Keyes News

People here paid higher street-light fees this year despite rejecting the increase last year.

MONEY FOR HOMELESS STUDENTS: Several area school districts will get federal stimulus money to help homeless students.

A man died Tuesday morning after his motorcycle collided with a big rig at Keyes Road and Central Avenue a few miles west of Keyes.

Stanislaus County supervisors Tuesday unanimously: * Accepted a $157,400 federal stimulus grant that might enable the reopening of senior nutrition centers in Riverbank, Salida, Ceres, Denair, Keyes and Knights Ferry.

A recycling plant fire that sent a black shroud of smoke over Ceres and the southern part of Modesto late Monday afternoon started when sparks from scrap metal got lodged into a huge pile of cardboard.

Stanislaus County supervisors Tuesday unanimously: Formed an ad-hoc committee looking into property improvements done over the years without permits.

A parolee and suspected gang member who has had numerous contacts with authorities was sentenced to 26 years in prison for robbing a man and stealing his car on March 6, 2008, according to a statement from the Stanislaus County district attorney's office.

Two separate and serious accidents snarled the morning commute on Highway 99 in the valley and left at least one person dead.

Four years ago, Jose Luis Montelongo wrote a letter to himself, to be opened when he graduated from high school.

A shining example of urban limits could be compromised if leaders allow a golf course driving range north of Turlock, frustrated farmers say.

A small fire broke out in a vacant house this morning, according to Keyes Fire Department battalion chief Erik Klevmyr.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell yesterday announced that a record 28 charter middle and high schools were awarded the prestigious 2009 California Distinguished Schools Award.

Three Stanislaus County schools were named 2009 California Distinguished Schools this week.

A Keyes man who had been accused of sexually assaulting and killing his 4-year-old stepdaughter was free late Thursday night after a jury acquitted him of two charges.

Officers arrested a Keyes man this afternoon on suspicion of mayhem after, they said, he stabbed a man in a fight, leaving him with a "severe laceration" to the face.

A two-day Green Bus Tour of Central Valley green businesses is scheduled for Feb.

Authorities arrested two Keyes brothers in connection with kidnapping a relative to force him to repay a debt he owed them, Turlock police said Tuesday.

President Obama plans to unveil a massive tax cut/spending increase that will push our federal expenditure to more than 10% of our nation's economic output.

Two men are in custody after a weekend vehicle pursuit with California Highway Patrol officers that began on Sandy Mush Road and ended in Stanislaus County.

Turlock police were searching Friday for a Patterson man wanted in the shooting of a man in the 400 block of South Avenue.