mills. As discussed further in the EPD…