One man is dead and another in jail for murder after an altercation in a bank parking lot in Ukiah. Police say they got a call to the Wells Fargo bank on S. State Street this weekend for an argument between a couple people, one with a knife. Police found a guy with stab wounds on the ground when they arrived. Police says Leslie Adelman was seen leaving the area holding a knife. They say he tried to resist arrest, but they were able to get him. The victim died in the ER at Ukiah Valley Medical Center. Police say the two are both transients in the area.
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After a HAZMAT spill on Highway 101 outside Laytonville, the highway had to be closed down for a few hours. The Highway was reopened to one way traffic with traffic crews in the area to guide traffic around the mess. About five hours after the incident, the highway totally reopened. The CHP reported closing the highway Saturday night in both directions north of Laytonville after a single car crash that involved an overturned semi.
A man has been arrested in Fort Bragg after a woman is found with visible injuries on her body. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Dept reports getting a call for a welfare check to a home and seeing the woman with injuries they say were consistent with a physical assault. The woman was apparently in a relationship with her alleged assailant, John William Bills, who was found there. Deputies also found a semi-automatic rifle which he is not allowed to have due to a previous felony conviction out of Washington State. He also had a Protective Order so he was not allowed to be around the woman to begin with. He’s charged with Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon, Felony Domestic Violence Battery and Violation of Domestic Violence Protective Order. He was being held on $25,000 bail.
There’s a positive case of the new Omicron Subvariant BA.2 in Mendocino County. The Public Health Office reported the first strain of Omicron is still the most common form of the virus in the state of Calif., but now BA.2 is also rapidly increasing across the state. The first case of the new strain was detected earlier this month and even those vaccinated are at risk. But the office says it doesn’t seem to be driving more cases, hospitalizations, or deaths so far. They do say however there is a potential for severe disease for the vulnerable and unvaccinated.
A seminar on how to rescue injured people who may have been trapped in the Ukiah Wastewater Treatment Plant has taken place. Employees at the plant trained all last week with a company from Hopland called Rescue Solutions. Firefighters and Public Works employees learned to use rescue gear. The organizer, a local firefighter for the Hopland Fire Protection District said the majority of deaths in confined-space rescues are of “would-be rescuers” because people try to rush in and help, but they’re not trained and become trapped too. Those at the training included Ukiah firefighters and city water crews.
The state auditor’s office says the state needs to do more ahead of the record-breaking drought potentially causing another dangerous wildfire season. The report from the Interim Auditor to lawmakers says the new Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety approved of the way utility companies planned to prevent wildfires, but the plans were “seriously deficient.” The letter included the plan by the largest utility company in the state, Pacific Gas & Electric, who was responsible for various wildfires over the years. The 91 page report said power companies may be working to get their equipment more fire-resistant, the state has not done enough to be sure the companies prioritize upgrades, especially where they’re needed, in high fire-risk areas.
Only the second woman in history, is now the interim chancellor for the CSU system. Jolene Koester has been chosen by the Calif. State University Board of Trustees to run the 23-campus system. The 74 year old is the former president of CSU Northridge where she led from 2000 to 2011. She will replace Joseph Castro who resigned after reports surfaced that he had mishandled sexual harassment complaints against Fresno State’s vice president of student affairs when Castro was the president there. Koester told CalMatters the primary focus of her work will be to renew and establish trust. She will fill the spot until they find a permanent chancellor at a yearly salary of $625,000.
A man who a couple hired to do contracting work at their Willits home has to pay tens of thousands for faulty work at their home. Daniel Hildebrand admitted he worked at the home without a state contractor’s license for work in 2018. The Mendocino County District Attorney’s office reports Hildenbrand who was also a sometime actor was charged with unlawfully contracting without a required state contractor’s license, unlawfully advertising as a contractor without the license, unlawfully charging an excessive down payment for contracting work, and unlawfully failing to carry workers compensation insurance. He has to pay $75,000 for the shoddy work.
Another extension could be granted for rent relief under a bill during the heat of the pandemic. The Governor and some Democratic leaders are supporting a proposal to extend eviction protections until the end of June. Those who think they’re eligible should apply to the state for an extension of the state’s COVID rent relief program. The protections were supposed to expire April 1st a day after the March 31st deadline. The new proposal would keep the deadline in place. Last week the state sent money to over 200,000 households. After advocates to extend the program warned of an “eviction tsunami”, a spokesperson for the Governor said he strongly supported an extension.
Intro: A bill to extend some eviction protections for another 3 months, is set to be heard in the State Assembly today. The move comes as time is running out for people to apply to the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which stops accepting applications Thursday. Housing lawyer Tina Rosales with the Western Center on Law and Poverty says people who lost their income as a result of the pandemic should apply now on housing.ca.gov.
:09 "The program will pay 100 percent of back rent and rent going forward for a total of 18 months. Landlords and tenants both can apply."
Tag: The eviction protections are designed to stave off a wave of homelessness because approximately 366-thousand people are waiting for their applications to be processed. According to the state “Housing is Key” website, the program has paid out more than 2-point-4 billion dollars so far; an average of 11-thousand dollars per household.
Second Cut: Rosales says many people whose primary language is not English have had a tough time filing a case, but the kinks are mostly worked out now.
:09 "There were technical glitches and problems with the application, So Spanish- and Chinese-speaking tenants were unable to apply for the program. And now they only have a few days to apply."
Tag: People can apply regardless of their immigration status. The application requires proof of income and proof that the household income does not exceed 80 percent of the median for that area.
That convoy of truckers we heard about in Canada is being duplicated in America and they’re headed to Calif. First the American version of truck drivers against COVID restrictions went to Washington, D.C. Organizers say the People’s Convoy is coming to Calif. to protest protocols that look to control the outbreak of the deadly virus. The truckers were in DC earlier this month planning to create traffic congestion on the Capital Beltway. They were on the Hagerstown Speedway over the last three weeks with big rigs, cars and campers protesting whatever is left of COVID mandates and they also want a repeal of the pandemic state of emergency.
More info on the case of a couple of men who were in a fight, and one was knifed to death. Ukiah police say they got a call Sunday morning that someone was waving a knife around in the Wells Fargo parking lot on S. State Street. A dispatcher heard yelling in the background as officers got there. They say they saw Leslie Adelman with a knife, walk away from the victim who was down. They say they witnessed the victim fall to the ground and that Adelman would not comply with them. Medics came to the scene, but the victim died at a hospital. Adelman also had moderate injuries and was taken to the hospital, treated and released. He and the victim had been fighting cops say over previous thefts of Adelman’s property. Adelman is booked on murder charges.
