Hilmar News

Modesto is getting yet another way to help stretch your pocket change. The city's first 99 Only Stores location will open next month in the site of the former Clothes Avenue along McHenry Avenue.

A 23-year-old Hilmar resident has been charged with cruelty toward an animal after admitting to throwing a neighborhood cat into a Merced canal.

Merced County sheriff's deputies arrested a Hilmar man they say threw a cat into a canal over the weekend.

Jeff Strom is among a couple dozen dads who spent every Wednesday since January in Turlock with their daughters practicing jazz dance.

Four people were arrested Saturday morning after a burglary was reported in Hilmar.

A Hilmar dairy worker was held up at gunpoint on Sunday while working. Merced County Sheriff's Deputies say the man had been at a dairy on Johnson Ave and Columbus Road when he a man pointed a gun in his face and robbed him.

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When the leaders of American Agri-Women fly to Washington, D.C., next month to lobby lawmakers, a local woman will be playing a key role.

Pop quiz: What's the safest way to stop and subdue a charging, ticked-off bull? Leap on its head? Grab it by the tail? Fortunately, most of us really don't need to know.

Leaders in the San Joaquin Valley will ask Gov. Schwarzenegger to lobby especially hard for $1 billion- worth of cooperative stimulus proposals with wide-ranging promise.

Seven people were arrested on suspicion of a variety of drug charges Tuesday, after the agents with the Merced/Mariposa High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area served five search warrants in Hilmar and Turlock.

CHALK ARTISTS SOUGHT: In conjunction with the annual concert by the Hilmar Community Band, the city of Turlock's Arts Commission is planning a Sidewalk Chalk Art contest at Crane Park on Saturday.

Kristin Michelle Lilly of Visalia, daughter of Guy and Nancy Lilly, will be getting married to Cody Porter, son of Jim and Alyson Porter of Hickman, CA.

The 2009 Destruction Derby hosted by the Merced County Spring Fair was indeed 'destructive' on Friday and Saturday nights.On Friday, Los Baños' Nacho Morales highlighted the local pack after placing second in the consolation heat to Allen Duckworth .Hilmar's Kurtis Van Foeken took third place in back of Duckworth, while Brian Holt of Modesto ...

It seems that after adding Michael Savage and Alan Keyes as regular columnists, WorldNetDaily thinks that its commentary page is still not hateful enough.

No one was injured Sunday in a fire that destroyed a detached garage in the 11000 block of Lander Avenue in Hilmar.

A man driving a stolen vehicle on Tegner Road north of Bloss Avenue veered off the road, crashed and died early Friday morning, said the California Highway Patrol.

To say I was greatly disappointed with the editorial April 22 on our jobless rate would be an understatement.

People with ideas about improving Highways 99 and 165 in south Stanislaus County and north Merced County are invited to share them at a public workshop Wednesday.

A $5.7 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by the parents of a Hilmar teen shot to death by a California Highway Patrol officer in 2001.