News & Notes

Body in Don Pedro could be ex-athlete

Investigators believe a body found Friday by a boater at Don Pedro Reservoir is that of Edgar Delacruz, 20. Delacruz, a former Modesto Junior College football player, disappeared from a houseboat on the lake May 25. According to the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department, a boater saw a body floating in the area of School House Cove. A forensic autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death and the identity of the body, officials said.

Hope for man whose bicycle was stolen

A disabled Modesto man could be getting a new bicycle soon, thanks to a nonprofit organization started recently by Modesto police. Two teenage boys pushed the 43-year-old man off his three-wheeled bicycle as he rode along McHenry Avenue over the weekend, then stole his bike, authorities said. The 43-year-old man, who is physically and developmentally disabled, spent several hours walking the three miles to his home. Page B-3

Sheriff's squad detonates bomb

A man inspecting rental property found a pipe bomb and brought it to Modesto police headquarters Monday, authorities said. The man found the bomb in the 1200 block of River Road, authorities said. He drove downtown to police headquarters with the bomb in his truck. A bomb squad took it to a nearby parking lot and detonated it. Page B-3

Edwards' confession called a stunner

Maureen Dowd says former presidential candidate John Edwards' confession was a little bit breathtaking. Not the sex stuff. And certainly not covering up the sex stuff. The stunning admission Edwards made to ABC's Bob Woodruff was that he's a narcissist.

Yesteryears

75 YEARS AGO: Sept. 18 was the date set for the opening of the fall term at Hughson Union High School. The date was later than the previous year, because the fruit season was later and the picking of fruit, scheduled to begin in the coming week, was expected to attract many people of high school age.

50 YEARS AGO: Natural gas spewed from a ruptured 4-inch high-pressure pipeline for three hours, forcing the evacuation of 40 people from a four-block residential area in southwest Modesto. The rupture, which occurred at the Tuolumne, Sutter, Paradise intersection was caused by a tractormounted saw that had been cutting a trench in the street.

-- Karen Aiello