Lockeford News

Free government-surplus food will be distributed to qualifying low-income residents Thursday at a number of San Joaquin County locations.

There were 97 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday.

Modesto Republican Sen. Dave Cogdill announced Tuesday he will not seek re-election in 2010, a decision his staff said was prompted in part by the state Legislature's approval of an $11 billion water infrastructure bond measure that he championed.

A procession was held Tuesday in Lockeford for a soldier killed in Afghanistan. Spc. Kyle Coumas, 22, died in an explosion.

In a short letter home from Afghanistan, Army Spc. Kyle Coumas twice told his parents not to worry.

Army Spc. Kyle Andrew Coumas came home late Friday morning, a solemn and dignified arrival at Stockton Metropolitan Airport attended by grieving parents mourning the death in Afghanistan of a 22-year-old son who loved chess and "Star Wars." An empty hearse, trailed by a limousine with darkly tinted windows that carried Lori and Greg Coumas, arrived ...

The body of Army Spc. Kyle Andrew Coumas is expected to arrive at Stockton Metropolitan Airport at 11:26 a.m. today.

The body of Army Spc. Kyle Coumas, who died last week in Afghanistan, is to arrive Friday at Stockton Metropolitan Airport, a funeral official said.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,342 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 875 who have died as part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A solider from California became the 18th soldier from the 5th Stryker Brigade to die in battle since the unit deployed to Afghanistan in July.

There were 81 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Low-income San Joaquin County residents can obtain free government-surplus food Thursday at 15 locations while supplies last.

For one week late this month, the Lodi wine region will be cast as the center of California's winemaking universe -- at least in Costa Rica.

San Joaquin County fire departments have planned activities and educational outreach to mark this year's Fire Prevention Week, which starts Sunday and ends Saturday.

The Present Age Leadership Foundation Inc is offering free services to seniors. It will pick up old washers, dryers, water heaters, stoves and other metal as part of its waste fundraising program.

A 62-year-old Lodi man was killed Thursday afternoon in a two-vehicle collision north of Stockton.

Jeffrey Beasley, a former vice president of Monterey-based SK Foods, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy charges in a bribery and price-fixing case in U.S. District Court in Sacramento.

A former senior executive of a major California food company was charged this week in federal court with conspiring to provide consumers with mislabeled, inferior tomato products at inflated prices.

Jeffrey Beasley, former vice president for industrial sales at SK Foods in Monterey, will admit that he took part in plans to pay the bribes and ship tomato products with misleading content labels, inferior quality and inflated prices, the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said.

A former senior executive of a major California food company was charged Wednesday in Sacramento federal court with conspiring to provide consumers with mislabeled, inferior tomato products at inflated prices.