Deputy DA Houston Porter is leaving the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office for a post with the DA’s office in Marin County. Porter’s last case involved the alleged theft of a scanner from Grocery Outlet…
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“Mr. Eyster’s sentencing brief resembled a lurid crime novel, your honor, and I need time to go over it with my client,” defense attorney Monty Hansen said to Judge John Behnke as the judgment and…
Joseph Gates was acquitted last Wednesday of assault with a deadly weapon, a knife, against his own dear old dad, an anthropologist for the California Energy Commission, Thomas Gates, PhD. What Joseph Gates really did,…
For those of you who are in danger of becoming homeless on the streets of Ukiah — Heaven forfend — remember this: Don’t expect to be toasting marshmallows around a cheerful campfire. People who have…
The latest home invasion for pot – and after legalization, who’d a-thunk it? Yet here we have another trio of armed stoners, with several more of the white boy bandidos still on the loose who…
Officer Jason Hinds of the Highway Patrol arrived on the scene of a collision on Highway 101 at about ten after nine the evening of January 7th. The collision had occurred in the northbound lane…
Last week we tried a practice run here at America’s Last Newspaper of re-instating a traditional element to court reporting, and that is the courtroom sketch artist. As the astute reader knows, in unusually high-profile…