A woman is nearly shot and is bitten in a domestic dispute. 32-year-old Camille Cromeenes entered her ex-girlfriend's home on Pinecrest Road Wednesday to cronfront her. According to the Butte County Sheriff's Office, Cromeenes had a handgun and fired a shot into the wall near to her ex. She tried to fire it again but the gun jammed and her ex then fought with her. During the fight Cromeenes bit her ex's leg. Cromeenes was arrested and booked into the Butte County Jail.   

An anonymous tip leads to the arrest of a man allegedly involved in a Chico shooting earlier this month. 18 year old Andrew Morales was reportedly arrested by the Butte County Sheriff's Office Wednesday noon on a tip to Chico Police. He's implicated in the gang related shooting on Balboa Court in North Chico on February 14th. Anyone with more information is urged to call the Butte County Sheriff's Office. 

The Owner of Chico's School of Rock is accused of performing a lewd act in front of one of his former students. The Butte County Sheriff's office says 45-year-old Sid Lewis hired a 17-year-old girl to do some work around his house. She claims she was working at his home in when she looked up and saw Lewis Masturbating while looking at her. She says she looked away but then looked back and he was still doing it. Lewis was arrested but has been released on bail. He also faces assault charges stemming from a seperate alledged incident. That trial starts in May. 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of a 9-year-old boy crushed to death by a retaining wall at a national park in Northern California. The Sacramento Bee reports a federal judge stripped the government of its defenses following findings that the supervisor of Lassen Volcanic Park knew the wall was dangerous yet didn't fix it. Tommy Bottell was killed during a 2009 outing.

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in far Northern California are burning down a mobile home where more than 60 pounds of highly volatile explosive material was found, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate the area.

Shasta County sheriff's officials consulted with water and air quality officials before proceeding with the incineration midday Sunday. Emergency personnel and hazmat teams were standing by. Sheriff's Lt. Dave Kent says the mandatory evacuations around the Redding home began last week and were expanded on Friday, bringing the total to about 55 homes under evacuation orders. Kent says the materials in the house are too unstable for deputies to even walk on the property without risking a blast. They were discovered Feb. 6 after authorities responded to an explosion at the home that took off a man's hand.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area officials say a University of California, Berkeley, student infected with measles could have exposed thousands of others by attending classes and riding public transit.

Public health officials said Thursday they confirmed that the student in his 20s was not vaccinated, and was likely infected with measles during a recent trip abroad. The student attended classes in Berkeley and took BART trains last week, possibly exposing thousands before his diagnosis. Health officials say people who have had measles before, or who are vaccinated, are unlikely to be infected even if they have contact with the contagious person. Those without a vaccination are at risk of catching the disease if exposed to the virus.

Officials say those showing measles symptoms should contact their health care provider immediately.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Bureau of State Audits says the Department of Parks and Recreation has not fully implemented 16 recommendations made in the wake of a department financial scandal. The former parks director resigned in 2012 after state auditors discovered $54 million hidden in special funds as the state was threatening to close 70 of its nearly 280 state parks. Last September, state Auditor Elaine Howle recommended 16 changes to improve the department's financial tracking. Her follow-up released Thursday says all those are pending or only partially complete. Parks spokeswoman Vicky Waters says the data in Thursday's report are outdated and that the agency is "on track to deliver on a number of the recommendations." That includes using individual budgets for each park and tracking their costs separately, as the audit recommends.

Butte County supervisors approve tough new marijuana growing laws. The supervisors unanimously voted for amendments to the county's existing cultivation ordinance that will limit the number of square-feet for marijuana gardens. The limits will go into effect 30 days after Tuesday's vote. According to the E-R, opponents already have the documents needed to launch a petition to get a referendum on the ballot. 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal jury has convicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and other gratuities from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work while he was in office. The jury on Wednesday convicted Nagin of 20 of 21 counts against him. Nagin was indicted in January 2013 on charges he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and truckloads of free granite for his family business in exchange for promoting the interests of a local businessman. He also was charged with accepting thousands of dollars in payoffs from another businessman for his help in securing city contracts. Before the verdict was read, Nagin said outside the courtroom that he's "been at peace with this for a long time. I'm good."

