Stockton News

San Joaquin Delta College trustees tonight will consider dedicating $15 million toward a new campus in the north county - a move that's been "a long time coming," one Lodi official said Monday.

Today, the national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the city of Stockton, California and its animal shelter for violation of state and local laws.

Three suspects were arrested following a Monday afternoon drive-by shooting in central Stockton during which no one was hit by gunfire, police reported.

Two of three suspects involved in shooting into a home in north Stockton late Monday night were arrested, police reported.

Fathers & Families of San Joaquin will host the 4th Annual Boys and Men of Color "Healing Generations" Summit, Thursday April 10 through Saturday, April 12, 2014.

Brian Oth is wanted by Stockton police on suspicion of murder. On November 30, 2013, Marshawn Black was shot and killed at the apartments located in the 6400 block of N. West Lane in Stockton.

Eighty-seven years ago she was born in Colorado to Sam Tilstra, a dairyman, and Dena Tilstra, a homemaker.

The Stockton Unified School District is inching closer to hiring a new police chief to take the helm of a department described by some to be in "disarray."

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office swore in four new officers Monday, bringing the number of sworn deputies to 236.

District 4 Councilmember Moses Zapien will hold a community meeting at Gian's Delicatessen on the Miracle Mile, 2112 Pacific Ave. on Tuesday, March 25, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Councilmember Zapien, who speaks fluent Spanish, will be joined by Community Development Director Steve Chase and will be available for one-on-one discussions.

The museum put up small exhibit of its own collection in the Erickson Building this month, featuring pictures of long-forgotten places, people and events.

Beset with grief, friends and relatives held a vigil Sunday evening for Adrian Corona of San Jose, who was killed in the early-morning hours after his car crashed on East Santa Clara Street and trapped him in the midst of a deadly fire.

The California city of Vallejo emerged from bankruptcy just over two years ago, but it is still struggling to pay its bills.

In the 11 previous Readers Photo Challenge assignments the Challenge received an average of about 60 photos from about 20 entrants, give or take .

It is the former custom car shop, clubhouse and menagerie cluttered with Stockton signs and outrageously varied bric-a-brac built, collected or stolen by Stockton builder Bob Franco .

The mysterious Google barge seen floating in the San Francisco Bay has docked in a city sometimes hailed as the "asparagus capital of the world," making its new home in Stockton, Calif.

It's here and it belongs to us for at least the next six months. There are still a couple of driving questions: The answer to Question No.

Realizing that litter has taken over entire streets, they are pleading with City Hall to do more and to enlist them in a large-scale, ongoing strategy to help.

Transportation officials in Calaveras County and in the California Department of Transportation are considering whether to ask to have Highway 49 and part of Highway 4 included in the National Highway System.

Incumbent Councilman Elbert Holman: "When you have leaders from that high up that are doing some of the things that they were doing, they needed to be taken down, so that made it one of my biggest cases."