COUPLE FINED $1 MILLION FOR CUTTING DOWN PROTECTED TREES – May 8

The Oakland California City Council voted 5–3 to fine a couple $915,135 – almost a million dollars – for illegally cutting down protected trees. Back in 2021, Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner cut down 38 trees on their hillside lot, and a neighbor’s lot, and a city-owned lot, without permits, including mature oak trees worth…

BEEKEEPER SICS BEES ON DEPUTIES – Apr 29

A Springfield, Massachusetts, beekeeper was found guilty of misdemeanor assault and battery and reckless assault after she set swarms of bees on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict her friend from her house. Rebecca Woods, 59, admitted that she was trying to save her elderly friend, who has cancer, from eviction by freeing the bees in…