Stockton News

Simon Rowe, left, on piano, Patrick Langham on sax, Bill Vanderhaar on bass and Brian Kendrick on drums rehearse Wednesday at the new Take 5 jazz club in Valley Brewing Co.

On my wedding day in May 2008, I wore a simple string of pearls. The necklace had descending pattern to it, small beads at the top, larger beads where it draped over my neck.

Bill Cross was 15 when he went for a bicycle ride in the English countryside and came upon the girl who would someday be his wife.

If you want to know what love is, don't consult a song. If you need to understand how love grows, don't look to a book.

Two men in a Mercedes that authorities said matched the description of a car used in separate shootings Thursday were arrested after a chase Friday evening in south Stockton.

Jack and Beverly Coffelt look at a globe with pins stuck into places that they've been to together over their nearly 63 years of marriage.

A man serving a sentence for narcotics possession and forgery escaped from the Honor Farm early Saturday, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.

A U.S. Bankruptcy judge approved a Stockton bank's request Thursday to sell the 280-acre Trinitas Golf Course property at a foreclosure sale.

Lucha Libre wrestler RJ Brewer pulls the mask off fellow wrestler El Super Nova at a news conference Friday announcing the Lucha Libre show in Stockton on March 25.

An aerial view of the location east of Linden where the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office was searching for remains Friday along Flood Road east of Escalon Bellota Road.

Susan Mayer, the city's chief financial officer, will depart from her job after just one year of overseeing Stockton's beleaguered finances.

The shooting took place near the intersection of 8th and B streets about 4:45 p.m., when an unidentified man opened fire at the Dodge, said Deputy Les Garcia, a spokesman for the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.

A broken neck, not a drug overdose, killed Marvin Brown, a doctor said Friday during the second day of testimony in the murder trial of James Allison Livezey.

Saving lives is what emergency medicine is all about, and Stockton's two acute-care hospitals both took a big leap forward in that direction Friday when they passed site surveys to become preferred destinations for heart attack patients.

Some of the chocolates made by the Elk Grove company Imagine Chocolate that will be a part of the gift baskets for recording artists at Sunday's Grammy Awards.

The two authors will discuss their books today at the first installment of Our Voice, a planned monthly speaker program at the San Joaquin Pride Center, at 109 N. Sutter St., Stockton, and dedicated to the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community.

When Diamond Foods Inc. bought Pop Secret from General Mills Inc. in 2008, Chief Executive Michael J. Mendes called several hundred employees together at the nut company's offices in rural Stockton, Calif., and laid out his vision for Diamond as they munched popcorn.

Issabella Vasquez, 11/2, in yellow dress, looks up at a towering Woody before having her picture taken Thursday at the Cesar Chavez Central Library in Stockton.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved a Stockton bank's request Thursday to sell the 280-acre Trinitas golf course property at a foreclosure sale.

Races for local elected offices this year won't attract the millions of dollars that already have been thrown around in the presidential primary contests unfolding across the nation.