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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Playful young cats needing room to grow are available for adoption at Lake County Animal Care and Control.
The cats range in age from 4 months to 3 years, and all have been spayed or neutered, and received medical checkups to be ready to join new homes immediately.
In addition to spaying or neutering, cats that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are microchipped before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets there, hoping you'll choose them.
The following cats at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (other cats pictured on the animal control Web site that are not listed here are still “on hold”).
Male orange tabby kitten
This male orange tabby kitten is 5 months old.
He has a short orange and white coat, weighs 5 pounds and has been neutered.
Find him in cat room kennel No. 53a, ID No. 36862.
Female domestic short hair kitten
This female domestic short hair kitten is 5 months old.
She has a short black and white coat and has been spayed.
She's in cat room kennel No. 53b, ID No. 36863.
Orange tabby
This male orange tabby is 3 years old.
He has a medium-length coat and gold eyes, weighs almost 11 pounds and has been altered.
He's in cat room kennel No. 61, ID No. 36800.
Calico kitten
This female calico kitten is 4 months old.
She has a short dilute calico coat and green eyes, weighs 3 pounds and has been spayed.
She's in cat room kennel No. 66a, ID No. 36705.
Calico kitten
This female calico kitten is 4 months old.
She has a short dilute calico coat and green eyes, weighs 3 pounds and has been spayed.
She's in cat room kennel No. 66b, ID No. 36706.
Calico kitten
This female calico kitten is 4 months old.
She has a short dilute calico coat and green eyes, weighs 3 pounds and has been spayed.
She's in cat room kennel No. 66c, ID No. 36707.
Calico kitten
This female calico kitten is 17 weeks old.
She has a short tortie calico coat and green eyes, weighs 3 pounds and has been spayed.
She's in cat room kennel No. 66d, ID No. 36708.
Adoptable cats also can be seen at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Cats_and_Kittens.htm or at www.petfinder.com .
Please note: Cats listed at the shelter's Web page that are said to be “on hold” are not yet cleared for adoption.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The airline whose plane crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday morning issued details about the flight and its passengers later in the day.
Asiana Airlines flight OZ214 – also identified as Flight 214 – crashed during its landing on San Francisco International Airport’s runway 28 at 11:28 a.m. Saturday, according to the report.
The plane had departed Incheon International Airport on Saturday at 4:35 p.m. (Korean time) bound for San Francisco, Asiana Airlines reported.
Law enforcement officials said two people were killed in the crash.
There were a total of 291 passengers – 19 business class, 272 travel class – and 16 cabin crew aboard, the airline said.
The majority of the passengers were comprised of 77 Korean citizens, 141 Chinese citizens, 61 US citizens, 1 Japanese citizen, for a total of 291 people, Asiana officials said.
San Francisco International Airport reported late Saturday that 181 passengers were sent to local hospitals and 123 were uninjured and being processed at the airport.
Airport officials worked to reopen runways, and they reported that airport restaurants would stay open all night to accommodate flight disruptions and overnight passengers. The Red Cross also offered assistance following the incident.
National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration officials reported that they were deploying teams to the airport to conduct an investigation into the crash.
Asiana Airlines is currently investigating the specific cause of the incident as well as any injuries that may have been sustained to passengers as a result.
The airline said it will continue to cooperate fully with the investigation of all associated government agencies and to facilitate this cooperation has established an emergency response center at its headquarters.
Anyone with a scheduled flight into or out of San Francisco International Airport on Sunday is urged to call their airline for information and updates.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – More new dogs have arrived at the county’s animal shelter and are being offered for adoption this week.
Mixed breed dogs with Pomeranian, dachshund, Chihuahua, pit bull, chow chow, German Shepherd, Labrador Retriever, boxer and pointer ancestry are waiting for new homes.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (additional dogs on the animal control Web site not listed are still “on hold”).
Pomeranian-dachshund mix pup
This female Pomeranian-dachshund mix is 14 weeks old.
She has green eyes, a medium-length white and tan coat, and she’s been spayed.
