Riverbank News

A Stockton resident was uninjured in a two-car crash that killed a Riverbank man shortly after 11:15 a.m. Friday in Ripon, authorities said.

Info: Members of the VFW Post 3199, Modesto will conduct their annual Memorial Day "Buddy Poppy" Drive.

Oscar Zeta Acosta — hero to the Chicano movement, hard-living pal of Hunter S. Thompson — first raised hell in Riverbank.

Riverbank is diverging from tradition in using a private vendor to conduct the June 4 special election, but voters might not notice much difference.

Cal Campbell, Jeremy Fennell and Diana Gonzalez are running in a June 4 special election for the seat vacated when Richard O'Brien was elected mayor in November.

Info: The Catholic Professional and Business Club holds its monthly breakfast meeting.

Oscar Zeta Acosta — hero to the Chicano movement, hard-living pal of Hunter S. Thompson — first raised hell in Riverbank.

Checkpoints and saturation patrols around Stanislaus County will be used to combat drunk driving this Cinco de Mayo weekend.

The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department has denied an application from former Riverbank City Councilman Jesse James White, who was seeking to serve his one-year jail sentence at home with a GPS monitoring device.

Two candidates for the Riverbank City Council said Wednesday that they would get city finances on track in the short term and carefully plan for population growth in the long term.

In honor of Earth Day, we join grocery clerks the world over in asking an eternal question: Paper or plastic? The Modesto Bee invited readers to share their thoughts on a new bill that would phase out single-use plastic bags over three years.