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Three teens held in Yuba County slaying

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Three teenagers were arrested Thursday night in connection with the drive-by shooting death of a man in Linda, Yuba County Sheriff Steve Durfor said.

Yuba City is No. 1 in NorCal baseball

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Yuba City is Cal-Hi Sports' top-ranked baseball team in Northern California this week, regardless of division.

Disaster drill today at Sleep Train Amphitheatre

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday

A disaster drill intended to test the preparedness of emergency responders, law enforcement and hospitals is being held today at the Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Yuba County.

Teens Drive-By Suspects Make Court Appearances: One Pleads Not Guilty, Two Others Protest Being Charged As Adults

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

By Rob Young, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif. May 14--One teenage defendant in last week's fatal drive-by shooting in East Linda pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Yuba County Superior Court while two others formally objected to being waived into adult court.

6-Month Jail Term for Child Porn: Images Reported By Photo Lab Staff

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

By Rob Young, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif. May 13--A retired computer programmer was sentenced Monday in Sutter County Superior Court to five years' probation and six months in jail for developing pornographic pictures of young girls at the Yuba City Wal-Mart store.

Arnold and the farm bill: Just another pig at the trough

America's Finest Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

... at Port Reyes or the Army's Amadee Airfield in the Sierras or the Air Force's Beale base east of Yuba City, compared those facilities to similar ones around the nation, evaluated the global threat to America and the role that these bases could play in lessening that threat on a cost-efficient basis, then concluded that it was a matter of urgent national interest that they all be kept open?...

Critical Fire Weather Conditions

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

... Valley To Southern Tehama County Line Below 1000 Ft - Central Sacramento Valley In Glenn, Colusa, Yuba, Northern Sutter And Butte County Below 1000 FT - Southern Sacramento Valley In Yolo - Sacramento Far Western Placer, Southern Sutter And Solano County Below 1000 Ft - Excludes The Delta - Carquinez Strait And Delta - Northern San Joaquin Valley In San Joaquin And Stanislaus Counties Below...

RT drops the ball.

Uneasy Rhetoric (Free subscription) | yesterday

... on the I-5 closure, but Etran posted the alternate information for its affected route . Yuba-Sutter Transit has a link to the Fix I-5 project, but, as far as I can tell, no additional information. The North Natomas TMA posted information about how the closure will impact its shuttle service. With oil prices on a permanent upward trend , and with ridership already way up , here is yet another...

Sac-Joaquin Section baseball playoff preview: Equalling an exciting 2007 finish will be tough

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Elk Grove High School advanced as the No. 3 seed from the Delta Valley Conference to win its third consecutive Sac-Joaquin Section Division I title; Rocklin defeated Sierra Foothill League rival Granite Bay 6-5 for the Division II championship in front of one of the biggest baseball crowds in section history; and top-ranked Yuba City downed Bella Vista 9-4 for the Division III crown at American...

Gold Fever Still Rages in the West

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Chuck Allen got bit by the gold bug back in the 1970s. While working one summer in the Queen Mine on the middle fork of the Yuba River -- "hard-rocking" at the underground mine -- the Yuba City resident unearthed an 17.5 ounce nugget of gold wrapped around clear quartz crystal.

Gusty northwesterly and northerly winds today

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

... VALLEY - CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY - SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEYAffected Counties or parts of: Yuba, Plumas, Yolo, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, San Joaquin, Sierra, Alpine, Shasta, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Sacramento, Placer, Solano, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter, Lake, Tehama, Nevada

Verizon Wireless Expands High-Speed Wireless Broadband Network in Redding, California

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

... Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Yolo, and Yuba. Based on CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology, the expanded wireless broadband network provides Verizon Wireless customers with data uplink speeds significantly faster than the company's award-winning national EV-DO network, which the company first launched...

Salmon Fishing Closes On California’s Central Valley Rivers

California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

... Red Bluff Diversion Dam to Knights Landing from November 1 to December 31. The Feather, American, Yuba and other popular salmon rivers will be closed to the take of spring run chinook salmon also. “The Department proposed and recommended this option, a hybrid of the originally proposed Options 2 and 3, because of concerns about impacts to spring chinook salmon,” said Steve Martarano, Department...

• California Limits Salmon Fishing - Red Orbit
• State panel imposes strict limits on Valley salmon fishing - Sacramento Bee
• See the 8 articles on the same subject

The stars will be coming out

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Dragila, the 2000 gold medalist from Placer High School and Yuba College, is set to compete in the women's pole vault at 3 p.m. Trafton, who moved to Galt in 2005, is entered in the women's discus at 3:30 p.m., and Miles, a Bella Vista High School graduate, is in the men's pole vault field that competes at 4:30 p.m.

Salmon Fishing Closed On Central Valley Rivers

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

... Red Bluff Diversion Dam to Knights Landing from November 1 to December 31. The Feather, American, Yuba and other popular salmon rivers will be closed to the take of spring run chinook salmon also. “The Department proposed and recommended this option, a hybrid of the originally proposed Options 2 and 3, because of concerns about impacts to spring chinook salmon,” said Steve Martarano, Department...