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The Healdsburg Police Department apprehended Damian Martines-Osorio yesterday following a violent incident that occurred at the Healdsburg Community Center a week prior. Martines-Osorio, 29, was arrested on charges of attempted murder, vandalism, and resisting arrest after an extensive investigation led officers to Los Gatos, as reported in a social media post from the Healdsburg Police Department. The suspect, who was living under an alias after allegedly fleeing Healdsburg, attempted to elude capture by running from the authorities when approached. He was ultimately taken into custody after trying to scale a fence. The department stated that he had been booked into...

A Cal Fire firefighter was arrested Friday for allegedly igniting five fires in the North Bay in recent weeks when he was off duty. At 8 a.m. Friday, Cal Fire law enforcement officers arrested the 38-year-old Healdsburg resident at the agency's Howard Forest station in Mendocino County on suspicion of arson to forest land in the areas surrounding Geyserville, Healdsburg, and Windsor. Fire officials believe he, a fire apparatus engineer, ignited the Alexander Fire on Aug. 15, the Windsor River Road Fire on Sept. 8, the Geysers Fire on Sept. 12, and the Geyser and Kinley fires on Sept. 14....

At last, Marine private and son of Healdsburg John Saini is coming home. Born to an Alexander Valley grape-growing family in 1923, Saini (sigh-EE-knee) was 20 when he died early on in World War II’s deadly, three-day Battle of Tarawa. He was buried on the Pacific atoll along with more than 1,000 other Marines and sailors and more than 5,000 Japanese and Korean soldiers. Informed of his death, his shattered immigrant parents in Healdsburg, Mike and Mary Saini, awaited word of where he was interred and how they might return his earthly remains to Sonoma County for proper, Catholic burial....