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Children received coats, toys, a meal or pizza for the family, and additionally were offered a flu vaccination and a hair cut at Westside Ministries in Turlock. They are need of more coats in the giveaway that continues tomorrow.

Coat drive in Turlock comes midway through cold snap

Westside Ministries couldn’t have picked a better time for its annual coat giveaway – the frigid cold snap that hit the area is continuing through midweek – but the event is in need of more coats, particularly in toddler sizes.

Sports

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) runs for nine yards and is tackled by Seattle Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner (54) in the first quarter in a game at Candlestick Park Sunday December 8, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.

Agostini: Kaepernick, Niners avenge their ugly recent losses to the Seahawks

The 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick was at his best when it mattered the most against Seahawks.

Opinion

In this 2007 file photo, a man smokes in Omaha, Neb.

Our View: Bill threatens to fix tobacco control program that isn’t broken

Assemblyman Richard Pan, a physician, probably didn’t think his legislation would threaten one of California’s true public health success stories.

State

FILE - In this undated file photo made available by Google, hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the computer servers into a cooling unit to be recirculated at a Google data center in Mayes County, Okla. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting from the front of the servers. Eight major technology companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, have joined forces to call for tighter controls on government surveillance, issuing an open letter Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 to President Barack Obama arguing for reforms in the way the U.S. snoops on people.

Tech firms vie to protect personal data, profits

Even as Silicon Valley speaks out against the U.S. government's surveillance methods, technology companies are turning a handsome profit by mining personal data and peering into people's online habits. 4 minutes ago

Living & Entertainment

Daniel Barden, 7, was one of the victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy.

Concert in Modesto to remember Sandy Hook victims one year later

Kindermusik teacher Ginger Colla was shocked by the shootings that killed 26 victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School a year ago. She wanted to do something to bring remembrance and hope on the one-year anniversary, so she and husband, Rich Colla, ...

Business

Delhi's Adriana Fernandez restocks a flat of Prestige Red poinsettias for customers, just one of 25 varieties offered by Duarte Nursery in Hughson for the Christmas season Monday afternoon (12-09-13).

Poinsettias give Duarte Nursery in Hughson a chance to show off new greenhouse

Duarte Nursery in Hughson is celebrating its 20th season of selling poinsettias and is using the popular plant to show off its new greenhouse.

Nation & World

In this undated photo courtesy of Michelle Faul, Ethel Pillay is shown with her daughters, from left, Carole, Danette and Michelle, who experienced South Africa’s apartheid system when they traveled there to visit relatives. Associated Press Chief Africa Correspondent Michelle Faul described how on one trip, after a 15-hour drive, a gas station refused to hand over the keys to the toilet to her mother because it was for whites only. Nelson Mandela fought to bring down the institutionalized code that made blacks subhuman.

Recalling life under apartheid in South Africa

My mother was furious. The operators of the gas station in rural, racist South Africa had taken her money to fill the car, but would not give her the key to the toilets. They were for whites only.

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