Modesto News

KCRA NEWS AT 5:00 STARTS RIGHT NOW. WE ARE STARTING WITH THIS. A SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY GETS STABBED WITH A PENCIL BY A CLASSMATE.

Hundreds of job opportunities from a variety of employers will be available at Modesto's HIREvent from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Clarion Inn Conference Center, 1612 Sisk Road.

Prosecutors say 55-year-old Dawn Melody DaLuise was charged Friday with solicitation of murder and remains jailed on $1 million bail.

Spring is the busiest time of year for honey bees, as they pollinate more than 800,000 acres of almonds and other valley crops.

A sentencing hearing in a deadly Modesto home-invasion robbery was postponed Friday, because the judge wants more information before deciding whether the defendant gets a new defense attorney.

Lori, executive director of World Relief Modesto since 2010, plays an integral role in the resettlement of about 200 refugees each year in Stanislaus County.

Officers from the Modesto Police Department's DUI Enforcement Team will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol- and drug-impaired drivers.

The Marion County district attorney's office says members of the U.S. Marshals Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force arrested 20-year-old Ramon Pena-Cornelio on Wednesday.

KTVU-TV reports San Mateo Police took 41-year-old Roberto Miculax into custody Wednesday after a three week investigation.

Friday through Sunday, the farm is celebrating the season with an open house from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Now in its sixth year, the chain’s Shoes 4 Kids giveaway program has partnered with nonprofit groups across the country to provide more than $1.5  million in shoes to children of needy families.

The surviving deputy sheriff in a deadly 2012 ambush in Modesto that killed his partner and a locksmith has left the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department.

The Stanislaus County Coroner's office is looking for family of a man whose cremains were left in a south Modesto storage facility.

A Stockton man was arrested on suspicion of committing three robberies in four hours Wednesday at businesses on Oakdale Road in Modesto.

Fontana police say they ended the search Thursday morning, a day after the cougar mauled a 100-pound German shepherd in the backyard of a home in foothills below the San Bernardino National Forest.

The IIFA announced Thursday that Spacey will be joined in the master class with Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, who won India's prestigious National Award for her thriller Kahaani.

Defendant Michael Dunn is brought into the courtroom in this Feb. 15, 2014 file photo where Judge Russell Healey announced that the jury was deadlocked on charge one and have verdicts on the other four charges as they deliberate in the trial of Dunn, for the shooting death of Jordan Davis in November 2012.

Firefighters went to east 50th Street shortly after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and found smoke coming from a garage that had been converted to living space.

Modesto, Stanislaus County and Salida merged their fire agencies four years ago, creating the Modesto Regional Fire Authority to save money and increase efficiency.

According to the Ripon Police Department, the incident began when officer Mario Ysit conducted a traffic stop on a Toyota pickup near River and North Ripon roads at 7:17 a.m. The driver, Aaron Michael Mendoza, 40, was found to be a registered sex offender on active parole.