Modesto News

The woman who died when her car was broadsided by a dump truck on Highway 129 last week was Courtney Manning, the Coroner's Office reported Monday.

Nashville was among several cities that added manufacturing jobs in 2011, according to an analysis of federal data by On Numbers, a Nashville Business Journal affiliate.

Kansas City added 1,800 manufacturing jobs in 2011, landing the area at 17th in a ranking of large metropolitan areas.

A Stanislaus County judge has ordered a Modesto man to stand trial for murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy with Down syndrome.

Modesto police say they still have more questions than answers, but are confident a babysitter is responsible for the death of an 18-month old girl.

It is principally into power utility business which deals with acquisition, generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity and irrigation services.

Gene Gregory, left, head of the United Egg Producers lobby, and Wayne Pacelle, right, president of the Humane Society, in Washington to lobby Congress for a law mandating larger cages for egg-laying chickens.

Buffeted by campaign-season currents and the inherent complications around immigration, the farmers this year face excruciatingly long odds as they seek a guest-worker goal that's eluded them since at least 1995.

According to witnesses and the CHP, the man was riding a 2003 Harley-Davidson south on the highway, following several vehicles and a Peterbilt big rig.

A Modesto babysitter is charged with murder after a 2-year-old girl she was watching died in her care, police said Thursday.

Modesto police officers responded to a call of an unresponsive child at a home in the 1000 block of Marseille Lane in Modesto on Tuesday.

Police say a pregnant teenager was held captive nine days in a California home, where she was bound with tape and beaten by a jealous boyfriend.

MODESTO, Calif. - A Stanislaus County grand jury has indicted three alleged gang members on murder charges for the robbery killings of a Modesto family.

A Stanislaus County grand jury has indicted three alleged gang members on murder charges for the robbery killings of a Modesto family.

Oloth Phommahaxay, Sophon Ting and Chris Douangkham each face three counts each of murder.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today named twelve individuals to serve on four governing boards responsible for dissolving local redevelopment agencies in cities and counties where local agencies elected not to manage the task.

It circled over Northern Ireland to use up fuel before landing, as fire engines and ambulances waited on the runway.

United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill sentenced 60-year-old Ronald John Salado of Modesto, to 11 years and four months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud almond growers and nut processors.

The international military coalition says in a statement that the crew has been taken to a nearby base, and initial reports indicate no enemy activity in the area of Monday's crash.

The Missouri River's dams weathered churning water from last summer's floods; nearby banks and structures didn't. Read more ... The Missouri River's dams weathered churning water from last summer's floods; nearby banks and structures didn't. Read more ... Take that, Brady.