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REDDING, Calif. — The sun was blindingly bright, and the streets in Redding's Buckeye neighborhood were mostly empty — anyone at home on this Tuesday afternoon was wisely staying out of the 100-degree swelter.

REDDING, Calif. — Eva didn’t look too bad, considering three days earlier she nearly died in the jaws of a mountain lion.

Sherri Papini mysteriously reappeared on Thanksgiving Day at the side of a road 120 miles away 22 days after she was reported missing having apparently vanished during a run in Redding, California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An emotional Sherri Papini formally admitted Monday that she made up her 2016 “kidnapping” from Redding, pleading guilty in federal court in Sacramento to a count of making false statements to a federal agent and mail fraud, part of a plea agreement she worked out after her…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six weeks after Sherri Papini was arrested and charged with faking her own kidnapping in 2016, the so-called Super Mom from Redding has signed a plea deal and will admit that she orchestrated the hoax, her attorney told The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday.

A small city in California lived in fear after Sherri Papini claimed to have been abducted at gunpoint by masked Hispanic women. Five years later, she’s finally been charged with making it all up. Bevan Hurley writes

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sherri Papini, the Redding mother accused of orchestrating an elaborate abduction hoax in 2016 and lying to federal agents about it, was allowed to leave jail on Tuesday.

A small city in California lived in fear after Sherri Papini claimed to have been abducted at gunpoint by masked Hispanic women. Five years later, she’s finally been charged with making it all up. Bevan Hurley writes

Papini’s 2016 disappearance was long cloaked in confusion, as a friend raised funds for a ‘reverse ransom’

A small city in California lived in fear after Sherri Papini claimed to have been abducted at gunpoint by masked Hispanic women. Five years later, she’s finally been charged with making it all up. Bevan Hurley writes

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE:MLM) has agreed to sell certain West Coast cement and ready mixed concrete operations to CalPortland Company for $250 million in cash. The operations include the Redding cement plant, related cement distribution terminals, and 14 ready-mixed concrete plants in California. The transaction is expected to close in the second…