She’s in kennel No. 4b, ID No. 36291.
Pomeranian-dachshund mix pup
This female Pomeranian-dachshund mix is 14 weeks old.
She has green eyes and a medium-length tricolor coat, and she’s been spayed.
Find her in kennel No. 4d, ID No. 36293.
Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup
This female Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup is 13 weeks old.
She has a short brown coat, weighs nearly 15 pounds and has been spayed.
She's in kennel No. 5a, ID No. 36715.
Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup
This female Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup is 13 weeks old.
She has a short brown coat, weighs almost 16 pounds and has been spayed.
She's in kennel No. 5b, ID No. 36719.
Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup
This male Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup is 13 weeks old.
He has a short brown coat, weighs nearly 18 pounds and has been neutered.
He's in kennel No. 6a, ID No. 36718.
Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup
This female Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup is 13 weeks old.
She has a short brown coat, weighs 14 pounds and has been spayed.
Find her in kennel No. 9a, ID No. 36713.
Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup
This female Labrador Retriever-shepherd mix pup is 13 weeks old.
She has a short brown coat, weighs almost 16 pounds and has been spayed.
She’s in kennel No. 9b, ID No. 36717.
Pit bull terrier mix
This male pit bull terrier mix is 3 years old.
He has a short blue coat and has not yet been neutered.
He’s in kennel No. 10, ID No. 36931.
‘Cat’
This German Shepherd mix has been dubbed “Cat.”
He is 2 years old, weighs 46 pounds and has been neutered.
Find him in kennel No. 11, ID No. 36825.
'Bella'
“Bella” is a 2-year-old Pomeranian-dachshund mix.
She has a long black and white coat, weighs 11 pounds and has not yet been altered.
Shelter staff said Bella is great with women and children but needs a home with no men.
Find her in kennel No. 12, ID No. ID: 36294.
Chow chow mix
This male chow chow mix is 1 year old.
He weighs nearly 55 pounds, and has a medium-length black and tan coat. Shelter staff did not report if he was altered.
He’s in kennel No. 12, ID No. 36925.
‘Zap’
“Zap” is a 1-year-old pointer-boxer mix.
He has a short red and white coat, and he has been neutered.
Find Zap in kennel No. 15, ID No. 36927.
Chihuahua mix
This female Chihuahua mix is 3 and a half years old.
She has a short black and white coat, weighs nearly 11 pounds and has been spayed.
She’s in kennel No. 18, ID No. 35315.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
NORTH COAST, Calif. – Two Stockton men have been taken into custody in connection with an armed robbery in Hopland on Friday, with a third suspect still being sought.
Gregory Ladel Jenkins Jr. and Michael Edwin Steele, both 24 years of age, were arrested after being identified as suspects in the Friday evening robbery, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
At 6:15 p.m. Friday the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an armed robbery that had just occurred in the 700 block of Harrison Street in Hopland, the agency reported.
The suspect vehicle was described as a black Dodge Challenger with tinted windows that had possibly left southbound on Highway 101 with three black male suspects with handguns. Sheriff’s officials said the reporting victim said the suspects took marijuana during the robbery.
Sonoma County law enforcement agencies were notified and the suspect vehicle was spotted and pursued by officers from the Cloverdale Police Department.
Upon arriving at the robbery scene deputies received conflicting statements from the numerous victims, but ascertained there had been a marijuana transaction where two of the suspect – who later were identified as Jenkins and Steele – allegedly had produced handguns and stole the marijuana, cell phones and one of the victim’s car keys before leaving in the black Dodge Challenger.
Once the suspect vehicle was stopped in Healdsburg, the three suspects fled on foot, sheriff’s officials said.
Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies located Jenkins around 11 p.m. Friday and took him into custody. The report said Jenkins was positively identified by a victim as being one of the robbery suspects.
At 5:30 a.m. Saturday two more individuals thought to be suspects were detained by Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies and were transported to Mendocino County Sheriff’s deputies, according to the report.
One of the suspects, identified as Steele, also was positively identified by one of the robbery victims, officials said.