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have ordered the evacuation of 25 homes after bomb technicians found 40 pounds of explosives last week at the residence of a Northern California man. Shasta County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Dave Kent said that evacuations remain in effect for houses within 1,000 feet 9021 Chaparral Drive in Redding, Calif., but no residents are actually being forced to leave. The suspect, 63-year-old D. Ray East, is a hobbyist rocket builder and blew off his own hand in an explosion Thursday. He is recovering from his injuries at a local hospital. Sheriff Tom Bosenko said Saturday that the explosives are so dangerous that a light touch could cause them to detonate. Kent said the sheriff's office is working with other agencies to neutralize the explosives but that there is no estimate for when the situation might be resolved.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Obama administration is debating whether to kill by drone an American suspected of working with al-Qaida in planning attacks against Americans overseas and how to do so legally under its new, stricter targeting policy. Four U.S. officials say the American suspected terrorist is in a country that prohibits U.S. military action on its soil. President Barack Obama's new policy says only the military, not the CIA, can kill American terror suspects overseas, creating a policy conundrum for the White House. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The Justice Department is also required to show that killing an American citizen through military action is "legal and constitutional" because he is considered an enemy combatant.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring was surprisingly weak in January for the second straight month, likely renewing concern that the U.S. economy might be slowing after a strong finish last year. The Labor Department says employers added 113,000 jobs, less than the average monthly gain of 194,000 in 2013. This follows December's tepid increase of just 75,000. Job gains have averaged only 154,000 the past three months, down from 201,000 in the preceding three months. Still, more people began looking for work in January, and some of the jobless were hired, reducing the unemployment rate to 6.6 percent. That's the lowest since October 2008. Cold weather likely held back hiring in December, economists said, but the impact faded in January. Construction firms, which sometimes stop work in bad weather, added 48,000 jobs last month.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California judge has found the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection guilty of 'egregious and reprehensible' conduct in its response to the 2007 Moonlight Fire and ordered the agency to pay more than $30 million in penalties and legal fees. Retired Superior Court Judge Leslie C. Nichols said Tuesday that CalFire's efforts to pin the blame for the fire on the company Sierra Pacific were corrupt and tainted. Nichols said CalFire withheld documents for months, destroyed evidence and engaged in a campaign of misdirection with the purpose of recovering money from Sierra Pacific. The Sacramento Bee reports that the ruling is the latest twist in a legal battle that began soon after the fire erupted on Labor Day 2007, scorching more than 65,000 acres in Plumas and Lassen counties.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Former U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari is reporting that he has raised nearly $1 million during the first two weeks of his campaign for California governor. The $976,000 reported yesterday includes contributions from former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his wife, Kashkari's parents and several bankers at Goldman Sachs, Kashkari's former employer. The report demonstrates Kashkari's ability to attract the kind of money that has been elusive for other Republican candidates, including state Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of Twin Peaks and former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, who dropped out last month amid lackluster fundraising. Donnelly reported raising $374,000 last year but had just $54,000 remaining. He has since collected another $55,000. Meanwhile, Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat and heavy favorite to win re-election, has nearly $17 million in the bank.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has secured commitments from U.S. companies worth about $750 million to get more students connected to high-speed Internet. AT&T, Sprint, Apple and Microsoft are among the companies pitching in. Obama is expected to announce the commitments today at a middle school in the Maryland suburbs near Washington. The Federal Communications Commission plans to devote $2 billion generated from service fees to connecting 20 million students. It's all part of Obama's goal to get 99 percent of American students connected within five years. The White House says Apple is pledging $100 million in iPads, computers and other tools. AT&T and Sprint are contributing free wireless service. And Microsoft is making Windows available at a discounted price and offering 12 million free copies of Microsoft Office software.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite increased security put in place after the rampage at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, there's been no real reduction in the number of U.S. school shootings. An Associated Press analysis finds there have been at least 11 school shootings this academic year alone, in addition to other cases of gun violence, in school parking lots and elsewhere on campus when classes were not in session. Experts say the rate of school shootings is statistically unchanged since the mid- to late-1990s, yet still remains troubling. "Lockdown" is now part of the school vocabulary. In Pennsylvania and New Mexico, Colorado and Tennessee, and elsewhere gunfire has echoed through school hallways, and killed students or their teachers.