Thornton News

There isn't a preschool near the trailer in Acampo where 3-year-old Diana Hernandez lives with her family, not even a store - just dairies, including the one where her father works, and long stretches of rural road.

Among the routine business at its monthly meeting Thursday, the three-member board that oversees miles of levees in tiny Thornton had an unusual request before it.

New Hope Elementary School in Thornton gave out H1N1 vaccinations to students on Wednesday.

Silvia Babcock didn't have anything to say about rents, kitchen renovations, neighborhood safety or other tenant issues to about 15 residents of Conway Homes at a recent meeting at the office of the public housing development.

County officials pushed for more detailed information about how money is spent at all of the branches of the Stockton-San Joaquin Public Library system, whether it be in Thornton or at the flagship library in downtown Stockton.

This election features a candidate who doesn't think he can win and an incumbent who says he'd happily give up his seat to a worthy replacement.

A federal grand jury indicted Rogelio Lowe, 43, of Thornton on Tuesday on charges of mail fraud and falsifying documents at his company, E&D Environmental Safety Training.

Agenda available at chambers or at www.sjgov.org San Joaquin LAFCO 10 a.m. Friday, The Board of Supervisors Chambers, Sixth Floor, 44 N. San Joaquin St., Stockton Agenda available at www.co.san-joaquin.ca.us/lafco/Agendas/agendas.htm 9 a.m. Tuesday in the district board room, 11011 E. Highway 120, Manteca Agenda at district office or at ...

"Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

Swinging by the Pasadena Museum of California Art is often like grazing some kind of far-fetched fusion buffet - blithely mixing collectible vinyl action figures with early California Impressionist landscape painting, wrapped in a custom rainbow fumigation tent with a side order of spray-painted Kenny Scharf legume entities.

THORNTON, California - It was supposed to be a "bloodless bullfight," a dangerous dance between a pirouetting matador and an enraged bull that would not end in death.

Campaign for Common Ground's August meeting will host David Harzoff, Stockton's revitalization director, at 7 p.m. Monday on the first floor of the Towers Building, 509 W. Weber Ave., Stockton.

It was supposed to be a "bloodless bullfight," a dangerous dance between a pirouetting matador and a enraged bull that would not end in death.

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.