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Holiday shoppers will be more careful with what they're buying this year, but if an informal survey Saturday is any indication, they will, indeed, be buying.
A mother of three stood in the Tuolumne Elementary School cafeteria with her arms crossed, her bottom lip almost quivering and her voice filled with desperation. She's afraid. Her teenage son has been skipping school and hanging out with the neighborhood's bad crowd. She's hoping a program designed to scare students straight will help her child. That's why she waited to speak to Jorge Perez last week after a gang awareness meeting he organized at the school.
Taylor Lentz once hated gymnasiums. "I wasn't comfortable with all that noise," the 17-year-old Beyer High School junior said.
MERCED — A 52-year-old suspect accused of killing a couple in their Mission Avenue home pleaded not guilty to murder charges in Merced County Superior Court this week.
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.
Times are tough. For anyone stretching dollars to pay basic expenses, we have good information for you in our "Dollars and Sense" section.