UPDATE: Following in the footsteps of Judicial Watch, President Donald Trump and his campaign and the Republican state and national parties filed two separate lawsuits today over the tax return law recently signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Each case alleges California’s move to make releasing a candidate’s tax returns a prerequisite to being placed […]
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What California’s ‘Nonbinary’ Gender Designation Will Cost Teen Drivers
In a little-noticed side impact of California’s 2018 law granting drivers the option of listing their gender as nonbinary, California’s Department of Insurance has decreed that auto insurance companies can no longer grant breaks in insurance rates to teen drivers who are female or charge young men more. Outgoing Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, in one […]
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Brown Commutes Sentences of Two Local Women Convicted of Murder
Among the 131 people who had their criminal sentences commuted by Gov. Jerry Brown on Christmas Eve was Dianna Mae Preston, a Trinidad woman who came to be known as the “vigilante granny” for chasing down and fatally shooting a Eureka man she wrongly believed had molested her granddaughter. Brown set a record for pardons […]
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Teen Stabbing Suspect to Be Tried as Juvenile Under Bill Signed by Brown
The murder case against a 15-year-old accused of fatally stabbing another teenage boy in the Ocean View Cemetery on Aug. 9 will continue in the juvenile court system after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last week that prohibits charging individuals as adults if they were younger than 16 at the time of the accused […]
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Gov. Makes Fourth HumCo Judicial Appointment in Past 12 Months
For the first time in recent memory, the Humboldt County Superior Court bench is back at full strength. Gov. Jerry Brown has announced he will appoint Timothy Canning, the 59-year-old court commissioner from Arcata, to the seat vacated by the retirement of Judge John T. Feeney earlier this year. Canning, a Democrat, according to the […]
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Gov. Appoints Another HumCo Judge
California Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed county Conflict Counsel Kaleb Cockrum to step in as Humboldt County’s next superior court judge. Cockrum, 43, will step into the seat vacated by the retirement of Judge Marilyn Miles, who retired in July. He is the third new judge Brown has appointed to the Humboldt County bench since […]
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Another One Leaves the Bench: Judge Feeney to Retire
Judge John T. Feeney today announced he is retiring effective Feb. 28 after more than 20 years on the bench in Humboldt County. Over the years, Feeney has presided over some of the region’s most notorious cases, including the 2016 murder trial of Gary Lee Bullock, who was convicted in the brutal torture death of […]
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UPDATE: 15 Confirmed Deaths, Dozens Missing in Fires, 101 Reopens
UPDATE: Some 17 fires have raced through areas of California over the past two days with 15 confirmed deaths, another 100 people reported missing and an estimated 115,000 acres burned when a perfect storm of gusty winds and low humidity swept across the state. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Mendocino, […]
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Sundberg Selected for Coastal Commission
Gov. Jerry Brown’s office announced today that Humboldt County Supervisor Ryan Sundberg has been appointed to the North Coast regional seat on the California Coastal Commission. Sundberg will be the first Native American to serve on the powerful commission charged with determining the fate of California’s 1,100 miles of coastline. The McKinleyville resident replaces Del […]
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UPDATED: California, Oregon Governors to Make ‘Major Announcement’ on Klamath
UPDATE: North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman sent out a press release this morning confirming that Wednesday’s “major announcement” on the Klamath River will include the signing of the reshaped agreement to remove four dams that have clogged the river for decades. “The signing of this new agreement to tear out the Klamath River’s aging hydropower […]
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Wood Pushes Soda Tax Amid Busy Health Week
Really want that Double Big Gulp? Well, come next year, you’ll have to pay an extra $1.28 for it, if North Coast Assemblyman Jim Wood has anything to say about it. Kicking off what’s proven to be a busy week for Wood and health news, the assemblyman introduced a bill that would impose a 2-cent-per-ounce […]