Modesto News

Modesto and Ceres firefighters were battling a blaze in a strip mall on Crows Landing Road early Saturday morning.

A Modesto man was expected to take the witness stand today to explain the stress he was under during repeated interviews with investigators who didn't believe he had simply panicked and buried the body of a roommate he found dead on the bathroom floor.

Usually Steve Larsen shells out $240 for a box of fireworks to celebrate the 4th of July, but the recession is taking some of the bang out of the holiday this year.

Modesto native Harve Presnell, a stage and screen actor whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 75.

The attorney representing a woman whose son drowned in the Tuolumne River two years ago sought Tuesday to refocus attention on a hazardous, defunct dam that contributed to the boy's death.

A man and two women were arrested today on various charges following an early morning burglary in central Modesto.

A Bay Area attorney said Tuesday a lawsuit over a river death is moving ahead. It was in March, 2007, that 13-year-old Jeremy Wilson died while playing with friends in the river just below the Ninth Street Bridge in Modesto.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has sued the owner of 22 Bay Area Midas Muffler shops, accusing him of a massive "bait and switch scam." Undercover stings found that shops owned by Modesto resident Maurice "Mike" Glad were advertising brake specials to draw customers in and regularly charged patrons for unnecessary repairs, according to ...

Professional construction crews hustled this month to finish the first five homes in Habitat for Humanity's Hope Village in west Modesto.

A parolee who stole $200 from Bank of the West three years ago, then engaged in a desperate crime spree as he fled from a customer who gave chase, faces 89 years to life in prison.

Modesto firefighters responded to a structure fire Sunday night in the 600 block of E. Hatch Road near Jim Way, about a half-mile east of Crows Landing Road.

A Modesto man who recently shook hands with Michael Jackson during a chance encounter in Los Angeles said he's saddened to hear of the pop superstar's death.

Homicide detectives Friday were looking for two suspects in the shooting of a 22-year-old man who was killed Thursday night near his east Modesto home as his younger cousins played basketball, police and the victim's family said.

The city of Modesto is taking a tough stand this year by issuing citations to people who are caught using them.

My boyfriend and I are flying from Portland, OR to Modesto, CA for the weekend to attend his 20th HS reunion.

Police are looking for a woman who was involved in a car crash near downtown Modesto this morning, then fled the scene.

Trendy retailer H&M is coming to Modesto this fall. The clothier will go in near the new Forever 21 at Vintage Faire Mall.

As supervisor of economic crimes for the Modesto police, Sgt. Craig Plante had a little time left in his schedule, so he decided to take a crack at a missing persons case that had been cold for eight years, according to his testimony Monday in Stanislaus County Superior Court.

Two people sustained minor injuries when a plywood wall at Vintage Faire mall collapsed Monday afternoon.

Modesto police have responded to a report of a scaffolding collapse at Vintage Faire Mall.