French Camp News

Record readers have picked 2009's top stories. Today, we present No. 3: the spaceflight of Stockton astronaut Jose Hernandez.

Edward Endow shares a name with a road running through a rural corner of French Camp.

Lori Flickinger collapsed onto the kitchen floor at dinnertime as her young daughter watched in horror.

No one had to tell Aden Brooks to say cheese during a family portrait with his mom, Kendra Brooks, and brother Jesse, 3. The 1-year-old had the giggling covered.

The Delta Blood Bank is co-hosting the following three blood drives: The San Joaquin County Sheriff Department and the Stockton Police Dept.

The San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp has been infamous through the years for being so overcrowded, mass releases set should-be prisoners free.

People of faith, labor and community members will join together for a "Candlelight Vigil for Healthcare Reform: A Service of Remembrance and Hope" beginning at sundown today at San Joaquin General Hospital to remember the almost 45,000 people who die each year for lack of health insurance.

Freezing overnight temperatures might be inconvenient for most residents of San Joaquin County, but they are hardest on those who have no home.

The Lincoln High School Class of 1960 is looking for classmates to join the 50th reunion celebration in spring 2010.

A competitive blood drive pitting the county's largest two law enforcement agencies against each other started Friday morning with two donations.

County officials this week approved a $600,000 settlement with the family of a 71-year-old Tracy man who was found dead about a mile away from the San Joaquin County Jail, where he had been released in the early hours of a 2006 morning.

Patricia Lagden has been hired as the new manager of Applebite Farms in French Camp, California.

Pete and Pat Paulsen recently hosted their 20th annual charity Hot Rod Party at their French Camp ranch.

A Mountain Ranch man was killed in a solo-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon on Highway 99 south of Stockton.

On Nov. 13, Robert and Jorge Morgan will celebrate their one-year anniversary as married men, but they'll have to mark the day locked up in different parts of the San Joaquin County Jail.

San Joaquin County sheriff's detectives are looking in the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of a 60-year-old man Wednesday night.

CORRECTION: Oct. 21, 2009 The initial online version of this story included a wrong location for the proposed French Camp medical facility site.

A man arrested in connection with a Tracy nightclub shooting may now be facing murder charges, police say.

A full wall in the French Camp Elementary School teacher's lounge is covered with stars cut from construction paper and placed in categories of advanced, proficient, basic, below basic, and far below basic.

A man arrested Saturday for being drunk in public died after he became combative with officers at the San Joaquin County Jail, Stockton Police Lt.