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Atwater Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Atwater, CA.

Results 1 - 20 of 1,683 in Atwater, CA

  1. Jury says man guilty of murder in '06 shooting on Kibby Road

    20 hrs ago | Atwater Signal

    Raymond Anthony Brown was found guilty Friday in the murder of a 38-year-old Atwater man who was shot and bled to death in 2006.

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  2. Around Town: Ladies Auxiliary holds rummage saleRead the original story

    21 hrs ago | Atwater Signal

    ... from $1.50 to $3.50 and all proceeds support our community programs. For more information, call (209) 394-2059. ATWATER Ready for 50 at Atwater High Atwater High School is turning 50 years old this year. All current and former students, teachers, ...

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  3. Merced Police Officers Association set to host annual golf tournamentRead the original story

    21 hrs ago | Atwater Signal

    ... be played weekday evenings at Joe Herb Park. For more info contact Joey Chavez at (209) 385-6978. High schools All Atwater High sports physicals will be Sunday at Atwater Medical Group (1775 Third St.). Times are as follows: boys are scheduled for 9 ...

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  4. People: Science camp aimed at girlsRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 24 | Sacramento Bee Newspaper

    ... and launching a hot air balloon. Highlighting the activities was a visit to the Challenger Learning Center in Atwater, where the girls experienced a lunar landing simulation and also learned about roles in the mission control room as well as on the ...

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  5. Los Banos biker rally drew sparse crowd, many cops

    Friday | Hollister Free Lance

    ... the County Narcotics Task Force and representatives of the police departments of Los Banos, Livingston, Merced and Atwater made up more than 100 officers at the motorcycle rally at the Los Banos Fairgrounds. There were no more than an estimated 200 ...

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  6. Law & OrderRead the original story

    Friday | Modesto Bee

    ... with their arms full of metal items, sheriff's officials said. The men later were identified as Heath Steers, 36, of Atwater and Donald Davis, 66, of Merced. The deputy found metal pots and pans, oven racks, a toaster oven, a rusty shovel head and ...

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  7. Police arrest two men for burglarizing vacant house

    Friday | Atwater Signal

    ... been vacant since its owner died last year, authorities said. Apparently the two men, 36-year-old Heath Steers, of Atwater, and 66-year-old Donald Davis, of Merced, didn't think they were doing anything wrong. They told sheriff's officials they ...

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  8. Loose Lips: Wildcats found in Bobcat countryRead the original story

    Friday | Atwater Signal

    ... years as a probation officer. Way to make the alma mater proud! Besides Carlisle, Merced Councilman Bill Spriggs , Atwater Mayor Joan Faul and Councilman Joe Rivero have spent stints up north in Chico, making Lips wonder whether the university is a ...

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  9. Man avoids lifetime sentence with plea deal for 2007 homicideRead the original story

    Friday | Atwater Signal

    A man accused of acting as an accomplice in the grisly killing of an Atwater man has pleaded no contest to reduced charges in the case.

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  10. July 25 in Merced historyRead the original story

    Friday | Atwater Signal

    MID CANAL IN ATWATER CRACKS; FLOOD PREVENTED: Atwater and Merced Irrigation District officials today said no damage is expected from a crack in the MID canal, which has temporarily stopped work on installation ...

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  11. Prison Safety ReformRead the original story

    Thursday | KFIV-AM Modesto

    ... approved a resolution asking the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to institute safety-related reforms at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater. The "Merced Sun-Star" writes that city councils in Merced, Atwater, and Livingston have already passed similar resolutions. The ...

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  12. Updates: Men arrested after reportedly taking metal from homeRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 24 | Fresno Bee

    ... ng wrong. The items taken from the house, they reportedly said, were to be sold as scrap metal. Heath Steers, 36, of Atwater, and Donald Davis, 66, of Merced were arrested on suspicion of burglary.

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  13. Worker's death costs Merced Farm Labor $263K; biggest farming fine everRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 24 | The Modesto Bee

    ... fine ever issued to a California farming operation. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Atwater-based Merced Farm Labor $262,700 on Wednesday afternoon for violating eight workplace safety requirements. State authorities ...

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  14. State fines labor firm over deathRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 24 | RecordNET

    Atwater-based Merced Farm Labor, the contractor investigated in the death of Lodi teen Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez last spring, was fined $262,700 by the state Wednesday for failure to follow heat illness ...

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  15. Around the Region

    Thursday Jul 24 | Whittier Daily News

    ... fine ever issued to a California farming operation. The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Atwater-based Merced Farm Labor a record $262,700 for violating eight workplace safety requirements. The agency said in some cases the ...

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  16. Merced Sun-Star Tip List: Will a thrift store save the day for a worn-out Atwater building?

    Thursday Jul 24 | Atwater Signal

    The building at the corner of Capital Street and Broadway in Atwater has probably seen better days -- but the anonymous tipster who called about it late last week can't remember when those were.

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  17. Farm labor contractor fined in worker's deathRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 24 | North County Times

    ... fine ever issued to a California farming operation. The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Atwater-based Merced Farm Labor a record $262,700 for violating eight workplace safety requirements. The agency said in some cases the ...

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  18. Central Valley labor contractor fined in teen girl's deathRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 24 | Sacramento Bee

    ... Arnold Schwarzenegger. The fines resulted from seven citations that Cal-OSHA issued against Merced Farm Labor, the Atwater-based company that hired Mara Isavel Vsquez Jimnez to work in a vineyard east of Stockton. Vsquez Jimnez died May 16, two days ...

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  19. Dead farmworker's employer finedRead the original story

    Wednesday Jul 23 | Fresno Bee

    A California agency issued six citations Wednesday and assessed fines of $262,700 against Merced Farm Labor Contractor, based in Atwater, the employer of a 17-year-old farmworker who died of heat stroke in May.

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  20. Local News State Socks Merced Farm Labor with Citations, FinesRead the original story

    Wednesday Jul 23 | News10.net

    The state Wednesday announced citations and more than half a million dollars in fines against an Atwater-based farm labor contractor who employed a 17-year-old worker who died of heat stroke in May.

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