A jury awarded $5 million in a racial-bias lawsuit involving the California Highway Patrol in Santa Rosa, according to a report by KSRO. The available report did not provide additional details about the case or verdict.
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Crime & Public Safety • Traffic & Transportation
A woman suffered major, life-threatening injuries Tuesday morning after being struck by a Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit train near Piner Road in Santa Rosa. Police are seeking witnesses and information about the collision.
Crime & Public Safety
Santa Rosa police are asking the public to help locate Makayla Slayton, 33, who has not been heard from in five weeks. She was last seen leaving her home on foot and may have been headed toward East Oakland, police said.
Crime & Public Safety
Firefighters halted the forward spread of the Ledson Fire after it burned an estimated 17 acres near Highway 12 and North Pythian Road. Evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings Monday night, and residents and their pets evacuated safely.