Ceres News

The Turlock Irrigation District kept a chain on an irrigation pump along the Ceres Main Canal south of Keyes Road, but that didn't deter a couple from Livingston who stole the big machine May 28.

Responders on June 18 work on two of the accident victims, including Gurvinder Chahal, a 19-year-old who succumbed to her injuries Tuesday.

The attorney representing a woman whose son drowned in the Tuolumne River two years ago sought Tuesday to refocus attention on a hazardous, defunct dam that contributed to the boy's death.

A Bay Area attorney said Tuesday a lawsuit over a river death is moving ahead. It was in March, 2007, that 13-year-old Jeremy Wilson died while playing with friends in the river just below the Ninth Street Bridge in Modesto.

At first, 16-year-old Andrew Silva wasn't thrilled about the idea of planting an organic garden to raise produce for the west Modesto farmers market.

A 19-year-old man from Ceres was sentenced to 12 years in prison this month for trying to rob a Walgreens drugstore, according to the Stanislaus County district attorney's office.

Property taxes will be reduced for nearly 62 percent of Stanislaus County's homeowners this year because house values have plummeted by $3 billion, the county assessor revealed today.

Southbound Highway 99 will be closed early Thursday morning at Hatch Road because of the $18 million project to replace the Whitmore Avenue interchange.

Two local educators - including a former Teacher of the Year and a 1980s Paso Robles High School graduate - will move into new leadership roles with Paso Robles PublicSchools this summer.

The Stanislaus County district attorney's office recently announced convictions in the following auto theft cases: * A Modesto man who stopped a stolen car along Highway 99, then fled from California Highway Patrol officers who pulled over to offer assistance, was sentenced to four years in prison for auto theft and evading a peace officer.

The smoke and haze blanketing Stanislaus County on Friday afternoon and evening were from a 2,163-acre grass fire first spotted at a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory test site in the Altamont hills.

Responders care for one of the three victims in this morning's accident. A big-rig driver attempted a U-turn into the northbound lane, and a car could not avoid it.

A Lexus parked on Water Street in Jackson was the third vehicle in two hours to have its window shattered in order for thieves to take items inside.

Stanislaus County supervisors Tuesday unanimously: * Accepted a $157,400 federal stimulus grant that might enable the reopening of senior nutrition centers in Riverbank, Salida, Ceres, Denair, Keyes and Knights Ferry.

Western Farm Service of Vernalis has received an Environmental Respect Award, recognizing its careful handling of farm chemicals and other practices.

Stanislaus County's HIV clinic will move from the county health complex on Scenic Drive in Modesto to a medical office in Ceres, officials said.

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A recycling plant fire that sent a black shroud of smoke over Ceres and the southern part of Modesto late Monday afternoon started when sparks from scrap metal got lodged into a huge pile of cardboard.

The short, tragic life of Alycia Augusta Mesiti-Allen ended at the hands of her father, prosecutors say.

Burning cardboard and plastic sent up a thick plume of smoke on Monday. The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department said the fire began in an industrial complex in Ceres.