Charlie Schaupp, one of the candidates trying to beat Jim Nielsen in the race for the GOP nomination for state Assembly, took exception with yesterday's editorial about Nielsen's residency. Unfortunately, he took exception at such length that he couldn't fit...

Richard Malotky has a typically entertaining column coming this weekend about the Large Hadron Collider, which comes online this summer, but while noodling about on CERN's Web site, I was reminded that the European physics lab is the birthplace of...

The next ride of the RSS will be Sunday April 20th.Meet at Starbucks760 Cypress Ave (across fron Redding City Hall)Meet at 1:30 p.m.Ride leaves at 2 p.m.See you there

Caller: "Is this Barbara Rice?"Me:(suspiciously, because I'm sure this is a sales call) "Yeessss....."Caller: "This is Barbara Gordon calling from Williamsburg, Virginia."(Pause)Me: (somewhat more cheerfully, since this doesn't seem to be a sales call) "Yes?"Caller

Here's a sneak peak at tomorrow's Best Bets: Mystery meal  What: Whodunit 13: A Mystery Comedy Dinner, hosted by BareStage Theatre When: 6 p.m. today and Saturday Where: Etta’s Place, 607 Main St., Red Bluff Tickets: $25, includes meal...

Here's a sneak peak at tomorrow's Best Bets: Mystery meal  What: Whodunit 13: A Mystery Comedy Dinner, hosted by BareStage Theatre When: 6 p.m. today and Saturday Where: Etta’s Place, 607 Main St., Red Bluff Tickets: $25, includes meal...

On of my favorite places on this earth is the Monastery in Vina. There is a peacefulness there that is almost indescribable.

2-3 months or so ago we started "SPORTS NIGHT" in our parish hall. So every Thursday afternoon at 5:00 pm a tear down crew lead by Tim and Cindy put the 5000 tables and chairs away and turn the hall into a gym.

That's what my mother called the Moral Majority during the 1980 presidential campaign. And in those days, she was a Republican and voted for Reagan. Well if Jerry Fallwell was the lunatic fringe, then these people certainly are. And it...

That's what my mother called the Moral Majority during the 1980 presidential campaign. And in those days, she was a Republican and voted for Reagan. Well if Jerry Fallwell was the lunatic fringe, then these people certainly are. And it...

There are lots of reasons to love Nello’s. The romantic booths and lighting. The Caesar salad made tableside – alas, a disappearing art. The service. But sometimes little things go wrong. Then you see what a restaurant’s made of. Last...

More and more, I can't tell the difference between satire and real life. Take the Westboro Baptist Church, which says it plans to picket Joshua Munns' funeral Saturday. Really, just go look at Westboro's Web site. Surely this is some...

High School Dances are always fun! Here is the latest dance from Central Valley. They always do a Hay Bail theme every year so we create unqique props to make the dances different every time. Thanks guys and see you in a few weeks at Prom!!!

The Eagles came from behind scoring five in the final three innings of the game.

State Sen. Christine Kehoe wants more money for rural fire protection, and she wants residents of those areas to pay it. From the Union-Tribune, her hometown paper: Kehoe's Senate Bill 1617 targets only those wild-land areas protected by state firefighters....

North state residents are used to being ignored by higher authorities -- and sometimes that's a good thing -- but it sure would help understand our region better if the gatherers of official statistics would condescend to include us in...

The wonderful Steve Wiegand channels Lewis Carroll to understand what Gov. Schwarzenegger is saying about taxes....

I received a personal note from Congresswoman Jackie Speier yesterday via mass email. Jackie flew to Washington D.C. yesterday with her family, and was sworn in. Can you imagine what it must be like to win an

Hire more defense lawyers. No, really. The line of the condemned at San Quentin is so long that death sentences in California are largely symbolic. You're more likely to die of old age on Death Row than to be executed....

North Star Brewery Pint Night at C.R. GibbsThursday, April 10, 20084:00 pm 'till wheneverShawn A. SeaseNorth Star Craft Brewery530.275.2739

Wishful thinking. Tim Hearden has not been outsourced to India, unfortunately. However, I think it's safe to say he was outsourced to "outer Tehama County." But I digress... Back to the demise of yet an

Bruce and I were each at our respective computers putting Food for Thought to bed when Bruce called to me from another room. (Open flooring seemed a good idea at one time.) He shouted that someone just e-mailed us an incredible piece of news.  “The Record Searchlight laid off its who

Lithia Motors has abandoned its Airport Road expansion plans. Robert Sacks, a spokesman for the Medford, Ore.-based firm, confirmed Wednesday that Lithia's Toyota and Chevrolet dealerships will remain on Cypress Avenue for the time being.

