Merced News

Educational attainment, or the lack of it, has long been a problem for Merced and other Northern San Joaquin Valley counties.

The number of homeless people in Merced County has dramatically decreased, according to this year's recently released Homeless Count and Survey.

Despite facing challenges and setbacks, more than 1,000 Merced College students fulfilled their dream of earning a college diploma Friday night.

The Merced Senior Community Center will hold a dance from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday at 755 W. 15th St.

Famous cowboy actor and Sons of the Pioneers founding member Roy Rogers lived briefly in the labor camps in Tulare while picking fruit for the Del Monte Co.

Police responded to the 1200 block of Main Streets around 6:38 p.m. after a man said two men approached him, pointed a gun and demanded his cellphone and money.

UC Merced's African Diaspora Graduate Student Association invites the public to a reading by poet and playwright Judy Juanita.

The Merced Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals meets the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 500 Buena Vista Drive, except when the first Monday is a holiday.

Today, he's bound for the CIF State Track & Field Championships, traditionally the nation's best prep track meet, in the high jump.

As community advocates continued to push this week for more money for youth services, sympathetic city leaders turned out empty pockets.

Stanislaus County employment growth will continue this year, but at a relatively sluggish pace compared with gains expected in Merced and San Joaquin counties, according to a new University of the Pacific forecast.

A public opera performance, already glimpsed by 2,500 Merced County schoolchildren, is planned today, according to a news release.

A 23-year-old man accused in the August shooting an employee at a Merced auto parts store was convicted by a jury Thursday.

A top transportation official said today that the United States must remain dedicated to building high-speed rail systems to confront pollution, population increases and competition from rest of the world.

Martin Guerrero Jr., 42, was booked into the Mariposa County Adult Detention Facility after an arrest warrant was granted and a public broadcast message was sent out in hopes of finding Guerrero.

According to police, the girl, whose age was not released, was walking in the area of Merced and M streets at about 3:30 p.m. when a man in a car pulled up beside her.

Here's a message for tourists passing through Modesto or Merced on their way to Yosemite National Park: Stop and pick some cherries.

The San Joaquin Valley's economy continues to improve, but Stanislaus and Merced counties are lagging behind in job growth, a newly released business forecast shows.

More than a dozen jobs might be eliminated at Merced County's two landfills because of a decrease in waste tonnage, but some elected officials said they weren't made aware of the severity of the problem.

A judge Wednesday determined there was enough evidence for a woman to stand trial accused of murder in the death of an 18-month-old girl she was baby sitting at her west Modesto home last year.