In late December, Clementine Sanders called her son at Coalinga State Hospital to make sure he had received her Christmas card. That’s when his bunkmates informed her that her son, 58-year-old Shannon Starr, had died three weeks earlier. “I was just totally shocked,” she says. “Nobody called me.” Since then, …
Read More »His dad told him to pull up his pants. The son pulled a knife, police say
A male student was arrested in Los Banos on Friday morning after pulling a knife on his father, the Los Banos Police Department reported. The student, who was in the … Click to Continue »
Read More »‘Speak American,’ a teacher told students. So dozens walked out of school in protest.
When video surfaced of a teacher at Cliffside Park High School telling a student to “speak American” in class, many at the school took it personally. The short video, which … Click to Continue »
Read More »A Merced County company told employees ‘no more babies’ or you’re fired
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 »Big rig falls off Pacheco Pass, causes major delays. Here’s what the driver told CHP.
Eastbound traffic on Highway 152 on Pacheco Pass was delayed all day Tuesday as authorities were recovering a big rig that overturned hundreds of feet off the road. The California … Click to Continue »
Read More »For homework, a teacher told 5th-graders to imagine ‘you are a member of the KKK’
A South Carolina elementary school teacher is on administrative leave after she asked students to role play as Ku Klux Klan members after the Civil War for a homework assignment. … Click to Continue »
Read More »He told Atwater officers he crashed his van on purpose to ‘summon police.’ It worked.
A 30-year-old man lashing out in a methamphetamine-fueled paranoid fury smashed his vehicle into an Atwater business early Thursday, according to the Atwater Police Department. Michael Duran told police he … Click to Continue »
Read More »California’s rise from the drought as told through satellite images
Not so long ago, California was in the middle of a deep drought but in June its snow water equivalent rose to a heaping 170 percent of normal. NASA shows in its latest video that satellites were capturing that change. … Click to Continue »
Read More »He told Atwater police he broke into a home to take a shower
A 27-year-old Atwater man was arrested over the weekend after he apparently tried to break into a Drakeley Avenue home to “take a shower,” the Atwater Police Department reported. Jorge … Click to Continue »
Read More »Stories told of targeted African American students at Modesto schools
Mother, grandmother speak out about hate crimes against their students One in high school, one in junior high, lives changed by bigotry of schoolmates Both say it’s time to face that hatred lives on in this modern time, this diverse place … Click to Continue »
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Mother Says Child’s Teacher Told Her to Wear Sweater in Severe Heat Over Dress Code Violation
While the Central Valley baked in temperatures of more than 100 degrees Monday, a parent said her child’s teacher made her wear a sweater all day because of a dress code violation. The student is a third grader at Sheridan Elementary in Orange Cove. Superintendent Juan Garza with the Kings Canyon Unified School …
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