by News Staff | Feb 18, 2009 | Past Posts
A three-judge panel ruled that a suit brought by California State Prison inmates has merit. The ruling agrees that the prisoners do not receive adequate health care because of overcrowding. The ruling requires the release of 40,000 to 56,000 prisoners. Locally, Inyo...
by News Staff | Feb 18, 2009 | Past Posts
On February 8th a jogger found a deceased man while running on a trail near Big Pine. The Sheriffs Department was called out to the location out of the Baker Creek Campground, where the man had died from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Found with no identification,...
by News Staff | Feb 18, 2009 | Past Posts
A stolen car stuck in the snow led to the arrest of an alleged burglar. Tuesday morning Mono Sheriff Deputies arrested a Ridgecrest man for a burglary at the Virginia Creek Settlement South of Bridgeport. Officers were on their way to the Virginia Creek Settlement,...
by News Staff | Feb 18, 2009 | Past Posts
The predicted wet February has turned a grim economic situation a bit more sunny and cinched a longer ski season. Mammoth Mountain Ski Area officials noted before the last storm that the additional five and a half feet of snow in the first half of February went a long...
by News Staff | Feb 18, 2009 | Past Posts
Like the plot of a high-stakes suspense novel with hundreds of projects, thousands of jobs and billions of dollars on the line, the California State Senate continued wrangling behind the scenes to come up with a budget. Inyo-Mono senators remained high profile in the...
