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A firefighter drives through the Kincaide Fire, Oct. 24, 2019, in Geyserville, California. (Getty Images)
SONOMA COUNTY, CA The County of Sonoma, the Town of Windsor and the cities of Santa Rosa, Cloverdale and Healdsburg reached a collective $31 million settlement with PG&E for damages from the Kincade Fire, the entities announced Wednesday.
The settlement is for damages to public and natural resources caused by the fire that started Oct. 23, 2019, at the Geysers Geothermal Field northeast of Geyserville. The Kincade Fire resulted in the largest evacuation effort in Sonoma County history, forcing more than 200,000 to flee their homes as more than 77,750 acres burned and 374 homes and other structures were destroyed.
The date for a recall election of Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch has been set. The Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to formally set the date
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The Trump lobbyist and the sex tape : Behind Dominic Foppoli s combative response to sexual assault allegations
May 16, 2021
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Top: Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli, left, and lobbyist Robert Stryk have waged an aggressive campaign to save Foppoli s job. Bottom: An excerpt from a cease-and-desist letter sent by a lawyer for Windsor Town Council Member Esther Lemus to a criminal defense attorney representing Foppoli.Chronicle composite
With his political career on the brink of ruin amid multiple allegations of sexual assault, Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli turned to an old friend who had parlayed early loyalty and slight ties to Donald Trump into a multimillion-dollar lobbying business in Washington.
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A man from Petaluma will serve time behind bars for sex crimes committed against a young girl. Benjamin Meza-Perez was sentenced to 18 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to lewd acts with a minor under 14 and one count of dissuading a witness. The charges stem from an investigation that started in September of last year. Officials learned that Meza-Perez had been sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl until she was 16.
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