The Tri-Agency Economic Development Authority will hold a joint meeting of its member agencies to discuss whether it should dissolve. Members of the joint powers authority Board voted Thursday to return $30,000 and $10,000 in fiscal year 2023-24 contributions the Crescent City and the Crescent City Harbor District made to the Tri-Agency, said Crescent City Mayor Blake Inscore. The joint meeting with all three member agencies, which includes the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors, has yet to be scheduled, Inscore said.

The Board of Supervisors already asked for the return of the county’s $70,000 contribution, Inscore said. The hang-up continues to be offshore wind energy development, he said.

Curry County will hold a hybrid town hall meeting Wednesday focusing on its proposed tax levy. Voters are asked to approve a five-year property tax of $2.23 per $1,000 of assessed property value. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday in person in the Board of Commissioners Hearing Room, 94235 Moore Street in Gold Beach.

People can also tune in by phone at (253) 205-0468 and use webinar ID# 895 5704 4943. They can also join via Zoom by visiting CurryCountyLevy.com or the Curry County Facebook page. For more information, call (541) 247-3248.

The ACLU of Northern California and First Amendment Coalition is urging Cal Poly Humboldt officials lift the campus’s “hard closure.”

In a letter to CPH President Tom Jackson on Saturday, both organizations called the closure in response to the recent pro-Palestine demonstration “constitutionally suspect,” the Lost Coast Outpost reported. The letter also notes that the closure doesn’t appear to fall in line with CPH’s closure policy, which only applies when an emergency or unplanned event occurs that threatens the safety of persons or property.

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(AP) Safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults, a federal report on the state’s most secure inpatient psychiatric facility has found.

The investigation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that staff didn’t always adequately supervise their patients and that the hospital didn’t fully investigate acts of aggression, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

The federal agency opened the probe after receiving four complaints. Its findings were published following an unannounced, onsite survey conducted at the Salem hospital earlier this year.

A major incident detailed in the report occurred on Feb. 10, when a patient placed another patient in a chokehold until they were unconscious. The victim required “extensive” medical care for their injuries, according to the report.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A California man who organized a “group of fighters” to storm the U.S. Capitol — and later testified against one of his companions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack — was sentenced on Friday to six months of home detention.

Russell Taylor had a knife on his chest and was carrying a hatchet in his backpack when he helped other rioters overrun a police line outside the Capitol.

Taylor, 42, of Ladera Ranch, California, pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to obstruct the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. He was a key witness for prosecutors in the trial of Alan Hostetter, a former police chief who also was convicted of a conspiracy charge.

Prosecutors recommended a prison term of four years and four months for Taylor, but U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth spared him from incarceration and sentenced him to three years of probation. He also ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service.