Mariposa News Archives

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.

The Merced Fire Bomb Squad is on it's way to an area near Mariposa where a suspicious pipe has been found.

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.

Under a concrete bridge built in 1926, where slow-moving Bear Creek flows into the Merced River near Briceburg, David Hester was working hard.

John C. Fremont Hospital Foundation's annual Black & White Ball will have the theme, "A Night on the Orient Express," Nov.

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.

"I am an artisan," Mariposa resident Cate Cannon says. "I make sex toys." Then she laughs, throatily.

It's an exciting time of year for wineries throughout Madera County, including Idle Hour Winery in Oakhurst.

For a quarter-century, Lt. Col. Howard Gerlach thought the explosion had blown him out the window of his second floor office.

A Mariposa County administration building is temporarily closed so clean-up crews can deal with flooding caused by this week's heavy rains.

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.

A flu outbreak in Mariposa County resulted in nearly 200 middle and high school students being absent from school on Wednesday.

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.

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.

No-shows at court force judge to enact rare civil code procedure. By BRANDON BOWERS bbowers@mercedsun-star.com Laura Skelton thought she was going to the post office to pick up mail, but instead found herself in Mariposa County Superior Court.

After only a third of summoned jurors reported for duty, Mariposa County officials took drastic measures to get a jury for an upcoming murder trial.