Modesto News

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.

This week we are going to discuss a problem concerning Petunia, the 12-year-old companion of Mark from Modesto, Calif.

The News Tribune reports court papers say he told police he needed money to get married and wanted to write a letter of apology and return the woman's belongings.

The Sheriff's Department tells the Riverside Press-Enterprise that detectives are interviewing the child's parents to determine how the Tuesday evening shooting occurred.

Springsteen and the E Street Band will close the free, three-day festival on April 6 at Reunion Park, the downtown lot where the NCAA Final Four was played in 1986.

After opening with Sting's "Brand New Day" Tuesday night, followed by Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble," the two performers rotated on and off stage for the next two-and-a-half hours.

Kansas fans, don't you cry no more. The classic-rock group, which hasn't played the region for a while, is coming to the Stanislaus County Fair this summer.

Alameda County prosecutors on Tuesday charged 57-year-old Cindy Burleigh charged with one count of murder with special circumstances in the death of her mother on Monday.

A judge has scheduled a trial to start Oct. 28 for a Hollister man accused of murder in the shooting death of his co-worker during a fight outside a north Modesto bar.

The buses on Route 21 are among Modesto Area Express' busiest, carrying 50 passengers per hour compared with a systemwide average of 30 passengers.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Modesto man to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges associated with selling counterfeit DVDs and CDs.