Stockton News

This story originally appeared Aug. 1, 2009. It is still unsolved. Reno officials concluded Friday that arson caused the massive blaze that swept through a vacant south Reno apartment complex, destroying 22 buildings and leading to an estimated $30 million in damage.

These hallways so often house stories of tragedy and despair. For a few hours Saturday, the third floor of the downtown courthouse instead was alive with optimism.

A 19-year-old man was shot dead outside a downtown Stockton bar early today moments after a fight erupted inside, police said.

A trove of some 6,500 letters to and from renowned California conservationist John Muir is now available on the Internet.

A new section of the Coast to Crest Trail opened recently along the Mokelumne River in Calaveras County.

Call her "Miracle" Mims from now on. That's what her family and friends call her.

A man suspected in a double homicide in Oakland and recently featured on the "America's Most Wanted" TV show, killed himself Wednesday in east Stockton as police attempted to take him into custody, according to authorities.

Authorities say a suspect in an Oakland double murder killed himself as a SWAT team surrounded a Stockton house.

The Lodi City Council thinks it's solved its prayer-at-the-council- meeting problem.

A suspect in a double murder in Oakland was shot and killed this morning as police surrounded him in a Stockton residence.

Police in Stockton were looking Wednesday for two men after a man was shot to death.

San Joaquin County, the city of Stockton and the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce are suing California, the California State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations and federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso over a proposed prison medical facility.

The Filipino American National Historical Society recently held its 10th annual Community Recognition Awards, which recognizes people for their contributions to Filipino American history in the Stockton area.

The high court's unanimous ruling may be the final judicial verdict on the sentencing of Fernando Belmontes, 48, who has spent nearly all his adult life on San Quentin State Prison's Death Row.

Officers say the men approached the car's owner around 11:30 Saturday morning near Miner Avenue and Sutter Street .

When a transgender friend was having trouble with his mother after his coming-out, Rosalinda Ferreira went to the woman and pleaded with her to be understanding.

An English professor in Stockton, Calif., said vampire films are popular because vampires are "human-like" manifestations of evil.

A Swedish woman who was sentenced to life in prison for a double murder in California will be released in 2011.

Campaign for Common Ground, the slow-growth group, invited to its regular meeting recently A.G. Spanos Cos.' David Nelson, whose firm is disliked by Common Ground for its north side housing tracts and for its proposal to build a subdivision north of Eight Mile Road.

Donna Matthew was shaking and nervous when she squeezed the trigger of her first handgun.