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Mendocino County Today: October 11, 2012

NORBURY MURDER TRIAL BEGINS with opening remarks. Tearful girlfriend testifies. In his opening statement Tuesday in the murder trial of Billy Norbury, Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster described for the jury the “nightmare” scenario…

Mendocino County Today: October 10, 2012

IT TOOK the better part of three days but a jury is seated for the Billy Norbury murder trial. Opening statements began Tuesday morning. Norbury, 34, faces a murder charge with a special allegation that…

Off The Record

IT TOOK the better part of three days but a jury is seated for the Billy Norbury murder trial. Opening statements began Tuesday morning. Norbury, 34, faces a murder charge with a special allegation that…

Valley People

THE FLYNN FIRE was declared fully extinguished late last Thursday. A small army of CalFire vehicles still packed the parking lot of the Boonville Fairgrounds early last Wednesday morning, but from everything we'd heard from…

City-States

My brother, a successful Internet Technology person living in San Mateo, recently wrote, “I know the Bay Area is back because for about three years no one was going out to dinner and a concert,…

Fire In The Backyard

In Comptche there’s nothing like a wave of fire exploding across your neighbor’s fields headed for your home to instill a love for friends, CalFire, and your local volunteer fire department. At home alone, with…

A Debate In Search Of A Soundtrack

The importance of music can only be truly gauged by its absence. A bride walking down the aisle in silence is an act that thunders more loudly than a hundred trumpets and timpani. Likewise, watching…

Mendocino County Today: October 9, 2012

COUNTERPUNCH Presents the West Coast Memorial Celebrating the Life & Work of Our Friend, Alexander Cockburn. Saturday, October 20, 2012. 5-7pm, Citizen Space, 425 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA. The event will be emceed by…

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