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Jessica Brown, of Chester, performs Taylor Swift’s “Mean” and Miranda Lambert’s “More Like Her” during the Texaco Country Showdown. Her big brother Zach won the showdown a couple of years ago. File photo

May 18, 2013 — The Texaco Country Showdown is America's largest Country music talent show and is designed to find the most promising country music talent in the nation and to give these performers a chance to launch their professional music careers.

The Country Showdown begins each spring with over 450 local talent contests sponsored by country music radio stations throughout the U.S. Once again Susanville’s KJDX/KSUE is sponsoring the local competition.

May 16, 2012 — Tom Downing, Susanville’s police chief, said his department recently completed an undercover drug buy program and as many as nine suspects are in custody or being sought.

 “We’re looking for or already have arrested six juveniles and three adults,” Downing said.

A search warrant also has been served on a Lowry Street location.

An undercover Susanville police officer worked the program in an attempt “to target people selling drugs to our youth. That was the plan. It ended up being youth selling to our youth in and around the park and the high school area,” Downing said.

The program did not purchase any large quantities of drugs, but in some cases suspects made multiple sales.

One of the juveniles is not a Lassen High School student, Downing said.

The chief said the department will release more information soon.

For more details, see the Tuesday, May 21 issue of the Lassen County Times.

On Tuesday, May 14, deputies from the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office conducted a sex registrant sweep for the areas of Susanville Bieber, Doyle, Eagle Lake, Herlong, Janesville, Little Valley, Milford, Nubieber, and Termo. During the sweep, deputies attempted to contact 27 registered sex offenders and contacted 16 of them. Of those 16 registrants contacted, three were arrested and cases were submitted to the Lassen County District Attorney’s Office. Two additional cases were initiated for further investigation. The remaining registrants were deemed to be in compliance with their registration requirements.

May 16, 2013 — The murder of five people in Fernley and Mustang Nevada Monday, May 13 touches Lassen County.

Two of the victims are former Lassen County residents — Les Leiber, 69, the former general manager of the Lassen Municipal Utility District and Angie Duff, 67. Also killed were Robert Pape 84, his wife Dorothy Pape, 84, and Eliazar Graham, 52.