Modesto News

An officer with the Stanislaus County Drug Enforcement Agency helps eradicate pot plants in west Stanislaus County on Tuesday, Sept.

The Orange County Register reports 55-year-old Mitchell Steven Behm has been sentenced to five years' probation and 200 hours' community service.

But the crowd and state legislators at Thursday’s water bond hearing in Modesto could not escape the frustration of a more immediate problem: drought.

This undated file photo shows Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at an undisclosed location.

According to the California Highway Patrol, 45-year-old Jose Amilcar Lara fell asleep while driving north on I-5 near Highway 165 about 5:15  Lara turned his vehicle to the left in an attempt to get back on the roadway, but he overcorrected and the big rig fell onto its right side.

A second suspect has been identified in the kidnapping and robbery of a Ripon man when he showed up to an arranged meeting to purchase high-end sneakers from a person he met on Facebook, according to police.

Prosecutors today filed a criminal complaint against a former Ceres business owner accused of murder after authorities found a dead man in his abandoned auto shop.

According to police, officers were dispatched to Neel Park on Whitehaven Avenue for a call of a man screaming and swinging a golf club.

Kickstarter closed the campaign Tuesday after it raised $6.2 million through 18,000 supporters.

The Contra Costa Times reports Melinda Gaffney turned herself in at San Francisco police headquarters Monday morning.

MERCED, Calif. - Workers at a central California ranch could hardly believe their eyes when they spotted a sea lion pup hopping through an almond In this March 2014 photo provided by the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge, is a sea lion pup named Hoppie who was found at Mape's Ranch near Modesto, Calif.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday says the director of the forthcoming "X-Men: Days of Future Past" forced Michael Egan III into sex during parties in California and Hawaii when he was 17 in the late 1990s.

Late one rainy afternoon a few weeks ago, Sam Moreno finished his day's work as the foreman at Acacia Cemetery.

Modesto Regional Fire Authority Division Chief Sean Slamon has been appointed the agency's interim fire chief.

Arnett filed a divorce petition in Los Angeles Superior Court on April 8 citing irreconcilable differences.

Lt. Mindy Talmadge, a fire department spokeswoman, says crews responded to the blaze inside a two-story public housing building shortly before 10 a.m. in the city's Sunnydale neighborhood.

On Tuesday, at approximately 9:30 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Deputies responded to the 16000 block of State Highway 254, Weott in regards to an unwanted subject.

An auto body shop owner in Ceres, south of Modesto, was arrested Tuesday after a man's body was found stuffed into a freezer at the business.

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.