Winton News

A 25-year-old validated gang member was Tasered by a Merced County sheriff's deputy Monday night after the suspect fled and resisted arrest, the sheriff's department reported.

Three slots -- but only one race for seats on the Atwater Elementary School District board.

Whether to build a new high school in North Merced -- a hot topic on Merced Union High School District school board agendas for months now -- has become a central issue among candidates vying for election.

A Winton area mother and father are behind bars after their three young daughters were found home alone.

Two arrests have been made in the Monday shooting of a 17-year-old male at Castle Airport.

Two men have been arrested in the Monday afternoon shooting of an Atwater teenager who was walking home from school.

The safe return of Jaycee Dugard to her family has given a north valley couple renewed hope.

A fourth man arrested last week is also accused. Four suspects have been arrested for allegedly committing a series of robberies in the Atwater and Winton area.

A suspect in a 16-year-old murder in Merced County has been arrested in Illinois, it was announced on Wednesday.

Agents with the Merced/Mariposa High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force seized 66 pounds of marijuana from a Winton residence Wednesday.

Citizens' Advisory Committe for Valley State Prison for Women and Central California's Women Facilty at 3 p.m., 21633 Ave.

Citizens' Advisory Committe for Valley State Prison for Women and Central California's Women Facilty at 3 p.m., 21633 Ave.

Five brand new state-of-the-art fire engines will begin serving Merced County in the coming weeks.

Merced Fish and Game Club Inc. trap and skeet range open to the public at 9 a.m. every Saturday and Sunday.

Three boys and a girl, ages 12 to 16, were arrested by police Monday afternoon in connection with a shot fired behind Tioga Middle School earlier in the day.

Her daughter was allegedly molested by Livingston man. By VICTOR A. PATTON vpatton@mercedsun-star.com Merced County sheriff's investigators say they're on the lookout after the family of an alleged molestation victim received a series of threats from the suspect's supporters.

Pastor Ron Wilson of the First Baptist Church of Thousand Oaks figures that 37 years is long enough for any clergyman to stay with any one congregation, and so on Sunday he gave his final sermon there.

Merced County sheriff's deputies say the death of an elderly man at a 7614 Fairlane Ave.

A makeshift memorial consisting of a teddy bear, flowers and votive candles sits amidst a dried puddle of crimson blood, where 16-year-old Luis Angel Garcia Maldonado was shot to death late Wednesday.

Merced County Detectives are investigating the murder of 16 year old boy. It happened at the intersection of California and Hastings in Winton around 11 o'clock last Wednesday night.