Amid scenes that resembled 1960s antiwar and civil rights demonstrations, the University of California Regents approved a two-step 32 percent increase in student fees Thursday.
The increase will first hit students over winter break, with a 15 percent hike for undergraduate students and a 2.6 percent increase for graduate academic students.The Merced Union High School District board endorsed two timelines for the completion of new construction projects in the district over the next five years.
WASHINGTON -- A 2,074-page health care bill unveiled in the Senate this week omits funding for proposed medical schools at UC Merced and other institutions.
One man has been booked on suspicion of firing a gun Wednesday near Charles Wright Elementary School, Merced police reported.
It took the better part of a year for Adrian Garcia and Rogelio Grijalva to make their dream a reality.
The Burn List doesn't get a Heisman vote and you know, it's probably for the best.
Some of you might remember the 1976 movie, "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," where Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into visiting Vienna and entering the psychiatric care of the equally famous Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Fans of the vampire flick "New Moon" lined up at Merced's UA Regency theater Thursday night for a midnight showing.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world, at least according to the program for "The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged)," running at Playhouse Merced's Black Box Theater through Nov. 29.
Golfers who want Modesto's Municipal Golf Course to survive a sub-par city budget should hit the fairway.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has rejected three grape growers' challenge to a mandatory advertising campaign for California table grapes.
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Meth in Merced For at least the last decade, methamphetamine has been the most widely abused illegal drug both across California and in Merced County. 
Sowing Hope: UC Merced's quest for a medical school As envisioned by its planners, a University of California medical school at Merced would produce a cadre of physicians poised to settle and practice here in the San Joaquin Valley. This report, which includes 12 stories and three audio-slideshows, is the result of a partnership between the Merced Sun-Star and the Center for California Health Care Journalism.  Poor People The Sun-Star takes a closer look at poverty in Merced County. This five-part series was published in September 2008. |
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