Modesto News

According to Turlock Police, officers were called to Emanuel Medical Center at 11:03 a.m. Tuesday.

The freak accident Wednesday prompted temporary suspension of construction of the controversial Marine Transfer Station on the Upper East Side.

Boeger Sauvignon Blanc, MacMurray Chardonnay, MacMurray Pinot Noir, Boeger Barbera, Peachy Canyon Zinfandel, Cameron Hughes Collection Cabernet Sauvignon will be poured.

Opening statements are expected to begin Wednesday in the trial of 26-year-old Vanesa Zavala and 27-year-old Candace Brito.

A northeast Modesto neighborhood has rallied in an effort to capture an elusive dog that has been living off the land in a dirt field for at least three weeks.

Jason Quero was arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court Tuesday on 10 felony charges that allege the molestation of the two students.

Four defendants on Wednesday pleaded no contest to charges involving a south Modesto home where an infant was beaten and police later found 200 marijuana plants in an indoor garden.

Attorney Steven O'Connor told a Stanislaus County judge to hold him in contempt of court and report him to state bar officials as he refused to proceed with the case because he believed he failed his client, the Modesto Bee reported .

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has directed the Interior Department to investigate whether U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials in California and parts of Nevada and Oregon have violated the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office says Bieber will be charged Wednesday with one count of misdemeanor vandalism.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported Tuesday that surveillance video from the boat shows 51-year-old Forrest Timothy Hayes losing consciousness.

Fresno County Sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice says the man vanished while swimming Friday at Hume Lake, about 60 miles east of Fresno in the Sequoia National Forest.

The Louisiana Attorney General's office, in a news release Tuesday, said agents with its Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested 49-year-old Barbara Smith and 50-year-old Cleveland Smith, both of Baton Rouge, on Monday.

It's hard to find a reason not to attend the Elks Lodge upcoming Battle of the Bands event: live music, awesome prizes, tasty snacks … and did I mention it's all free? For more than 100 years, the Modesto Elks Lodge has been a proud adherent of charities and community service.

Ruvalcaba is suspected of having lured his estranged wife to a parking lot at 301 Standiford Ave. in north Modesto on April 10, 2005, saying he wanted her to pick up their children.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Sgt. Kelly Kent says a 15-year-old boy from Livermore lit a "gold-shaped egg" made of cardboard that had a small fuse at a relative's backyard near Live Oak Saturday night.

An elderly man suffered minor injuries Tuesday when he pulled in front of traffic on Coffee Road across from Downey High School on Tuesday.

Officials say 28-year-old Kevin Matthew Perkins packed himself in the basket Monday to get away from the Metropolitan Detention Center.

The Los Angeles Times reports the shooting was reported around 1 p.m. Monday on West Cherry Street.

KNBC-TV reports three of the five victims were found Monday night inside the N D Vape shop on Baseline Street.