Stockton News Archives

A 33-year-old woman was shot and critically injured early Sunday near Sixth and Hunter streets, police said.

Police found more than two pounds of marijuana Sunday at a south Stockton motel.

Mayor Ann Johnston one day in August stood on part of the East Bay Municipal Utilities District easement along March Lane and said it could be made into a park.

It was an early morning race created to help the hungry but really, for many, it was an excuse to work up a Thanksgiving Day appetite.

Police have identified the victim of a fatal shooting outside a downtown bar early Saturday as 19-year-old Lance Vandigriff.

Ever since their son served overseas in the military, the Temmes of Stockton have maintained a post-Thanksgiving tradition.

Claudia Rotert's Stockton home is nothing like it was when she and her husband, Bill, purchased it some 25 years ago.

The city has been listed again among the most dangerous cities in the nation. Washington-based CQ Press, an independent book publisher, has listed Stockton as the nation's 36th most dangerous based on FBI-compiled crime data and population figures from 2008.

Full Circle Restorations of Lockeford took home three awards from the recent 20th annual Good Guys Autumn Get-Together in Pleasanton.

The issues of dropout and truancy prevention will be the topic of a public television documentary tonight, and Stockton Unified employees and students will be among those featured.

San Joaquin County policymakers knew their spending plan for the year would change.

Stockton police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man over the weekend.

The music started, but with the lights still up, members of the audience continued visiting with one another.

Ashlee Christine Brink, 7, of Stockton recently packed the 200,000th World Vision Caregiver Kit.

STOCKTON, Calif. a " Investigators are trying to determine what led to a fight that left a 19-year-old man dead outside a Stockton bar.The shooting death in front of The Store bar at 2 a.m. Saturday was the fifth homicide in San Joaquin County in one week.Police have not yet established a motive for the killing, which followed an altercation inside ...

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.

A Stockton fire captain suffered second degree burns when a large firework exploded in a burning home as firefighters rushed inside.

Police said a seven-year-old Stockton boy riding in the rear luggage compartment of a Ford Explorer was killed when the SUV went out of control on a San Leandro freeway.

The PG&E power plant at Salt Springs in Amador County overlooks the area of the Mokelumne River where the body of Steven Sid was found Sunday, Nov.

The Stockton Flames recently won the championship in the younger-than-11 division of the South Valley United Tournament in Visalia.

A 7-year-old boy believed to have been a second-grade student at Tully C. Knoles Elementary School in north Stockton was killed in a single-vehicle rollover accident late Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 580 in San Leandro.

A man with two outstanding misdemeanor warrants was arrested in Stockton after he was found carrying two concealed swords, according to officials.

The City of Stockton is currently accepting applications for two vacancies on the Public Art Advisory Committee.

A badly decomposed body found in the Mokelumne River last weekend was positively identified Wednesday as a Stockton man missing for over five months, according to officials.

More than 200 people gathered on the steps of Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium to mark the Veterans Day holiday during an event hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Luneta Post 52.

A body has been discovered in the Mokelumne River just west of Salt Springs Reservoir.

Stockton police are after suspects accused in a shooting over the weekend. Police say a fight at the Weberstown Mall around 7:30 Friday night ended with a man getting shot in the calf.

Continued concern about the spread and seriousness of H1N1 has led to a change in visitor policies at Stockton area hospitals.

A freight train derailed in Pittsburg early this morning, disrupting Amtrak service to the Bay Area and forcing the closure of a major East Contra Costa thoroughfare, authorities said.

STOCKTON, Calif. a " A San Joaquin County judge has refused to throw out criminal charges against four people accused of torturing a teenager at a Tracy house.Superior Court Judge Terrence Van Oss on Monday ruled the indictments will stand for Michael Schumacher, his wife, Kelly Lau, Caren Ramirez, and Anthony Waiters.The four were indicted by a ...

A man is accused of attacking and injuring at least two Stockton police officers over the weekend.

The governor today announced the appointment of a long-time Stockton resident and former teacher at Lincoln High School as secretary of for the California Department of Veterans Affairs.

