Westley News

Multiple agencies involved in action targeting street-level narcotics dealers. By VICTOR A. PATTON vpatton@mercedsun-star.com Seventeen suspects accused of drug sales and related crimes were arrested Wednesday in a daylong sweep conducted by agents with the Merced Multi-Agency Task Force.

Terry Withrow's quest to undermine the premature "coronation" of a popular figure, he says, starts today in a barn.

Self-described campers, Diana Jimenez and Christy Karras are going to put those skills to use.

Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders.

A pilot walked away uninjured Thursday morning after his crop-duster crashed after takeoff into a waste-water pond about a mile northwest of Highway 33.

A crop-dusting plane crashed into a wastewater pond near Westley at 10:40 this morning, emergency officials said.

Federal agencies pledged Thursday to send nearly $60 million in grants to help California communities, farms and dairies suffering from water shortages.

Mechanical problems forced a single-engine plane to make an emergency landing Tuesday morning in a bean field between Westley and Vernalis, fire officials said.

Emergency responded to a call of a downed plane Tuesday in Stanislaus County. The downed plane was reported at about 10:30 a.m. in the community of Westley.

The Bee publishes birth information from Kaiser Modesto Medical Center, Memorial Medical Center, Emanuel Medical Center and Oak Valley Hospital.

Bill and I were at the Harris Ranch, Coalinga for the mid-year meeting of California Cattlemen and CattleWomen with about 300 other beef industry men and women.

John Alexander still remembers the first community health clinic he visited. It was in Westley, a small school-based clinic with one doctor, one dentist and needy patients to the rafters.