A pedestrian was killed in Bayside on Friday evening when she reportedly tried to grab onto a pickup truck on a private driveway. The California Highway Patrol is withholding the identity of the 5o-year-old Bayside woman was was killed until her family can be notified. According to the CHP, a 53-year-old Bayside man was driving […]
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SECOND UPDATE: Motorcyclist Killed in Eureka Crash
UPDATE: The CHP clarified in a release today that Dustin Finson, who was killed in a motorcycle accident on Broadway in May, is not suspected in the theft of another man’s identification that initially led to a misidentification in the fatal collision. Press release from the CHP: HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. – On 05/02/2018 the Humboldt […]
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Man Killed in Avenue of the Giants Crash
A man was killed this morning on Avenue of the Giants when his Toyota 4Runner veered off the road, down an embankment and collided with multiple trees. The accident remains under investigation but the California Highway Patrol reports that at about 10:20 a.m. the man was traveling north on Avenue of the Giants when, for […]
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SoCal Man Killed in State Route 36 Crash
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a single car crash on State Route 36 that left a 31-year-old Chula Vista man dead. The CHP believes Trenton Hudson was driving westbound on State Route 36 sometime on March 2 when, for unknown reasons, he allowed his vehicle to drift off the right edge of the roadway […]
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Fatal Crash on Myrtle Avenue
A 24-year-old Eureka man was killed today after his pickup truck crossed into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a tractor trailer, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash, which occurred just before noon on Myrtle Avenue north of Pigeon Point Drive, closed the road for more than two hours. The unidentified driver of […]
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UPDATE: Suspect Held in Fatal Orick Stabbing
2nd UPDATE: The stabbing victim has been identified as Vernon James Weatherford, 34. Weatherford’s autopsy is scheduled for Jan. 6, 2018. UPDATE: The sheriff’s office confirmed this morning that a suspect in the stabbing death, Ronald Joshua Loureiro, was booked into the jail yesterday on “charges of homicide related to the Orick homicide and on parole […]
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Redway Man Becomes County’s 26th Traffic Death This year
A 58-year-old Redway man was killed yesterday evening when his motorcycle collided with a Toyota truck making a three-point turn on Redwood Drive, sending him over a metal guard rail and down a 250-foot embankment. Leo Durr was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the California Highway Patrol, Durr was travelling southbound on Redwood […]
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UPDATE: Fortuna City Manager Arrested for Second DUI
Fortuna City Manager Mark Wheetley was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence yesterday evening, just about 18 months after a DUI arrest derailed his candidacy for a seat on the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors. California Highway Patrol spokesman Cy May said an officer pulled Wheetley over shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday after […]
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UPDATE: McKinleyville Wreck Brings Vehicle Fatality Toll Up to 17
UPDATE: The CHP announced that the vehicle found in the Trinity River did not have a body in it as previously believed. From the CHP: On 06/29/2017, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) Humboldt Area continued our investigation into a traffic collision which resulted in a vehicle submerged within the Trinity River off of Highway 96. […]
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UPDATE: CHP ID’s Redding Man Killed in Suspected DUI Crash
UPDATE: The deceased man has been identified as Jarrod Waddle. Previously: A 35-year-old Redding man was killed early this morning when he lost control of his SUV and hit a tree off South G Street. The man, whose name is being withheld until officials can notify his family of his death, is suspected of having been […]
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Kitchen Held For Trial in DUI Manslaughter Case
Humboldt County Superior Court Judge John Feeney ruled yesterday that there is sufficient evidence to hold Marci Kitchen to stand trial on manslaughter charges stemming from allegations that she was driving drunk when she hit and killed her daughter and another girl in July. Kitchen was held to answer on charges of vehicular manslaughter and […]
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THIRD UPDATE: Pedestrian Killed in 101 Hit and Run ID
THIRD UPDATE: The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has identified the pedestrian killed May 5 on U.S. Highway 101 north of the airport as McKinleyville resident Ralph Pak Summers. He was 49. CHP Officer Cy May said the case is active and the agency is “following up on some pretty good investigative leads.” He says investigators […]