Archive for December, 2009

A woman says she was unjustly fired from her job at a Target store in Chino for buying toys for her grandchildren. »

SACRAMENTO -- California motorists would get free year-round admission to all 278 state-owned beaches and parks under a proposed new ballot initiative, but here's the catch: It would cost them. Read comments »

National Hmong leaders in Fresno are asking President Barack Obama to intervene on behalf of 4,500 Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos this week. Read comments »

Eleven puppies tossed out in a trash container behind a Selma business are doing well since they were found this week -- but their plight underscores the widespread problem of pet abandonment, animal advocates say. Read comments »

In August 2005, millions of Californians stood in stunned silence in front of their television sets. Before them were images of New Orleans submerged in water, with desperate people clinging to rooftops. »

FRESNO -- The Fresno County District Attorney's office said it wants records of calls and text messages on Fresno Police Sgt. Dave Madrigal's department-issued phone, to discover evidence that could support a charge of witness intimidation in the trial of former police officer Marcus Tafoya. »

MODESTO -- Police investigators Wednesday arrested two teenage boys and a man suspected of severely beating an 18-year-old man in a gang-related attack Christmas Eve in northwest Modesto, a department spokesman said. »

MODESTO -- Two Modesto brothers will face a jury on charges of attempted murder after they shot a 22-month-old boy as he played in the front yard of his west Modesto house. »

The Valley air board this month adopted California's first guidelines for greenhouse-gas reduction on new development, but the state Attorney General's Office questions whether they will hold up in court. »

MODESTO -- Police arrested a man and woman who allegedly broke into a Modesto church, stole Christmas presents intended for needy children and set the building afire. »

With 2009 behind us, we look to a new year with much hope and optimism. Those qualities were in short supply this past year, and we're just happy to get through a year that brought economic misery across our nation. »

Editor: The Sun-Star does a disservice to its readers by publishing an editorial touting the new health care reform with the statement, "the positives in the bill substantially outweigh the negatives." »

Decades or centuries from now, scholars will examine U.S. government documents from our time and notice something strange: In four consecutive years around the close of the 20th century, the federal budget was recorded as having a surplus. That hadn't happened since 1969, it hasn't happened since, and the way things are going, it... »

Editor: Jonah Owen Lamb has it half-right. If you ride a motorcycle in the town of Merced you know that if you pull up to a stop light with that motorcycle you have to wait two to three cycles of that signal light to let you proceed on your way or hope that a... »

Editor: Eco-fundamentalists derailing major projects in California are no different than the Taliban in their desire to reverse the course of human progress. Poseiden Resources is poised to begin construction on a desalination plant in Carlsbad, to serve 300,000 people after a permitting and approval process that only took about 15 years. Unless the... »