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STOCKTON — Mayor Michael Tubbs and his wife, Anna Malaika Nti-Asare-Tubbs, announced the birth of their first child on Saturday, a son born at 9:04 a.m.The third member of Stockton’s first family has been named Michael Malakai Tubbs Jr., according to social media posted by the mayor on Saturday.“Mother and baby are healthy and are supernovas,” Tubbs wrote. “My scattered reflections: I feel honored to be a part of their tribe. Women are [...]

STOCKTON — Sunday marked 30 years to the day that Deputy Dighton Little, a veteran of 10 years with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office who many thought would rise to become sheriff one day, was shot and killed by an armed suspect at a Ripon truck stop. "A day I’ll never forget," current Sheriff Patrick Withrow said during an Honor Guard ceremony Sunday morning at the San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery where Little is buried.Opening up the [...]

Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 88 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Sunday. At that time, there were 1,398 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,550. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.Stockton PoliceBattery on officers: An officer was fingerprinting Deborah Cynthia Hall, 50, at the County Jail in French Camp about 3:35 p.m. Saturday [...]

The settlement means the closely watched trial will not move forward now, but it does not resolve more than 2,600 other lawsuits across the country seeking to hold the drug industry accountable for an opioid crisis that has been linked to more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. since 2000.

"Like rats, America is running away," one man shouted in Arabic at a convoy of armored vehicles flying American flags passing down an avenue in the northeastern city of Qamishli, according to video by the Kurdish news agency.

The Justice Department on Monday issued amended regulations that would mandate DNA collection for almost all migrants who cross between official entry points and are held even temporarily.

STOCKTON — Former Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva was formally sentenced to one felony conflict-of-interest charge that closed a three-year financial-malfeasance case on Monday morning in San Joaquin County Superior Court.Judge Charlotte Orcutt sentenced Silva to 90 days in county jail, however, attorney N. Allen Sawyer said he is allowed to serve that time in an alternative work program.Additionally, 45-year-old Silva was ordered to pay $19,783 in restitution, be under [...]

MANTECA — Two Bay Area men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of stealing a ring valued in excess of $100,000 after an X-ray of one of the suspects showed the man had concealed it internally, Manteca police reported.The person selling the ring had agreed to meet the two men at New York Diamonds in the Mission Ridge Shopping Center on South Main Street early in the afternoon. One of the men, identified as Shevvy Jared Franklin, 21, of Benicia, went inside to meet the [...]

STOCKTON — A female was robbed in her northeast Stockton home by four men after answering a knock at the door late Sunday evening, police reported.The four men showed up about 8:50 p.m. and forced their way into the home in the 8600 block of Hastings Court, a short residential street off Castle Oaks Drive northwest of West Lane and East Hammer Lane.The robbers then ordered the female victim to get down on the floor as they ransacked the house before leaving with [...]

Stockton man ID'd as pedestrian killed by trainSTOCKTON — Deallen Jordan, 35, of Stockton was identified as the pedestrian struck and killed by a train Sunday morning south of downtown, according to the San Joaquin County Coroner’s Office.Jordan was on the BNSF Railway tracks where they cross South Lincoln Street when he was hit about 9:34 a.m. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene, according to Stockton police. SJ [...]