On this week’s Valley Edition , we continue our series looking at how people are processing the magnitude of this pandemic. Today we hear from 79-year-old Dezie Woods-Jones. She’s the state president of Black Women Organized for Political Action and a former vice mayor of Oakland. Woods-Jones lives in Madera …
Read More »She Was Released From Mesa Verde With No Place To Go: A Friend She Made Inside Helped Out
Karla Lopez, 32, currently lives in Stockton with her friend Lilian Marquez. The two met at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield nine months ago and have been friends since then. But Lopez’ journey to get here started way back in November of 2018. That’s when a caravan …
Read More »New Biography Examines How Pat And Jerry Brown Helped Shape California
Acclaimed biographer Miriam Pawel’s newest work tells the story of the most influential family in California political history. In The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Helped Shape a Nation, she traces the rise of Governor Pat Brown and his son Governor Jerry Brown, and …
Read More »Here’s how K-9 Maverick helped police arrest Los Banos man who’s been on the run
A 33-year-old Los Banos man who has been on the run was arrested Saturday after being chased by officers and K-9 Maverick, the Los Banos Police Department reported. Officers found … Click to Continue »
Read More »These 911 calls helped Los Banos Police solve several vandalism cases
Three teenagers were arrested Wednesday night after they were caught breaking windows of a home under construction, according to Los Banos Police. A 20-year-old Los Banos man also was arrested … Click to Continue »
Read More »Former Los Banos school trustee who helped expose corruption injured in crash
A former Los Banos school trustee who is a star witness in a corruption case involving the school district suffered minor injuries after his truck veered off a Merced County … Click to Continue »
Read More »How two odd little social media videos helped end a robbery spree in Merced
The videos by themselves are unremarkable. One clip shows a handgun being placed in a car’s glove box. A second clip shows a large wad of cash. Together, the social … Click to Continue »
Read More »Watch the video that helped end a robbery spree in Merced
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Read More »This Los Banos man stole a car, police say. And this car technology helped catch him
With an assist from a remote car-security company, the Los Banos police arrested a man this week who was in the driver’s seat of a stolen car, according to officers. … Click to Continue »
Read More »These Merced students didn’t just watch the eclipse. They helped record data for NASA
At 10:18 a.m. Monday, students at Yosemite High School in Merced used a number of methods to turn their eyes toward the sun and view the peak of the Great … Click to Continue »
Read More »Empty guard towers helped Atwater prison inmate escape, union official claims
The recent inmate escape at U.S Penitentiary Atwater could have been thwarted if staff was still manning the prison towers, according to a representative of the prison guards’ union. “I … Click to Continue »
Read More »Bee exclusive: Affidavit tells how acquaintance of rampage shooter helped him escape motel killing
After a security guard was killed at Motel 6, an acquaintance of Kori Ali Muhammad tried to take evidence from the scene, but was stopped by hotel security and a … Click to Continue »
Read More »In book he helped write, Condit says he did not woo – or kill – Chandra Levy
Those faithful to the memory of Condit Country glory days of the 1980s and ’90s, when Gary Condit seemed to enjoy rock-star status around Modesto before his stunning fall from … Click to Continue »
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