by News Staff | Sep 14, 2010 | Past Posts
For two months, the Sheep Fire has burned on the west side of the Sierra in Kings Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Forest. That fire remains the source of almost daily smoke pollution on the east side. Forest officials said infrared mapping shows that the...
by News Staff | Sep 13, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
A tip from the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom. We happened to go to Vons for cat food for Tuxedo, the newsroom animal. Well, one of the animals. Anyway, we thought we would try the self-serve check-out for speed. So, we start to run the little cans of cat goodies over the...
by News Staff | Sep 10, 2010 | Past Posts
John Alexander, 56 The quick work by Mono Sheriff’s officers on the arrest of an Auburn man wanted in nine bank robberies went down like clockwork, and apparently FBI agents were in the vicinity. Mono Sheriff Rick Scholl said that the FBI apparently had...
by News Staff | Sep 10, 2010 | Past Posts
It was in January of 2009 that 55-year-old Michael Dana McEnry of Bridgeville, CA, made an unannounced landing at the Bishop Airport that nearly caused a collision with another plane. A federal court has now sentenced McEnry to 21 months in prison for flying a...
by News Staff | Sep 10, 2010 | Past Posts
In mid-August a seasonal worker at Bodie State Park died from Hantavirus. Now, Public Health Officer Dr. Rick Johnson reports that preliminary information points to the man’s motor home as the possible source of illness. 61-year-old Richard Laird Johnson of...
