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The company's website, claims that they can "quickly and legally" get squatters out of a home "while ensuring you are never liable for our actions." And, it says, "Don't ask about our methods - The less you know, the safer you are." Those methods, as Jacobs has boasted on YouTube and on at least one radio show, include using a katana or Japanese sword.

Caltrans District 9 & 10 maintenance crews made great progress this year with our snow removal operations and road repairs to safely re-open the highway to the traveling public, earlier than normal. The highway over Monitor Pass spans roughly 17 miles, connecting Highway 395 in the east over the pass toward Markleeville.

We are very happy with the verdicts. We have to hold offenders accountable, and in this case, we got justice for two specific victims, but I'm hoping with this jury verdict people will see that these kinds of crimes are not going to be tolerated. We're going to hold these people to account.

From 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 9 through March 13, the right lane of northbound Highway 17 from Granite Creek Road in Scotts Valley to upper Glenwood Drive will be closed so Caltrans crews can perform vegetation control work.

Party leaders fear the growing possibility that the crowded field will split the Democratic electorate in the state's June top-two primary election and result in two Republicans advancing to the November ballot, ensuring a Republican governor being elected for the first time since 2006.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have detained at least 46 people outside Santa Clara County's main jail since June 2025, exploiting publicly posted release lists to make arrests in a county that otherwise bars cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, officials say.

The suspect whom authorities have not officially identified was taken into custody early on Thursday morning after law enforcement tracked him in one of the victims' vehicles, the Utah public safety department said in a statement. The vehicle was tracked through southern Utah into northern Arizona and eventually into Colorado, authorities said, noting that Colorado law enforcement located the vehicle abandoned in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

The AG's office argued in court filings that the murder charge, combined with Onduto's 2025 assault of a patient, were sufficient to establish she posed a threat to the public if allowed to continue at her job.

BIG BEAR LAKE: Tucked just outside the national forest, this 1940s cabin features dramatic beamed ceilings over a two-story living room. Listed for: $265,000 for two bedrooms, one bathroom in 789 square feet with built-in seating, floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, galley-style kitchen, and rear deck on a 5,400-square-foot lot.

The state fined Mammoth Mountain Ski Area LLC $26,810 for three violations related to the death, according to a July 2025 citation that is being reported here for the first time. The violations included not ensuring the patrollers were able to deploy avalanche airbags prior to the 25-year-old's death.

California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks warned in a statement that for all the state's liberal bona fides it was possible that a large Democratic field could carve up the party's primary vote into small fractions and allow only two Republican candidates to advance to the November election. The all-GOP general election is possible under California's unusual top-two primary system, which puts all candidates on one ballot and only the top two vote-getters advance to November, regardless of party.

More than 100 law enforcement agents conducted high-risk search warrants across three locations. The first was an active methamphetamine lab in the 8000 block of Center Drive in Valley Springs. A second site was located in the 2000 block of Golf Road in Turlock, which contained all the equipment necessary to operate as a lab but was shut down before production began. The third site, located in the 900 block of Reno Avenue in Modesto, was used by the drug trafficking organization to store and distribute illicit narcotics.

I-80 has become a pipeline for narcotic trafficking over the years. Troopers are paying close attention. It's not uncommon for the department to discover drugs on travelers when passing through the Cornhusker State.

Officers responded around 7:15 p.m. to the 2000 block of South Sprague Lane after reports of gunfire. Investigators later determined that four gang members confronted rival gang members who were attending a baby shower in the courtyard at the address. Police said the suspects were armed with two handguns and an AR-style firearm and opened fire into the crowd.

A resolution that came before the college's Academic Senate in 2021 criticized the Claim Jumper mascot as an image of the gold rush culturally associated with stealing and clandestine activities and as such not aligned with the college's values.

On Jan. 9, Sarabia forced himself into a home on the 1400 block of Greenwood Ave. in San Carlos with a gun at 2 a.m., demanding money and valuables before fleeing on a bicycle, according to police.

A city resident accidentally fired a shot into the apartment of a family he shared a wall with, while cleaning his firearm, court records show. When police responded to a shots fired call at Arroyo Court on Feb. 28, they immediately noticed something else: the suspected shooter reeked of vodka, and there was apparently a good reason why. He admitted to drinking about 350 ml of Smirnoff that afternoon, authorities said in court records.

A bicyclist was killed in a crash with a teen riding an electric bike on a Davis path, the city's police department said. The collision was reported at 2:48 p.m. Monday, March 2, on a paved multi-use path that runs alongside the Davis High School campus and an adjacent park.

An unnamed tourist saw it and told Aidan Moore, who works for Alcatraz City Cruises. Moore told SFGATE that he was initially skeptical, but the guest's iPhone footage left little room for doubt. The video shows, not a sea lion or an otter, but an actual Canis latrans, doggedly dogpaddling, then clambering out of the water, noticeably shaky and struggling to settle tired paws on the craggy rocks.

Early Tuesday, at 3:05 a.m. Pacific time, the March full moon turned a dark red as a total lunar eclipse unfolded, lasting for about an hour and peaking at 3:33 a.m. Anyone willing to be up for the early-morning event witnessed the moon's deep reddish-orange glow as the Earth passed directly between the sun and moon, casting a gigantic shadow across the moon's surface.

Mullins' killing appeared to have been a targeted act by someone who knew exactly where to find him, police said. He drove to the store with a woman and the two were sitting inside when a man walked in, came right up to Mullins, and shot him multiple times in front of multiple eyewitnesses and security cameras, police said.

On top of devastating losses and rebuilding and insurance claim headaches, survivors of the 2025 Los Angeles County firestorms have faced an increasingly existential threat to their communities: large investment firms buying up burned lots, which many worry will forever change the fabric of their treasured neighborhoods.