Jan Perry is seeking to impose a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in Los Angeles

The body of an unidentified middle-aged male was found in Leroy Jackson Park early Thursday morning. Twenty-five year-old transient John E. Griffith IV arrested at Upjohn Park just 12 hours after body discovered.

Two separate thunderstorms that resulted in over an inch and a half of rain left cars and motorists stranded, as well as damaging homes and businesses.

President George W. Bush visited Redding Thursday July 17 for a briefing on north state wildfires, a visit with smoke jumpers, and a helicopter tour of devastated areas in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors recently approved a letter of opposition to Senator Dave Cox’s Senate Bill 3X 16 which would do away with First 5 California, a program created in 1998 to promote education and well-being for children ages 0 to 5.

As of Tuesday CAL FIRE estimated that 101 fires remained active in Northern California.
Six helicopters and one RC-26 remote sensing platform were mobilized specifically to northern California – where most of the damage continues to occur. In three of those fires the Siskiyou Unit of CAL FIRE has responded with 15 engines.