Crows Landing News

Stanislaus County's civil grand jury, a panel of citizen watchdogs who investigate complaints about local government, released six reports Wednesday afternoon, the most controversial calling for the ouster of Riverbank City Councilman Jesse James White.

Officers on Saturday morning arrested a Southern California man on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter after his car struck a pickup, which then rolled over on Highway 99 in Modesto, killing the pickup's driver, the California Highway Patrol reported.

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Why spend $8.8 million training people for jobs that don't exist? That was the main question asked Tuesday by Stanislaus County supervisors, who essentially rolled their eyes, shrugged and accepted federal stimulus money anyway.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors is scheduled this morning to: Approve a revised preliminary redevelopment plan for the Crows Landing Air Facility and order environmental studies on the proposed 1,528-acre business park.

After starting as a patrol officer almost three decades ago and working his way up the ranks of the town's police force, Police Chief Tyrone Spencer plans to retire in January.

A grass-roots organization fighting the proposed 4,800-acre West Park business and industrial park has dropped a lawsuit challenging the project.

Arson caused about $1 million in damage to the Odd Fellows building in downtown Newman early Saturday, police said.

Music, theater and sports soon will get a new home within the Mountain View Middle School community.

District took 'Bless Me, Ultima' off sophomore reading list. By DANIELLE GAINES Dgaines@mercedsun-star.com Two teachers from Orestimba High School, upset that a book has been removed from their class reading ...

Rochelle Sise, 69, poses for a photograph with her 1965 Ford Mustang Coupe, her favorite car, in front of her home in Modesto, Calif., Thursday, Jan.

A revision to the preliminary redevelopment plan for the 1,528-acre Crows Landing Air Facility was unanimously approved Thursday night, despite some concerns of the West Stanislaus Fire District.

The lost West Side cemetery may have been found. A 130-year-old pioneer cemetery is believed to have been found on the Crows Landing Air Facility southeast of Patterson, a former Navy base now owned by ...

A Stanislaus County school board voted to ban "Bless Me, Ultima," a celebrated piece of Chicano literature, from high school classrooms because it contains profanity.

Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District trustees are set to make a final decision Monday on whether "Bless Me, Ultima" should continue to be banned from classrooms at Orestimba High School.

Three children and two women were taken to area hospitals after a three- vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on West Hatch Road in south Modesto, the California Highway Patrol reported.

"Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven." From that beginning, Rudolfo Anaya weaves the story of a young boy in a small New Mexico town going through wrenching change after World War II.

THE CASE: Stanislaus County sheriff's investigators say they suspect that Rodas stabbed his ex-girlfriend's mother Dec.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors put PCCP West Park LLC on the hook Tuesday for all the costs related to a state grant to build a short-haul rail system and inland port near Crows Landing.

A second man involved in a crash last week near Ceres died at a Modesto hospital Monday, Stanislaus County coroner officials said Tuesday.