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Turlock police are looking for a woman who smashed a car window, punched a passenger, stole his cell phone and later dumped it in a Walmart parking lot. It appears … Click to Continue »

A 59-year-old Hilmar man has been sentenced to four years in prison after he reportedly struck a car twice while driving drunk and trying to pull out of a parking … Click to Continue »

A man alone at his rural home northeast of Empire was hospitalized after being beaten during a home-invasion robbery Wednesday night. Shortly after 11 p.m., the man in his 60s … Click to Continue »

Dr. Sylvia Diego became a doctor with a mission of providing health care to the poor and uninsured. Most people know Diego for her 18 years with Golden Valley Health … Click to Continue »

For three years, Turlock High discus thrower Gabriel Cordero has had a decades-old record in his sights. Last Friday in Oakdale, at County Clash VI, Cordero wrote his name into … Click to Continue »

Police have arrested a man suspected in a string of business break-ins and thefts, mostly phone and electronics stores along McHenry Avenue. Michael Sumpter, 23, was arrested Monday just blocks … Click to Continue »

The Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office is asking the public to speak out to keep a killer behind bars. Ronald Anderson, one of four then-teenagers convicted of killing Phil and … Click to Continue »

A Stanislaus County judge has ordered a 75-year-old Oakdale man to be committed to a state hospital for an indeterminate amount of time because he is a sexually violent predator. … Click to Continue »

TUOLUMNE COUNTY — The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is praising its Moccasin Creek Hatchery workers after they saved nearly a quarter of the hatchery's trout after water from … Click to Continue »

Nothing indicates the fatal shooting in early February of a man found in an apartment just north of California State University, Stanislaus, is criminal in nature, Turlock police reported. In … Click to Continue »