Modesto News

The Modesto City Council will meet Wednesday this week, instead of this afternoon, because today is Election Day.

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to six consecutive life terms for killing six women, including one from Modesto, throughout Central California during the 1970s and '80s. Seventy-year-old Roger Reece Kibbe was serving a life sentence for the 1987 strangling of a teen prostitute when he pleaded guilty in September to the six other slayings.

Police on Thursday arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of shooting another man Wednesday morning near Elliott Alternative Education Center in central Modesto after they argued over a girlfriend, a department spokesman said.

A suspect wanted on five warrants in Merced County was arrested after a pursuit that started near Keyes ended after he crashed a pickup into a utility pole Wednesday afternoon in Modesto, authorities said.

Modesto's first-ever district elections were supposed to open the door to new voices fueled by low-cost campaigns, but voters' choices on Tuesday showed that money still talks.

With city budgets running dry, parks officials say they've hit on a plan to help keep parks money flowing.

Now that the cobwebs of Halloween have cleared, retailers are focusing on the holiday season.

Modesto police today arrested a homeless man in the stabbing of another homeless man in Enslen Park.

Modesto police officers are offered a hand from two grants that the City Council is expected to accept tonight.

Some health care providers in Stanislaus County have received the injectable form of H1N1 flu vaccine, although medical groups said they received small amounts and a large group didn't get any.

Several drug hot line tips led police Thursday to a west Modesto home, where they arrested a man suspected of selling his medicinal marijuana to his friends.

Modesto native Jeremy Renner edged closer to a possible Oscar nomination as he took home one of the first honors of the award season.

There were no signs Friday afternoon of a missing man who presumably drowned in the Tuolumne River near the Ninth Street Bridge on Thursday in Modesto, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department.

Fire investigators are shoveling through the charred remains of 1100 Kansas Avenue, trying to determine where the fire that destroyed the building early this morning started.

A man's body was discovered Tuesday in the Tuolumne River under the Seventh Street bridge in Modesto.

A Modesto man was arrested this afternoon after 18 pot plants were discovered by firefighters trying to put out a blaze in the detached garage he was renting.

A 16-year-old boy has been accused of shooting to death another teen and injuring a man in an unincorporated area of Modesto, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

Authorities have released the name of the residential burglary suspect shot by an off-duty Modesto police officer Sunday afternoon.

Leaning power poles. Downed trees and branches. Tumbleweeds. Clouds of dust. All are being this morning throughout the Northern San Joaquin Valley as wind reaching 30 mph are blowing through the area.

The body of the man believed to have drowned in the Tuolumne River last week was recovered Tuesday near where he went missing, authorities said.