Glenn County News

Three suspects and a California Highway Patrol officer escaped injury about 2:20 p.m. Thursday when their vehicles tangled during a high-speed pursuit and the suspect car crashed into a pole.

Health officials suspect a Glenn County man may have died of swine flu. The man, who was in his late 50s, became ill and was taken to a hospital in Redding, said Scott Gruendl, Glenn County interim director of Health Services.

The first batch of H1N1 vaccine has arrived in Butte County and will be going to children at various schools.

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Beulah Cyr was a kindergarten teacher for more than 30 years. She retired in 1997, but she still spends time in a classroom every week.

The 2009 season was a successful one for the Orland Speedway and promoter Dan Ochs says he is ready to do it again next year.

School Superintendent Steve Olmos ordered members of the Glenn County Office of Education board to leave two Willows school campuses during Monday morning visits, according to a police report.

It was a limited burn day for rice farmers Monday, with about 200 acres of land authorized to be burned due to weather conditions.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is prodding Congress to enact legislation overhauling the nation's financial regulatory system to prevent a repeat of the banking and credit debacles that had thrust the country into crisis.

A Glenn County sheriff's deputy died Wednesday night after falling unconscious at his north Chico home.

An Orland man is behind bars in Glenn County today, three weeks after he reportedly robbed a private medical marijuana garden at gun point, the Glenn County Sheriff's Office reported.

So where's the swine-flu vaccine? It's trickling in slowly, says the state Department of Public Health.

The blustery storm that blew through the Central Valley this week put a beating on the Country Pumpkins corn maze, flattening the carefully-crafted walkways and ruining the fundraiser for Glenn County 4-H clubs.

Severe weather is being blamed for a significant fire in a mobile home south of Orland, and for bringing down a large tree that fell onto the roof of a Cal Fire-Butte County fire station in Cohasset, causing heavy damage.

Representatives from several Glenn County unions told the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday that most employees would rather see 18 lose their jobs instead of having about 420 workers take a 10 percent pay cut.

A knife attack in Willows last month will now be handled by theA California Attorney General's office.

A man shot twice SundayA is said to be recovering at Chico's Enloe Hospital. 18 year old Raul Reyes was a passenger in a vehicle that was pursued by a black pickup truck on Highway 32.

A huge storm expected to slam into Butte County today had not fully materialized as of this morning.

The case the Glenn County district attorney did not think he could prove, the state Attorney General's Office thinks it can.

Students in Glenn, Tehama and Colusa counties will join others across the nation today in learning about biofuels, and reporting about their findings on the 4-H national Web site.