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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A vehicle went into an area of the lake on Tuesday afternoon.
The incident occurred at around 4 p.m. at the Rodman Slough between north Lakeport and Nice.
Northshore Fire Protection District units responded but were canceled by Lake County Sheriff's deputies at the site, according to reports from the scene.
Witnesses on the scene reported two occupants got out of the vehicle and escaped unhurt.
It was reported that when law enforcement – including the California Highway Patrol – arrived on the scene, only the driver was there.
The driver told officials that the other occupant had been a hitchhiker who fled after exiting the submerged vehicle.
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MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. – An armed robbery suspect on the run from the East Coast was captured in the seaside town of Mendocino on Tuesday.
Sean Fullwood, 23, of Florida was arrested Tuesday after Mendocino County Sheriff's officials worked with the US Marshal's Office to locate him.
The US Marshal's Office contacted the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Tuesday morning, advising that Fullwood – wanted in Florida in connection with the armed robbery of a jewelry store – was in the Mendocino Township area, according to a report from Capt. Kurt Smallcomb.
Smallcomb said US Marshals and sheriff's personnel began checking the Mendocino area for Fullwood and his female companion.
Fullwood had reportedly been in the area for about three weeks and had been staying in a hotel before he and his companion moved into a small apartment in Mendocino, Smallcomb said.
Once the apartment was located, Smallcomb said it was learned that Fullwood had just left walking towards the Mendocino Headlands.
Fullwood was spotted and fled on foot. Smallcomb said Fullwood was last observed in the area between Main Street and Albion streets. A one-block perimeter was established.
Additional law enforcement personnel were requested from the California Highway patrol, State Parks and the Ft. Bragg Police Department to assist pending the arrival of a MCSO K-9 unit for a search of the area, according to Smallcomb.
The MCSO reverse 911 was initiated to advise citizens of the police activity and the suspect description, he said.
When the K-9 team arrived a search began and Fullwood was found hiding in shrubbery between two buildings, Smallcomb said.
Smallcomb said Fullwood was transported to Mendocino County Jail where he was booked on the listed charges with bail being set at $1 million.
Smallcomb said the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office extended its thanks to the allied agencies who assisted in the operation, and also thanked Mendocino businesses and citizens for their patience and cooperation.
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A respected Nevada pilot who for several years has been a prime mover behind the Lakeport-based seaplane festival has been killed in a crash in the United Arab Emirates.
Chuck Kimes, 61, of Zephyr Cove, Nev., was with three other pilots bringing a 1940s-era seaplane from the Middle East to Texas when the deadly crash occurred Sunday evening at Abu Dhabi's Al Ain International Airport.
Traveling with Kimes were Tyler Orsow of Angels Camp, Calif., who turned 25 on the day of the fatal crash; and Texans Landon Studer and Joshua Hucklebridge, according to media reports and statements by friends on Facebook and other Internet sites.
An account printed in The National, a United Arab Emirates newspaper, said the four men were taking the vintage Aleutian Goose seaplane on a trip that would see them traveling through Saudi Arabia, Morocco and South America, with plans to land in Texas next week.
The United Arab Emirates' General Civil Aviation Authority issued a report Monday that explained that the four men were departing from Al Ain for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in a Grumman 21T aircraft just after 8 p.m. Sunday.
“Shortly after liftoff the aircraft veered to the left and crashed on taxiway kilo,” the report stated.
The General Civil Aviation Authority reported that airport fire and rescue services responded immediately and the accident site was secured by the Al Ain Police.
“The aircraft was destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire,” reported the agency, which dispatched an air accident investigation team to the crash scene.
Additional details about the cause of the crash have not yet been released by officials. It's also not clear at this point which of the men was piloting the craft.
An eyewitness report quoted on a seaplane forum stated that the plane was airborne at about 200 feet when it started a left turn, pitched down and cartwheeled, leading to the crash.
Kimes had been a flight instructor for close to four decades, serving during that time as a captain for American Airlines. He had even flown the world's largest seaplane, according to the biography on his company Web site, www.seaplaneops.com .
The biography also noted that he instructed pilots on flying the Albatross seaplane at the US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base.
The site also stated that Kimes had “developed an extensive array of manuals and training programs to support the safe operation of the Albatross and other seaplanes,” and was one of the highest-time Albatross pilots still flying the aircraft.
Kimes had become a well-known figure in Lake County where, for several years, he has chaired the annual Clear Lake Splash-In, which sees dozens of seaplanes converge on Lakeport from around the country.
This year's festival, the 32nd annual, already has been scheduled for Sept. 23-25.
The event has been popular not just with pilots but with people of all ages who have enjoyed seeing the planes descend over the lake at the end of summer.
In an interview with Lake County News last year, Kimes acknowledged the community's support for the event, billed as the largest seaplane gathering west of the Mississippi.
When Kimes wasn't keeping busy working on the event, he was taking part in humanitarian efforts, including using seaplanes to fly much-needed supplies into Haiti last year following a devastating earthquake.
