Stanislaus County News

Fire season has ended for Cal Fire's Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit, which includes Tuolumne and Calaveras counties in addition to eastern portions of Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties.

Ten months into the worst dairy crisis in memory, Justin Gioletti hopes to tough it out.

The Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit, which oversees a large swath of the Bay Area, plans to declare an end to the fire season Monday morning.

Butte County has a new interim chief administrative officer. Scott Tandy of Moraga, who for 33 years has worked in county administration in Butte County and elsewhere in the state, was appointed interim CAO Monday after a closed-door session of the Board of Supervisors.

As their members take cuts to pay and work days, some Stanislaus County public employee unions are lowering monthly dues.

Two unions representing Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department employees have split on whom to endorse for sheriff come the June election.

The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department will suspend the academy courses at its regional training center in 2010 to deal with declining revenue streams and a bleak job market in which law enforcement agencies are not hiring.

Modesto Mono Park 2 says, "NO WAY to D.A.a TMs 'Deal' a ' Bring on the Jury Trial!" On November 10th, the Stanislaus County District Attorney was not interested in anything less than a misdemeanor conviction against two volunteers arrested for offering syringe exchange, and harm reduction services in the Airport District of Modesto.

Members of the general public might have to ride out the holiday season without getting vaccinated for H1N1 influenza.

A 27-year-old Livingston woman died Tuesday afternoon when she lost control of a sport utility vehicle and crashed on Highway 99 near Briggsmore Avenue, the California Highway Patrol reported.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors meets today at 9 a.m. in the basement chamber at Tenth Street Place, 1010 10th St., Modesto.

A judge has ordered a Modesto man to stand trial for the decade-old murder of his housemate, allegedly over a $20 bar tab.

The only Stanislaus County department among 27 that opts out of conventional sexual harassment training has been contending with three lawsuits brought by a total of six female employees.

The phone at the day care rang at 10:30 a.m. "I'm sorry, but I put a bomb outside the school in the alleyway by the bushes," the man said.

Authorities evacuated a Turlock daycare-preschool Monday over a suspicious package after a caller said there was a bomb near the building, a Turlock police spokesman said.

A man was stabbed in Turlock on Sunday night in the 200 block of Montana Avenue, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department.

A suspect wanted on five warrants in Merced County was arrested after a pursuit that started near Keyes ended after he crashed a pickup into a utility pole Wednesday afternoon in Modesto, authorities said.

By unanimous vote, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday: * Agreed to lay off three more workers and eliminate 22 vacant jobs, leaving the county with 3,965 employees, down 639 from two years ago.

The attorney for a doctor accused of stealing a dead patient's Rolex watch in a Stockton emergency room said Monday that he's ready to prove in a trial that his client didn't do it.

Top spellers will compete in the Stanislaus County spelling bee championships Wednesday and Nov.