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A 15-year-old boy was killed and another teenager critically wounded in a shooting Friday night near Coffee Road and Floyd Avenue in Modesto, police said. The shooting occurred around 9:15 p.m. in the 2400 block of Vera Cruz Drive, according to officer Chris Adams of the Modesto Police Department.
A 31-year-old Modesto woman on Friday afternoon pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in connection with the death of an 18-month-old girl she was baby-sitting.
The state Public Works Board approved the block The Bee leases in downtown Modesto as the second potential site under consideration for a new $278.3 million Stanislaus County Courthouse.