Overturned Tanker Closes 99 -5:50AM Thursday (Update)

An overturned tanker closes a portion of Highway 99 and the Skyway for hours Wednesday evening. The tanker flipped around 5 p.m. on the onramp to Northbound 99. Chico Fire Inspector Marie Fickert says a passerby saw the tanker flip on its side, and helped pull the trapped driver to safety.  The truck was carrying [...]

Reporters Allowed Into Tibet

     LHASA, China (AP) – A group of foreign journalists allowed into
Tibet is being closely watched by Chinese authorities, who
apparently are trying to show life is back to normal after rioting
earlier this month.
     But police stationed throughout the Tibet capital city indicate
it remains under lockdown.
     Twenty-six reporters are on the visit. They’re being monitored
by officials [...]

California lawmakers getting an update this week on agriculture issues including the federal farm bill and a guest worker program.  KPAY’s Matt Ray reports….

 farm-wrap.mp3 (click for report)
 

Chico Gang Member Is Sentenced In Shooting Case

A Chico gang member is sentenced to prison after forensic evidence links him to a shooting.  The Butte County District Attorney’s office says 23-year old Sergio Martinez fired multiple shots at a 28-year old man last year after the man dropped out of Martinez’s gang.  Martinez was sentenced to nine years in prison this week.  [...]

Redding Man Feared Dead In Iraq

An Anderson man fears his son is one four dead contractors found in Iraq by U.S. authorities.  Josh Munns was kidnapped in Iraq in 2006.  His father Mark Munns tells redding.com that he’s been told that authorities are 99% sure one of the bodies is that of Munns.  The bodies were reportedly found near Basra, not far [...]

Major Airline Cancels About 200 Flights

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – American Airlines is canceling about 200 flights today for inspections. An airline spokesman says crews need to check some wire bundles aboard the MD-80 aircraft. The inspections follow an audit by a joint team of inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration and the airline itself.  An American spokesman says the [...]

CA Company Has Plans for Space Tourism

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Another company plans to get into the space tourism business.  California firm Xcor Aerospace today will unveil its design of a two-seat rocket ship that can carry tourists on suborbital flights. The Lynx is about the size of a small private plane and Xcor says it will be capable of reaching [...]

Three Arrested in Connection with Marysville Shooting

Three people are arrested in GRIDLEY following a triple shooting in MARYSVILLE. Earlier this month three people were shot at a birthday party in a Marysville Youth Community Center. Lt. Brian Cook says police served a warrant in the one-thousand block of Vermont Street Friday and arrested Jose Mosqueda and Nancy Morales. Four young children [...]

State Regulators Postpone Medication Tracking

SAN DIEGO (AP) – California regulators are giving drug makers another two years to start using high-tech tracking devices aimed at fighting counterfeit medications.  More from KPAY’s Christina Craven.
Click for audio:  med-tracking-delay.mp3

Prosecutors Want Charges Dropped Against Tehama County Man

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drop charges against a Los Molinos man accused of disrupting a Thanksgiving Day flight that was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo. The government says a psychiatric examination of Andrew James Smith shows he was suffering from a psychotic disorder caused by [...]