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Yuba County offers recreation programs

By Ben van der Meer/Appeal-Democrat

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Less than six months into launching the first countywide recreation program, Yuba County officials are looking for a place the new department can call home. With strong popularity for some programs and others not as popular, parents and their young... Full story

Olivehurst man sent to prison for beating girlfriend

Judge sentences 19-year-old to six years

By Rob Young/Appeal-Democrat

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A 19-year-old Olivehurst man beat his girlfriend with a jack handle and stabbed her in the leg in front of her 1-year-old son, but she asked a Yuba County judge to put him on probation, according to court documents. Instead, Judge Julia Scrogin on... Full story

Justice seeks justice

Yuba judge rules in ring dispute

By Ryan McCarthy/Appeal-Democrat

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An Olivehurst woman has 30 days to return the $3,673 diamond wedding ring — as well as furniture — she received from a Modesto-area man, a Yuba County Superior Court judge says. Tomeka Justice, 34, said the man she's known since high... Full story

Mid-Valley Briefs

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Mid-Valley Briefs from Wednesday's paper. Yuba City CHP officer pleads not guilty A California Highway Patrol officer facing a felony charge of inflicting corporal injury to his wife pleaded not guilty Monday in Sutter County Superior Court,... Full story

No freedom for Yuba man on Statue of Liberty appeal

By Rob Young/Appeal-Democrat

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A Yuba County man punched his girlfriend in the ribs but he couldn't beat the Statue of Liberty, the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled Tuesday. The justices said a Sutter County prosecutor acted improperly in 2007 when, using... Full story

Brownsville man guilty of failing to register as sex offender

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A 42-year-old man who moved to Brownsville from Idaho pleaded guilty today in federal court in Sacramento to failure to register in California as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown said. Nedd Max Murphy Jr. registered in Idaho in 2007 in... Full story

Bus driver could get 80 years

By Rob Parsons/Tri-County Newspapers

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Sentencing will be handed down Wednesday for the driver convicted of killing 11 people in a bus crash in Colusa County last year. A Colusa jury found Quintin Joey Watts of Stockton guilty of 11 counts of gross vehicular manslaughter as well as 21... Full story

Bridge Street reopens to two-way traffic

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Two lanes have been reopened on Bridge Street to allow traffic in both directions, the Yuba City Public Works Department announced today. The department has completed the initial phase of paving from the west end of the Fifth Street bridge to... Full story

Winter shelter scheme jelling

Pilot program would use former Walton firehouse to work out bugs

By Nancy Pasternack/Appeal-Democrat

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A pilot program set to morph next year into a rotating homeless shelter could be under way as early as December, according to Yuba-Sutter homeless advocates. The plan currently under consideration requires Yuba City City Council approval and... Full story

Morales always got better, but this time she never recovered

By Ben van der Meer/Appeal-Democrat

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Isela J. Morales was the kind of woman who got sick, then got better, according to her daughters. When Morales, 47, got sick a month ago with what at first seemed to be pneumonia, but later proved to be the H1N1 virus, they thought the same pattern... Full story

Swine flu cited in Linda man's death

By Ashley Gebb/Appeal-Democrat

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A Linda man who loved church and outreach to at-risk youth is believed to be the first Yuba-Sutter resident to die from swine flu complications. Johnny Duerksen, 32, died Thursday at Fremont Medical Center in Yuba City after testing positive almost... Full story

H1N1 vaccine supplies tight

By Howard Yune/Appeal-Democrat

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Supplies of the vaccine to ward off the swine flu virus remain tight in the Mid-Valley, with the limited stock mostly limited to higher-risk candidates. Health directors in Yuba, Sutter and Colusa counties say private doctors remain the best bet... Full story

State withholding more from your paycheck

By Judy Lin/Associated Press

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SACRAMENTO — Californians will see a little less money in their paychecks as the result of a tax-withholding plan devised to help plug the state's gaping budget deficit. Starting this week, employers must withhold 10 percent more in state... Full story

Picking up a parade

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Volunteers in Yuba City picked up about 60 yards worth of bagged trash Monday after the area hosted a crowd estimated at 65,000 people Sunday during the 30th annual Sikh Parade. The event and the parade's 4.4-mile round-trip was attended by a... Full story

Griesa retrial pushed back to January

By Rob Young/Appeal-Democrat

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A visiting judge from Colusa County today granted former Marysville towing company manager Joseph Griesa's request to delay his second trial on felony sexual assault charges. Judge William S. Abel ruled defense attorney Kenneth Rosenfeld —... Full story

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