Stockton News

A community barbeque and speakout was held on April 12 in Stockton, Calif., organized by the Inter Council for Mothers of Murdered Children.

Immigrants feed California, and divide it. Immigrants and the children of immigrants are among California's most beloved heroes and yet are often treated under federal laws as reviled outcasts.

Tith is an inspired Buddhist monk and lives with 10 other monks in a cluster of small, modest homes less than a mile east of Highway 99 on Carpenter Road.

While their children played in the front yard, a man and his wife stood on the sidewalk Saturday afternoon looking at shards of broken glass and the bloodstained street in front of their new home.

A high-ranking member of the Stockton Fire Department was fined $4,500 on Thursday after California's Fair Political Practices Commission determined that he violated a state law while overseeing the Citizen's CPR Fund.

No one has ever researched the subject of John Muir in Stockton - as odd a historical omission as if no one had ever researched Mark Twain in the Mother Lode.

River Oaks Charter School fifth-grader Johnna Schroeder didn't want to be distracted from figuring out ways to make change from a $10 bill used for a $9.22 purchase on Friday morning.

San Joaquin County's unemployment rate held steady at 13.1 percent in March, unchanged from a revised 13.1 percent in February 2014, state employment officials reported Friday.

Two robbers ran inside a central Stockton business Friday afternoon and threatened to open fire on a number of customers inside, police said.

An employee was forced to open a safe and then tied up during a robbery Friday morning in north Stockton, police said.

A woman on trial for beating her 4-year-old stepdaughter to death was sentenced Friday after taking a last-minute plea deal as her trial drew to an end.

The 14th Stockton Opera Guild Kathe Underwood Scholarship Competition was held recently at the historic St. John's Church in Stockton.

They've lost their homes, their means of support and maybe much more, but the homeless who lined up Friday morning for coffee or hot chocolate and other treats have not lost their faith.

The child's mother, Maria Romero, 32, of Atwater was driving a 2000 Isuzu sport utility vehicle at 12:45 p.m. when it collided for unknown reasons with a 2012 Toyota sedan.

Authorities arrested a man on suspicion of gun possession Wednesday after conducting a probation search at his home in central Stockton, police said.

The San Joaquin County African American Chamber of Commerce is hosting a physical fitness mixer from 5 to 7 p.m. April 25 at In-Shape Health City Health Club, 4555 N. Pershing Ave. in Stockton.

A homicide suspect has barricaded himself inside a home just south of Victory Park in central Stockton since late Thursday night, putting the neighborhood on alert and one area school on lockdown, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office reported.

One former Franklin High School student is dead and another is being held in a Seattle jail on suspicion of homicide in the death of his girlfriend.

Carol A. Flory, devout Christian and beloved mother, quietly went to be with our Lord and Savior this past April 13, 2014.

Vicki was born in Independence, Missouri and lived most of her life in Stockton.