Senior UCLA pitcher Anjelica Selden and freshman outfielder Samantha Camuso, a Foothill High School grad, are two of 25 finalists for the 2008 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, as announced Wednesday by the Amateur Softball Association.

• Cottage Tour highlights homes • Dunsmuir chamber to host mixer • State reminds that sales of dogs, cats taxable • People in business

Travelin' in Time is a weekly look at historic places in the north state.

While protests have grown chaotic as the Beijing-bound Olympic torch makes its way around the world, the only ruckus raised by a group of protesters in Redding on Wednesday was an occasional honk from a passing motorist.

Dear Babe: We found my grandfather’s season ticket in near perfect condition among his papers. The front reads: “1871-1907, Boston National League Base Ball Company, Annual Pass No. 101, NOT TRANSFERABLE, 1907.” My grandfather’s name is written in ink and it’s signed by “Geo. B. Dovey, President.”

NEW YORK -- It happens every time it rains. Productivity on the street goes down 50 percent as one good hand, which could be used for texting, coffee clutching, hand holding or gesticulating, gets monopolized by an unwieldy umbrella.

Water flow on the Sacramento River through Redding rose to 7,000 cubic feet per second early Wednesday, which means boats likely won't be passing under the Cypress Avenue Bridge until fall.

Willows at Whitney 3 p.m.

ANDERSON -- A religious group that achieved national notoriety in 2005 for picketing funeral processions for soldiers killed in action during the Iraq war is planning to picket Saturday's funeral for Joshua Munns, a private security contractor who was kidnapped more than a year ago and murdered in Iraq.

Hidden within the blackberry brambles that clog gullies on a ranch off Gas Point Road near Cottonwood are tires -- thousands and thousands of tires.

Kids will be swarming around the county next week like a mass of excitable army ants.

A Redding father who was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of cruelty to his 4-week-old daughter had his bail revoked Wednesday, Redding police investigator Kristen Fredrick said.

A Sacramento man who rolled his all-terrain vehicle Wednesday southwest of Ono was in fair condition at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, a nursing supervisor said.

The Redding Police Department will conduct a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint on Saturday.

A Chico man convicted last month of gross negligence in the use of a firearm in connection with the shooting of a Big Bend man at a birthday party last year in Bella Vista was sentenced Wednesday to three years in state prison.

For the second straight day, search-and-rescue teams looked Wednesday for a missing Sebastopol woman in the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, but turned up nothing.

Vandals damaged about 15 vehicles early Wednesday morning at the River Garden Apartments in Anderson.

Two Redding men were arrested Tuesday during a probation sweep targeting drunken drivers, Shasta County Marshal Joel Northrup announced Wednesday.

By Record Searchlight staff Soroptimist run benefits students RED BLUFF -- Soroptimist International of Red Bluff will present its eighth annual Spring Run on Saturday and proceeds will benefit scholarships for Tehama County students.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The first torchbearer held the Olympic flame aloft triumphantly. She waved to the crowd and set off -- and promptly ran into a warehouse.

Since they left the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton have had an average income of $15.6 million a year. During that time, they've paid just under 31 percent of their total income in federal taxes.

ARE WE THERE YET? The Democratic senators questioning, or more like chastising, Gen. David Petraeus, sound like the kids in the back of the car: Are we there yet?

"What do you think?" (Sunday) asked about expanded drug testing for high school students in choir, band, athletics, etc. Well, here is what I think.

Q: I’ve had my house listed for six months and it has only been shown twice. I have a beautiful home and I just don’t understand why no one is interested. Do you have any thoughts of why there is no activity? A: There are a lot of factors that could play into this, and without

As an Igo resident, I drive by the Northern California Veterans Cemetery nearly every day. Last month my reporter antenna perked up when I noticed activity at the scrub oak and manzanita covered property directly north of the cemetery. Over the course of many days, California Conservation Corps worke