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Featured StoriesAs an investigation into Modesto's McGuire Cremation and Funeral Service continues, a picture is emerging of a business undergoing financial difficulties that apparently led to major ethical lapses.
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Authorities are searching for a 91-year-old Modesto man who has been missing for nearly a week. Amos McElvaine was last seen by family members at 5 a.m. Tuesday, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's office said in a news release.
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Ignacio Pizano's forearm used to bear a tattoo of a devil smoking a marijuana joint. Other body art left no doubt about his allegiance to the drug-fueled violence that left him facing a life sentence at 15.
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Authorities are crediting a quick-acting neighbor with putting out a kitchen fire before it could do major damage. According to the Turlock Fire Department, firefighters were dispatched to a home in the 4600 block of McKenna Drive at 12:26 p.m. Friday.
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Do you ever need to get somewhere quickly, but seem to hit every red light? A couple of readers complained about the lack of synchronized traffic lights, so I drove a trial loop around Modesto right about 5 p.m. last week.
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The San Francisco Giants' prized pitching rotation took one more pounding. Barry Zito couldn't get on track in a second consecutive ineffective outing, and the Giants lost 5-0 to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday.
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Many job seekers may have difficulty in understanding whether people who’ve helped them in the past can’t now, don’t want to any more or, despite appearances, may still be willing.
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Lily Fern Weatherford began singing southern gospel music in the 1940s when she joined her husband, Earl, in his quartet in in Long Beach.
A Valley Springs family faces the brutal loss of a child, purportedly at the hands of an intruder. Area residents rally to help. Then the family learns of a further possible tragedy, that a sibling may have committed the crime.
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Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74.
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