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Featured StoriesDo 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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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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The 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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A surprise shell has caused a big stir at a popular Athens beach.
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The author of best-sellers about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida is working on a book about terrorists in the U.S.
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