The murder trial for Joshua Ruoff got under way last week after three days of intense jury selection, due to a reluctance on the part of those summoned to spend two weeks of their summer…
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THURSDAY, June 14, was the day that Public Defender Linda Thompson stepped down. As the readership knows, the Mighty AVA will not miss her, and since her significant other owns a tract of land larger than our County Seat, and her pension package, though modest by the standards of other County Dignitaries, she probably doesn’t need our blessing for her retirement to be complete and satisfying.
Miguel Gonzales, of La Quinta, was talking on his cell phone while driving and got pulled over by Deputy Craig Walker. Mr. Gonzales was high on heroin and he was driving someone else’s car —…
Joseph Wayne Mork, a face perennially in the booking logs, made fresh and urgent news over a year ago when he and his lame lookout, Frank Freitas, were brought up on charges of ripping off…
Harry Miller, 69, of Anchor Bay, was held to answer on two counts of attempted murder last week in Superior Court for first shooting his neighbor Paul Palastrini, 62, also of Anchor Bay, and then…
The murder trial last week for Steven Ryan, 64, ended with a “lesser-included” verdict, hugely favorable to the defendant even though an eyewitness said the young black man, De'Shaun Davis, was on his knees with…
The sensational factionalism at the Ukiah Gun Club finally arrived in court last week, and some of the more shocking and lurid aspects of the case seemed almost to fly out the window as the…
The second week of the third trial for Caleb Silver ended in Silver’s conviction for the murder of Dennis Boardman. But the week started out with a very likely chance that this the third trial…
When Caleb Silver’s murder trial started last week — his third trial, the first two having ended in mistrials — we had a better idea of what the defendant had been doing just prior to…