Archive for September, 2009

Ending a decade of litigation over development plans for Yosemite Valley, federal officials gave up on Wednesday, agreeing to start from scratch. Read comments »

A proposed health care initiative has added to the six months of rancor between city officials and representatives of the Keystone Pacific Business Park and Del Puerto Health Care District. »

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. District Court judge from Fresno told a Senate panel Wednesday that federal judges in the Central Valley are shouldering some of the highest caseloads in the nation and need reinforcements -- now. Read comments »

One early August evening, with Christmas Eve still about five months away, Francine DiCiano was pretty sure it wasn't Santa Claus making all that racket on the roof of the United Way headquarters in Modesto. »

Police on Wednesday used a Taser and a baton to subdue a man suffering from a seizure in north Modesto after he fought off treatment from medics and acted violently toward officers, authorities said. »

MERCED — For the next month, it's a waiting game. »

Julio Luevano Estrada, 57, of Modesto was sentenced to three years in state prison on Monday for performing a lewd and lascivious act with a child. »

NINE-WAY MODESTO SCHOOLS DEBATE »

From the moment I first stepped off the plane in 2004, Palm Springs had me hooked. »

WASHINGTON — Central Valley judges need reinforcements now, U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill told a Senate panel Wednesday. »

The number of Altamont Commuter Express trains from the valley to the East Bay would drop from four to three per day under a cost-cutting proposal to be voted on Friday. »

High-profile digging in the Antioch back yard of accused kidnappers delayed a search for pioneer graves at a former Crows Landing airfield. »

An Orosi woman with a methamphetamine habit murdered her newborn baby by placing the infant in the back of a neighbor's pickup where the baby froze to death, a Tulare County prosecutor told a jury Wednesday. Read comments »

Authorities say two men have been arrested in an apparent drive-by shooting in Santa Monica that left two people wounded, including an innocent bystander. »

The state attorney general's office has issued an arrest warrant in a 28-year-old triple homicide in Riverside County. »