Modesto News

Longtime voice teacher, choral director and Kindermusik specialist Ginger Colla said she was so impacted by the fatal shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School a year ago, she wanted to do something to mark the one-year anniversary on Dec. 14. “We were all so shocked and saddened by that event,” she said.

The driver of the stolen car was found in a dog house hiding in the backyard of a home in the 1100 block of Alamo Ave., is taken into custody.

The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports 36-year-old David Ray Mills pleaded guilty Tuesday to being an accessory to the attack.

The highway remained closed as of 6:30 a.m. Thursday. KCRA-TV reports that an officer shot and killed a homicide suspect earlier on the highway after the suspect brandished a knife.

On the crowded shelf of cookbooks lushly illustrated with the latest foodie trends, one spiral-bound newcomer stands apart.

It is a doorway to a future, a doorway that roughly one in five teens in this area will not pass through.

Ashok Kumar spent 15 years establishing his India Warehouse store, attracting customers to the Yosemite Boulevard business in Modesto.

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says when 26-year-old Yevgeniy Bolshakov of Daly City came home from an outing Saturday, he asked his parents about the cat.

Djuan "DJ" Kelly complained of shortness of breath and chest pain before collapsing Monday near the campus of Victor Valley High School in San Bernardino County, according to District Superintendent Elvin Momon.

Whether it was saluting Tim McGraw as a more-relevant-than-ever trailblazer, acknowledging the genre's love-hate relationship with Florida Georgia Line, the precociousness of Hunter Hayes or the current dominance of good buddies Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan, Tuesday night's live broadcast of "CMT Artists of the Year" had plenty of bro hugs to go ... (more)

The admission is sensitive because Hollande's political mentor, former President Francois Mitterrand, kept the French public in the dark for years during his presidency about the prostate cancer that eventually killed him.

This is one of the more unusual suggestions we have received for a Stocking Stuffers idea, but it's pretty irresistible: Teresa Beaton of the band Mother Teresa & the Sinners said in an email, "We have joined forces with Gerald'z Honeybees and have our own line of honey."

Firefighters with the Modesto Regional Fire Authority tend to a three-alarm blaze at in the 2000 block of Yosemite Boulevard in Modesto on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.

Francisco "Frankie" Carranza Meza is wanted by Modesto police on suspicion of murder in connection with the gang-related shooting death of 32-year-old Juan Gabriel Barajas of Modesto.

A woman has pleaded guilty to handling cash payments in an alleged drug trafficking scheme that shipped oxycodone and hydrocodone from a Modesto pharmacy to Washington state for distribution on the black market.

A judge on Tuesday scheduled a trial to start Sept. 8 for a former Modesto police sergeant who was arrested last year based on allegations he had sex with an underage female family member.

City News Service reports 45-year-old Christopher Warsaw was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of attempted murder of a peace officer, kidnapping, criminal threats and other felonies.

The fire in Merced broke out around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Merced Fire Chief Michael McLaughlin says crews arrived to find the apartment fully engulfed in flames.

South Pierce Fire & Rescue Chief Bob Vellias says the worker in his 50s was one of two men doing routine maintenance on the silo when it gave way for an unknown reason.

A video featuring more than 2,000 students lip-syncing to Perry's "Roar" won the school a free concert in October.