Stockton News

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."

Technology continues to help law enforcement keep one step ahead of the bad guys, or at least on pace with everyone today walking around with a cellphone camera.

San Francisco's Central Subway is still years from completion, but on Saturday, KTVU received a tour under the city to see how far it's come since the digging began last spring.

A 52-year-old man was beaten and robbed by a family member and two other people Friday morning in south Stockton, police said.

The city's draft of a Climate Action Plan will be the subject of a community meeting and workshop from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday in the south hall of the Stockton Civic Memorial Auditorium.

Sabrina Brown, Claudette Ward and Tamika Centers are charged along with Chante Taylor of Reno with conspiracy to file false claims against the federal government.

Home Thyme, a kitchenware and home decor store on the Miracle Mile, is teaming up with Mile Wine Company to host a cooking class at 11 a.m. Saturday at the shop at 2111 Pacific Ave in Stockton.

Assistance League of Stockton has been selected as an official partner of Payless Gives TM Shoes for 4 Kids, an annual giving program from Payless Shoe Source.

Matthew Steven Jones, a 20-year-old man known as the "Carmichael Creeper" and the "Boogey Man," has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for breaking into homes and molesting children.

The American Cancer Society Discovery Shop is accepting donations of furniture, decor, garden equipment and fixtures, baskets, kitchen items and fine cookbooks for our Home and Garden event to be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 12 and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 13 at the American Cancer Society Discovery Shop, 207 E. Alpine, Stockton.

Yes, another wild turkey has taken up residence in Stockton. Jones caught him with her smart phone while waiting at a light on one of the busiest stretches of Pacific Avenue.

A man was said to have been walking along the street, only to be hit by a car that kept on driving.

The name of the victim has not been released. The driver, 48, was arrested. His name also has not been released.

Stockton: The San Joaquin Bar Association will host the free legal clinic from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., March 26 at the Law Library, located at 20 N. Sutter Street in downtown Stockton.

After towing a vehicle from a north Stockton traffic stop because the driver was found to be unlicensed, a search of the vehicle turned up a loaded handgun Thursday evening, police reported.

City Manager Kurt Wilson and Police Chief Eric Jones shared their vision Thursday night of a city working hard to shed the twin stigmas of financial instability and violent crime.

A California appeals court has reversed the murder conviction of a Stockton man charged with the beating death of a 48-year-old woman on grounds the defendant had ineffective representation.

Partners in the fair are Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton; the San Joaquin County Office of Education; Kuhtz Diehl Insurance and Financial Services LLC; and SEIU-UHW.