The Shasta College softball team lost its first game Friday. College of the Siskiyous, on the other hand, came out 1-0 winners in its Elite 8 opener.

FBI agents served a search warrant Wednesday on the Yuba City home and office of Democratic congressional candidate Dr. Arjinderpal “AJ” Sekhon, a move the candidate called an example of “dirty politics.”

SHASCOM recently recognized public safety dispatchers Lorraine O’Neil and Jessica Larmour as Dispatchers of the Year. O’Neil and Larmour received a tie vote from a panel of their peers.

Production issues caused a delay in the delivery of the newspaper today; your carrier is not to blame.

Four-year-old Frankie Paulson and her Pomeranian, Gizmo, size up some of the competition Thursday before the start of the Asphalt Cowboys' annual Kiddie Pet Parade at the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding. The yearly parade is a part of the Redding Rodeo Week activities.

ROUND MOUNTAIN -- She wears the title "executive director" at Hill Country Community Clinic, but there's a quality about Lynn Dorroh that's more elusive.

• Rescue mission fills fundraising post • Vista Hills celebrates with open house • Forklift training set in downtown Redding

Thursday's Northern Section Division VI baseball championship dripped with so much cheese, not even the Hallmark Channel will pick up the movie rights.

If you've got sex offenders, you've got mail. Shasta County residents can now sign up for free e-mail notifications telling them when a sex offender has moved within a mile of their home or other designated address.

Injuries are nothing to rodeo competitors.