Appeal Democrat

Knights Landing A felon on the run from Woodland police on Tuesday wound up in the Sacramento River near Sutter County, authorities said. Quentin Michael Ray Lee, 26, jumped off the Knights Landing Draw Bridge in Yolo County and into the river in an...

The state awarded more than $3 million to two Yuba-Sutter school districts last month to be used on construction projects. The Marysville Joint Unified School District will use its $3.2 million — distributed by the State Allocation Board — for...

Drug agents detained two brothers and seized hundreds of marijuana plants early Tuesday during four simultaneous raids in Yuba City, including one at a gas station on Colusa Avenue. "This was a sophisticated, high-quality hydroponics indoor-grow...

A local charity in trouble with the IRS suspects a former board member of taking $19,000 from the organization under the premise of a loan. Habitat for Humanity Yuba-Sutter has informed the IRS of the missing money, which was most likely taken by a...

A series of wind-whipped fires in Palermo charred about 300 acres on Monday in the south Butte County town. SLIDE SHOW: http://www.appeal-democrat.com/sections/slideshow/?id=18496875 Multiple blazes, which were reported at 1:39 p.m., destroyed about...

Yuba-Sutter residents are not the only ones venturing out more to bask in the rays of summerlike weather. It's June, and that means we are into rattlesnake season in the Yuba County foothills as the dreaded cold-blooded serpents come out to lay in...

A Marysville man has been diagnosed with a strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis that was the subject of a World Health Organization warning earlier this year. "Confirmed cases of TB are not common in our area, but this case warrants the notification...

An unidentified man forced his way into a Linda home and struck another man in the head Monday, and the victim and the man who lived there were subsequently arrested, a Yuba County Sheriff said. Deputies received a call of a fight on the 1500 block...

A Linda man was sentenced to three years in prison Monday for robbing a fast-food restaurant late last year, according to the Yuba County District Attorney's office. After initially pleading not guilty in December, James Michael Kidd, 23, pleaded...