Stockton News

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.

The gas pumps have been dry for at least a month at Stockton Gateway, which is a haven for panhandlers and day laborers at Lafayette and Center streets.

Vicente Fernandez performs on Mother's Day 2009 at Stockton Arena, where he'll bring his 2012 farewell tour.

A 47-year-old man was in stable condition after being shot twice in the legs about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Ann Johnston, Stockton's Mayor; Elbert Holman, Stockton City Council Member; Bob Deis, Stockton's City Manager; Eric Jones, Stockton Police Chief; Patti Mazzilli, Chief Probation Officer; David Warner, Presiding Superior Court Judge; Steve Moore, San Joaquin County Sheriff; James Willett, District Attorney; Peter Fox, Public Defender; Reverend J.

Does he hold the key to a decades old case and the disappearance of a 9-year-old Hayward girl.

Gary was born on June 6, 1938 in Stockton, CA. He graduated from Tracy High School and served in the California National Guard.

Wes Rhea, left, stands with Sharon Johnson, winner of the Ultimate Stockton Ambassador essay contest, and some of Johnson's prizes.

Among the lots listed by the San Joaquin Council of Governments as good options for infill development are a four-block stretch on the east side of railroad tracks north of Market Street.

Christine Grant of Stockton holds a sign Wednesday at the corner of March Lane and Feather River Drive in Stockton hoping to get a job.