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Windsor attorney convicted of taking $500,000 from family trust
An attorney was convicted in Sonoma County Superior Court in Santa Rosa on Tuesday after he pleaded no contest to stealing more than $500,000 from a family’s trust he had been managing. Michael Voorhees of Windsor reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and pleaded no contest to six counts...
Tech Billionaire’s Teen Reported Missing in the Bay Area
The child of billionaire businessman Stewart Butterfield is missing, and authorities believe the teen may have run away to San Francisco’s seedy Tenderloin district.According to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, Mint Butterfield, 16, was last seen around 10 p.m. Sunday night in Bolinas, a coastal community of roughly 1,500 people. They were reported missing early the next morning by their mother, entrepreneur Caterina Fake.“Mint has brown/reddish curly hair and their eyebrows are pierced,” Deputy Jose Suarez posted to neighborhood networking site NextDoor. “They were last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, flannel pajama pants, and black boots. They possibly had a...
Santa Rosa man accused of killing sister-in-law to undergo competency review
Days before final trial preparations were to begin in the case of a Santa Rosa man accused of fatally stabbing his sister-in-law in 2022, the man’s defense attorneys voiced concerns about his competency. If all had gone according to schedule, Varinder Singh’s trial readiness conference would have happened Monday...
Skull found in Sonoma County identified as 1980s homicide cold case victim
(KRON) — The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office identified the skull of “‘Motorcycle Mountain’ John Doe” as Thomas Jeffrey Rupen, the victim of a cold case dating back to the 1980s, officials announced Tuesday. On Feb. 15, 2001, a civilian turned a human skull into the sheriff’s department office in Santa Rosa. The civilian said they […]
Free trolley connecting Santa Rosa’s Courthouse and Railroad squares rolling into town next month
Visitors to downtown Santa Rosa will be able to hop aboard a new trolley service connecting Old Courthouse Square and Railroad Square beginning next month. Rose-E, an electric trolley, will roll onto city streets May 15 and provide stops at shopping and dining destinations, hotels and at the Sonoma-Marin Area Rapid Transit station.
Petaluma mobile home residents take their fight on the road
photo credit: Noah Abrams/KRCBLittlewoods resident Rufino Cortes speaks outside Harmony Communities offices in Stockton, CA. on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Residents of a Petaluma mobile home park are facing the threat of large rent hikes and even possible eviction and closure. They took a protest on the road this week to Stockton. "The sprinklers are on in the middle of the day, if that gives you any kind of sign," Protestor Angeles Cruz said. "We are very much drenched, but that's not stopping any of us from our freedom of speech." The roughly two dozen residents are mainly from Petaluma’s Littlewoods Mobile...
Sonoma planning commission denies vacation rental, tasting room permit
The owners of the Cooperage building in Sonoma were unanimously denied a permit for a vacation rental and tasting room by the Sonoma Planning Commission on Thursday. Neighbors to the property applauded the commission’s decision after they voiced fears that a vacation rental property would create noise pollution, and a tasting room would cause “retail encroachment” into the residential neighborhood.
Watch: Helicopter crew rescues injured tree trimmer near Santa Rosa
A helicopter crew airlifted an injured tree trimmer to a Santa Rosa hospital Monday in a dramatic rescue captured on video.The California Highway Patrol said on its Golden Gate Division Air Operations Facebook page that its H-30 helicopter assisted a Sant Rosa Fire Department crew in rescuing the injured tree trimmer.The injured worker was in the area of Hood Mountain east of Santa Rosa when he was hurt, and access to the area was difficult, the CHP said.Firefighters first made their way to the injured worker to give him first aid and prepare him for transport. The H-30 arrived overhead and crews performed a hoist rescue, taking him to a waiting ambulance.The CHP said the man's injuries were not life-threatening. It was not clear how the man became injured.The unidentified patient was being treated at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Napa, Santa Rosa and Petaluma among US cities where people live longest, according to 24/7 Tempo
The cities of Napa, Santa Rosa and Petaluma are among the places in the U.S. where people are living the longest, according to a report out by health and travel website 24/7 Tempo. The North Bay locales were included in the site’s April 16 list of the top 50 U.S....
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