The man found dead in a green belt area near U.S. Highway 101 on Dec. 14 has been identified by the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office as Michael Kenneth Pohl. He was 29. According to a release, Pohl died of “impact injuries due to a motor vehicle.” No suspect has been identified. Earlier information from the […]
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UPDATED: EPD Investigating Man’s Death as ‘Possible Hit and Run’
UPDATE: The Eureka Police Department believes the apparent hit and run that left a man dead may have occurred around 7 p.m. yesterday, possibly involving a dark-colored SUV. “The vehicle most likely has passenger side front end damage,” the latest EPD release states. PREVIOUSLY: The Eureka Police Department is investigating the death of a man […]
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A Gift of Glasses: Three Eureka Men See the World in a New Hue (Video)
When Brendan Hartsell put on the red-tinted EnChroma glasses for the first time, he didn’t say a word. He simply looked around — first down at the green bushes nearest to him then at a pair of blue and pink balloons tied to a sign. A nervous grinned spread over his face. Hartsell was one […]
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More Than Half of California Nursing Homes — Including Humboldt’s — Balk at Stricter Staffing Rules
More than half of California’s nursing homes, including four in Humboldt County, are asking to be exempted from new state regulations that would require them to spend more time directly caring for their patients. The state’s new staffing requirements for nursing homes, quietly passed in last year’s budget bill, seem universally unpopular. Patient advocates say […]
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Zooey Deschanel Really Likes Eureka
When actor Zooey Deschanel — star of New Girl and the perennial Christmas classic Elf — was asked about a must-go travel hot spot in California during a recent interview with Travel + Leisure, her answer was short and local: Eureka. Deschanel, according to the online piece, is teaming up with Capital One on The […]
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‘Blue on Blue’
It was a drizzly Monday afternoon in mid-December of 2014 when Maria Romero and her daughter Jennifer Garcia-Romero ventured down to Eureka’s Cooper Gulch to meet Jesus, Romero’s 14-year-old son. He’d called a few hours earlier, saying he needed money to buy shoes. He didn’t sound like himself. Jesus had been spiraling for a couple […]
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Several Crashes Across the Eureka Area Today
There have been at least three car crashes in the Eureka area in the last hour. Two vehicles collided at the intersection of Buhne and J Streets about 12:19 p.m., according to the scanner. An ambulance was responding. There is one way controlled traffic on Buhne. J Street is closed to through traffic. Meanwhile, two […]
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Grandmother Found Dying on Eureka Street
About 7:15 a.m. Monday, a Native American woman was found unresponsive off an alleyway near the 1700 block of Fourth Street in Eureka. Though an officer administered CPR to the woman, Debra Jealous of Him, she was later pronounced dead. Jealous of Him, who most recently lived on the streets of Eureka, had earlier lived […]
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Eureka Considers Moving Forward with Indian Island Transfer
The Eureka City Council is slated tonight to decide whether to move forward with transferring ownership of Indian Island back to the Wiyot Tribe. The city’s planning commission voted unanimously last month to find that the 202 acres of land the city owns on Indian Island are not required for “current or future public use” […]
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Residents Only: Eureka’s First True Ward Election
When Eureka voters were preparing two years ago to vote on whether to change course on how they selected council members, they were meet with divergent views on what such a shift would mean to the city. Those opposed to the ultimately successful Measure P predicted that a “true ward” system would severely curtail who […]
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Guilty Plea in Teen Girl’s Meth Overdose Death
A Rio Dell man pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Monday in connection with the death of a 16-year-old girl who died of a methamphetamine overdose while partying at a Eureka hotel in February of 2017, according to the Lost Coast Outpost. Tavin Dee Evans, 20, is expected to be sentenced to three years in county […]
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Light Pole Blocking S Street After Accident
A light pole is down and blocking most of S Street in Eureka after an accident about 4:15 p.m. that is snarling traffic in the area. According to the scanner, there are no injuries but the number one and two lanes are currently closed. Caltrans is on the scene.