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Supervisors Approve Hazardous Waste Agreement
Last year Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties received a joint grant of nearly $400,000 to help manage household hazardous waste.
Mariposa County man found guilty in 2008 shooting
A defendant accused of killing a 60-year-old Greeley Hill man was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a Mariposa County jury Thursday.
CDC Officers Search For Escaped Inmates Near Mariposa
The California Department of Corrections is on the hunt for two escaped inmates.
Sewage Spill Shuts Beach at Mariposa Point
The Orange County Environmental Health agency posted a beach closure Monday, Nov.
Making art a priority in Redlands elementary schools
Fourth- and fifth-graders at Cram Elementary School piled into their 12-week long art class Friday ready to use American artist Georgia O'Keeffe's classic techniques as inspiration for their own projects.
Chocolate Soup Lady: Woman's dream is now Mariposa landmark
Upon entering a home, when a visitor sees an attractive table setting, the thought isn't as much, "What a lovely plate," but "What a beautiful woman." And whenever you enter a certain gift shop in Mariposa, the same feeling pervades.
Suspicious Pipe Found West Of Mariposa
The Merced Fire Bomb Squad is on it's way to an area near Mariposa where a suspicious pipe has been found.
Debbie Croft: Music in the land of paint-by-number sky
I don't know what the weather was like in the Central Valley earlier this week, but here in the foothills we had a light storm that brought only enough rain to wet the ground.
Gold panners digging up a new income in Mariposa County
Under a concrete bridge built in 1926, where slow-moving Bear Creek flows into the Merced River near Briceburg, David Hester was working hard.
New theme this year for Mariposa's Black, White Ball
John C. Fremont Hospital Foundation's annual Black & White Ball will have the theme, "A Night on the Orient Express," Nov.
Updates: Warmer days in Valley follow big storm
The central San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada should begin drying out this morning after the first storm of the season moves on, leaving behind power outages and a mind-boggling amount of rainfall.
Among area's patent holders is Mariposa sex toy inventor
"I am an artisan," Mariposa resident Cate Cannon says. "I make sex toys." Then she laughs, throatily.
Exciting time of year at Idle Hour Winery
It's an exciting time of year for wineries throughout Madera County, including Idle Hour Winery in Oakhurst.
Families of Beirut Marines fear they've been forgotten
For a quarter-century, Lt. Col. Howard Gerlach thought the explosion had blown him out the window of his second floor office.
Flooding closes Mariposa County government center
A Mariposa County administration building is temporarily closed so clean-up crews can deal with flooding caused by this week's heavy rains.
Another View: When jury duty calls, just do it
The story last week on the front page of the Merced Sun-Star about the Mariposa County judge sending bailiffs to the local post office to round up jurors was quite a talker.Mariposa residents found out when a third don't show, somebody else is drafted.Most people didn't realize that judges have the power to conscript jurors.
Former County Supervisor Harry Baker surrenders to Fresno police Oakhurst businessman and former Madera County Supervisor Harry Baker, 81, has turned himself over to the Fresno Police Department to face charges of child molestation.
190 Mariposa students absent, many reporting flu-like symptoms
A flu outbreak in Mariposa County resulted in nearly 200 middle and high school students being absent from school on Wednesday.
Judge Dana Walton sent two sheriff's deputies to the post office to find more people for jury duty.
A trip to the post office turned into a lost afternoon for dozens of people who got yanked off the streets of Mariposa to fill the jury for a murder trial.
Mariposa post office patrons pulled into jury duty
A former probation officer who assaulted two police officers while running naked down a Long Beach street has been given a suspended four-year state prison sentence.
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