Patterson News

The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department is asking for help in finding a developmentally disabled 19-year-old reported missing Friday.

From festivals to fairs to music in the park to a massive celebration of all things Graffiti, June will be packed aplenty with things to keep you busy.

"I would name it Fluffy," Noelle said to her chaperone during a field trip to the Animal Protection League of Stockton's rescue facility on Murray Drive.

The practice word was "Agosto," or August. That stumped no one, but it got tougher from there for 36 top Spanish spellers from area dual language school programs.

A judge has rejected the city's bid to be annexed into the Turlock Irrigation District, which supplies its electricity.

Rose Brown is familiar in local bowling circles and competed internationally for Team USA in 2007, the same year she graduated from Davis High School in Modesto.

The mother and aunt of a victim called a convicted defendant from Patterson a "monster" and a "predator" for repeatedly sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl over a year, according to written statements read in court Tuesday.

Stanislaus County Sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating 26-year-old Victor Valdovinos • THE CASE: Valdovinos is wanted by the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department on suspicion of murder in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Jesus Gallardo, who was killed Jan.

Kimberly Greenwell has liked cooking for nearly as long as she can remember. She learned at the elbow of her grandmother, who Greenwell said made the most incredible cakes and Southern dishes.

Since the name "Bigfoot" sprang from the pages of the Humboldt Times in October 1958, the search for whatever made "huge 16-inch tracks in the vicinity of Bluff Creek" has occupied a special place in the North Coast's imagination -- perhaps nowhere more so than in Willow Creek.