Newman News

Strategies for persuading Latino residents to participate in the 2010 Census were discussed Monday by a group focused on getting a complete count of all Stanislaus County residents.

Investigators look for accomplice to early Monday crime. By VICTOR A. PATTON vpatton@mercedsun-star.com Merced County sheriff's deputies arrested a suspect this week in a Winton home invasion.

By unanimous vote, Stanislaus County supervisors Tuesday: - Approved an environmental document indicating that garbage in the Fink Road landfill can rise to 545 feet above sea level instead of 385 feet.

The cheese industry treasures people such as Joyce Tschetter. During a lunch stop last week at the Hilmar Cheese Co.

A California Highway Patrol helicopter failed Thursday to find any signs of a driver presumed to have drowned when he tried to cross rain-swollen Orestimba Creek in a sport utility vehicle more than a week ago.

Based in the tradition of gospel and rhythm and blues, singer/songwriter Lady Bianca created the "Mighty Oakland Sound" with her partner and co-producer Stanley Lippitt.

Authorities believe a man drowned Tuesday night while trying to cross rain-swollen Orestimba Creek about three miles north of the city.

Police arrested an Orestimba High School teacher suspected of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl enrolled at the school.

Sneeky Pete performs covers from The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, the Sons of Champlin, The Rolling Stones, Waylon Jennings, KISS and more.

Youth Entertainment Stage Company received a $35,000 grant from the Newman's Own Foundation to support the YES Company, YES Kids and YES Kidettes programs.

Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year.

Volunteers at the Livingston United Methodist Church made mochi on Monday during the annual mochitsuki, which is the tradition of making Japanese rice cakes by pounding sweet rice and hand shaping them.

He is a SGT in the Army, has been in for over 3 years and this is his first deployment.

Adrian Vazquez is on LOOKBOOK.nu! The internet's largest source of fashion inspiration from real people around the world.

Tuesday's court hearing involving prosecutors' roster of blacklisted law enforcement officers was postponed until Jan.

A man accused of robbing a Bank of America on Tuesday is behind bars after a vehicle pursuit with law enforcement.

A brief in Saturday's Business section incorrectly reported that eight former County Bank branches would close that day.

By unanimous vote, Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday: * Awarded a $400,000 loan from the supervisors' Economic Development Bank to Newman's downtown plaza, over competing protests from Riverbank.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors meets at 9 a.m. today in the basement chamber at Tenth Street Place, 1010 10th St., Modesto.

Question: What is the history of the property between Tulare, North U, Mariposa and Divisadero, where the Farmers Market was? -- Larry Shamp, Houston Answer: The T.W. Patterson home sat on the 4 acres where the Farmers Market shopping center was built at 3211 Tulare St.