Dos Palos News

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.

The Los Banos-Dos Palos-Gustine branch of the NAACP gathered about 12 of its members Friday night to meet with a field training manager to help guide them toward making their organization more effective.Greg Akili, whose NAACP office is based in Baltimore, asked members to tell him their short-term and long-term goals.

An update on Los Baños' efforts to recoup the nearly $2 million embezzled by a former city employee was given at this week's City Council meeting.

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

And you wonder why I can't wait to get to work in the morning? I'm up at 5 every weekday.

Merced County Sheriff's Department deputies reported finding several guns Tuesday while conducting a follow-up investigation into a gang-related stabbing of a 15-year-old boy this week.

An investigation into the stabbing of a teenage gang member in Merced County turned up four weapons, including a stolen handgun.

A man and woman in Dos Palos were arrested last week after Merced County Sheriff's investigators recovered thousands of dollars worth of stolen property.

In less than two minutes, 500 pounds of loose cotton are cleaned, separated from seed and compressed into a chest-high dense bale at the county's last cotton gin operation.

Nicholas Mann, age 18, is the son of the chief of police of Dos Palos in Merced County.

A body was found floating in a canal on Thursday, although Dos Palos police haven't determined the identity or the circumstances of the death.