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Students at Salida Middle School were treated to a special lunch during the third annual Fall Family Harvest Festival on Friday in the cafeteria at the school.
Vivien Yaghobsalmasi saw the makings for a surge of Middle Eastern refugees moving to Stanislaus County well before the flood hit. It was just a matter of waiting until two trends converged to quintuple the number of refugees coming to the county over just three years.
Modesto's first district elections were a major letdown in one respect: Fewer than 800 people voted in District 2, which includes 34,000 people and more than 9,000 registered voters.
Kenyon Graham Reynolds, 44, of Ceres was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of lewd acts upon a child.
On Friday night in Oakdale, Manteca High quarterback Matt Barber suffered a concussion after he took a hit and his helmet bounced off the turf. The prognosis looks good, but it was a scary moment, and one that deserves special attention in light of the recent reports of retired NFL players blaming mental problems on gridiron head injuries.
Their faces tell just one piece of the story. They were young and old, a range of races. They came from all corners of the county, though the majority were concentrated inside Modesto's city limit. They are the homicide victims of Stanislaus County.
A pregnant woman who vanished. A husband convicted of killing her and their child. A story that gripped the nation.
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