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Mendocino

Ukiah Couple charged with endangering baby in DUI

Orlando Munoz and Mychell Isabel Vega-Ayala were out late Monday night, with their 1-year-old daughter. Apparently headed home to Ukiah from somewhere to the north of town, they secured their

Mendocino

Who let the dogs out? Joey did…

It was nearly 11 pm last Thursday, June 25, when someone noticed that the dogs from the Mendocino County Animal Shelter, in south Ukiah, were loose. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched,

Alameda Santa Clara Sonoma

Stolen scooter leads to more trouble

A woman in Guerneville must have thought it was her lucky day. While in the Safeway Market parking lot, she spotted her stolen motor scooter in the back of a

El Dorado

Sex offender follows the rules, and then doesn’t

PLACERVILLE – Esteban Rocha, 51, is a registered sex offender. According to the Megan’s Law website, he has been charged in the past with lewd acts on a child under

Calaveras

Calaveras conflict results in shooting, 4 arrests

GLENCOE – What were Michael and Donald Pinon doing on a woman’s private property along the South Fork of the Mokelumne River? Michael, 22, and Donald, 19, were with an

Mendocino

Ukiah shooting nearly kills 12-year-old

Jaime Rodriguez Jr. of Ukiah just turned 19 last month, and he has already been in a lot of trouble. He had been arrested once each month from the beginning

Mendocino

Good fences made a bad neighbor

Robert Frost used the line “Good fences make good neighbors” in his poem “Mending Wall”, but what if a neighbor steals your fence? The town of Caspar is a small

Mendocino Shasta

Redding couple caught, this time in Mendocino County

Donald Gordon Powell and Lawanda Jean Parks seem to have gotten together in Redding, though they both currently reside south of the city. Powell, 34, lives in Cottonwood, south of

Calaveras

Archer misses target, but is arrested anyway

CALAVERAS COUNTY – Like a scene from an old Errol Flynn movie, a man with a rakish beard pulled back a bow and tried to shoot his enemy, who narrowly

Mendocino

Hitchhiker arrested for stealing man’s car

A young man living in the rural hills of Westport picked up a woman hitchhiker, and after he dropped her off, she came back and tried to steal his car.