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DEBBIE NODA/dnoda@modbee.com Nan Austin, Education reporter at the Modesto Bee(01-12-11)

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The Bee's education writer follows the latest issues dealing with education in Stanislaus County...

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Mixed martial arts fighter Michael McDonald works on a project in his garage, which he’s converted into a woodworking shop, in Oakdale.

Q&A: The nicest guy who’ll ever kick a man in the face

Oakdale’s Michael McDonald has won 16 fights against three losses, and a year ago became the youngest fighter in UFC history to challenge for a world championship. But if you were to meet McDonald on the street, and didn’t know he was a ...

Sports

Cal State Stanislaus draws Seattle-Pacific in NCAA Tournament opener

Rob Walters said he was a little surprised that Cal State Stanislaus was given the West Region’s No. 7 seed when pairings for the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Tournament were announced on Sunday night.

Opinion

Inmates walk through the exercise yard at California State Prison Sacramento, near Folsom. A U.S. district judge made a ruling that rights a little of the wrong committed by two voter-passed laws that tipped the scales of justice too far to one side.

Our View: Ruling rights a wrong that tipped scales of justice too far

Twenty-six years ago, on a statewide ballot overloaded with 29 propositions and a presidential race, California voters approved a measure – Proposition 89 – allowing the governor to reverse decisions of the state parole board. It’...

State

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2009 file photo, Samuel Bagdorf of San Francisco, who suffers from anxiety disorders, lights his marijuana pipe at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic in San Francisco, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of Weed. A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state’s free-wheeling medical marijuana industry, the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it.

State oversight may tame California pot shops

Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of weed. 13 minutes ago

Living & Entertainment

CORRECTS DAY DIED TO SATURDAY MARCH 8, 2014 FILE - This Nov. 11, 2004 file photo shows William "Wild Bill" Guarnere participating in the Veterans Day parade in Media, Pa. Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died, Saturday, March 8, 2014, at the age of 90.

'Band of Brothers' vet William Guarnere dies at 90

William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died. He was 90 13 minutes ago

Business

In this photo released by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, a patrol vessel of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane off Tok Bali Beach in Kelantan, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back, Malaysia’s air force chief said Sunday as scores of ships and aircraft from across Asia resumed a hunt for the plane and its 239 passengers.

Vietnam says cannot find object from missing jet

Vietnamese searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that went missing more than two days ago.

Nation & World

In this photo released by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, a patrol vessel of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane off Tok Bali Beach in Kelantan, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back, Malaysia’s air force chief said Sunday as scores of ships and aircraft from across Asia resumed a hunt for the plane and its 239 passengers.

Vietnam says cannot find object from missing jet

Vietnamese searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that went missing more than two days ago.