San Joaquin County News

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday asked the district attorney to file misdemeanor charges of theft and disturbing the peace in a dispute Sunday involving campaign signature gathering in east Stockton, authorities said.

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.

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to six consecutive life terms for killing six women throughout Central California during the 1970s and '80s.Seventy-year-old Roger Reece Kibbe was serving a life sentence for the 1987 strangling of a teen prostitute when he pleaded guilty in September to the six other slayings.As part of his plea deal, Kibbe ...

A man was arrested in Lodi early Tuesday for allegedly firing a rifle. San Joaquin County Sheriff's investigators say 42-year-old George Mathew Espinoza was arrested at his motel room in the 64-hundred block of West Banner Street.

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

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.

Folks in San Joaquin County need to be on the lookout for a missing guide dog puppy.

Anthony Adell Hubbard is sought in a San Joaquin County homicide and a later shooting.

San Joaquin County sheriff's investigators say the man they're looking for in connection with a deadly shooting in Acampo Saturday night is considered armed and dangerous.

A 60-year-old man has died from his injuries after, deputies said, he suffered multiple gunshot wounds in Stockton.

The Tracy woman accused of raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu now has a second attorney helping with her death penalty case.

The body of Army Spc. Kyle Coumas, who died last week in Afghanistan, is to arrive Friday at Stockton Metropolitan Airport, a funeral official said.

San Joaquin County sheriff's detectives are looking in the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of a 60-year-old man Wednesday night.

The San Joaquin County Health District is out of the H1N1 vaccine, leaving 20,000 schoolchildren on hold for their immunizations.

A young soldier from San Joaquin County has died while serving in Afghanistan. The Defense Department announced the death of 22-year-old Kyle Coumas who was from the town of Lockford.

Over 200 students, business and community representatives, members of faith-based organizations, educators, school administrators, law enforcement and local government officials, gathered on Saturday, October 24, 2009, for Stockton's Promise Education Summit.

It's been a week since as much as 3 inches of rain and wind gusts topping 50 mph walloped San Joaquin County, but many area farmers are still dealing with the aftermath: toppled vineyards, shattered trees, harvest delays and moisture-fed diseases.

A Tracy man swept up in the shackled teen case argues the 16-year-old boy's statements can't be used against him, according to court papers his attorney filed challenging the charges.

The recent detection of the light brown apple moth in Tracy and Acampo comes just as the battle over how to deal with the crop-destroying creatures is heating up.

A Stockton man was shot and killed while defending a relative and a man wearing a security guard costume was being sought after a fight led to gunfire outside a Halloween party early Saturday, a San Joaquin County Sheriff's spokesman said.