Judge approves Freedom reorganization plan
WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal judge Tuesday approved Freedom Communication Inc.'s reorganization plan, giving a green light for the company to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of this month. The court action gets the Irvine-based media company and...

Murder suspect's fingerprints on beer can, truck door
Michael Angelo Sanudo's fingerprints were found on a Budweiser beer can in the alley street where Willie Dean Roberts Jr. allegedly was beaten and robbed before being dragged under a pickup, a fingerprint analyst testified Tuesday in Sutter County...

Union: Overruns hit Yuba College projects
Yuba Community College District projects paid for with Measure J bond funds face major cost overruns that threaten other planned developments — including the new $29.5 million facility in Sutter County — a union says. Teresa Dorantes-Basile,...

Center for seniors OK'd in Olivehurst
Yuba County's seniors can look toward Olivehurst, which the Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday as a new home for the senior center. Within about a month, the Olivehurst Community Center will host the seniors, who will move their meals, bingo,...

Gas leak forces evacuation in Marysville
Marysville authorities evacuated about 10 homes on 12th Street Tuesday afternoon after a construction mishap severed a natural gas line. Police received reports at 3:41 p.m. that a backhoe cut into a three-quarter-inch main at 12th and Pine streets,...

Plumas Lake man suspected of distributing cocaine
When he was arrested early Tuesday, a Plumas Lake man said he began selling cocaine because he'd been laid off from his job, a drug enforcement official said. Richard Ramirez Ayala, 23, was arrested about 7 a.m. at his family's home in the 1400 block...

Gas prices jump to $3 gallon
Gas prices rose by more than a quarter a gallon in Yuba-Sutter during the last month, the largest such rise anywhere in Northern California, according to the monthly report from AAA. A gallon of gas now averages $3 a gallon in the local area, still...

Mid-Valley Briefs
Mid-Valley Briefs from Wednesday's paper. Yuba City Levee vote likely to start in April Voting on whether to fund a 44-mile levee upgrade on the Feather River may start next month, the Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency has announced. Property owners...

Superintendent: Biggs school shouldn't be on state list
Biggs Middle School in Butte County should not have been included on a list of low-achieving schools in California and the state superintendent will recommend a waiver removing the middle school from the list, the superintendent for Biggs Unified...

Mother of four going to jail for embezzlement
A Yuba City woman, the mother of four young children, wept Monday in Sutter County Superior Court as she was sentenced to a year in jail for embezzling more than $25,000 from her employer, Northside Fitness. In the audience, the health club's...