Thornton News

St. Gertrude's Catholic Church and the Delta Blood Bank are hosting a blood drive from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the church, 1663 E. Main St., Stockton.

Grammy-winning music producer Phil Spector, 69, has been moved to a California prison to serve his sentence of 19 years to life for killing actress Lana Clarkson, corrections officials said.

The stands were packed at the bullfights in the San Joaquin County town of Thornton Friday night.

A 35-year-old inmate convicted in San Joaquin County and training in prison to be a firefighter collapsed and died Tuesday during physical fitness exercises in Lassen County, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman said.

An animal cruelty investigation at a bullfight in Thornton Friday resulted in the arrests of two men.

Animal control officers said they will monitor an upcoming so-called bloodless bullfight after an incident last week in which matadors allegedly stabbed bulls to incite them to react.

More than 40 people showed up at an arraignment Tuesday to support two men arrested Friday at a bullfight in Thornton and to defend a decades-long cultural tradition.

A non-profit organization of animal cruelty investigators, called ACI say they are blowing the lid off of animal abuse in bull fights all across California.

San Joaquin County Sheriff's deputies said two men were arrested after they responded to the legal bull fighting event in Thornton.

A sheriff's deputy and an animal cruelty investigator were injured while trying to stop an illegal bullfight in San Joaquin County on Friday, authorities said Saturday.

Heather Fogg, not unlike teachers everywhere, has ninth and 10th grade students in her English literature classes at Delta Vista Adventure Academy in Stockton who just don't like to read.

Tokay High School theater arts department will present "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder on April 23-25 and April 30-May 2 in the school's Sidney Halsey Theatre.

A source tells KCRA 3 one person has died after falling off a boat near Walnut Grove Sunday.

St. George School will be having a fish fry dinner sale from 5 to 7 p.m. today in the St.

Expanded CUG repeats trigger aberrant splicing of ClC-1 chloride channel pre-mRNA and hyperexcitability of skeletal muscle in myotonic dystrophy.

Abstract Myotonic dystrophy is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disorder associated with a expansion in the 3'-untranslated region of the DM1 protein kinase gene.

The body of a 24-year-old Thornton man was pulled from a slough off Brannon Island Road in Isleton Friday evening, according to Sacramento County Coroner's officials.

Seniors and their families can learn more about current real estate conditions and housing options at a forum developed especially for seniors.

Pete's Paint Pot & Wallpaper, after nearly 53 years in Stockton's Lincoln Center, has moved north to the Thornton Plaza center, at 9305 Thornton Road.

California teachers, facing a record number of layoffs, are likely to ask voters to approve a sales tax hike.