RSS
-
Featured StoriesThe sign outside St. Francis Anglican Church reads “think FORGIVE act.” Action and forgiveness were the themes of the day, as the parishioners gathered Sunday for one last time at their church on Main Street before walking several blocks away to begin a new church in rented facilities.
- Report: 23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria
- Suicide bomber kills 14 at Afghan province council
- Car bombs in Baghdad, south Iraq kill at least 34
- $590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla
- Modesto Police Department incidents for Saturday, May 18, 2013
- Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla.
- Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates
- Split-second choice ended with NY student dead
- 2 men arrested in killing over iPad in Las Vegas
- Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US
- Pilot killed in Sierra plane crash
- Body found near search site for missing CA hiker
- Climber falls to death near Idyllwild More stories...
-
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.
-
The Modesto City Council will start its deliberations today on Mayor Garrad Marsh's budget proposal for the 2013-14 fiscal year, which starts July 1. Marsh's budget focuses on public safety, directing nearly all of the city's expected revenue growth to police and fire.
-
Seth Nitschke runs cattle on grassland in Mariposa County, far from the Midwestern feedlots he used to frequent. He is part of the grass-fed beef movement.
-
Data Path's co-founder David Darmstandler contends that Stanislaus County would benefit if more high-tech firms could be attracted here and helped to expand.
-
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.
-
Ryanair has reported record profits as Europe's largest budget airline expands across the continent.
-
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.
More Letters Headlines
An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle.
More Weird News Headlines
New summer programming - including sitcoms, procedurals and reality competitions - arrives as fall and mid-season schedules continue to wind down. Most of the finales are seasonal only - these shows will return at some point (unless they're labeled as series finales, in which case they're gone for good). Here's what to watch and what to avoid on television this week:
More Entertainment Headlines
