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View Comments Shasta County prosecutors ruled Tuesday there "is insufficient evidence" to file charges against a deputy after he fatally shot a Cottonwood man who drove off a cliff in 2020. The ruling is part of Shasta Countys officer-involved shooting protocol, which has the District Attorneys office review law enforcement shootings to determine if officers will face criminal charges as a result of using deadly force against someone.   Thomas Andrew Barbosa was shot in Ono on Feb...

New cases of COVID-19 in Essex dropped for the third-straight week as there were 24 reported for the town between April 15-21, according to the Vermont Department of Health.

Editors Note Disclaimer: These numbers are based on data shared by the Vermont Department of Health. Sometimes, the DOH will update previous days data based on newly-received information in later days. For the fifth-straight week, Essex has registered more new cases of COVID-19 than the week before. For the period of March 4-10, the town is listed by the Vermont Department of Health as having 38 new cases documented -- that being the most since the week ending Jan. 20. Essex has averaged 29 new...

Biostatisticians draft blueprints for COVID-19 vax trials Hutch group applies skills honed during decades of HIV prevention trials to bring about safe and effective vaccines for a new pandemic February 18, 2021 • By Sabin Russell / Fred Hutch News Service Dr. Peter Gilbert (left) leads a team of Fred Hutch biostatisticians that pivoted to COVID-19 vaccine trial design. Dr. Holly Janes (right) is a co-principal investigator with Gilbert at the Statistical and D...

Editors Note Disclaimer: These numbers are based on data shared by the Vermont Department of Health. Sometimes, the DOH will update previous days data based on newly-received information in later days. New cases of COVID-19 in the Town of Essex were relatively lower for a second-straight week with only 15 being reported for the period of Feb. 4-10. Of the 152 new cases in Chittenden County for that stretch, Essex accounted for 9.9% of them -- that being lower than the 11.7% of total cases in th...

Englands Defeat of the Spanish Armada: A Historic Victory In 1588, the mightiest fleet set sail from Spain. Its target was England. At stake was nothing less than Catholic control of Western Europe. Heres What You Need to Know: Spain remained a great power for decades to come, but in political and psychological terms, the Armada campaign was a great English victory. On Friday, July 29, 1588, a group of English gentlemen decided to play a friendly game of bowls after a hearty midday meal. They ...

After seeing new case numbers of COVID-19 rising quickly over the past few weeks, Essex registered just seven new cases during the week of Jan. 28 -- Feb. 3.

Essex continues to experience hikes in newly-discovered cases of COVID-19, that trend now carrying through the last three weeks of the Vermont Department of Health’s town-by-town report compared to the

Essex saw its biggest hike in new COVID-19 cases in a week’s period since mid-November recently as there were 47 reported to the Vermont Department of Health for the week

Love cops? Hate cops? Read Wambaugh A 25-year-old police officer who has been serving on Philadelphia’s mean streets during this past year’s protests, rioting and looting, told me that the city was going to hell. I told the officer that we’ve been through this before. I recall the late 1960s and early 1970s when the country went through a similar tumultuous time. Cops then, like now, were under fire – figuratively and literally. There were the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and urban r...