Le Grand News

A San Diego-area solar-power company is cultivating some new customers in the San Joaquin Valley: farmers looking to slash their utility bills.

A sheriff's helicopter hovered overhead in the dreary morning sky as students from Le Grand and Granada high schools clustered on the football field below.

Some almond growers may think they are going nuts this year. Between a late frost and four years of heavy output, this year's almond crop is coming in about 20 percent down from last year.

The people have spoken and a commission has decided what Merced needs is more jobs and economic growth.

Two members of Merced County school boards will be voted in -- not by citizens, but by the boards themselves.

No one has applied to run in four local school board positions for the Nov. 3 elections.

They live in a lerp. They wreck paint jobs on cars. And they kill eucalyptus trees.

They live in a lerp. They wreck paint jobs on cars. And they kill eucalyptus trees.

Eight seconds is all the time a bull rider has to distinguish himself from his peers.

Three people were killed in a three car collision Saturday on southbound Highway 99 -- a crash that California Highway Patrol investigators say was caused by a drunken driver.

Deputy was not injured; suspect and woman facing other charges. By VICTOR A. PATTON vpatton@mercedsun-star.com A 26-year-old Le Grand man in custody on suspicion of gun and explosives charges has admitted shooting at a Merced County sheriff's deputy seated in his patrol car, sheriff's detectives reported Thursday.

Some North Valley residents awoke to SWAT activity in their neighborhood Thursday morning.

A cloud of honey bees buzzed past Frankie Medeiros as they flew to and from their wooden hives on a recent morning.

A uniformed Merced County Sheriff's deputy was fired upon early Saturday morning, while driving his patrol car in a residential Le Grand neighborhood, the sheriff's department reported.

Working parents who are struggling to pay the bills and care for children at the same time are getting some day care help in Le Grand thanks to a state-funded program.

Stone Ridge Christian High School will host an open house at 6:30 tonight in the Worship Center at 500 Buena Vista Drive.

Some same-sex couples still married, however. By VICTOR A. PATTON vpatton@mercedsun-star.com For some -- the will of the people.

A committee is looking for members of the Weaver Wildcats class of 1976 to inform them of a spring reunion to be held at 7 p.m. at Big Bubba's Bad BBQ, 560 W. 18th St.

More than $33 million in federal funds will be pumped into local education agencies from the national stimulus plan, the California Department of Education revealed Monday.

Le Grand, CA- A North Valley man is behind bars, accused of attacking three people with a Machete.