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Modesto's mayor Garrad Marsh addresses the crowd at the Modesto Grand Prix preview event on Tuesday afternoon (07-29-14) at Vintage Faire Mall in Modesto, CA.

Vintage Faire Mall gets preview of Modesto Grand Prix

Vintage Faire Mall shoppers got a sneak peek Tuesday of this weekend’s Modesto Grand Prix.

Sports

It’s early in training camp, but Matt Schaub of the Raiders is showing signs of returning to being the quarterback who led the NFL in passing yards, completions and attempts and made two Pro Bowls in seven seasons with Houston.

Schaub getting mojo back

NAPA – The anointed starting quarterback for the Raiders is strengthening his hold on the position in this training camp instead of losing it.

Opinion

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice walks on the field during a training camp practice, Thursday, July 24, 2014, at the team’s practice facility in Owings Mills, Md.

Editorial: NFL punishment for Ray Rice does not fit the crime

NFL to fans – hitting your girlfriend is not as bad as smoking pot.

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FILE - In this June 18, 2014, file photo, detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. For nearly two months, images of immigrant children who have crossed the border without a parent, only to wind up in concrete holding cells once in United States, have tugged at heartstrings. Yet most Americans now say U.S. law should be changed so they can be sent home quickly, without a deportation hearing. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds two-thirds of Americans now say illegal immigration is a serious problem for the country, up 14 points since May and on par with concern about the issue in May 2010, when Arizona's passage of a strict anti-immigration measure brought the issue to national prominence.

Poll: Americans cool to border-crossing children

Americans are wary of granting refugee status to children crossing the U.S. border to flee strife-torn countries in Central America, and most in an Associated Press-GfK poll say the U.S. does not have a moral obligation to accept asylum seekers generally... 3 minutes ago

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After teen pilot’s crash, how young is too young?

The deadly crash of a teenager on an around-the-world flight brought new attention to the dangers of record-setting youth adventures, and questions about how young is too young to fly a plane.

Business

Cars move through the drive-thru at a McDonald’s in a 2011 photo. McDonald’s was told Tuesday that it can be named a “joint employer” for workers.

McDonald’s jointly liable for workers, ruling says

The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Tuesday that McDonald’s could be held jointly liable for labor and wage violations by its franchise operators – a decision that, if upheld, would disrupt longtime practices...

Nation & World

A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya after receiving treatment for her wounds caused by an Israeli strike at a U.N. school in Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday.

Shells hit UN school in Gaza, kill 15

Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school sheltering Gaza war refugees Wednesday, killing 15 Palestinians and wounding 90 after tearing through two classroom walls, a health official and a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency said. 3 hours ago