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Here's a message for tourists passing through Modesto or Merced on their way to Yosemite National Park: Stop and pick some cherries. Or visit a waterfowl refuge. Or walk in the footsteps of George Lucas. Speakers offered those ideas Wednesday at a conference in Turlock on how to increase tourism in the San Joaquin Valley.
A fight among several drunk people led to some bad decisions that ultimately resulted in three arrests, Turlock police said. According to authorities, police were called to a fight in the 200 block of Angelus Tuesday evening.
Covered California, the state's health exchange, announced this morning that it will offer 13 health insurance plans in the fall in the main thrust of the federal effort to insure all Americans starting in 2014.
Changes to a lawsuit stemming from last year's high-profile murders of a locksmith and a sheriff's deputy place much blame on the deputy for his "cavalier attitude toward safety."
Covered California, the state's health exchange, announced this morning that it will offer 13 health insurance plans in the fall in the main thrust of the federal effort to insure all Americans starting in 2014.
Turlock High pitcher Nick Voumard didn't have his best stuff. He admitted as much minutes after the Bulldogs' 5-1 season-ending loss to St. Mary's Wednesday in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division 1 South final at UOP's Klein Family Field. "That kid pitched his butt off," said St. Mary's coach Peter Pijl.
The run-up in stock prices this year could tempt even the most hands-off investor to wade into their 401(k) and make some changes.
There's a place Dana Carvey attempts to visit every time he steps on stage.
I take exception to your front-page story in Monday's paper. "Episcopal exodus" is not only inaccurate, it is a complete contradiction to what has and will occur at Turlock's St. Francis Episcopal Church.
Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes.
An award-winning and best-selling World War II historian is turning to an older conflict for his next project: the American Revolution.