Turlock News

Modesto water customers could be expected to pay for fixing construction defects on a $75 million water treatment plant expansion that is said to have been bungled by contractors.

A judge has scheduled a trial to start July 17 for a Turlock man charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 67-year-old Hilmar man in 2010.

Police are looking for a robbery suspect after he allegedly attacked another man and stole the victim’s phone.

Jessie Hogsett of Modesto has written "Detached: Surviving Reactive Attachment Disorder — A personal story" and launched www.Hope4RADS.com . The book tells the true story of a boy whose alcoholic mother did not create a healthy, loving environment for him, so he was unable to experience a healthy secure attachment to her, according to a news ... (more)

According to a Turlock police report, officers pulled over a car at North Minaret Avenue and South Palm Street at 7:39 p.m. Tuesday for a traffic stop.

Turlock police reported finding a homemade knife, loaded sawed-off shotgun and homemade explosive device Sunday evening when officers responded to a family disturbance in the 2500 block of Annhurst Avenue.

JOAN BARNETT LEE / jlee@modbee.com - The Bee's Jim Silva will run the San Diego Rock & Roll Marathon in June, 2012.

A hometown son from Lake Elsinore is competing at the prestigious NCAA Division II Track & Field National Championships this weekend, a three-day event hosted by Colorado State Pueblo.

Now that his TV show, "House," signed off earlier this week for good, Hugh Laurie can focus on his other performing art — music.

By Garth Stapley, The Modesto Bee, Calif. May 24--A lively debate on how best to save farmland appears headed toward a final showdown July 25.

To talk with her, Devonne Donahue seems like any other college student about to graduate.

A change to the city's agreement with the Turlock Gospel Mission will stop a regular 5 p.m. trek of homeless people through downtown.

Police arrested a 35-year-old Turlock man on suspicion of shooting at and pistol-whipping a man over a dispute about the victim’s girlfriend.

At Meghan's Place Eating Disorder Center in Modesto, Calif., clients used purses and shoes to make art that helped them explore their ideas about body image and their sense of self.

The word -- which translates as "microwave" -- capped off the first Spanish Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Central Valley Dual Language Consortium Monday morning at California State University, Stanislaus.

A year of hitting the books has come down to finals, yearbook signings and graduations at Modesto and most other Stanislaus County high schools this week.

Roselawn High School in southeast Turlock was on lockdown for a few minutes Monday after somebody at the school said they heard possible shots being fired in the area.

Foster Farms, a Turlock, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 15,040 pounds of a turkey burger product because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen.

Hospital emergency rooms in Stanislaus County are feeling the impacts from the statewide shortage of psychiatric beds and cuts to outpatient services.

Veterinary Service Inc., a distributor of animal health products since 1960, is this year's inductee into the Stanislaus County Ag Hall of Fame.