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Michelea Ponce , the woman who filmed herself harassing an elderly Target employee for wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt, has officially been fired from her job.

A woman who berated a Target employee for wearing a Charlie Kirk t-shirt was investigated after sharing footage of the altercation online. In a since deleted viral video, Michelea Ponce confronted elderly Chico Target employee Jeanie Beeman over her choice of attire. Beeman was wearing a bright red T-shirt with a white American flag and the words 'Freedom' and 'Charlie Kirk' printed on the front. 'Why the f*** would you wear that? You're at work. At Target...You support a racist,' Ponce said in the footage, moving the camera so that Beeman's outfit could be seen from all angles. 'It's a...

1:07 VIDEO AT LINK....... SHE WAS MORE THAN DOXXED, THIS GIRL CALLED HER EMPLOYER AND INFORMED THEM OF ALLL HER PAST DELIQUENCIES THAT THEY ARE PROBABLY TOTALLY UNAWARE OF......... GOOD JOB!...................

An unhinged liberal woman from Orland, California, filmed herself berating an elderly Target worker for wearing a Charlie Kirk “Freedom” shirt and posted it to TikTok. According to her Facebook profile, the woman, Michelea Ponce, works as a nurse at Enloe Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in nearby Chico, CA, where she has held patient care roles. On Monday, Ponce posted a video of herself confronting the woman as she was putting baby clothes on the shelves, demanding to know why she was wearing the shirt. “Why are you taking my picture?” the older woman asks. Ponce continues to...

A Chico police sergeant engaged in numerous sexual relationships while on duty before his termination in January 2025, public records from the Chico Police Department show. Documents acquired by this newspaper state Sgt. Michael Williams received previous discipline for an on-duty relationship with a subordinate officer. The revelation of his continued on-duty sexual relationships with multiple women indicated “a very concerning progression,” of behavior, stated Chico police Capt. Omar Pena in one of the documents. According to the documents, Williams had sexual relationships with what appears to be five women while on patrol in 2023. The department became aware of...

...Earlier today, my Chico District Office and the neighboring businesses were evacuated because a clearly disturbed woman dropped off a package and devil worship candle display against "heteronormative, cisgendered, capitalists, ableists”...

The suspect accused of deliberately setting the fire that destroyed Chico’s historic Bidwell Mansion last month was arraigned in a Butte County courtroom yesterday. Officials alleged in an afternoon press conference that Kevin Carlson, 30, was motivated by “left-wing” and “anti-colonialism” politics in targeting the 156-year-old landmark for arson, scouting it multiple times before the blaze.

New light is being brought to a 46-year-old cold case commonly referred to as the “Yuba County Five.” Inspired by a series of true crime podcasts, author Tony Wright has dedicated the last four years to research, interviews, and documentation, compiling his findings into his new book “Things Aren’t Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five.” “I came across the Yuba County case for the first time around 2018,” said Wright. “The story was just coming back into the news for whatever reason because of true crime and other unsolved mystery podcasting. It just seemed to catch fire and...

The Constitution does not require public schools to notify parents when their children adopt a gender identity at odds with their sex or receive parental consent "before using alternative names and pronouns" for their children, according to a federal court in California. U.S. District Judge John Mendez said he was observing judicial restraint by dismissing Aurora Regino's lawsuit alleging Chico Unified School District actively hide from Regino her fifth-grade daughter's stated identification as a boy. The district said it was bound by state law that gives students the sole choice to disclose. California may soon pose a new threat to...

A man’s decomposing body covered in wounds has been discovered wrapped in a plastic sheet and dumped in a shopping cart near a California supermarket. The grim discovery was made after 4 p.m. Sunday outside the Food Maxx grocery store on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway in Chico, a city about 80 miles north of Sacramento. A passerby called 911 to report that a person inside the cart appeared to be dead. Police officers found the cart near the front of the business containing a man’s body wrapped in a large white plastic sheet, according to the Chico Police Department....

