Appeal-Democrat

12/24/2025

Today’s sports (covering all happenings in mid-valley)

12/24/2025

It was four minutes past midnight into Dec. 24, 1955 when a levee failed at Shanghai Bend south of what was then the Yuba City limits. This story is about the hours leading up to the collapse and the subsequent drowning of 38 people.

Editor’s note: At four minutes past midnight on Christmas Eve 1955, a levee collapsed on the Feather River and a wall of water half-a-mile wide and 23 feet high flowed

12/23/2025

Whe CalFire firefighters responded to a brush fire at Parks Bar Bridge in Yuba County last Thursday they discovered brush was not all that was on fire. A Yuba City man was being arraigned Tuesday afternoon on arson charges related to the dead body of his 82year-old aunt.

A 50-year-old Yuba City man was arrested on an arson charge for burning the body of his 82-year-old aunt.

12/23/2025

A Yuba County judge declined to quash subpoenas issued by Cal-OSHA, which is investigating as a workplace accident the shooting death of Marysville Police Officer Osmar Rodarte while on serving a search warrant in an operation under the direction of the Yuba County Sheriff's Office.

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12/23/2025

Faith Christian girls basketball remained the best in the mid-valley rankings-wise on Sunday when the weekly MaxPreps rankings were released across the Golden State.

The Lions (9-1) sit No. 11 in the overall Sac-Joaquin Section and tops in Division VI following a 2-1 finish at the Sutter Union High tournament. Faith’s biggest win perhaps was over No. 6 Placer, 60-56 to open the SUHS tournament. Lauren Harris, a Long Beach State signee, had 32, while Concordia commit Presley Berry dropped in 16 in the win over the top program in D-III. Faith followed that up with a narrow two-point defeat – its first in 2025-26 – to Northern Section overall No. 1 Chico, 60-58.

Faith Christian girls basketball remained the best in the mid-valley rankings-wise on Sunday when the weekly MaxPreps rankings were released across the Golden State.

12/23/2025

It’s going to be a wet and windy Christmas throughout Northern California, the National Weather Service reports.

Periods of moderate to heavy rainfall and high winds are forecast for the Sacramento Valley and northern San Joaquin Valley Tuesday through Friday.

Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa counties are among more than a dozen which have been issued warnings about possible small stream and roadway flooding, as well as high wind warnings.

It’s going to be a wet and windy Christmas throughout Northern California, the National Weather Service reports.

12/22/2025

A 24-year-old Olivehurst man was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison after pleading no contest to charges he r***d an 11-year-old autistic girl.

12/22/2025

Christmas caroling brightens up any day

Students from Mary Covillaud School in West Marysville spent part of their last school day before the Christmas break singing Christmas carols at some of the homes surrounding the campus.

12/19/2025

Traffic collision: Truck stuck on its side at Hwy 99 and Riego according to

12/19/2025

Breaking: Units called out on a medical for a assault victim near Drummond Drive, which parallels Shady Lane in