Sunday.The Economist: End the Drug War: “Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade. Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same. In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in […]
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Jacked
Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be a Good Samaritan. That must be the conclusion reached by an Albany, Calif., couple this morning after they stopped to check on a motorist who’d just blazed past them, then lost control of his Monte Carlo on the Little River Bridge south of Trinidad, driving his pimp-mobile off […]
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Witness recounts stabbing death
If Barbara Groom hadn’t been craving a pint of Häagen Dazs after a movie last Friday, she wouldn’t have driven into the parking lot of Ray’s Food Place in Eureka; she wouldn’t have seen two men fighting there; she wouldn’t have tried to stop them by yelling and inching her car into the fracas; and […]
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Confidential to Redway
Don’t do this: A driver weaving his pickup on Highway 101 in Petaluma was arrested early Monday, suspected of driving drunk and traveling with several pounds of marijuana for sale, the CHP said. A CHP officer spotted the Toyota Tundra at about 2:45 a.m. as it moved unevenly south on the highway near East Washington […]
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Garden Noir
Beloved Journal garden correspondent Amy Stewart dwells on the dark and deadly side of the plant kingdom in Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities , forthcoming from Algonquin Press in May. Above: Please find the book’s chilling, creee-eeee-eepy trailer!
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Alleged cockfight kingpin arraigned
Local landowner Ray Christie was arraigned at the county courthouse today on six misdemeanor charges stemming from last month’s raid on his McKinleyville farm, where animal control officers found heaps of evidence suggesting a massive gamecock breeding operation. Christie, who looks like this — — appeared in street clothes (blue flannel shirt, Carhartt jeans, workboots) […]
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From the Emerald Triangle to the Emerald Green Valley…
…with pot. Perhaps this papa-sonny pair from Petrolia and McKinleyville, respectively, were lured to the southern Minnesota city by its official motto, “Make It Mankato!” And they did make it there, arriving last week with, allegedly, five suitcases of pot — 28 pounds, street value $100,000 — says the Mankato Free Press. But, they didn’t […]
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Another one – Union Street by HSU closed due to bomb threat
lock down at 14th and Union A portion of the Humboldt State University campus is in lock-down mode today due to the second bomb threat is the space of 10 days. According to Sergeant Dave Brown of the Arcata Police, speaking just after 3 p.m., University Police located a suspicious device somewhere in the vicinity […]
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Heidi Walters at the Gunderson Trial
Our Heidi Walters was at the Humboldt County Courthouse this morning to hear the verdict in the case against former Blue Lake Police Chief Dave Gunderson. She spoke with Jennifer Savage at KSLG and Mike Dronkers at KHUM, which stations sent us this audio of her report: audio player
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Bomb threat at HSU
Once again — what, the last time was just in May? — the threat of a suspected pipe bomb had Humboldt State University all bound up and tense earlier this evening as men and women huddled in bright vests near the danger zone and others — campus security and campus housing staff hastily stuffed into yet more […]
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Thus Spake ICE
Editor’s note: The following is a press release from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 18 illegal alien workers for The Sun Valley Group arrested in ICE operation Enforcement action at Arcata flower grower is part of ongoing ICE investigation ARCATA, Calif.- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents executed a federal search warrant […]
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More images of ICE raid at Sun Valley
As ICE continued to search and arrest people at Sun Valley today, three people observing the raid from the road by the main entrance linked arms and stood in front of one of the white vans, with most of its windows whited out, as it began to exit the company compound onto Upper Bay Road. […]