San Joaquin County News

The focus on two men accused of killing a Tracy woman in August shifted Thursday from their status as a married couple to the bloody murder scene they're charged with leaving behind.

The litigation accused the state of following state laws about environmental impact when announcing a planned 1734-bed, one-billion-dollar prison medical facility to be built near Stockton .

LAWSUIT FILED OVER PLANS FOR NEW PRISONS: Stockton and San Joaquin County officials have sued the state over plans to build three new prisons on the outskirts of Stockton.

A program that helps young people earn their high school diploma while receiving job training will receive $70,000 in federal stimulus money, Rep.

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

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.

Four people accused of torturing a teenage boy in Tracy are set to face triall next year.

The Supreme Court has thrown out, for the third time, a federal appeals court ruling favorable to a convicted murderer in California whose case has bounced around the courts for a quarter-century. The justices, in an unsigned opinion today, moved to reinstate the death penalty for Fernando Belmontes in the beating death of a 19-year-old woman in ...

Cal Fire announced recently that the peak wildfire season in Northern California will end Monday, but fire officials are urging residents to remain vigilant in preventing the destructive blazes.

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

San Joaquin County has joined a growing list of counties that declared a state of emergency for the H1N1 flu, which gives health officials extra authority to get more of the needed vaccine.

Too much demand...too little vaccine. A shortage of H1-N1 flu shots is forcing San Joaquin County to suspend its free clinics early.

The Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit, which oversees a large swath of the Bay Area, plans to declare an end to the fire season Monday morning.

People lined up in Lodi Friday morning for a chance to get a vaccine against the H1N1 flu bug.

Five suspected members of a violent street gang arrested by police Thursday are facing murder and attempted murder charges, two of them in connection with a 2007 drive-by shooting of toddlers in South Hayward.

Free government-surplus food will be distributed to qualifying low-income residents Thursday at a number of San Joaquin County locations.

Without the generosity of strangers, a record number of families may go without a turkey dinner this Thanksgiving.

San Joaquin County declared a local state of emergency Tuesday because of the growing threat of the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, and its impact on already strained medical services.

Health department officials said in a letter to the board of supervisors that the virus threatens public health and is putting a dangerous strain on medical resources throughout the county.

A California plastic surgeon accused of molesting dozens of patients, many while unconscious, has pleaded not guilty to 64 felony sex charges.Forty-seven-year-old Peter Chi of Tracy entered the plea Monday in San Joaquin County Superior Court.Authorities say Chi inappropriately touched more than 30 female patients, including a 15-year-old girl, ...