The third subject later was determined to have responded from Stockton at Steele’s request; Steele had told him he had been robbed when he was trying to purchase marijuana in Santa Rosa. Authorities said that third subject was unaware Steele was being sought by law enforcement in regards to the Hopland robbery.
After corroborating the third subject’s statement, he was released without charges, the report explained.
Sonoma County law enforcement agencies were advised to be on the lookout for the third suspect who fled from the Dodge Challenger and is outstanding at this time, officials reported.
Jenkins and Steele were booked into the Mendocino County Jail, with each to be held on $250,000 bail.
The investigation into the Hopland robbery is ongoing and anyone with information is urged to contact the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Tip-Line by calling 707-234-2100.
LUCERNE, Calif. – A water main break last week caused a sink hole to open up in a Lucerne roadway.
The break took place at Country Club Drive and Hotel Road in front of the Lucerne Hotel.
Residents in the area reported a utility truck responded to the location at around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, at about the same time that water in the area went off temporarily.
County Public Works Road Division crews barricaded the hole, which grew larger; at one point, a barricade fell into it.
By Saturday, two large cover plates had been placed over the hole.
Public Works reported that California Water Service Co. – which owns the town’s water system – is expected to repair the hole this week.
Lucerne’s aging infrastructure has led to previous line breaks along Country Club Drive and other areas of the town, where Cal Water currently is in negotiations with the state to raise water rates about 60 percent.
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When NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2003, many onlookers expected a relatively short mission.
Landing on Mars is risky business. The Red Planet has a long history of destroying spacecraft that attempt to visit it. Even if Opportunity did land safely, it was only designed for a three-month mission on the hostile Martian surface.
Few, if any, imagined that Opportunity would still be roving the red sands of Mars – and still making discoveries – 10 years later.
On July 7, Opportunity celebrates the 10th anniversary of its launch and more than nine years on Mars.
Opportunity is celebrating by driving. The rover is currently en route to “Solander Point,” a place on the rim of Endurance Crater where a treasure-trove of geological layers is exposed for investigation.
After nine-plus years of traveling, Opportunity recently set the US space program’s all-time record for mileage on another planet.
The milestone occurred on May 15, 2013, when the rover drove 80 meters, bringing its total odometry 35.760 kilometers or 22.220 miles.
The previous mark had been held by the Apollo 17 moon rover, which astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove for 22.21 miles across the lunar surface in December 1972.
Over the years, Opportunity’s travels have been punctuated by hundreds of stops to photograph and sample the Martian landscape.
The surface of Mars of today is bone dry and hostile to life as we know it. Opportunity’s mission is to hunt for places where it wasn’t always so, places where ancient water might have nourished life forms native to Mars.
So far so good; the rover has found abundant evidence that liquid water was once present. For the past 20 months, Opportunity has been “working” the rim of Endeavour Crater.
There, Opportunity found deposits of gypsum probably formed from groundwater seeping up through cracks in Martian soil.
Also, Opportunity has also found signs of clay minerals in a rock named “Esperance”.
“A lot of water moved through this rock,” said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, principal investigator for the mission. “These results are some of the most important findings of our entire mission.”
Solander Point, where Opportunity is heading now, has two key attractions:
For one thing, while Opportunity’s most recent stop, Cape York, exposed just a few meters of geological layering, Solander Point exposes roughly 10 times as much. A visit to Solander Point will be like reading a Martian history book.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, there are north-facing slopes at Solander Point where the rover can tilt its solar panels toward the sun and ride out the coming winter. The minimum-sunshine days of this sixth Martian winter for Opportunity will come in February 2014.
If Opportunity survives another year--and who now would bet against it? -- the rover might yet break the all-time extraterrestrial driving record set by Lunokhod 2, a Soviet robotic vehicle that traveled an estimated 26 miles across the Moon in 1973.
After that lies the 26.2 mile mark. In other words, stay tuned for the first Martian Marathon.
To follow Opportunity and other rovers on Mars, visit http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/
Dr. Tony Phillips works for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.