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By early the next year, they separated. Wheeler had left the area and changed his name, and Siem returned to Redding, California. On February 18, 1974, police in Redding sought Siem as a "known acquaintance" of the two escaped convicts, DeFreeze and Wheeler. [9] She was described in the press as a young heiress, [8] [5] 24 years of age.
Gary Matson (April 6, 1949 — July 1, 1999) and Winfield Mowder (May 30, 1959 — July 1, 1999) were a gay couple from Redding, California, who were murdered by white supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams. The Williams brothers confessed to killing the couple because they were gay.
The Redding Record Searchlight is a newspaper serving Redding, California. It has a daily print circulation of under 15,000 and has between 100,000 to 400,000 unique visitors per month to its news website , Redding.com. [ 3 ]
In 1954, the Forest Service and other agencies established Operation Firestop, a program in which any workable idea would be adopted to help fight fires. At a Zone Fire Meeting in Redding, California in the spring of 1955, Neal Rahm, the Supervisor of the Modoc National Forest suggested the use of local pilots to try water drops. Thinking of ...
Annie "Mesannie" Wilkins (1891–1980) was a 63-year-old farmer who made national headlines by traveling over 5,000 miles across the United States from Maine to California with a retired race horse named Tarzan, a packhorse named Rex and a dog named Depeche Toi (French for "Hurry Up").
Reading's Bar is a historical site in Redding, California in Shasta County.Reading's Bar is a California Historical Landmark No. 32 listed on August 1, 1932. [1] Reading's Bar was named after Major Pierson Barton Reading, who discovered gold on the Clear Creek bar in May 1848, starting a California Gold Rush in the surrounding area.
The first European settlement in the area was established in 1844 by Pierson B. Reading, an early California pioneer who received a Rancho Buena Ventura Mexican land grant for 26,632 acres (10,778 ha) that is now covered by Redding and Cottonwood, California. At the time, it was the northernmost nonnative settlement in California.
KCVU (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Paradise, California, United States, serving the Chico–Redding market as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Redding-licensed ABC affiliate KRCR-TV (channel 7), for the provision of certain services.