Yesterday’s Battle of the Badges at the Northern California Community Blood Bank was a competition with one clear winner — patients. The friendly rivalry between 16 local public safety agencies brought the highest number of donors the nonprofit blood bank has seen in a single day since 2001. In total, 188 people gave their time, […]
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3rd UPDATE: Measure K Surges Ahead, M Falters
3rd UPDATE: With the final election night report in and 100 percent of county precincts reporting, the fates of most local ballot measures appear set and Measure K has pulled ahead in the final election night tally. Here’s the latest on the measures: Measure H, which would impose a 10 percent transient occupancy tax in […]
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Judge Allows Squireses’ Building to Be Condemned, Sets Hearing On Process
Judge Dale Reinholtsen today declined to block the city of Eureka’s order to vacate a dilapidated apartment building owned by Floyd and Betty Squires, meaning the 15 tenants of 833 H St. will need to be out by Monday. The Squireses had requested a temporary restraining order to restrict city officials from entering any of […]
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Get Down With EPD: Active Shooter Training
The Eureka Police Deparment is offering a free training on how to survive an active shooter incident to citizens on Thursday, March 3. EPD Administrative Technician Suzie Owsley said that the training is just one of many community public safety events that Chief Andrew Mills has requested. “This topic seemed to be timely,” Owsley said. […]
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Another Fire in a Squires Property
Humboldt Bay Fire spent an hour and a half fighting a blaze near downtown Eureka early this morning, holding off its firefighting efforts at one point as propane tanks exploded inside the vacant home’s garage. The fire, which appeared to start in the garage and spread to the residence at 811 H St., was reported […]
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County Mental Health Crisis Reprieve Expected
County officials announced a plan today to address a staffing crisis at the Mental Health Branch that bubbled to the surface in recent weeks. A spate of resignations was poised to leave mental health — which runs Sempervirens, the county psychiatric hospital, and provides other outpatient adult and child psychiatric services — with only one […]
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No More Late Night Jail Releases, Says Grand Jury
The Humboldt County Grand jury is calling for Sheriff Mike Downey to enact changes to the county jail’s release policies, including a recommendation to end late-night and early-morning releases. “The people of Humboldt County would be better served if Humboldt County Correctional Facility stopped releasing inmates between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.,” reads a report […]
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You Can Now Stay in Jail Until Dawn
The sheriff’s office today announced several changes to its jail release policy, including a provision that will offer inmates the option to stay in custody until daylight. The sheriff’s office policy, which allows people arrested on drunk in public charges to leave the Humboldt County jail — day or night — once they’ve sobered up, […]
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Apocalypse Now?
This morning, as in 12/21/12, the Mayan’s last day, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s office posted this photo of a cataclysmic rending of asphalt on Covelo Road, aka Highway 162, described by friend of the Journal Mike Wilson as, “Kind of like every scene in the movie 2012, only a much much smaller version.” Is this […]
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False Gun Report Tempts Fortuna High Students to Bring Guns to School
Class was canceled at Fortuna High School yesterday after the Fortuna Police Department received a report that a student planned to bring a weapon to campus and possibly “engage in acts of violence.” The report turned out to be false, but as the press release below reports, some Fortuna High students reacted by suggesting they […]
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List of Items Confiscated at County Courthouse
Here’s a partial list of items confiscated and/or rejected by Humboldt County Courthouse security over the past year six months: Three guns 2,024 knives 294 pairs of scissors 202 razor blades 824 “pointed devices”* 31 “sharp objects”* 94 knitting needles 54 screwdrivers 53 corkscrews 96 metal forks 52 bullets 21 toy/replica guns 127 chains (12 […]
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Sure, Take Lassie To Work
Dogs are cute. Fluffy. Scruffy. Loyal. Irascible. Smart. Hard workers, sometimes. Slackers, usually. Heroes. Bums — good for stories! And, of course, Man’s best chums. Which is why most everyone in the whole snookered world will be tickled as fleas to learn that tomorrow, June 24, is Take Your Dog To Work Day. Except, uh, […]