French Camp News

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.

Edison Interact Club members and others at a recent event designed to increase awareness of the homeless and raise funds for Haven of Peace in French Camp.

The upward trend in state test scores for the Tracy and Manteca unified school districts continued last week with the release of the latest Academic Performance Index, or API, numbers.

In a classroom at Fillmore School, seventh-grade math and science teacher Paul Walejka reviewed lessons recently on fractions with about 30 students who had notebooks open on their desks.

San Joaquin County submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to locate a new medical facility for the region's veterans near San Joaquin General Hospital, according to an announcement Friday from the county.

The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development awarded San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp $51,615 for its family practice residency training program, part of more than $2.7 million in Song-Brown program funds awarded to 27 similar programs around the state.

Some time between discussions of avoiding a collision with a piece of drifting metal in space and the continuation of heavy equipment unloading, Stockton astronaut Jose Hernandez made time to interview with about three television media outlets while floating aboard shuttle Discovery.

Chris Isaak actually was the first son of Stockton to undergo astronaut training.

When he flies over French Camp this week--a small town here in Northern California--he hopes some of the migrant farmers picking vegetables in the fields look up and realize they can also accomplish their own dreams, he told me a few months ago.

CORRECTION: Jose Hernandez was misidentified in the initial online version of this story.

Emergency crews are responding to a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 northbound at Mathews Road in French Camp.

San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Cinda Fox and two others who were in the courtroom when she was attacked earlier this year by murder defendant David Paradiso filed claims Tuesday against the county.

In the White Room on NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, STS-128 Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez - a former migrant farmer from Stockton, Calif.