Escalon News

An Escalon man was killed Saturday in a collision west of Jamestown on Highway 108 near the Montezuma Junction with Highway 49.

A 55-year-old Escalon man was killed in a Sonora car crash on Saturday afternoon, the California Highway Patrol said.

The CHP says the unidentified 55-year-old man is from Escalon. Officers believe that a tire went out on a 2002 Ford driven by 52-year-old Joel Gruenhagen of Modesto, causing the vehicle to cross into the opposing traffic lane.

An Escalon resident died Saturday afternoon after his vehicle was struck by another vehicle on Highway 108, the California Highway Patrol reported.

A federal judge, interpreting a January jury verdict against the California Highway Patrol, has ordered the state to pay more than $2 million in damages to the family of Joey Pinasco Jr., who was killed in 2008.

The owner of The Auction Park — a north Modesto business that sold cars, furniture and other goods for a quarter-century until closing in February — is being sued for $149,250 by a former business associate.

He left NY around the age of 26 and settled in California. He lived briefly in Hayward then Union City for many years.

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Professional rodeo cowboys have been kneeling in thanks - very similar to the overtly faithful National Football League quarterback - for decades.

An Escalon almond orchard hid one marijuana grow and a second pot plot was found at another location in town Wednesday, authorities say.

Apolonio U. Uvalles, 99, passed away on Sunday April 29, 2012 in Manteca, CA. He was born February 11, 1913 in Mexico.

Jason Ross Gilley, the man accused in last year's rape and murder of 23-year-old Dalene Carlson following the discovery of her body in an Escalon cornfield about two months after her disappearance from a Stockton bar, may finally get his day in court in February.