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Incumbent Birgit Fladager, candidate for Stanislaus County district attorney

Defense attorney challenges Fladager for Stanislaus County district attorney

Questions swirling around a homicide investigation and prosecutors’ dispute with a judge are two of the issues that make this year’s race for Stanislaus County district attorney so heated. 2 hours ago

Sports

Chris Clayton, a 2006 Downey High School graduate, is a pit crew member for Hendrick Motorsports. He poses here in Modesto, Ca. on Friday, April 18, 2006.

Modesto military veteran lives dream as NASCAR pit crew member

Two laps were left in February’s Daytona 500, and the adrenaline was flowing through Chris Clayton. 2 hours ago

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Some of the trees were burned over right up to the edge of the reservoir at Hetch Hetchy.

Dick Hagerty: Hetch Hetchy hiking as delightful as ever

In spite of last summer’s devastating Rim fire, hiking at Hetch Hetchy is as delightful as ever. 2 hours ago

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Daughter of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, cries as her father's body is brought to the Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks.

13th body pulled from snow in Everest avalanche

Nepal's authorities temporarily halted climbing on Mount Everest while search teams dug through snow and ice Sunday for three Sherpa guides missing in the deadliest avalanche on the world's highest peak that killed 13 others. 13 minutes ago

Living & Entertainment

Bee Healthy: How to avoid those new baby blues

Tips can help mom and the family avoid the new baby blues.

Business

Ray Hannagan, the owner of Sky High Comics is pictured on Thursday afternoon (04-17-14) in his shop in Turlock, Ca. His business is new. It just opened the first week of this month.

Business Beat: Similar paths to follow very different passions

One of the many joys of writing this column is meeting people who are chasing their passions. Ray Hannagan opened a comic book store in Turlock, and Nancy Saunders and Linda Mitchell operate a new yarn shop in Modesto.

Nation & World

From left to right, Malaysia Airlines Group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hamzah Zainudin, Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, third from left, Deputy Minister, Abdul Aziz Kaprawi and Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman attend a press conference for the missing Malaysia Airline, MH370 at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 19, 2014. An underwater robotic submarine is expected to finish searching a narrowed down area of the Indian Ocean seabed for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane within the next week, after completing six missions and so far coming up empty, the search coordination center said Saturday.

Sub search for missing jet to be finished in week

A robotic submarine looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane continued to dive Sunday after completing about half of its search on the bottom of the Indian Ocean with no luck, prompting an official to express the urgent need to find something... 13 minutes ago