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One dead amid heavy rains in California as storms threaten flooding over Christmas

More heavy rain brought by atmospheric rivers is expected for California by midweek

The Independent UK

Which parts of the US can expect a white Christmas this year – and which will need to brace for storms, flooding and travel chaos

Deadly flooding is set to continue as record warmth heats up Christmas for millions of Americans

The Independent UK

Under a New Law, California Schools Hope Insurance Changes Lead to More Student Therapy

In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

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The California community caught between a powerful megachurch and far-right extremists

Shasta residents voted out an anti-establishment leader in favor of a business owner who attends the enormously popular yet controversial Bethel church

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Conspiracy Theories Gain New Life As US Campaign Unfolds

In this week's "Super Tuesday" primaries, security guards will monitor the back door at one Shasta County polling precinct -- a sign of the high political tensions in rural northern California.

International Business Times

The California county where far-right officials tried to upend voting

Fears of election night unrest arose amid dispute with ultra-conservatives who insisted county use hand-count system for ‘election integrity’

The Guardian - US

Young Woman Trades $5,000 Monthly Income For $88 Rent In Yosemite’s Wilderness

Redding, California-based 24-year-old Hanna Beatty was an assistant for a small escrow firm

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Redding, California, Uses Public Health Red Tape to Ban Sharing Food with Homeless

Is it good public health policy to deny charity to people experiencing homelessness?

Reason

In red California, election deniers rant about fraud and promise they won't go away

REDDING, Calif. — A cold rain poured outside as Patty Plumb stood before the Shasta County Board of Supervisors on Election Day and — with a warm smile and a chipper voice — warned that the local voting system is rigged.

Los Angeles Times

Falkirk to mark pit disaster centenary with 'living history' memorial

Work has already started on an ambitious new memorial to remember victims and families of the Redding Pit Disaster, nearly 100 years on

Daily Record

Sherri Papini invented a wild kidnapping hoax. The true story is even stranger

Sherri Papini disappeared from her Northern California neighborhood in November 2016, but she made it home in time for Thanksgiving.

Los Angeles Times

Sherri Papini’s lawyer asks for 1 month in prison, 7 months in home detention in kidnap hoax

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One day after federal prosecutors asked for an eight-month prison sentence for Sherri Papini for her 2016 kidnap hoax, her attorney asked a judge to give the 40-year-old Redding-area woman a one-month sentence in custody with seven more in home detention.

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Falkirk community celebrate after winning funding bid for new playpark

Residents of Redding and Westquarter are delighted to hear that the plans are on track for approval soon, after a campaign by local parents.

Daily Record

Inside the remote California county where the far right took over: ‘Civility went out the window’

In Shasta county the pandemic intensified political divisions, and many officials quit or were pushed out amid bitter tensions

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Calif. county faces stark election choice: traditional Republicans or a militant wing?

REDDING, Calif. — The sun was blindingly bright, and the streets in Redding's Buckeye neighborhood were mostly empty — anyone at home on this Tuesday afternoon was wisely staying out of the 100-degree swelter.

Tribune News Service

Dog goes home after saving California woman from mountain lion attack

REDDING, Calif. — Eva didn’t look too bad, considering three days earlier she nearly died in the jaws of a mountain lion.

Daily Mirror

Mum Sherri Papini admits faking own kidnapping for 3 weeks after she 'vanished on jog'

Sherri Papini mysteriously reappeared on Thanksgiving Day at the side of a road 120 miles away 22 days after she was reported missing having apparently vanished during a run in Redding, California

Tribune News Service

Sherri Papini pleads guilty in faked kidnapping, awaits sentencing in Sacramento court

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An emotional Sherri Papini formally admitted Monday that she made up her 2016 “kidnapping” from Redding, pleading guilty in federal court in Sacramento to a count of making false statements to a federal agent and mail fraud, part of a plea agreement she worked out after her…

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Sherri Papini accepts plea deal, will admit her 'kidnap' was all a hoax

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six weeks after Sherri Papini was arrested and charged with faking her own kidnapping in 2016, the so-called Super Mom from Redding has signed a plea deal and will admit that she orchestrated the hoax, her attorney told The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

‘I didn’t believe it for a moment’: Inside the case of ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini charged with faking kidnapping

A small city in California lived in fear after Sherri Papini claimed to have been abducted at gunpoint by masked Hispanic women. Five years later, she’s finally been charged with making it all up. Bevan Hurley writes

Tribune News Service

Judge grants Sherri Papini's release in missing-woman hoax case; prosecutors say 'super mom' tried to run from feds

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sherri Papini, the Redding mother accused of orchestrating an elaborate abduction hoax in 2016 and lying to federal agents about it, was allowed to leave jail on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

‘I didn’t believe it for a moment’: Inside the case of ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini charged with faking kidnapping

The Guardian - US

California jogger Sherri Papini staged own violent kidnapping, FBI says

Papini’s 2016 disappearance was long cloaked in confusion, as a friend raised funds for a ‘reverse ransom’

The Independent UK

Why did it take five years to charge ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini with fabricating her own abduction?

Benzinga

Martin Marietta To Sell Certain West Coast Cement, Ready Mixed Concrete Operations For $250M Cash

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE:MLM) has agreed to sell certain West Coast cement and ready mixed concrete operations to CalPortland Company for $250 million in cash. The operations include the Redding cement plant, related cement distribution terminals, and 14 ready-mixed concrete plants in California. The transaction is expected to close in the second…

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