Approximately 1,150 Yosemite Facelift volunteers collected approximately 5,000 pounds of litter and 15,000 pounds of concrete, asphalt, and other large trash, at the ninth annual Yosemite Facelift event in Yosemite National Park. Dozens of miles of roadway, riverbed, and trails were cleaned. The annual event was held in the park …
Read More »From Trash To Skate Park: Inside Fresno’s “Historic” Landfill
National Historic Landmarks are typically associated with our country’s history—sites like the infamous island Alcatraz or Manzanar, one of the camps where Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during World War II. But in Southwest Fresno, one landmark owes its historic status to trash. It’s a landfill—at least, it used to be. In …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Yosemite Has A Trash Problem. What’s Being Done About It?
Yosemite National Park has a trash problem. The more than 4 million people who visit every year and those that live in Yosemite leave 2,200 tons of garbage there annually. The park service is working to decrease the amount of that trash that ends up in the Mariposa County Landfill. …
Read More »Hearing set for Bay Area man accused of murdering Chinese woman and dumping body in trash bin
A hearing to determine if William Li – who is accused of murdering a Chinese woman involved in human trafficking and dumping her body in an alley trash bin in … Click to Continue »
Read More »Bay Area man accused of murdering woman found in trash bin may be free on bail this week
A Merced Superior Court judge on Tuesday agreed to reset bail for a San Francisco man who is accused of murdering a Chinese woman involved in human trafficking and dumping … Click to Continue »
Read More »How Burning Man’s Trash Is One Kern County City’s Treasure
The city of Arvin, south of Bakersfield, is struggling to stay healthy. Nearly a quarter of its 20,000 residents fall below the poverty line, and surrounding Kern County has one of the highest diabetes burdens in the state. As part of an ongoing effort to get kids out of the …
Read More »Bay Area man charged with murder for body found in Merced trash bin
Merced County prosecutors filed murder charges Tuesday against a 50-year-old San Francisco man in connection with a slaying of a woman whose body was found in a Merced trash bin. … Click to Continue »
Read More »In February, Merced police found woman’s body in a trash bin. Friday, they arrested suspect.
A murder mystery that began two months ago when the body of a 30-year-old Chinese immigrant was found in a trash bin in a dark Merced alleyway ended Friday with … Click to Continue »
Read More »In February, Merced police found an unidentified woman’s body in a trash bin. On Friday, they arrested a suspect.
A murder mystery that began two months ago when the body of a 30-year-old Chinese immigrant was found in a trash bin in a dark Merced alleyway ended Friday with … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced police release physical description of victim found in trash bin
Merced police believe the woman whose body was dumped in a trash bin last month in a G Street alleyway was not from Merced County. The woman, whose name has … Click to Continue »
Read More »Trash talk: Researchers come up with idea to better track ocean garbage
Imagine what’s known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and what comes to mind are floating bottles, flip flops and coolers blown about by wind and currents. In reality, the … Click to Continue »
Read More »Body found in trash bin is homicide, Merced police say
Merced police have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a woman whose body was found on Feb. 6 in a trash bin behind a Rite Aid store. In … Click to Continue »
Read More »Body found in Merced trash bin
The death of a person whose body was found in a bag inside a large trash bin early Monday in Merced is considered “very suspicious,” but police investigators stopped short … Click to Continue »
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