It was a perfect early afternoon in May when a young Mexican couple saw the car under the overpass with the man holding a knife to a terrified woman's throat. The young Mexican couple got…
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Here at Boonville’s cold case desk, the phone will ring and an anonymous someone will ask, “Do you remember the murder of…?” The caller seldom recalls the specifics of the terrible killing, but the deep…
James Stephens, felon, up on charges that he was in possession of a .22 rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun, narrowly missed four more years in state prison because, apparently, he's a non-violent felon and…
Dear Editor, Is Lady Justice really blind? I am an inmate in Mendocino County Jail. I have been reading your newspaper over the past few months as I am spending time for growing some pot.…
The Placer County Sheriff's department has been tight-lipped about the death of Michael Glen Peacock — the man who testified against the former chairman of the Mendocino County Republican Party, Kenny Rogers in Rogers’ recent…
My first trip up Spy Rock Road must have been late in the summer of 1980. My brother-in-common-law had bought a place at the top of the ridge just below the Iron Peak lookout tower,…
An overflow crowd packed the main gallery of the Mendocino Art Center for last Wednesday afternoon’s highly anticipated Board meeting. Board President Brandt Stickel said that each speaker would have four minutes each to address…