by Bruce McEwen
Gerold Jerry Knight was beaten and his throat cut on the old railroad tracks in Ukiah. It was the warm, late afternoon of Friday the 13th of June, 2008 on the tracks near Perkins Street that run north-south through Ukiah, railroad tracks left over from a more optimistic time, railroad tracks unlikely to ever see another train, railroad tracks that are now home to the permanently untracked.
by Adam Shatz
When Amy Bishop was hired by the University of Alabama in Huntsville seven years ago, she appeared to have everything going for her: she was young, Harvard-trained, passionate about her field, a mother of four. But there were many things that her new colleagues didn’t know. They didn’t know her adviser at Harvard had forced [...]
by Bruce McEwen
I caught hell Monday from the tribal women in court every day for the murder trial of Alva Sonny Reeves and Brandon Pinola. The picture we ran with last week’s story was not Alva Reeves. The boys in this newspaper’s composition room put up a photo of a man named Danny Alva Reeves thinking it [...]
by Tim Stelloh
Judge Ron Brown denied Glenn Sunkett’s request to boot Mendo’s top public defender from his case. So Sunkett asked to go solo.
by Nate Collins
Muhammad Diop was shot down in cold blood in front of his house on 864 31st street in Oakland on Thursday March 4th at 7:30pm. Muhammad Diop was murdered by the pervasive culture of violence in Oakland that is gripping our inner-cities nationwide.
by Bruce McEwen
It seems that Terry Cohen, age 60, is more afraid of prison than death. He’s hung himself three times now on prescription chemicals, and he’s still hanging in intensive care in the Ukiah hospital from his third attempted suicide.
by Bruce McEwen
The murder trials are piling up at the Mendocino County Courthouse almost as fast as the bodies are.
by Tim Stelloh
A cigarette. That’s what caused the argument three years ago that lead to the federal lawsuit filed two months ago claiming a former Fort Bragg cop had altered police documents.
by Tim Stelloh
Below are links to the documents I used for this week’s story on the strange case of Robert Forest, who’s suing former Fort Bragg police Lt. (and current Merced commander) Floyd Higdon in federal court for causing Forest’s “malicious” and “wrongful” prosecution.
The incident the suit grew out of took place in November 2006 in downtown [...]
I don’t know Fort Bragg carpenter Todd Rowan, but I admire him. In a few short remarks quoted Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle, Rowan got to the core of the creepy case involving Aaron Vargas, who’s facing a first-degree murder charge for killing his sexual abuser.
“Maybe if we’d all talked more back then, it [...]
