A robber knocked down a Salvation Army bell ringer in Modesto, Calif. A struggle ensued and the robber made off with the man's kettle and the money inside.
On home leave from Afghanistan, a Navy medic pays a surprise visit to his children at grade school in Modesto, Calif. The Modesto Bee recorded the medic's touching reunion with his daughter on video.
A 65 year-old man was forced to remove his pants before being carjacked in the Winco parking lot on Plaza Parkway Tuesday night.
Semen found in Chandra Levy's panties matches the DNA of former Modesto-area congressman Gary Condit, an FBI examiner testified Wednesday in Washington.
The Modesto Police Department was evacuated Wednesday evening after a man who was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine broke a sprinkler in an interrogation room, flooding the downtown station, authorities said.
A 24-year-old woman was booked into jail after police in Sonora, Calif., said she flung a Taco Bell Burrito Supreme at an officer and tried to spit on him.
A San Leandro man trying out a Harley Davidson motorcycle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a home in Modesto on Saturday morning. The man was hospitalized but expected to survive, police said.
An army of thousands of armyworms has invaded a home in the small central California town of Empire, creeping out the residents and generally making a mess. "This has been a nightmare, an absolute nightmare," said Donna Howry. "They're crawling everywhere."
A man who shoplifted merchandise from a Home Depot ran out of the store to his friends in a car, and they wouldn't drive him away. So he had to run away on foot.
Oh, my God! YouTube has changed Paul Vasquez's life. The 47-year-old Californian is the Internet's latest viral star for his trippy video commentary about a double rainbow. As millions of people watch the video, Vasquez has hired an agent.
A Good Samaritan rescues a woman and her 1-year-old daughter after their car plunged into a canal near Escalon, Calif.
The switch was flipped, but the tree didn't light up. City officials in Modesto, Calif., played an inadvertent Scrooge, nixing decorations for a large evergreen tree downtown to save the cost of buying new lights.
If San Francisco and Oakland can have the Bay Bridge World Series, and the Cardinals and Royals the I-70 series, the Yankees and Phillies can lay claim to the New Jersey Turnpike World Series.
A gang member who was 14 when on a shooting spree in Modesto, Calif., killed a man was sentenced Friday, Oct. 9, to 132 years to life in prison.
The city of Modesto, Calif., saw a spike in violent deaths in the month of July. How did so many guns get into the hands of so many murderers? Police say the guns used usually are burgled from homes of law-abiding citizens.
Roy Wasden, who as chief of police oversaw the investigation into the death of Laci Peterson in Modesto, Calif., is leaving law enforcement. Wasden was appointed city manager in the nearby town of Turlock on Tuesday night.
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