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Aaron Felish, a 2005 Modesto High grad, met with Modesto City Schools Superintendent Pam Able in Las Vegas this month after she surprised him by presenting his high school diploma.

A preliminary hearing was postponed Tuesday for three teenagers charged with murder in the stabbing of another teenager during a botched robbery three months ago at an east Modesto park.

After all, the wedding was days away. And Leonard was being surprised by colleagues and musician friends from the Modesto Symphony Orchestra, Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra, MoBand and the Gottschalk Music Center band.

A felony charge stemming from a confrontation with a Caltrans worker against Modesto City Schools board member Steven Grenbeaux was reduced to a misdemeanor at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing Tuesday.

Title: Education reporter Coverage areas: K-12 education, Yosemite Community College District Bio: Nan Austin has been a copy editor and reporter at The Modesto Bee for 24 years.

Modesto City Schools board President Nancy Cline will not run for re-election this year, saying she feels it is God’s will.

TURLOCK — About 300 people turned out this morning for the grand opening of the Blue Diamond Growers almond processing plant, a welcome boost for the job market.

Modesto, CA On Saturday, June 15, 2013, at 21:42 PM deputies responded to the report of victim being held against his will for ransom.

It’s been called the most dangerous sport in the world, but to Le Grand resident Wes Ibrahimi, riding bulls has been a way of life.

Our wacky weather continues this week, with temperatures varying quite a bit for this time of year, starting out warm, then getting cooler then going back up again.

Crews responded to a wind-fueled grass fire that spread quickly Monday afternoon near Terminal Avenue and Claribel Road in northeast Modesto.

Modesto's public transit system has joined a national effort that encourages residents to save their gas money and ride the bus.

A 5-year-old Modesto girl was flown to the University of California Medical Center in Sacramento on Sunday night after she was pinned against a house by a vehicle driven by her cousin.

A crowd of about 40 people from area churches, unions and Democratic groups enthusiastically greeted a national tour of nuns advocating immigration reform in Modesto on Monday morning.

All of this year's Modesto Irrigation District races now have candidates, with Les Johnson saying he'll run to succeed outgoing board member Tom Van Groningen in northeast Modesto.

ATONIC CASE — A $3,000 reward offer still hasn't produced an arrest in Newman, where several cats were shot with crossbow darts in February.

We can't dismiss all young people as apathetic about local government. Some are interested.

County officials plan to expand Stanislaus Regional Transit bus service to include the new job centers in Turlock and Patterson.

Authorities identified the woman killed in a three-vehicle accident near Patterson Wednesday as a 44-year-old from Merced.

James Broughton: filmmaker, artist, dancer, poet and true Renaissance man. Broughton, along with his fellow artist pals Madeline Gleason, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and Kenneth Rexroth, ushered in the San Francisco Renaissance era in the years following World War II, an era which birthed the more well-known Beat Generation.