Modesto News

It's been nearly a year since Modestan Frankie Vargas was killed in front of his home in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

A Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman says firefighters received the call at 2:21 p.m. Tuesday saying smoke and fire was showing through the roof of Animo High School in Inglewood.

A car fire spread to a used car dealership on Tuesday, July 22, 2014. What started out as a car fire spread to a used car dealership on Tuesday morning.

Librarian James Billington said Tuesday that the singer-songwriter whose hits include "Piano Man" and "Uptown Girl" will receive the prize in Washington in November.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports 30-year-old Lisa Heng was charged Monday and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.

Special ATMs would make it easier for people to pay their Modesto Irrigation District bills, says a proposal going before MID leaders Tuesday morning.

A Modesto police officer examines a bike involved in the accident. One teenager died and a second was seriously injured when their bicycle collided with a car in north Modesto, CA.

U-T San Diego reports 28-year-old Tassie Behrens entered the plea Monday could get four years and seven months in prison when she's sentenced in September.

In a southwest Modesto home Monday, officers recovered two assault weapons, a handgun, a silencer and several high-capacity magazines for the assault weapons.

Organizer Adriana Hernandez-Garcia and event logistics leader Ricardo Garcia are pictured on Monday afternoon at the office of Congregations Building Community which is organizing a night walk through west Modesto this coming Friday.

A Sacramentan who disagreed with motel staff about a cleaning deposit was arrested on suspicion of robbery over the weekend.

Work is expected to resume this week on a section of Bowen Avenue in central Modesto that has been dug up and closed to traffic for more than six weeks.

A Modesto man on Monday was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for conspiring to submit false claims to the Internal Revenue Service, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The Los Angeles Times reports 43-year-old Simona Mateas died at a hospital after authorities discovered her lying in the driveway of a home on Saturday.

Online records show 33-year-old Farrah Franklin was booked into the Horry County jail just before 5 a.m. Sunday on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Richmond County sheriff's officials say a thief stole the panties from Victoria's Secret in Augusta Mall shortly before noon Saturday.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the basement chamber of Tenth Street Place, at 1010 10th St., Modesto.

Connie Pinkston of Friends of Modesto Dog Park, middle, speaks with Modesto Police Department Community Service Officers Rosie Garcia, left, and Cristy Beffa, right, as they plan the Dog Walker Watch meeting at the Modesto dog park in Modesto, Calif., on Thursday, July 17, 2014.

In its fourth year, the event is expected to attract 700 buyers and more than 125 of the San Joaquin Valley's top food and beverage companies.

He tells The Times the 86,000-square-foot, $24 million lab will open in fall 2015 with state-of-the-art equipment.