Modesto News

During the Earth Day in the Park Festival on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Graceada Park, the Modesto City Council is inviting the public to attend Council in the Park.

The board also capped 2014 water deliveries at 24 vertical inches per acre – better than the 18 inches that had been planned, but still far less than the average of 42 inches since 1989.

In this Jan. 25, 2014 file photo, Miley Cyrus arrives at the 56th annual GRAMMY awards - salute to industry icons with Clive Davis, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Carissa Higginbotham of the Ceres Police Department said the property owner found the body after opening the freezer while looking around the abandoned shop.

Tipsters can email through the Crime Stoppers website, www.stancrimetips.org , or text tips to CRIMES by typing "Tip704" plus a message.

The San Jose Mercury News reports that 38-year-old Geoffrey Graves entered the plea in court on Monday and then left without talking to reporters.

Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey says more than 100 firefighters fought the flames in San Pedro for nearly two hours early Tuesday.

City News Service says 34-year-old Jesus Canales entered his plea Monday to charges including murder and child abuse.

Police found 20-year-old Nicholas Brastins Barnes of Pittsburgh, Pa., on Feb. 15. Authorities say the student had been dead for some time.

Rod Olsen, right, and his lawyer Robert Forkner speak with reporters after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disturbing the peace for making loud and unreasonable noise at the Stanislaus County Courthouse on Monday in Modesto, April 14, 2014.

Lt. Rich Lawhead says an argument in front of a laundry led to gunfire at about 1 p.m. Monday.

A jury is expected to continue deliberating Tuesday in a trial for a man accused of murder in the shooting of a 28-year-old woman five years ago in west Modesto.

Forty-five-year-old Terri Frana was attacked by a large bear in her driveway Saturday.

One of the country's top colonial historians, Alan Taylor, has won his second Pulitzer, for "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War In Virginia."

It's also a great advertisement for the creativity of old age. The 130 works displayed at Tate Modern were created in the last years of the French artist's long life, when Matisse - by then in a wheelchair - turned to scissors and paper, creating a series of ever-bigger, bolder and more ambitious cut-outs.

The San Jose Mercury News reports a woman called 911 Sunday afternoon making threats to harm herself and others.

Josh Hutcherson poses with his best male performance award and movie of the year award for "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" in the press room at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, April 13, 2014, at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

Ethan Adamson fired a 91-mph fastball this weekend. He and several other children lined up to test their pitching speed with a radar gun on the stage of Modesto's State Theatre.

National Transportation Safety Board Spokesman Keith Holloway said Sunday that investigators have gathered much of the key evidence from the crash site and continue to collect records.

The Fresno Bee reports that police believe 57-year-old Paul Wayne Motley shot his wife before shooting himself in the head around 11 p.m. Saturday.