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Prosecutors Fail to Reinstate Murder Charges Against Nicholas Leigl; Eureka Man Charged With Being ‘Accessory’ in Slaying of 14-Year-Old Boy
For the second time, a judge has found there is not enough evidence for Eureka resident Nicholas Leigl to stand trial on a charge of murdering a 14-year-old boy in…
(VIDEO) PBS NewsHour Reports on Humboldt’s Weed Regulations
Thursday night's PBS NewsHour includes this seven-minute report on Humboldt County's Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance, a "bold new experiment" that made ours the first county in the state…
CORONER: Young Man Found Deceased at Ma-le’l This Week Had Drowned; Victim Still Unidentified
PREVIOUSLY:Young Man’s Body Found On the Beach North of Manila###From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:An autopsy was conducted on Thursday, December 29, 2016 for the decedent found…
Your Last Cigarette at the Beach? Next Year Could Bring About New Smoking Restrictions in the County’s Unincorporated Areas
…The committee will take up the matter at its next meeting Wednesday, Jan. 25. Jay McCubbrey, project director of Tobacco Free Humboldt, explained to the committee the reasons for an ordinance and…
Westhaven Mom Pleads With Burglars to Return the Ashes of Her Six-Year-Old Son
Ryan's urn, with dolphins, flanked by photos of the child.A Westhaven family is despondent this morning after losing the remains of their six-year-old son to an apparent burglary…
McK Man Charged With DUI Murder Appears in Court Today; Hearings in Case Pushed Back to February
…The California Highway Patrol has said he was trying to flee when stopped by witnesses.Merrick looked hollow-eyed and sad during the brief hearing this morning. He could be imprisoned for…
Arcata Police Looking For Burglar Who Made the Comfort Inn Less Comfortable
Says the Arcata Police Department, via its Facebook page:Do you know this man?On Thursday 12/22/2016, he came into the Comfort Inn on Valley West in Arcata, entered an…
OBITUARY: Sarah Anne McDowell, 1980-2016
…She was fiercely loyal to her friends and often times took the side of the underdog with her keen sense of fairness. She loved keeping her home as her little nest trying…
(VIDEO) A Few Hundred Yards of Broadway are Less Trashy Than the Others, Thanks to This Civic-Minded Head Shop
…A little over a year ago the STIL staff noticed the area was constantly covered in litter and decided to take action. Since then they've been out every other week cleaning…
OBITUARY: Anne Marie Lozensky, 1914-2016
Anne Lozensky, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully on December 23, 2016 at the age of 102. Anne was born in Scotia, California, on May 22, 1914 to Nella and…
One of the Young Men Sporting Handguns in Rohner Park Also Had Meth, Heroin and Outstanding Warrants For Criminal Threats, Fortuna Police Say
…While contacting the 4 occupants of the vehicle, one of the officers saw a revolver in the lap of a backseat passenger. All four occupants were ordered out of the vehicle at…
(VIDEO, PHOTOS) Recent Erosion Leaves the Centerville Beach Cross Teetering on the Edge of a Cliff
…The original marker, placed in 1921 by the Ferndale Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, was destroyed in the 1992 earthquake. As the plaque on the cross explains, the…
Gun Thievery Suspect Taken Into Custody While Trying to Break Into Former Home, Eureka Police Say
PREVIOUSLY:Eureka Police Searching For Man Who Allegedly Swiped Two Handguns From Sporting Goods Store###From the Eureka Police Department:On December 26, 2016, at about 4:57 p.m., two handguns…
People Bought Lots of Guns This Year to Avoid New Laws Taking Effect in 2017
…21.In the video below, produced by the Press Democrat, Ostrom's brother Chris, who works at the Pacific Outfitters in Ukiah, outlined what gun owners should know about the new laws…
Nonprofit Organization Gives Humboldt County’s Public Health Department an Official Thumbs-Up
In the old days, people feared that public health campaigns were a bad idea. Image: Wikimedia.From the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services:The Public Health branch of the…
OBITUARY: Betty J. Swanson, 1923-2016
…She worked at various locations throughout Eureka — the Barrel Factory, Lazio Seafoods, Eureka Seafood Grotto and West Coast Beauty Supply.Our family would like to thank the staff at Eureka Healthcare and…
District Attorney Seeks to Reinstate Charges Against Eureka Man Implicated in 2014 Murder of 14-Year-Old Boy
Leigl.The District Attorney's Office will try tomorrow to have charges reinstated against a Eureka man accused of murdering 14-year-old Jesus Romero-Garcia two years ago.Nicholas Leigl is…
‘He Was Just Scared’: Family of Man Shot By Eureka Police Earlier This Month Show Up to Support Him in Court
Lasinski.The man shot by Eureka police during a bullet-ridden pursuit Dec. 6 is now scheduled for his preliminary hearing in February. Clayton Lee Lasinski, 26, had been set for preliminary…
Manila Five Appear in Court This Morning, Their Faces Ranging From Jolly to Somber as Preliminary Hearings Postponed
…Fode, 18, and the other three defendants are accused of participating in the Dec. 12 slaying, with all of them packing handguns. All face life in prison if convicted.During the hearing…
Hash Lab Blows Up McKinleyville Triplex; Burned Man Still at Large
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On Monday, December 26, 2016 at approximately 3:30 p.m. Humboldt County Deputy Sheriffs along with Arcata Fire responded to a triplex residence on…
(PHOTOS) Eureka Police Searching For Man Who Allegedly Swiped Two Handguns From Sporting Goods Store
…While holding the handguns, the male suspect quickly fled out of the business. The male was last seen running east on Allard Avenue from Broadway.The suspect is described as a white…
Young Man’s Body Found On the Beach North of Manila
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On Monday, December 26, 2016 at around 9:35 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center received a phone call from a…
HARDIN: Jorge Cervantes? He’s No Ed Rosenthal
…Now that the rest of us have done the work necessary to change the law, look who popped out from behind that old racist drug war stereotype. It's the lily-white…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: On the Other Hand…
…100 years ago, 50% of the world’s population lived in “extreme poverty” (less that the equivalent of today’s $1.25 per day). Now it’s around 20%. The rate of…
DEAD RECKONING: A Tiny Gift
…Brother, mother — they think it’s probably a bolt to weigh the box down, a dead weight to keep the tiny vessel from skidding off the tabletop and falling forever into the…
LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Reporting From Turkey: A Journalist’s Guide
The Turks gave the world two images this week, one of destruction and the other of – well, let's call it an act of creativity. The first one I don't need…
Gov. Brown Pardons Two Humboldters for Piddling Decades-Old Weed-Related Offenses
…Jerry Brown likes to offer clemency for small crimes around the holiday season, and he has done it again this year. Yesterday the governor shortened the sentence of one convicted felon and…
Ancient Tool Taken From a Wiyot Burial Ground Has Been Removed From Online Auction But Not Returned to Tribe
This ancient Wiyot pestle was being sold in an online auction but has since been removed from the site.PREVIOUSLY:This Wiyot Tool Dug Up 86 Years Ago by a Notorious Grave…
(VIDEO) A Peek Inside the Booming Butane Hash Oil Industry, and How Things Can Go Very, Very Wrong
…Now with legalization experts say the demand for this secondary product is only going to go up, and that means, it's got to be made.In this LoCO Video Report we…
Two Men Tie Up 69-Year-Old Woman, Cover Her Head and Demand Money in Home-Invasion Robbery, HCSO Says
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at approximately 11:30 p.m. Humboldt County Deputies responded to a residence on the 200 block of Pine Drive…