Stanislaus County News

A recent report from the nonprofit website HealthyCal says California counties are in a for a rude awakening, particularly when it comes to mental health.

A Modesto funeral home -- accused of taking too long to cremate bodies after accepting payments from victims' families -- remains under fire, but for now, an outside company has stepped up to do the 17 cremations for free.

Info: The Genealogical Society of Stanislaus County monthly meeting will feature guest speaker Angela Kraft talking about "What's in a Name?" For more, call Bev at 526-5009. Info: The Oakdale Garden Club will hold its May meeting in the Taylor family's garden beginning with brunch.

The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the basement chamber of Tenth Street Place, 1010 10th St., Modesto.

Data Path's co-founder David Darmstandler contends that Stanislaus County would benefit if more high-tech firms could be attracted here and helped to expand.

Merced's unemployment rate for April declined to 15.5 percent, according to numbers released Friday by the Employment Development Department.

A judge has rejected the city's bid to be annexed into the Turlock Irrigation District, which supplies its electricity.

Prosecutors Thursday filed new charges against a 53-year-old Turlock man found not guilty of murder in the death of another man in a suspected road rage case from 2010.

And it’ll be pounding hard at the Stanislaus County Fair July 17 when longtime favorite Huey Lewis and The News takes the free stage.

The day after dozens of Stanislaus County gang members were picked up on warrants, jailed for violating their parole or probation, and stripped of illegal weapons and drugs, more than a quarter were back on the streets.

The Second Harvest Food Bank of San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties will receive a $45,000 grant from Walmart to help local families and children in need, thanks to all those who voted for it on a Walmart website.

California's health exchange has awarded $37 million in grants to educate up to 9 million consumers about the Affordable Care Act, with most of the funding going to outreach plans targeting a dozen or more counties.

The effort to prevent drownings will run from March 25 to Sept. 1. • Approved an agreement for Modesto City Schools to use the equestrian area at the Sheriff's Operation Center on Hackett Road for FFA and 4-H Club instruction

A new trial to resolve a deputy's discrimination claims kicked off Tuesday, with Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson expected to testify next week.

Neighbors who live in the La Loma neighborhood of Modesto say someone is poisoning cats that are dumped in the area.

A senior management consultant for the Stanislaus County Chief Executive Office will take over leadership of Stanislaus County’s smallest city.

After four arrests for driving under the influence, a Modesto man was sentenced to six years and eight months in state prison, Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager announced Monday.

Hart was the Valley Home Joint School District superintendent and principal when he was arrested in 2011 on two charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14.

Oscar Zeta Acosta — hero to the Chicano movement, hard-living pal of Hunter S. Thompson — first raised hell in Riverbank.

Riverbank is diverging from tradition in using a private vendor to conduct the June 4 special election, but voters might not notice much difference.