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LOS BANOS A driver passing another car on Lander Avenue north of Los Banos on Saturday evening failed to see an oncoming car, investigators said.
A man was shot this evening in the 1200 block of Inyo Avenue in southwest Modesto, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department reported. The man had stepped outside of a family member's home and was by his car on the shoulder of the road when he was shot at least once.
Modesto's Catherine McKee might be confined to a wheelchair, the result of a fall back when she was just a kid of 92. She might have poor vision in one eye and almost none in the other. And she might struggle to hear. But at 104, her mind is clear and keen.
A man was shot this evening in the 1200 block of Inyo Avenue in southwest Modesto, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department reported. The man had stepped outside of a family member's home and was by his car on the shoulder of the road when he was shot at least once.
Mohamad Samir "Sam" Alsabagh, a retired 20-year Navy veteran, doesn't understand why a fellow Muslim, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, allegedly opened fire with two handguns at Fort Hood, Texas, last week. "The media said he was an extremist Muslim. I don't know," said Alsabagh, a member of the Modesto Islamic Center's board who works as a benefits counselor for veterans.
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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