Aurora Regino filed a lawsuit against the Chico Unified School District in California over their 'parental secrecy' policy ... California mother Aurora Regino is suing her child’s school district for allegedly transitioning her 11-year-old's gender in secret, claiming her rights as a parent were violated. Fox News’ Claudia Cowan gave an update on the case on "America’s Newsroom" Friday after Regino discovered her daughter, a fifth-grade student in the Chico Unified School District, was living a double life as a male named "Jaden" and was receiving school counseling on socially transitioning. She is now again identifying as a female. "They...

CHICO, Calif. (KRCR) — Jerry Bransford's barbershop on East Avenue is a one-man operation. He not only owns Fairview Barber Shop but is its only hairstylist. Until a week ago, he adhered to the government's edict that kept his business closed because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). But Bransford could no longer afford to keep his doors closed, so he recharged his razor and returned to cutting hair. "It digs into your savings," said Bransford, who said his shop is busy around the clock with scraggly-haired clients. His shop has been visited by code enforcement which told him he's not...

There have also been reports that the Feather River Hospital has been destroyed according to John Lord, Associate Director of the Sierra-Sacramento Vally EMS Agency via Mike Mangas of Mercy Medical Center. “Be advised we have received confirmation from units on the ground in Butte County that Feather River Hospital has been destroyed by fire,” he said.

CHICO, Calif. — Chico police are looking for help to find a suspect they said tried to grab a 12-year-old girl Sunday night. It happened in the 100 block of East 12th Street around 8:30 p.m. Police said the girl was walking with her family's dog when a man tried to grab her. The dog started growling at the suspect and snapped at him, and the suspect did not harm the girl, according to officials. Officers said the suspect ran away westbound toward Park Avenue. Police got a call from the girl's mother about the incident. The suspect is described...

Red Bluff Police are searching for a high-risk sex offender, paroled in Red Bluff, who police said cut his ankle monitor and is on the loose. He is considered high-risk. 24-year-old Jose De Jesus Esparza was recently released from prison and paroled in Tehama County.

CHICO, Calif. - Down Range in Chico has now attracted attention not once, not twice, but three times for its large billboards that sit along Highway 99. "It's pretty smart, to be honest with you," said Andrea Schauer. Schauer is a Redding resident who makes the Redding to Chico drive once a week for business or to shoot at the north Chico gun range. She is amused by the shops ads. "I'm always looking at their banners to see if they have a new one up," Schaeur said. In December, the gun range began an advertising campaign, using the symbol...

For nearly 25 years, Steven Crittenden has been condemned to Death Row at San Quentin State Prison for the gruesome 1987 murder of a prominent Chico couple in their home. Since the day of his arrest, Crittenden has looked for a way to escape, first briefly breaking out of the Butte County Jail prior to his trial, and through endless appeals since he was sent to prison. Crittenden, 45, is now closer to freedom than ever. And it has nothing to do with whether he killed the affable town doctor and his wife. A federal judge in Sacramento recently overturned...

The American thought the animal was a stray but discovered its collar the next morningA drunkard is searching for a cat's owners after 'accidentally stealing' it after a boozy night out. The unnamed man has placed an advert on Craiglist in a desperate attempt to find the pet's owner . The American said he picked the animal up while walking home from a night out, thinking it was a stray . But when he woke up the following morning, he discovered the cat’s collar with its name written across it. Under the title ‘Possibly stole someone’s cat when I was...

For the first time since the leftists convinced the voters to move the local elections to November, the citizens have a chance to regain control of Chico. To begin with, the campaign against Measure A does not tell you is that the local elections were originally moved to November so that the leftists could gain the support of students who lived here only to go to college, but went home after completing each semester. This was done so that the wealthy fat-cat university professors could control the agenda of Chico's city council by stacking it with leftists socialists who would...

Acting as if they are Tea Party members of Butte County, Democrats have been going around posting fliers with racists images on them.  It seems that those who are comfortable with national unemployment at double digits, Chico unemployment at 12.3%, unemployment for 18 & 19-year old's above 25%, inflation nearing double digit annually, and $5 gasoline prices that have made most families cancel summer vacation plans, are so afraid of the Tea Party that they want to disrupt it's rally being held in Chico's Downtown Plaza on Monday April 18th. It's the same old tactics being used by the...