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Missing Girl Found; Judge Sets Bail at $1 Million for Uncle

First, Christmas came early Saturday afternoon for the family and friends of Jean Berlinghoff, the 15-year-old Redding teen who’d been missing for a month, when she was found safe and alive in San Francisco.  The break came when one of Jean’s… Continue Reading

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Daughter’s Death Creates Mother’s Mission

If Debbie Allen weren’t just an ordinary, flesh-and-blood mother, but one with magical powers, she could draw upon every ounce of her super-mother strength and roll back the clock two years – to before December 20, 2008. Once there, Allen could move heaven and earth to save… Continue Reading

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Post-Election Coverage: Even Cartoonists Can be Wrong

  Phil Fountain is a cartoonist, writer and occasional bed-wetter based in the far reaches of Northern Californey. A News Cafe, founded in Shasta County by Redding, CA journalist Doni Greenberg, is the place for people craving local Northern California… Continue Reading

Feb. 3: Quilters Sew-ciety of Redding Host Artist Katie Pasquini Masopust

Katie Pasquini Masopust’s “Color Union”   What: Quilters’ Sew-ciety of Redding When: Feb. 3, 7 p.m. Where: Senior Citizen’s Hall 2290 Benton Drive Cost: $7 for non-members The Quilters’ Sew-ciety of Redding will play host to internationally acclaimed author, instructor… Continue Reading

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Strip-Mall Music Man: ‘One Foot in the Grave, the Other on a Banana Peel’

An old bald guy with honey-colored skin is a regular solo performer outside the 99-Cent Store on Hilltop Drive in Redding. The summer day he and I first met he was hunkered comfortably upon his battery-operated, awning-covered scooter. He played gospel and rockabilly tunes on a shiny white electric… Continue Reading