Captain Fathom has gotten out of jail for the umpteenth time. He’d been accused of stealing a car, something completely out of character for the aging lefty. The Captain had become involved in a confused…
Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”
Local judges are all getting a paid holiday for Labor Day, but the clerks and court reporters are not.
The prosecution didn’t have much of a case against him, but Timothy S. 'Coke’ Elliott, 38, was found guilty of Second Degree Murder last week at the end of a two-week trial attended throughout by…
Last Thursday afternoon a nicely dressed woman carrying three A-2 assault rifles walked out of the DA's office on the ground floor of the Mendocino County Courthouse. It was two days after Mariano Lopez Fernandez,…
The Golden Old-time Music Camp-Out came to Boonville last weekend for the second time. It used to be in Yreka, way up north. This is the second music festival to relocate to Boonville in the…
Last week began with a murder trial, but all the excitement was in civil court. Why? A dog. An adorable little dog, so adorable people steal him, go to court over him. Nutmeg is an…
David Eyster, candidate for Mendocino County District Attorney, does not enjoy the unanimous support of local law enforcement. Except for the Fort Bragg Police Department, Eyster did not get the endorsements of the Mendocino County…
The prevailing sentiment at the courthouse is that newly anointed judge Ann Moorman, is going to usher in a New Age of Liberalism when she ascends to the bench at the first of next year.…
The last few acres of the American prairie with its soil-building native grasses went under the plow in 1984, making us forever beholden to Monsanto and Dow Chemical. The US Forest Service, chartered to preserve…