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    A salmonella outbreak tied to Foster Farms chicken from Livingston and Fresno appears to be over, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.

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    Two Hilmar men were arraigned in Fresno on Friday for a scheme that cheated Foster Farms of more than $46,000 for construction work that never existed. 31 minutes ago

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Ceres Firefighter Vince Milbeck shows 3-year-old Natalie Alvarez a fire engine during Ceres National Night Out Tuesday. ERIN TRACY/etracy@modbee.com

Many cities hosting National Night Out events

More than 100 neighborhoods throughout Stanislaus County will hold block parties Tuesday to celebrate National Night Out, and larger parties have been organized by several cities.

Sports

Cody Hodgson, 22, of Escalon, works on his kart in advance of this weekend's Supoerkarts! USA SummerNationals in Downtown Modesto.

Escalon High grad Cody Hodgson returns to ‘racing from the heart’

No longer on the NASCAR fast track, 22-year-old Escalon High graduate Cody Hodgson returns to his karting roots at the Modesto Grand Prix.

Opinion

Our View: Modesto and motorsports belong together

Some people believe the first two letters in Mo-desto stand for “motorsports.” That’s because the town has an incredibly rich history of racing, riding and going fast.

State

President Barack Obama smiles as he nears the conclusion of a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The president spoke on various topics including the economy, immigration, Ukraine and the Middle East.

House OKs bill to block Obama deportation relief

House Republicans have passed legislation to shut down a program by President Barack Obama granting deportation relief to immigrants brought here illegally as kids. 8 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

George Limperis, a Realtor with Paragon Real Estate Group, walks Wednesday in the yard of a property in the Noe Valley neighborhood in San Francisco, where the median selling price for homes hit seven figures last month.

$1 million won’t get you much in S.F. market

San Francisco Association of Realtors President Betty Taisch has two words of advice for those who want to live in the city and think $1 million will buy them their dream house: Think again.

Nation & World

President Barack Obama rhetorically conceded that waterboarding and other brutal techniques amounted to torture, which is illegal.

Citing redactions, Feinstein delays release of report on CIA interrogations

The Obama administration censored significant portions of the findings of an investigation into the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods on suspected terrorists, forcing the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to delay their... 2 hours ago