Dos Palos News

North Valley detectives continue to look into the murders of a teenager and his friend.Their bodies were found at a home on Highway 33, north of Dos Palos.The 16-year old lived there with his family and it was his mother who found the bodies.The mother of 16-year-old Lionel Medina huddled inside a car in front of her home while deputies collected ...

Two people were found shot to death in a garage in rural Dos Palos early Tuesday, according to the Merced County Sheriff's Department.

A Mendota man has been arrested in the stabbing of a 77-year-old man who used a wheelchair, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office reported.

Already reeling from declining property and sales tax revenues that forced a round of layoffs earlier in the year, Los Baños was hit with another blow in 2009 when police started investigating a city employee for embezzling what was ultimately tallied at nearly $2 million.On May 6 Police Chief Dan Fitchie revealed that a worker at City Hall ...

Dos Palos Police say a convicted con-artist broke the hearts of a grieving family by pretending to pay for their daughter's funeral.Benjamin Ford is in jail for violating his parole but investigators say that while out on the streets the last two months, ford scammed several people in the Valley.Earlier this month, 34-year-old Rosie Mack passed ...

Supervisor Jerry O'Banion said he was running for reelection as District 5 supervisor.

Merced County Supervisor Mike Nelson says he will seek re-election to his post in the June 2010 election.

A big ambulance trundled down a side street in this small Westside town Tuesday morning, headed for a tiny apartment.

Saudi Aramco president and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih said during a recent visit to company markets in Asia "The developing economics of the world are at the heart of the International Energy Agency's forecast that world primary-energy demand will increase" "The forecast estimates demand will grow by 40 percent by 2030 - roughly 1.5 percent per year.

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Dennis Freeman, who oversees a primary canal that irrigates the valley's farm fields, surveys buckling caused by subsiding land due to to many wells tapping the underground water in Dos Palos, Calif., Thursday Nov.

In this photo taken Nov. 19, 2009, a crew digs a well in a alfalfa field in the Central Valley in Dos Palos, Calif.

The Merced County Office of Emergency Services said sand and other sandbag materials are now available at county fire stations including: Merced County Public Works Yard -- Road Division 2165 W. Wardrobe Ave.; Dos Palos "Y" Fire Station 8047 W. Dairy Lane; El Nido Fire Station 10537 S. Highway 59; McSwain Fire Station Gurr Road and Highway 140; The ...

The Merced County Office of Emergency Services said this morning that sand and other sand bag materials are now available at County fire stations, in preparation for any localized flooding from the rain.

Mariposa County Fire crews were called to the Dos Palos High School campus on Thursday for a fire.

Fire alarms blared Thursday afternoon at Dos Palos High School. But unlike the periodic signals to clear classrooms every student hears from time to time in public school, this was no drill.

It was a typical Thursday afternoon on the Dos Palos High School campus. "The bell had just rung from lunch and immediately within a minute after the bell rang for lunch, the fire alarm went off," Dos Palos Assistant Superintendent Jan Wood, said.

A fire broke out Thursday afternoon at Dos Palos High School in Dos Palos. The blaze started in the wood shop, spread to the auto shop and is threatening classrooms.

On a cold, breezy morning, just hours after enjoying a Thanksgiving meal, Merced residents looking for a bargain lined up around the Target store at the Merced Mall.

Along with the ability to open the door with a remote control, the equipment also includes a heat sensor that will automatically turn on the air conditioning once temperatures reach 74 degrees.