A Merced County orchid grower has agreed to pay more than $ 100,000 for threatening to fire pregnant employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Monday. Dash Dream Plant Inc. … Click to Continue »
Read More »It’s prime time to get a job at Amazon. More than 12,000 to be hired in California
It’s prime season to get a job at Amazon. The online retail giant has announced its holiday hiring plans, with more than 120,000 seasonal jobs to be filled across the … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced man arrested in double homicide cold case more than 4 years old, police say
Merced police arrested a man they say is responsible for the double homicide of two men more than four years ago, officers said on Wednesday. Police arrested Rafael Lopez, 29, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Two arrested with more than 1/4-pound of meth, Los Banos police say
Police found a quarter-pound of methamphetamine at a house near Los Banos, officers said Wednesday. While serving a search warrant, agents with the Merced Area Gang Narcotic Enforcement Team found … Click to Continue »
Read More »The EPA acts more like a friend and less like a regulator of utilities
The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday, Oct. 11: The premise underlying nearly a half century of U.S. environmental law is that no one has a … Click to Continue »
Read More »Police seek more information in burglary of popular Los Banos establishment
Los Banos police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect caught on video surveillance during the time the popular downtown Los Banos Drug Fountain was burglarized. The burglary … Click to Continue »
Read More »More tri-tip coming your way soon. Popular rural dining spot plans city moves
When it rains tri-tip, it pours tri-tip. First there’s news Vintage Faire Mall is getting a Buckhorn Grill California BBQ, known for its tri-tip. Now locally owned The Tri-Tipery, which … Click to Continue »
Read More »‘If we don’t get started…we will have more than a crisis on our hands’
State Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, and other lawmakers supported a package of bills that seeks to encourage more affordable housing construction in California. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Northwest forests will get more and bigger wildfires with climate change
BEACON ROCK STATE PARK, Wash. –– As night fell last Monday in the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon slopes burned as if carpet-bombed from above. Winds acted like bellows in … Click to Continue »
Read More »It’s been more than 2 years since Merced cab driver was killed. Family ready for trial
A jury has been selected for a trial set to begin Friday in the 2015 death of a well-known taxi driver and former Dos Palos police officer. Joseph E. Castrillo, … Click to Continue »
Read More »More women in California prisons are trying to kill themselves. What can the state do to protect them?
California’s corrections department’s failure to prepare when it moved hundreds of high-security female inmates from a Central Valley prison to one in inland Southern California may have contributed to a … Click to Continue »
Read More »What a vandal did that cost Sonora store more than $50,000 in food
An act of vandalism cost the Sonora Walmart store more than $ 50,000 in perishable foods, police report. A Sonora resident, 42-year-old Elizabeth Cutting, is sought in the power line interruption … Click to Continue »
Read More »We don’t need more Love Canal crises
It has been almost 40 years since the nation heard the cries for help from Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where a school was built on a … Click to Continue »
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