The preliminary hearing for Kelly Boss of Philo ended in a holding order last week, which means the state showed up with enough evidence to…
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The first time Peter Richardson went to the venerable Water Trough bar on South State Street in Ukiah was back in the late 1950s or early 1960s (he doesn’t remember the exact year) when he was just a boy. His father had brought him out to California to see the redwood forests, and they stopped at the Water Trough for the bar's famous barbecue. In those days there was a drive-up window, so young Peter didn’t actually go into the now-defunct drinking establishment, but the barbecue was so memorable that he eventually returned as a young adult in the 1970s and has lived here in Mendocino County ever since.
Maitreya is coming to save us. Maitreya? In a word, God; the new god, the god running the UFOs and drawing crop circles and doing…
The August 12th sentencing of Joan Rainville, 54, was the most dramatic episode of the entire sensational series of Joan-related events, which began late last…
“If there’s any reasonable doubt, you must find my client not guilty,” Ivan Sanchez’s Santa Rosa lawyer told the jury at the end of Sanchez's…
A Ukiah man, Tony Fernandez, has been bound over for trial on a charge of false imprisonment after a lengthy preliminary hearing last week. False…
The Fifth Annual Not-So-Simple Living Fair at the Boonville Fairgrounds saw an avid throng of attendees. The event is hugely popular and crucial to a…
“It was all over a bottle of ketchup — this alleged shooting — along with some missing cheese and beer,” Public Defender Linda Thompson told…
Slow week at the County Courthouse last week. In recent years we’ve had some riveting murder trials in the summertime, but this year, so far,…
Another wifebeater was in court this week. There seem to be armies of them out there. Used to be the woman's male relatives took care…
Tyler Elza was shocked when his jury took only an hour to tell him he was a woman-beating son of a bitch. Elza couldn't believe…