Isaac Gustavo Maldonado pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter charges in connection with the death last month of a 3-year-old Merced girl. The 22-year-old Livingston man … Click to Continue »
Read More »This is how Merced police found a man suspected in the hit-and-run death of a toddler
Merced police detectives pieced together surveillance video clips from half a dozen businesses and used those images to track down a 22-year-old Livingston man accused in the hit-and-run death of … Click to Continue »
Read More »How prosecutors decided on death penalty for Modesto defendant in Merced man’s shooting
Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty in a case against a Modesto man accused of murder in the 2015 shooting of a Merced man. Along with the … Click to Continue »
Read More »Skydiving centers face new state penalties under law shaped by death of Los Banos teen
A deadly accident at the Lodi Parachute Center shaped a law Gov. Jerry Brown signed Saturday that allows the state to fine and jail operators of skydiving companies if uncertified … Click to Continue »
Read More »Los Banos homicide suspect arrested, autopsy reveals cause of death
A suspect in a homicide from earlier this week tried to jump out a second-story window of a South Los Banos apartment when he was cornered by investigators Thursday afternoon, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Sheriff investigsting suspicious death in rural Merced County
Merced county Sheriff’s Office is investigating a suspicious death after a body was found in a canal near Arboleda Drive and Worden Avenue. … Click to Continue »
Read More »DA fought 2014 dismissal of DUI charges against suspect in Modesto sergeant’s death
Matthew David Gibbs, the Modesto resident facing homicide charges in a DUI-related crash that killed police Sgt. Mike Pershall on Tuesday evening, had a drunk-driving case dismissed in September 2014, … Click to Continue »
Read More »New climate change report likely to be ignored to death
The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday, Aug. 18: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially confirmed last week that 2016 was the Earth’s hottest year … Click to Continue »
Read More »Gustine dad cuts plea deal in infant’s death, avoiding potential life sentence
Andrew Sanchez, the Gustine father found not guilty earlier this year of killing his 9-month-old son, accepted a plea deal on Tuesday that will set him free from jail in … Click to Continue »
Read More »Undocumented immigrant’s death in Atwater prison investigated as suicide, staff says
The death of an inmate found Thursday in his Atwater cell is being investigated as a suicide, according to U.S. Penitentiary Atwater officials. Rodolfo Melendez-Garcia, 36, who was imprisoned for … Click to Continue »
Read More »Teen driver who streamed crash, sister’s death charged with DUI, gross vehicular manslaughter
Obdulia Sanchez, 18, of Stockton, appears over a video feed before Judge David Moranda, as she is arraigned on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter and DUI, at the Robert M. Falasco Justice Center, in Los Banos, Calif., on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Sanchez was driving a white Buick Century when …
Read More »Teen who streamed crash, sister’s death charged with DUI, gross vehicular manslaughter
The Merced County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday morning filed charges of gross vehicular manslaughter and DUI against Obdulia Sanchez, the teen driver accused of crashing her car while apparently … Click to Continue »
Read More »Death spiral? Obamacare insurers may be having ‘best year’ yet under ACA
New data on the improving finances of the nation’s individual insurers are calling into question repeated Republican claims that Obamacare marketplaces are collapsing under the Affordable Care Act. For months, … Click to Continue »
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