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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A Lakeport woman was arrested early Saturday morning after she allegedly led law enforcement on a high speed chase.
Laurie Louise Cipriani, 38, was arrested for driving under the influence, evading and reckless driving at the end of the chase, according to a report from the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office.
At 3 a.m. Saturday, the Ukiah CHP Dispatch broadcast a be on the lookout for a possible DUI driver traveling eastbound on Highway 20 from Mendocino County to Lakeport, the CHP reported.
CHP Officers Thomas and Geer responded, and they observed a 2000 Ford Expedition traveling southbound on Highway 29 at a high rate of speed just south of Highway 20, according to the report.
The Expedition quickly accelerated in an attempt to elude officers, with the CHP reporting that the vehicle reached speeds of more than 90 miles per hour as it approached the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff.
Thomas and Geer attempted to make an enforcement stop and the vehicle’s driver failed to yield. The CHP said a short pursuit ensued, during which it’s alleged that the driver committed several moving violations.
The Expedition continued southbound on Highway 29 at speeds of more than 90 miles per hour, with the driver eventually yielding near the Park Way off-ramp, the CHP reported.
The driver, identified as Cipriani, was taken into custody. The CHP said drugs were located inside the Expedition.
She was booked into the Lake County Jail on two felony charges of evading a peace officer, and misdemeanors including DUI, obstructing or resisting a peace officer, and destroying or concealing evidence, with bail set at $35,000, according to jail records.
Booking records indicated she is due to appear in court on the charges June 18.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – As ground stability issues continued to worsen at a north Lakeport subdivision this week, some residents were looking at the possibility of leaving their homes.
Lakeside Heights is now closed to all but residents and invited guests, according to a sign posted at the entrance off of Hill Road.
Over the last month, several homes have been red-tagged and served with abatement notices as they’ve begun to slide off of an unstable hillside.
On Friday, some residents were considering if it was time to leave the 29-home subdivision, as they explain in the video above.
Kevin M. Ingram, the county’s public information officer, told Lake County News Friday evening that there were no mandatory evacuations in place at that time.
“This afternoon due to continued slide movement some residents in the immediate slide area were notified in person by county officials on site that it would be a good idea to voluntarily leave. It is possible that more formal action may be necessary if conditions worsen,” he said.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Caltrans District 1 has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration’s Climate Change and Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Options Analyses Pilot Projects Program to assess short and long-term climate change adaptation strategies for four pilot project locations.
The four District 1 pilot projects represent distinct environmental challenges, and are areas regularly impacted by extreme weather events.
They include a flood zone in Lake County, and locations in the coastal zones of Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino counties.
The adaptation assessment will address such factors as extreme weather events, sea level rise and chronic landslides.
“Through the recent award and matched funding, this proactive approach enables us to identify feasible, innovative, and cost effective measures to preserve and protect the state’s transportation investments. It gives us the opportunity to take a focused look at several locations in our region where we’ve identified different kinds of vulnerable infrastructure. We’ll be able to develop a range of adaptation strategies, both short and long term,” said Rex Jackman, Caltrans District 1 regional and system planning branch chief.
District 1 is one of 19 state and regional transportation agencies nationwide to receive a grant from the program.
Caltrans will enhance funding by providing an additional $200,000 to match the federal grant.
Later this year, Comet ISON is expected to become a naked-eye object when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun.
The Hubble Space Telescope has just obtained a sneak preview.
Hubble photographed ISON on April 10. At the time, the comet was 386 million miles from the sun (394 million miles from Earth), just inside the orbit of Jupiter.
Even at that great distance the comet is already active as sunlight warms the surface and causes frozen gases to vaporize.
A detailed analysis of the image reveals a strong jet blasting dust particles off the sunward-facing side of the comet’s nucleus.
Astronomers are using Hubble images to measure the activity level of the comet and constrain the size of its icy nucleus. Preliminary measurements suggest that the ISON's nucleus is no larger than three or four miles across. This is remarkably small considering the high level of activity observed in the comet so far, said researchers.
The comet’s dusty atmosphere, or "coma", is approximately 3,100 miles across, or 1.2 times the width of Australia. A dust tail extends more than 57,000 miles, far beyond Hubble’s field of view.
A more careful analysis is underway to improve these measurements and to predict the comet’s activity when it skims 700,000 miles above the sun's roiling surface on November 28.
For updates, stay tuned to Science@NASA.
Dr. Tony Phillips works for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Thanks to a grant through the Home Depot Repair Corp, Habitat for Humanity Lake County is aiding selected county veterans with critical health and safety related home repairs.
In conjunction with this grant, Home Depot employees from the Ukiah Home Depot are volunteering their time as well, in an effort to give back to the community and stretch the donated funds even further.
The Home Depot volunteers joined Habitat staff and volunteers on April 19 and April 20 to assist in giving the first recipient’s home a much needed paint job.
General Manager Vince Malnati loves to help people, especially veterans, and sees his volunteering efforts as a means of repaying them for everything they have done for our country.
Proud to work for a company that funds so many projects and give back to the community, he indicated that Home Depot Repair Corp. has funded many similar projects around the country and it makes him feel good that they can help people unable to help themselves.
Amongst the other volunteers present, some come from families with veterans; others have friends and acquaintances who have served in the armed forces. These relationships have instilled a desire to help and give back to the community, and to veterans, in a way that they can be proud of. Helping Habitat for Humanity aid veterans is one of those ways.
Though unable to help as much as he would like, the homeowner, disabled US Army veteran Gregory Belger, and his family, are appreciative of the assistance he is receiving from Habitat for Humanity and Home Depot.
Belger intends to help as much as he is able to show his appreciation for what he’s being given.
The Home Depot volunteers will return to finish the painting on April 26 and April 27.
To see how you can help with this, or future projects, please call Habitat for Humanity Lake County at 707-994-1100.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Wednesday, the Lakeport Fire Protection District officially received a $5,000 grant check that has helped it purchase new, cutting edge technology for fighting fires.
Fireman’s Fund awarded the grant to the district, which received help in pursuing the funds from Tom Lincoln of Lincoln Levitt Insurance Group.
Lakeport Fire District purchased Streetwise CAD Link, three tablets and rugged military grade tablet protective covers and mounting brackets for district vehicles.
The video above explains how the new technology is used.