Ceres News

Ceres police officers have a identified a man shot to death overnight on Boothe Road.

Maegan Letras is not into romance - not in novels and movies, at least. "I do not like romances.

The names and amounts of pensions paid to 2,757 retired public employees will be released this week by the Stanislaus County Employees' Retirement Association.

President Barack Obama is trying to overhaul public education by offering states billions of dollars in stimulus money if they improve student assessments, teacher effectiveness, collection and use of data, and support for struggling schools.

Two former city managers are taking on the cities that let them go. Tim Kerr is suing Turlock for money he says the city owes him.

Gary Lee Hall wore a tassel on his black cowboy hat, and his wife ceremoniously turned it to the side after he received his high school diploma.

A Ceres woman is keeping a close eye on her five- year-old daughter after a drugstore made an error in the child's prescription.

When she went to a Walgreens drugstore last week, Wilma O'Neill thought she was given an antiviral drug to treat her daughter's bout with H1N1 influenza.

The Modesto Bee and two other petitioners have prevailed in a lawsuit to force the Stanislaus Employees' Retirement Association to release information on pensions for public service retirees.

Kenyon Graham Reynolds , 44, of Ceres was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of lewd acts upon a child.

Modesto's first-ever district elections were supposed to open the door to new voices fueled by low-cost campaigns, but voters' choices on Tuesday showed that money still talks.

Some health care providers in Stanislaus County have received the injectable form of H1N1 flu vaccine, although medical groups said they received small amounts and a large group didn't get any.

A tip Friday morning led police to a Ceres home, where officers arrested two men on suspicion of burglary.

A 49-year-old man imprisoned for repeatedly stabbing a minimart clerk because she would not hand him a beer while he was robbing the store was found unsuitable for parole, the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office announced.

Is it part of a city manager's job description to get fired, or resign by "mutual agreement," or does it only seem that way? Hughson's City Council began dismissal proceedings against City Manager Joe Donabed last week and replaced him, for the time being, with planning and building director Thom Clark.

Army Lt. Chris Van Meter brings the world to his students when he teaches at Ceres High School.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors is scheduled today to vote on: Significantly reducing public access to the sheriff's Central Area Command by closing on nights and weekends.

Attorneys for the man accused of killing Chandra Levy failed Friday in their effort to obtain DNA samples taken from former U.S. Rep.

Authorities on Thursday afternoon were looking for a missing man who presumably drowned in the Tuolumne River near the Ninth Street Bridge in Modesto, Stanislaus County sheriff's officials said.

Ceres Mayor Anthony Cannella today is announcing his run for the seat held by Republican state Sen.