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Outdoors notebook.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Ottesen Oct. 10--Trees displaying brilliant fall colors Aspen trees are displaying their brilliant fall colors -- the most vivid reds, browns and yellows -- along the Highway 395 corridor between Walker and June Lakes, on the eastern Sierra. Field scout ...
Manteca fire chief to retire.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Anna Kaplan Oct. 10--MANTECA -- In 1977, the population of Manteca was less than 20,000 and a lone fire station struggled to serve the city's needs; 1977 was also the year George Quaresma joined the department. On Friday, 30 years after he first sped through ...
Governor's focus turns to health care: He outlines proposal on same day water bond plan withers.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Hank Shaw Oct. 10--SACRAMENTO -- With hopes for a legislative solution to California's water supply problems slipping away, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger turned Tuesday to the other tough topic of this fall's special session: health care. Schwarzenegger has now ...
The Record, Stockton, Calif., Michael Fitzgerald column: We work together, or Valley dies.(Column)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Fitzgerald Oct. 10--The San Joaquin Valley falls behind the rest of California and the nation in earnings, employment, education, roads, pollution and health care. It's unfair. It's un-Californian. Social equity should be inherent in a progressive ...
Man stabbed to death at halfway house.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Anna Kaplan Oct. 10--MANTECA -- One man is dead of multiple stab wounds and a 63-year-old man charged with murder three years ago is suspected in the killing, which is Manteca's first slaying of the year. Both previously were mental patients at Napa State ...
Lawsuit filed by Franklin parents: Section head named in move that follows probe of school's football team.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Sudhalter Oct. 10--The parents of two Franklin High varsity football players from American Samoa filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Territory's High Court on Thursday in the wake of an investigation by the Sac-Joaquin Section. The plaintiffs -- Faau and ...
'Hordes' clean pound out of pet microchips.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: David Siders Oct. 10--STOCKTON -- The city did not expect its residents to so enthusiastically abide by the law when the City Council last month required that Stockton pet owners microchip their cats and dogs. But hundreds, "hordes of people," one official said, came for ...
County puts elections office move on ice for year.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: David Siders Oct. 10--STOCKTON -- San Joaquin County policymakers Tuesday put off for more than a year a recommendation to fold the county elections office into the technology department, fearing a reorganization so close to next year's elections could disrupt them. ...
Acampo man gets life for killing: Killer says he's sorry; victim's family lashes out.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Scott Smith Oct. 10--STOCKTON -- An Acampo man learned Tuesday that he will spend the rest of his life in state prison with no possibility of release for strangling his former girlfriend last year in an act that also killed the couple's unborn child. Timon ...
Coach hopes Cougars pick up veteran's hatred of losing.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Jagdip Dhillon Oct. 10--MANTECA -- Chris Handsor defines himself as a winner. That alone makes him an attractive player. Coach Bernie Lilavois hopes Handsor helps improve the fortune of the California Cougars, which have finished at the bottom of ...
Crackdown on S.J. prostitution turns to the Web.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jake Armstrong Oct. 2--STOCKTON -- Click, click, hook -- the oldest profession has adapted to the digital age. Working girls once strutted city streets to ply their trade. But a large number of prostitutes have forded the digital divide and are offering their ...
Retirement, widowhood often inspire seniors to find smaller homes.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Rick Brewer Oct. 2--The real estate market being what it is, this might not be the most opportune moment for seniors to consider selling their homes and downsizing into something more suitably snug. But Lucille Mihalic made it work for her. Four years after ...
The Record, Stockton, Calif., Lori Gilbert column: Playoffs will have hard time topping the playoff.(Column)
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Lori Gilbert Oct. 2--Random thoughts for a Tuesday morning: --The playoffs will be hard-pressed to match that wild wild-card playoff. --Props to Colorado fans who never stopped chanting MVP for Matt Holliday, who knew he had something in him even ...
Wife turns in husband for alleged counterfeiting.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jake Armstrong Oct. 2--TRACY -- Debate over whose fury is greater -- that of hell or a woman scorned -- may be settled for at least one man. Justin Graham McBee, 34, was in a room at the Tracy Inn at 24 W. 11th St. on Sunday, when his wife, who suspected he ...
BRIEF: Police track pumpkin pilferers.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Anna Kaplan Oct. 2--LATHROP -- A wild night of pumpkin stealing turned into a corn maze chase for a group of teenagers Saturday. Several people in a GMC pickup were spotted about 7:30 p.m. Saturday driving around and swiping pumpkins from the patch at ...
Fines increase for speeding on Hwy. 12: Governor signs legislation hours after man dies.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Hank Shaw Oct. 2--SACRAMENTO -- Blood Alley claimed another victim hours before politicians gathered to celebrate Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signing legislation that will double traffic fines along the stretch of Highway 12 between Interstates 5 and 80. The ...
Court assigns another judge to handle Dutra resentencing case.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Scott Smith Oct. 2--STOCKTON -- Sarah Dutra's resentencing for her part in a high-profile slaying in 2001 was delayed Monday until early December so a new judge assigned to the case can read thousands of pages trial transcripts. The resentencing had been set ...
Fire brings down lodge, but spirits remain intact: Historic resort will continue to thrive, official says.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Dana M. Nichols Oct. 2--KENNEDY MEADOWS -- The historic Kennedy Meadows Resort lodge, seven cabins and several other buildings were destroyed in a fire that began about 1 a.m. Monday. Tuolumne County fire spokesman Craig Hart said fire escaping from a flue ...
Nut crop bigger, almonds smaller.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Reed Fujii Oct. 2--While California's almond crop is expected to be huge this year -- a record 1.3 billion pounds or more than 4 pounds per U.S. resident on average -- the individual nuts themselves are reportedly smaller than usual. "We're having a great ...
Workouts get players ready for camp.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Scott Linesburgh Oct. 2--STOCKTON -- Tim Verbeek is happy he finally has some company at Oak Park Ice Arena. The Thunder's veteran forward has been in Stockton for the past 10 days waiting for Friday's start of training camp. In the past few days, ...