Stockton News

It's not a new concept. Columbus sailed the ocean blue - he didn't jet across it in a motorboat.

Dave Newstrom, owner of the Sstockton-based B & R Painting, puts some finishing touches on the trim work on the Central United Methodist Church of Stockton while finishing up a two-week-long job at the church on June 20. "The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

It's really not a story about the papers themselves, but rather, how a small college like Pacific managed to win them from the prestigious Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

The 79-year-old has held his position as a mechanic for the city of Capitola for 46 years, and enjoys the hard work as well as the community connection it provides.

Lew had a Mississippi "aw-shucks" moment Monday when she joined Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, D-Stockton, on the floor of the state Legislature to be honored.

A man was shot outside a central Stockton business about 3:30 p.m. Saturday near Union and Church streets, and another man was taken into custody, accused in the shooting, Stockton police reported.

On the one side, players from the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders are more used to a gridiron than the hardwood.

This week, we are talking jobs. Though the situation is better than it was, there is still plenty of room for improvement, particularly in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

With less than three weeks to go for people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a health workers union is sponsoring a free enrollment event from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday in downtown Stockton.

Kaiser Medical Center in Manteca, CA with family at her bedside. Tove Berit Gulbrandsen was born on October 12, 1933 in Oslo, Norway.

In thousands of letters, one of the few references John Muir ever made to Stockton was to mention how thick the clouds of mosquitoes were here.

In the same way I would say that Rich Freggiaro has quite a few ups and downs to manage or Alice van Ommeren knows a lot of old stuff.

Kohl Elementary School celebrated its 40th anniversary on Friday with its annual Day in the Dirt celebration with the Walton School for special-needs students.

Primes Harrell was just a couple of days shy of being handed his high school diploma, when he got into trouble last year at age 18. He ended up in a Level II dormitory-style facility at California State Prison Solano, sharing space with hundreds of men - mostly older than him - instead of sharing a place with his buddies for some after-graduation ... (more)

Detroit and San Bernardino and Stockton, Calif. are in bankruptcy, and across the country the costs of maintaining pensions for city and state employees more than doubled to nearly $84 billion in 2011 from 2002.

Small-business owners in downtown Stockton may be eligible for a variety of grant and loan programs from the city, meant to help the businesses and improve the downtown infrastructure.

"Sadly, Darrell Steinberg's redevelopment bill would have been way better and had broad support.

Mary Scornaienchi was born Mary Frances Lavorato in Piane Crati, Province of Calabria, Italy on July 18, 1933 to Eugenio Lavorato and Rose Lavorato.

The San Joaquin County Metropolitan Narcotics Task Force arrested five people, confiscated more than $20,000 in cash, seized a large quantity of drugs and found four firearms after serving a search warrant in a north Stockton neighborhood early Thursday morning, authorities said.

Recently I photographed Kimball High senior tennis player Logan Staggs during a match in the Seniors Challenge Cup at the Oak Park Tennis Complex in Stockton.