Delhi News

Second robber is serving a three-year sentence. A 37-year-old man was convicted of robbing a Delhi drug store.

Indian gay activists in Kolkata celebrate the court ruling on July 2. The Indian media hailed Friday a court ruling to decriminalise gay sex and urged the government to respond by striking a colonial-era ban on homosexuality from the statute books.

"The inclusiveness that Indian society traditionally displayed, literally in every aspect of life, is manifest in recognizing a role in society for everyone," judges of the Delhi High Court wrote in a 105-page decision, India's first to directly address rights for gay men and lesbians.

A Delhi man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of molesting a girl, the Merced County Sheriff's Department reported.

Reporting from New Delhi -- The Delhi High Court issued a landmark ruling Thursday decriminalizing homosexuality, a move that could bring more freedom to millions of people in this deeply conservative nation.

A court in India has made a groundbreaking ruling to decriminalize consensual gay sex in the capital of the deeply conservative society.

A spark from a welder was the likely cause of a garage fire Sunday at a residence on the 14800 block of South Avenue in Delhi, according to investigators with CalFire/Merced County Fire Department.

Hundreds of gay rights supporters waved flags and danced past traffic during marches through three Indian cities Sunday to celebrate gay pride and call for the decriminalization of homosexuality in this deeply conservative country.

Working parents who are struggling to pay the bills and care for children at the same time are getting some day care help in Le Grand thanks to a state-funded program.

A federal jury in Fresno ruled in favor of parents whose son died while being arrested by three Merced County Sheriff's deputies.

A federal jury in Fresno has awarded $1.2 million to the family of a Delhi man who died during a violent arrest in his parents' home.

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A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of cultivating marijuana after agents with the Merced/Mariposa High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area reported serving a search warrant at his home.

Delhi, CA- Two store owners in the North Valley are being accused of beating a man who allegedly robbed them.

Merced County sheriff's officials arrested two convenience store owners suspected of beating up a man who allegedly was caught shoplifting cigarettes and Moon Pies, a department spokesman said today.

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The Stanislaus County district attorney's office threw the book at a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run wreck, charging Jennifer Cowgill with second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving while her license was suspended.

When the Rev. Zeke Nelson of Delhi was growing up near Seattle, he said his family went to church regularly, "but faith wasn't talked about in much depth in my home.

A concert will be performed Saturday to help pay the funeral expenses of 19-year-old Carlos Garcia of Turlock, whose body was found in a canal between Delhi and Turlock earlier this month.

Two Delhi residents were killed Saturday in separate crashes. A 22-year-old Delhi man was killed early Saturday after his truck drifted off northbound Highway 99 and crashed into the Merced River near Livingston.