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Kidnapping hoaxer gets 18 months By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer
avoid the area,” the city said. On Tuesday morning, the city asked residents to stay away from waterlogged parks and fields. “All city of Davis fields and parks are CLOSED due to wet field conditions,” the city posted. UC Davis was also impacted by the rain and thunderstorms. According to an article published Tuesday by the UC Davis news service, the storm caused power failures, internet outages
SACRAMENTO — The Shasta County woman who faked her own kidnapping — and later resurfaced in Yolo County with dramatic tales of being bound and branded during her captivity — will spend 18 months in prison, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Monday. Sherri Papini, 39, also must spend three years under supervised release and pay nearly PAPINI $310,000 in restitu- Judge goes big tion for the threeon sentence week ordeal that captured headlines in November 2016, and again earlier this year when her hoax was revealed. “Not only did Papini lie to law enforcement, her friends and her family, she also made false statements to the California Victim Compensation Board and the Social Security Administration in order to receive benefits as a result of her alleged ‘post-traumatic stress’ from being abducted,” authorities with the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release following Papini’s sentencing.
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UC Davis was hit by flooding as nearly 4 inches of rain fell on Davis in two days. Caleb Hampton/ Enterprise photo
Heavy rains flood Davis, UCD Storm knocks out power on campus By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer Torrential rainfall and thunderstorms hit Davis on Sunday and Monday, bringing muchneeded rain to the region along with minor flooding that closed some roads, parks and buildings. Over a 36-hour stretch spanning Sunday and Monday,
nearly 4 inches of rain were recorded in parts of Davis, a highly unusual amount for September, during which Davis typically sees less than a tenth of an inch of rainfall over the entire month. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, estimated that the accumulation of rain over that two-day period reached a peak that recurs just once every decade or two. On Monday evening, a flashflood warning was issued for parts of Yolo County impacted
by the 2020 LNU Lightning Complex Fire, which burned over 360,000 acres, leaving little vegetation to prevent mud and rockslides. The heavy and unseasonal rain came less than two weeks after Davis saw record-high temperatures earlier this month. On Monday evening, the city of Davis posted on social media that the Richards Boulevard underpass and the intersection of Sixth and F streets were flooded. “Please
Partida keeps focus on core issues By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Looking back on her four years on the Davis City Council, including two as mayor, Gloria Partida sees accomplishments she’s proud of, but a lot of unfinished business, too, thanks in part to COVID-19. She came into office with priorities that included expanding affordable housing, addressing homelessness and pursuing economic development, and those remain priorities as she seeks a second term, this time representing District 4. But with the arrival of COVID, she noted, “everything took a back seat.” Still, the city’s subsequent
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Point-in-time count finds 746 homeless in county By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
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Davis City Councilwoman Gloria Partida made her re-election bid official in August. partnership with UC Davis on Healthy Davis Together has made clear, Partida said, how working collaboratively — with the university, the county, the school district, the state and nonprofits — makes
WEATHER Thursday: Sunny and pleasant. High 81. Low 57.
for an ideal path forward for solving many of the issues facing the city. “We learned a lot about communicating and sharing resources,” Partida said,
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Yolo County’s homeless population increased by 13.9 percent between 2019 and 2022 based on a point-in-time count conducted Feb. 22, the county reported Tuesday. A total of 746 people experiencing homelessness were counted on that single night by a team that spread out throughout the county, looking for not just those living outdoors, but also in emergency shelters. The team found 368 people living in shelters and 378 unsheltered, though officials say the number likely
represents an undercount. Point-in-time counts are generally conducted every other year by local jurisdictions, in part to qualify for state and federal funding, but the scheduled 2021 count was delayed a year due to the pandemic. When the count was finally conducted in February, the county found the percentage of homeless people who were unsheltered had actually declined by 4.8 percent while the percentage who were in shelters, including emergency and
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