A Hopkins man who was charged in connection with the murder of his former neighbor has been found incompetent, according to court records. Mitchell Edward Hoogenakker, 30, is charged with one count of ...

A former Shasta County public defender was convicted of attempted murder and felony child abuse last week. Theodore Loos, 75, was arrested in 2019 after police said he attacked his wife and two ...

A former Shasta County public defender who attacked his family with a wood-splitting maul two years ago has been released from jail for a "mental health diversion." Theodore Loos, 75, who attacked his ...

A metal splitting maul head. The maul head is roughly wedge-shaped. One side of the maul is an axe blade and the other is a butt that doubles as a hammer. The hammer has eight (8) sides and a smooth ...

The sounds of my attempt to chop the long log in half echoed off the canyon’s rock cliffs like gunfire. I wasn’t having success because I was using a smaller axe with a narrow head. It was the wrong ...