Calaveras County News

While on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, last June, Diana Flatley looked into the night sky and saw an AC-130 gunship that bore asecret message for her.

San Joaquin County Sheriff's Sgt. Michael Jones stands Sunday near the entrance to a pit east of Linden where searchers, acting on information from death row inmate Wesley Shermantine, have been busy recovering human remains.

ATHENS, Greece - Warning of a "catastrophe" that would leave Greeks subsisting on food stamps and the country wallowing in bankruptcy, Greek leaders urged lawmakers Saturday to pass more painful spending cuts on the eve of a crucial vote to qualify for a massive bailout.

A small group of local residents is working together to encourage and promote random acts of kindness throughout Calaveras County.

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.

Human remains uncovered in Northern California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been preliminarily identified as one of his victims, and authorities continued to search another site for the remains of as many as 10 people.

California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been preliminarily identified as one of his victims, and authorities continued to search another site for the remains of as many as 10 people.

The Calaveras County Health Department reports that eight cases of HFMD have been identified in students at Jenny Lind Elementary School.

Back in 2001, Wesley Shermantine was convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of 16-year-old Chevelle Wheeler in Calaveras County, California.

More human remains have been found in the area near the former property of convicted killer Wesley Shermantine, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department said Friday afternoon.

San Joaquin County sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia says specially trained dogs led searchers to a partial human skull and bones in Calaveras County around 11 a.m. Friday.

The ribbons are to be passed on to residents that are seen doing an "act of kindness." This is the second year that ribbons will be passed out throughout the school system.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thursday approved a bank's request to sell the 280-acre Trinitas golf course property at a foreclosure sale.

A human scull was discovered by deputies searching a rural property in San Andreas, according to John Vanderheiden, whose daughter was murdered by the "Speed Freak Killers." During an interview with CBS13 on Thursday morning, Vanderheiden received a call from the San Joaquin Sheriff's Department saying a skull had been found.

Investigators are looking for bodies on a property in rural Calaveras County that used to belong to the parents of a convicted serial killer.

San Joaquin County Sheriff's deputies searched for human remains that may belong to two victims of convicted murders Wes Shermantine and Loren Herzog in Calaveras County Wednesday.

Testimony in the murder trial of James Allison Livezey opened Tuesday morning in San Andreas with conflicting, even confusing statements on a crucial question: Did Livezey hit Marvin Brown? Livezey, 41, is charged with fatally injuring Brown, 52, on June 29 at Brown's home in the Sequoia Rose Mobile Home Park in Valley Springs.

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The Calaveras County Public Health Department is warning residents that the unseasonably warm winter this year means ticks are more active and thus more likely to spread Lyme disease.

The Calaveras County Public Health Department has received reports of gastrointestinal illness among local students.A Illnesses include vomiting and diarrhea.A These are symptoms found with gastrointestinal illness caused by a virus.