Guilty Verdict In Magalia Stabbing

The suspect in a fatal stabbing in Magalia has been convicted by a local jury.  According to the E-R, Darrin Pacheco was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter Thursday.  He could face life in prison under the state’s three strikes law.  A judge could rule on that issue today.  Pacheco was convicted of stabbing another man [...]

NorCal Leads State In TB Cases

While Tuberculosis cases were down overall last year in California, Northern California saw an increase in cases.  The American Lung Association reports several Northern California Counties reported TB cases, including Glenn and Tehama Counties.  The agency reports Glenn County had one case of TB in 2006, and 2 cases in 2007.  In Tehama County, there [...]

Buy Back Of Local Stock Offered

A local company is offering to buy back shares of its outstanding stock.  Community Valley Bancorp announced this week that’s its board ok’d the move to buy back a million shares at the price of $13.00 a share.  Officials with the company, which is the parent company for Butte Community Bank, say the offer gives [...]

President Bush Acknowledges Weakness in US Economy

NEW YORK (AP) – Trying to calm jitters about the economy, President Bush concedes that the country obviously is going through a tough time. But, in a speech Friday to The Economic Club of New York, Bush says this is not the first time this has happened and say he’s certain the economy will eventually [...]

Butte County Officials React to New E-P-A Air Standards

Already a “non-attainment” for old EPA smog standards, Butte County will now have to work toward new standards announced this week. The head of th EPA lowered allowable ozone concentrations from 80-parts per billion to 75-parts per billion. Butte County Assistant Air Pollution Control Officer Bob McGlaughlin says Butte County was already out of compliance [...]

Butte County Receives Funding To Buy Land for Memorial Park

Butte County is moving forward on a project to build a Veterans Memorial Park in Oroville.  The county says it has secured 500 thousand dollars in state grant funds to buy property adjacent to the county’s Veterans Memorial Hall in downtown Oroville.  The project has been in the works for more than 5 years.  County officials [...]

Three Bodies Found in Yuba County Apartment

Yuba County investigators are trying to piece together what happened at a Linda apartment, after three men were found dead Thursday. Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Malvern Apartments after residents returned home and found their door ajar.  Authorities say the bodies had signs of trauma. Investigators with the Department of Justice were also called to the area [...]