Stanislaus County News

All of this year's Modesto Irrigation District races now have candidates, with Les Johnson saying he'll run to succeed outgoing board member Tom Van Groningen in northeast Modesto.

Authorities identified the woman killed in a three-vehicle accident near Patterson Wednesday as a 44-year-old from Merced.

A second-chance charter school will open this fall to serve young adults who dropped out and regretted it.

Stanislaus County supervisors will discuss a number of court cases in closed session Tuesday, as well as potential litigation with cities trying to recoup excessive property tax administration fees paid to the county.

Her job doesn't end there. She spreads the word about healthy eating in Stanislaus and Merced counties as an adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension.

At about 9:45 p.m., deputies responded to a report in Patterson of a man being held against his will for ransom, Sheriff Adam Christianson said in a news release.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s latest population estimates show Stanislaus County’s Hispanic and Asian populations continue to grow, while the number of white and black residents decline.

Stanislaus County's aging baby boomers are swelling the ranks of the 50-plus crowd, and U.S. census data show record numbers of what once used to be considered old folks.

While waiting for the economy to heat up, Stanislaus County will spend $685,000 on an environmental review of its proposal for a 1,524-acre job center near Crows Landing.

BRANDON AND CRYSTAL BEENE — 6:30 p.m. today, First Baptist Church, 1511 Catherine Way, Escalon.

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all persons have the right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

A judge on Friday postponed a trial scheduled to start Aug. 6 for a 19-year-old woman who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the attack on her parents at the family's Denair home.

Stanislaus County prosecutors on Friday dropped a criminal charge against a Coulterville man because the reported molestation is claimed to have occurred at a home in Mariposa County.

As interest swirls around the Calderon brothers after federal agents raided Sen. Ron Calderon's office last week, California's ethics agency has set its sights on another pair of brothers in California politics.

United Cerebral Palsy of Stanislaus County is offering two new programs for disabled children and their families through its Connections Family Center.

Police are investigating the death of a man found seated in a car with a gunshot wound to the head.

Stanislaus County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 25-year-old man in Patterson Thursday night.

A Newman man sentenced to serve eight years to life in prison for trying to strangle his elderly mother with his belt has been denied parole, according to the Stanislaus County district attorney's office.

A one-day count designed to provide a snapshot of homelessness in Stanislaus County turned up the lowest number in several years, but these snapshots don't always take in the full picture of those who call the streets, riverbanks and emergency shelters home.

Stanislaus County officials were chilled by the construction bids for a new morgue in downtown Modesto, but they are not putting a toe tag on the project yet.