Stockton News

Modesto residents seeking pain relief from fractured vertebrae underwent two controversial back procedures at double the statewide rate between 2005 and 2010, according to an analysis of state hospital data released last week.

Three men were sentenced Friday on criminal charges for trafficking women from Mexico to be used as prostitutes in five Northern California cities, including Stockton.

Transit officials are preparing to reduce bus service in Stockton by up to 30 percent, a move that could eliminate some neighborhood routes and get rid of all weekend service in a city that has already seen cut after cut to its transit system in recent years.

On Thursday, American Medical Response paramedics and emergency medical technicians held seven events around San Joaquin County and trained about 675 residents how to save a life using chest compression-only CPR.

When Rahm Emanuel helped foist on America the unready, unsteady and unsustainable healthcare religion known as Obamacare, one wonders in retrospect whether he had in mind another unready, unsteady and unsustainable government religion: union health benefits for government workers.

Two robbery suspects were foiled when a Burger King employee slipped out the back door and made off with their getaway car.

Stockton may be lowballing creditors in its current Bankruptcy Court proposal and an equitable settlement - while also keeping employee pensions intact and maintaining current services - may cost $20 million a year, a University of the Pacific economist says.

"Home values in the San Joaquin County community in the first quarter of this year rose 11.4 percent compared with the same three months in 2012, ranking Stockton as the third-fastest appreciating metro in the nation." Whoopee.

A 5.7 earthquake struck near a small town northeast of Chico at 8:47 p.m. Thursday, according to the United States Geological Service.

Street people and the homeless have been joined in line by the working poor, students, senior citizens and families that used to consider themselves middle class.

A store employee turned the tables on a devious duo during an armed robbery in Stockton Thursday night, say police.

Local law enforcement agencies are launching Memorial Day Weekend DUI campaigns to catch motorists driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Fresno County is continuing to see sluggish employment growth, at only about 1.2% this year, according to the latest quarterly economic forecast issued Thursday by the University of the Pacific in Stockton.

Local civic and business officials, businesspeople and workers came together Thursday to protest Gov.

Good news on the job front is coming out of Stockton, according to a new economic forecast from the University of the Pacific.

A 31-year-old Stockton man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for growing and trafficking marijuana.

"I would name it Fluffy," Noelle said to her chaperone during a field trip to the Animal Protection League of Stockton's rescue facility on Murray Drive.

May 23--When the Doors are mentioned, Jim Morrison's name immediately follows. Yet, Ray Manzarek's always-inventive keyboard adventures were an equally indelible aspect of the Los Angeles band's mysterious, striking and strangely spooky sound.

Two men, one armed with a black handgun, entered a business in the 600 block of West Martin Luther King Jr.

The 13th Stockton Opera Guild Kathe Underwood Scholarship Competition was held recently at the historic St.