Madison Holcomb

1 week ago | shastascout.org | Madison Holcomb

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Brian Ziegler is the lone major narcotics prosecutor in Shasta County. He said he works on average 10 to 12 hours a day, and often also during weekends, because of his heavy caseload. It’s a situation that causes him to not be able to see his family nearly as much as he’d like.

2 weeks ago | shastascout.org | Madison Holcomb

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... During this week’s Shasta County Board meeting, Supervisor Chris Kelstrom recalled a recent “surprising” conversation with the local leader of a group known as the Cottonwood Militia, Woody Clendenen, who the supervisor described as a good friend.

Jan 30, 2025 | investigatemidwest.org | Madison Holcomb

On Aug. 22, 2024, a semi-trailer truck owned by Demaree Trucking, LLC, was hit by another semi on Interstate 57 in eastern Illinois, causing the truck and its cargo of 67 cows to flip over onto the highway shoulder. Twenty of the cows on board were killed, while another 20 got loose, scattering across the highway and nearby fields, according to records from the Illinois State Police and the Tuscola Fire Department. Several minutes later, one of the stray cows was hit and killed by another truck.