Olivehurst News

A former Sutter County Sheriff's Department civilian clerk was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of embezzling $90,000 from the department, Sheriff J. Paul Parker said.

Sutter County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a missing 15-year-old girl. Dennie Jennings was supposed to take the bus from a friend's home in Olivehurst to meet her mother in Yuba City, but she never showed up.

Firefighters from at least four jurisdictions knocked down a fire Monday at the Veterans Memorial Community Center in Marysville, but not before most of the west side of the building had burned and taken the contents with it.

Jun 24, 2009 1:47 pm US/Pacific CBS13 Crime Section Yuba County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man they say tried to kidnap a nine-year-old girl on Monday night and then drove by her home as officers were investigating the crime.

A 9-year-old girl said she was nearly abducted while walking down the street in Yuba County.

A 54-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of trying to kidnap a 9-year-old girl as she was walking on Larson Street in Olivehurst, Yuba County Sheriff Steve Durfor said Tuesday.

Yuba County flood control officials on Friday received an $11 million payment from the state, helping ensure a massive levee repair project in the Plumas Lake Basin will be completed this summer.

Two teenagers are dead after their car slammed into a power pole early this morning.

Two teenagers died in a car crash early Thursday near Olivehurst, the California Highway Patrol said.

A woman from Olivehurst died Sunday afternoon in a hit-and-run accident in Linda when a man in a pickup hit her in an intersection while she was on a bike.

An Oroville man has been arrested in connection with three recent Yuba-Sutter pharmacy robberies.

El Dorado County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man on suspicion of taking a woman companion away from a casino against her will.

Brice Peeler, 26, a transient, wanted in connection with a Tuesday morning stabbing and robbery of a 45-year-old man, in the 16000 block of Rough and Ready Hwy, was apprehended at a residence in Olivehurst after detectives from the Nevada County Sheriff's Major Crimes Unit obtained a warrant for his arrest.

Two people picked one of the many wrong places to have sex in public - near an elementary school, according to a Sacramento Sheriff's Department report released today.

Property owners on some of the state's most flood-prone land in Yuba County have agreed to tax themselves for levee maintenance.

At least three stores in Olivehurst and Linda accepted counterfeit $100 bills from an Illinois man, Yuba County Sheriff Steve Durfor said Wednesday.

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Dixon police are asking the public's help in finding a woman missing since Thursday.

Sacramento Sheriff's deputies shut down what they said was a bogus operation to collect funds for a Shriners hospital.

The owner of one of the two aircraft involved in Tuesday's cropduster crash in Olivehurst defended his pilot, calling the incident an "unfortunate situation." Gary Dibble's Ayres Thrush cropduster landed on top of a Gruman-made cropdusting aircraft about 5:30 Tuesday afternoon at Yuba County Airport.