Susanville News

Deputies discovered more human remains Friday while searching behind the former family property of Wesley Shermantine, one of the "Speed Freak Killers." According to Sacramento-based bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, the remains were found in the location where Shermantine admitted that 16-year old Chevy Wheeler was buried.

The U. S. Bureau of Land Management in is seeking public nominations for four positions on its Northwest California Resource Advisory Council, which advises the BLM on public land issues.

REDDING – Wild horse management will be among the topics scheduled for discussion when two citizens advisory councils for the federal Bureau of Land Management meet in a three-day session scheduled to start Wednesday.

A young gray wolf's search for a mate won't take him to the Northern Nevada desert where the annual Burning Man festival is staged.The wolf known as OR-7 came within 15 miles of the Nevada line near Susanville, Calif., early last week before he decided to head back west away from the nation's most arid state, said Mark Stopher, spokesman fo... The ... (more)

A Plumas County judge ruled there is enough evidence for a Reno man to stand trial on eight felony charges, including murder.

Susanville and Lassen County are proceeding with their lawsuit challenging the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's placement of Herzog, Wesley Shermantine's co-conspirator, who lived in a trailer on the grounds of a prison in Susanville, with little notice that he was coming.

A young gray wolf's search for a mate apparently won't take him to the northern Nevada desert where the annual Burning Man festival is staged.Wildlife officials say that after wandering hundreds of miles across Oregon and northern California, the wolf called OR-7 is no longer headed toward the Black Rock Desert.California Department of Fish and ... (more)

California's first wild wolf since the 1920s roamed east across U.S. highway 395 on the Madeline Plains north of Susanville in Lassen County sometime in the past ten days, then seemed to slow the "dispersal" quest that began last September in northern Oregon.

Convicted killer Loren Herzog committed suicide inside a trailer just outside the front gate of the High Desert State Prison in Susanville, where he resided since his release in 2010.

John Vanderheiden, father of Cyndi Vanderheiden, looks for evidence of her body in Calaveras County on Thursday.

A few weeks ago I received a phone call from the Susanville post office. I had mailed a copy of my book to a friend in Susanville, but the address label had come off.

The neighborhood in southeast Chico has long been a county island surrounded by the city.

He hung himself at his trailer on the grounds of the High Desert Prison near Susanville where he had been exiled in parole after serving 11 years in prison.

This small, 2-year-old filly was barely clinging to life when park officials found her at the Cosumnes River Preserve on Jan.

Three recently published books are about ancient Rome and the rise and fall of same.

Law enforcement officials are considering whether to search anew for several people possibly killed by the "Speed Freak Killers" in California's Central Valley in the 1980s and 1990s.

One of the men known as the "Speed Freak Killers" who terrorized San Joaquin Valley in a rampage that spanned 15 years has died, according to the Department of Corrections.

Loren Herzog, the Linden man once convicted of three murders, apparently hanged himself late last night, a state prison spokeswoman said today.