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  • Gustine teen sees his wish come true

    Garret Spaulding couldn’t hide his smile Friday morning. The moment he’d been planning for years was finally here. The 17-year-old from Gustine, was born with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or EB, a rare disease that causes blisters... 27 minutes ago

  • Federal agency determines Merced County groundwater sale has ‘no significant impact’

    The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Thursday approved the environmental report for a multimillion-dollar proposal to allow the transfer and sale of Merced County groundwater to buyers in Stanislaus County. 50 minutes ago

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Garrett Spaulding 17yrs (left) of Gustine, CA. chats with Game Stop staff Ricardo Arellano (far left) and Kenny Ream in Modesto on Friday morning (08-01-14). Also pictured at right is Robbie Messer 14yrs. Spaulding, who has a rare skin disorder had his wish granted by the Make A Wish Foundation this morning. He traveled from Gustine to Modesto in a limo and shopped for electronics including computers and video gaming systems.

Gustine teen sees his wish come true

Garret Spaulding couldn’t hide his smile Friday morning. The moment he’d been planning for years was finally here. The 17-year-old from Gustine, was born with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or EB, a rare disease that causes... 27 minutes ago

Sports

The Giants’ Ryan Vogelsong got the 10-game road trip started right with a complete game two-hitter in New York.

Vogelsong dominates

Ryan Vogelsong’s strategy in the dugout before the ninth inning was simple: keep quiet. 44 minutes ago

Opinion

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State

This Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 photo shows the family home of Matthew Todd Miller in Bakersfield, Calif. Miller, 24, is one of the three Americans detained in North Korea and charged with "anti-state" crimes.

North Korea holds California man called shy, smart

One of the three Americans detained in North Korea and charged with "anti-state" crimes is a California man raised in the Central Valley oil town of Bakersfield by parents who were petroleum engineers. 5 minutes ago

Living & Entertainment

Mark Siciliani as Luther Billis and Elsa Fulton as Bloody Mary in the Modesto Performing Arts production of "South Pacific" in the Bee studio on Sunday July 27, 2014.

Modesto Performing Arts returns to ‘South Pacific’

Modesto Performing Arts brings the musical “South Pacific” back to the stage. The production stars some MPA veterans including an actor who performed in the same role when the company first put on the musical 40 years ago.

Business

Specialist Anthony Rinaldi is reflected in one of the screens on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. U.S. markets steadied a day after a major sell-off as investors focused on a relatively strong jobs report.

Hiring solid, up again in July

July marked a sixth straight month with 200,000-plus jobs growth, the government said Friday, cementing the view of a firming U.S. economic recovery. Deeper within the numbers, however, was an explanation for why many Americans still don’t... 47 minutes ago

Nation & World

Palestinians, with the help of a donkey cart, carry their belongings through the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce.

Israel pounds Gaza as it searches for soldier

An agreed three-day cease-fire collapsed Friday only 90 minutes after it went into effect when Hamas militants attacked Israeli soldiers working to demolish tunnels in the Gaza Strip, killing two and apparently kidnapping a third, the Israeli army... 2 hours ago