Clearlake News

Jury selection for one of the two men going to trial for allegedly killing a toddler last spring was completed Friday, and a separate group of jurors will be chosen for his co-defendant next week.

The first official community pledge for St. Helena Hospital Clear Lake's $12.1 million emergency department expansion project was signed Wednesday.

Paul William Braden appeared in a Lake County courtroom with his lawyer, Doug Rhoades, to select jurors for his murder trial.

The Lake County Gang Task Force conducted a countywide sweep last month that culminated in seven arrests, a Lake County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.

Jury selection continued for the third day Wednesday in the trial of two men accused of killing a toddler in Clearlake late last spring.

First Five Mendocino recently announced a significant milestone: since April 2009 it has distributed more than 50,000 books free of charge to children ages 0 to 5 through its role as fiscal champion for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

Approximately 70 people were evacuated from their homes early Friday morning after authorities received a bomb threat concerning the Ridge Lake Apartments .

Hundreds of Lake County residents crowded the courthouse Thursday for the beginning of jury selection in the trial of two men accused of killing a toddler.

A shallow magnitude 3.9 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning four miles from Clearlake Oaks, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The program, called "Building for the Future," highlighted Adventist Healthcare System's emergency department renovation and expansion project at its hospital site in Clearlake.

Clearlake Public Works monthly report for January was a synopsis of department activity throughout 2011.

A Clearlake man who later admitted using the Facebook social networking site to find and proposition underage girls for sex was arrested in a city park Thursday after unwittingly making a date with an undercover detective, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said.

Two Clearlake Oaks men accused of murdering a toddler and shooting five other people last spring appeared in court for their first day of trial Thursday, with the judge considering several motions and the parties discussing the logistics of the dual-jury proceedings.

An alleged sexual predator was arrested by detectives with the Lake County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit during an undercover operation.

The Lake County Board of Supervisors , acting as the Board of Directors for the Lake County Sanitation District, approved a resolution authorizing the use of eminent domain to fill the need for a wastewater sewer pipeline project in the City of Clearlake.

Three people were killed and three others injured in a Saturday crash that closed Highway 29 south of Lower Lake for several hours, CHP officials said.

CLEARLAKE On Friday Christopher Adam Sanders, 31, of Clearlake, was sentenced to 41 years in state prison for molesting his step-daughter. Sanders was sentenced by the Honorable Stephen O. Hedstrom, who presided over the jury trial.