A 54-year-old Livingston tax preparer pleaded guilty in Fresno federal court Monday to one count of tax evasion and one count of structuring bank transactions in order to conceal her income, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
Atwater High plans freshman open house
Merced firefighters responded to several fires over the weekend -- and they say some may be the result of arson.
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ATWATER — A wanted parolee was taken into custody Saturday, but not before a handful of family members tried to stop his arrest, police reported.
LAS VEGAS Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday.
SAN JOSE, Calif. California Lottery officials say two people are holding winning lottery tickets worth $2,309,228 after their Powerball tickets matched five of six winning numbers.
DES MOINES, Iowa A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.
BIG BEAR, Calif. Search and rescue crews have found a woman's body in the same area near Big Bear where a female hiker went missing early this week during a day hike.
TRUCKEE, Calif. Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed a pilot near the Sierra town of Truckee.
INDIANAPOLIS Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.
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The state criminal case against three former executives of the defunct nonprofit Firm Build came to a resolution Friday, with the trio pleading no contest to felony charges of exposing high school students to cancer-causing asbestos.
MERCED Merced County’s unemployment rate continues to drop, though it remains well above state and national averages. According to numbers released Friday, April’s unemployment rate was 15.5 percent, compared with a revised 17.2 percent the previous month and 18.0 percent in April 2012. Drops year-over-year signal growth in the economy.