Kimes and his company provided flight planning, permitting and customs clearance filing services in the effort to get doctors and nurses to Haiti, according to the Web site for the Albatross Haiti Relief Mission, www.haiti.seaplaneops.com/Haiti/Welcome.html .
The site stated the group made three successful missions, flying to Haiti from Florida.
A growing number of tributes to Kimes and his flying companions have been posted on seaplane forums and Web sites in the past few days.
Pilot Jason Baker posted on his Web site that Kimes' death “hits the aviation community hard.”
“A great man with so much passion, always only one email or phone call away – he will be sorely missed,” Baker wrote at http://jasonjamesbaker.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/chuck-kimes-a-heavy-loss .
A Facebook memorial page has been started for Kimes and Orsow at www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_197069060312576 .
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted for a short-term budget in order to prevent the federal government from shutting down.
The continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating until a compromise can be reached on a year-long funding bill was passed by a 335-91 vote margin.
It would prevent a looming government-wide shutdown and gives the House, Senate, and White House more time to reach an agreement on a long-term funding bill.
North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways & Means, voted for the bill, voted in favor of the continuing resolution.
“Unless Congress and the president come together to pass a short-term spending bill, crucial services and programs the American people rely on will come to a halt,” he said in a statement issued by his office.
“Given the potential impact on working families in my community and across our country, a shutdown is simply not an acceptable option,” he said. “This legislation gives both sides more time to hash out their differences and come up with a longer-term solution that’s thoughtful and fiscally responsible.”
The continuing resolution contains funding to allow government agencies and programs to continue operating through March 18 – extending the deadline from March 4 – and reduces spending by $4 billion.
On Feb. 19 Thompson had cast his vote against HR 1, which would have funded the federal government through the end of this year, calling the budget proposal “irresponsible.”
He said it included irresponsible cuts that would hurt working families in Northern California and across the country, and would have resulted in more than 800,000 lost jobs in both the public and private sector.
Cuts in that bill included defunding federal salmon protections, stripping $1.7 billion from the Social Security Administration, cutting $1.3 billion in funding for community health centers, reducing the maximum Pell Grant scholarship award and eliminating Title X, the nation’s family planning program, and federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
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THE GEYSERS, Calif. – Swinging chandeliers, barking dogs, running deer and chiming clocks were part of the fallout from a Monday evening earthquake felt throughout parts of Lake County.
The US Geological Survey reported the 4.5-magnitude quake occurred at 6:19 p.m.
It was recorded at a depth of 1.6 miles, and was centered one mile north northwest of The Geysers, five miles west southwest of Cobb and seven miles west northwest from Anderson Springs, the US Geological Survey reported.
By midnight, 40 smaller quakes and aftershocks – some as large as magnitude 2.7 – were reported in The Geysers area, US Geological Survey reported.
County residents reported watching furniture move, feeling their dining room tables shake as they sat at dinner, and dogs barking and fussing ahead of the quake.
Residents in Clearlake, Lakeport, Kelseyville, Lower Lake, Middletown and Hidden Valley Lake were among those who felt the jarring quake, based on US Geological Survey reports.
In all, hundreds of people reported feeling the quake, not just in Lake County but around the North Coast.
By midnight the US Geological Survey received 246 shake reports from 35 zip codes.
One report even came from faraway Phoenix, Ariz., some 1,126 miles away.
A 4.3-magnitude quake, immediately followed by a 4.2-magnitude temblor, occurred in the Lake Pillsbury area on Feb. 22, as Lake County News as reported.
The last time a quake measuring 4.0-magnitude or above occurred in The Geysers area was last July, according to Lake County News records.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States' last 'doughboy' has died.
Frank Woodruff Buckles, who lied about his age to enlist in the Army in 1917 and became the last known U.S. veteran of World War I, died Sunday, Feb. 27, at the age of 110.
“We have lost a living link to an important era in our nation's history,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “But we have also lost a man of quiet dignity, who dedicated his final years to
ensuring the sacrifices of his fellow 'doughboys' are appropriately commemorated.”
Burial with full military honors will be held at Arlington National Cemetery. Details about the funeral are expected to be released soon.
A long-time resident of Charles Town, West Virginia, where he had a farm, Buckles was born in Bethany, Missouri, according to a biography provided by the VA. He enlisted shortly after his 16th birthday and served in France and Germany.
At the start of World War II, he was a civilian working with a steamship company in the Philippines. He was imprisoned in a Japanese prisoner of war camp for three and a half years.
In his later years, Buckles became an advocate for the expansion of a little-known memorial to World War I Veterans from the District of Columbia into a national memorial.
More than 4,700,000 Americans served in the military during World War I, the VA reported. About 53,000 died of combat-related causes, while another 63,000 deaths were listed as non-combat. The VA said there were 204,000 U.S. soldiers wounded in the war.
A 109-year-old Australian man and a 110-year-old British woman are reported to be the last surviving World War I veterans in the world.
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