Stockton News

Stockton city offices will be closed on Monday as the first scheduled furlough day in fiscal year 2009-2010. On furlough days city offices and departments, with the exception of emergency response functions, are closed.

That the Community Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired thought to honor Mimi Eberhardt, its longest-termed board member, in conjunction with its 60th anniversary came as no surprise.

As we introduce the new Friday edition of this column, here are some quick-read items for your holiday weekend reading pleasure.

Michael Jackson was there for us when it mattered most. He didn't have to, but that was the side of him that many people did not know.

Cleveland Edwards didn't want to hold up the line of autograph-seekers at Stockton Ballpark.

Investigators say the 22-year-old victim was walking on a bike path under the Calaveras River Thursday morning around 9AM when it happened.

A Stockton racquetball instructor has been arrested on suspicion of sex crimes, police said Tuesday.

Stockton police investigators hope the release of a composite drawing of a rapist will bring someone forward who knows the man.

The City of Stockton Fire Department is proud to announce that it has retained its Class 1 Rating from the Insurance Services Office .

The cleanup of a Superfund site next to Stockton's Deep Water Channel is under way, and city officials say the area eventually will become a business or industrial park.

Friends and family are mourning the death of John Greaves, who was killed Friday evening after he was hit by a car while bicycling on Camino Tassajara Road near Dublin.

Twenty years ago, Michael Jackson visited Stockton to help a shattered community heal in the aftermath of the Cleveland Elementary School shootings.

A man who was shot after a robbery Thursday night was in critical condition Friday, police reported.

Agents raided an internet cafe connected to the Dej... Vu topless bar this week, confiscating cash and computers on suspicion that the business ran Las Vegas-style gambling, the state Attorney General's Office announced today.

The City Council adopted a budget on a 5-2 vote late Tuesday, erasing a $31 million budget deficit by requiring the layoff of about 55 police officers and by dramatically reducing spending citywide.

The attorney for a cosmetic surgeon indicted on charges he sexually assaulted dozens of women in his Tracy office said Wednesday that he will not challenge a judge assigned to oversee his client's trial.

A 20-year-old man was arrested Monday night in connection with a shooting earlier in the day that injured a man.

The City of Stockton Municipal Utilities Department announces the long-anticipated repair and improvements to the Victory Park Stormwater Ponds are set to begin on June 22, 2009.

Investigators are still trying to find out what sparked a two-alarm blaze at a Stockton grocery store.

Two people were injured and a man was arrested following a stabbing in Stockton this weekend.