American military service members spanned the globe during World War II. They kept track of vital cargo ships from offices in San Francisco, held German prisoners in Nebraska, hopped from island to island fixing planes in the Pacific Ocean, handled transport of supplies through India, flew bombing raids into Germany from England and treated wounded ...

It seems like somebody forgot to tell Humphreys College that times are tough. The private Stockton-based college that prides itself on sending students off to careers armed with practical tools is experiencing record enrollment.

McNerney either hand delivered the cards to the wounded at Walter Reed or gave them to groups that collect fun stuff from home and ship it out to those serving our country.

State prison officials conceded they caught San Joaquin County leaders off guard recently while announcing plans in rapid succession to build two prisons southeast of Stockton.

These are interesting times for Stockton, the city that routinely feels ignored by our state government friends in Sacramento.

Two mornings a week, Carmen Cobian and Dayana Alvarez have a very special play date in a cramped classroom at Walton Special Center.

California prison officials have submitted a construction plan intended to expand medical and mental health treatment for inmates.

Pink was the color of the night at Stockton Arena as the Thunder promoted breast cancer awareness.

California prison officials have submitted a construction plan intended to expand medical and mental health treatment for inmates.

Two former city officials said a substantial increase in the projected deficit at Stockton Marina was caused by project revisions proposed by Revitalization Director Dave Harzoff and endorsed by the City Council, not by a year-old cost analysis Mayor Ann Johnston called a "wild guess" and Harzoff said was flawed.

Elected officials Tuesday decided to join local business leaders in taking legal action against the state over the construction of a new prison hospital on the outskirts of Stockton.

A home was destroyed and its residents displaced Wednesday afternoon in a fire that also destroyed a gas meter, sending gas rushing into the flames.

Six weeks after firing Superintendent Tony Amato, Stockton Unified trustees have taken the first steps in their search for a permanent replacement.

Electric Vehicles International unveiled plans Wednesday to produce all-electric trucks and delivery vans, as well as a two-seat electric city car and plug-in hybrid car conversions, at its new Stockton assembly plant in coming months.

Authorities are now investigatng details after Stockton police are after a person accused of shooting two men.

The Stockton City Council voted unanimously, 7-0, to challenge the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Health Care Facility Stockton Environmental Impact Report .

The attorney for a doctor accused of stealing a dead patient's Rolex watch in a Stockton emergency room said Monday that he's ready to prove in a trial that his client didn't do it.

The Commission also provides direction with respect to budget and capital improvements to these same facilities.

Police are seeking a suspect in the shooting of two men Monday evening in south Stockton.

A Wetlands Water District representative said in a hearing Monday that new Delta legislation would provide "a clear path toward building new conveyance" to send more water to the south San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.

With budget cuts likely in the middle of the school year and almost certainly coming in the next fiscal year, Stockton Unified's trustees tonight consider a measure that would strengthen the board's oversight of spending and could set the stage for a hiring freeze.

A 15-year-old Stockton girl hit by a car as she walked to school last Friday died over the weekend from her injuries.

To celebrate, Mimis Cafe will hold a special "Meet Me at Mimi's" event on November 5 and award $3,000 worth of gift cards to the first 75, 18-year-and-older guests in line.

A 3-month-old puppy in training to become a guide dog is missing in Lodi. Gannon, a black male Labrador Retriever, may have been last seen on Saturday in the Thornton Road area north of Stockton, between Eight Mile and De Vries roads.

The Soul Stalkers Motorcycle Club became food stalkers Sunday, feeding nearly 300 people warm meals of hot dogs, chili beans, chips and water on a crisp fall morning under the Crosstown Freeway downtown.

"Angel Rocker," a mesmerizing work by Nathan Oliveira, dominates the wall at one end of the galleries at Tracy's Grand Theatre Center for the Arts.

J. Clark Kelso didn't exactly come to Stockton on Tuesday hat in hand. And when he came back Friday, it was to slap this city in the face.

At a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction of the $217 million Delta Water Supply Project - the largest public works project ever in Stockton - City Hall on Thursday put out two cakes, one with the design of a water treatment plant on it and the other in the shape of a water tank.