Stockton News

The 29th annual Stockton Asparagus Festival - looking to bounce back from its first significant attendance decline and questions about its location - has a new look and several new features.

In front of several hundred students at Henry Elementary School in Stockton, Zeller raised her right hand and swore an oath of allegiance to the United States.

HUNDREDS OF SACRAMENTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS GOT A FIRSTHAND LESSON IN CIVICS TODAY.

Two City Council members competing for an open seat on the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors will face off tonight in a candidates forum at the University of the Pacific.

Police arrested a man who tried to grab an officer's gun while he was being taken into custody Tuesday evening in central Stockton, authorities said.

The Chinese Cultural Society of Stockton will hold its 36th annual Spring Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at China Palace Restaurant, 5052 North West Lane.

U.S. Reps. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, and Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, will be conducting a town hall meeting this week for all veterans and members of the public interested in the expansion of the Veterans Health Clinic in French Camp.

I mentioned in passing the Victory Park tennis courts today's column . They were put up as part of the collateral for Franklin Fund's 2009 loan of $35.1 million to the city of Stockton for fire and police station improvements, parks and other projects.

A Stockton native who attended area schools and held teaching certificates in transportation and distribution from the University of California, Berkeley, he spent his professional career in transportation.

The bankrupt city of Stockton has gone public with its Plan of Adjustment - that is, who gets skinned for $1.1 billion in debt and who does not.

The young woman whose distracted driving is believed by authorities to have killed 14-year-old Manteca High freshman Zachariah Gomez and injured three other teenagers over the weekend sat somberly in court early Tuesday afternoon during her brief arraignment on several felony charges.

A Modesto man recalls what he saw and felt when he came across a wreck in which a toddler was ejected from a vehicle.

There's less than a week left in the Readers Photo Challenge assignment: Wildflowers.

A man was arrested in south Stockton for firing a gun numerous times in a residential area Monday night, according to police.

Fifty-six of California's best spellers compete Saturday for the title of state champion at the San Joaquin Office of Education Wentworth Education Center, 2707 Transworld Dr. Patrick Caldwell, a Ripon Elementary sixth-grader, and Amelia Ellison, a sixth-grade student from Vinewood School in Lodi, will representing San Joaquin County.

The city's Cultural Heritage Board is seeking nominations for the 2014 Captain Weber and Glenn Allen awards.

Late Sunday night, police got a tip on a suspicious person around the Wesleyan Evangelical Church in east Stockton.

The San Joaquin County Coroner's Office identified Zachariah Gomez, 14, of Manteca as the boy who was killed by a vehicle early Saturday while walking with three others along Highway 120 near Comconex Road.

The Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library's English Conversation Club meets every Wednesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the programming/outreach office of the Cesar Chavez Central Library, 605 N. El Dorado St. in Stockton.

A Stockton man accused of critically injuring his 11-month-old foster daughter appeared in San Joaquin County Superior Court on Monday.