- Atwater prison policies leave staff in grave danger, correctional officers say
- Fewer customers visit fireworks booths
- Homicide suspect found dead in peach orchard
- Police ID teen victim, mother, stepfather
- Hundreds mourn slain prison officer
- Road to Yosemite reopens, clearing way for tourism
- Breathing un-easy: Officials warn of disastrous health effects from fires
- Fires continue to burn across Mariposa County, state
- Autopsy says stab wound to the heart killed Atwater penitentiary guard
- Video: Blazes scorch 960 acres in Mariposa County
- Passenger train sparks several fires along tracks
- Acid spill sickens 21 at Delhi campus
It was 3:30 in the afternoon — count time on housing unit 5A at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater. Jose Rivera was a half-hour short of finishing his shift.
Denise Pursley and Kristi Hamel sat underneath a blue plastic canopy next to the Merced Bears Wrestling Club's fireworks booth Wednesday, waiting for customers to arrive at any moment.
DELHI -- The man who apparently shot his girlfriend to death in rural Atwater over the weekend was found dead Tuesday inside a black Lincoln Navigator in a peach orchard with a bullet wound to his head, Merced County sheriff's investigators said.
Merced police have identified a 17-year-old girl who was killed Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide as Eileen Her.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials paid their respects to U.S. Penitentiary Atwater Correctional Officer Jose Rivera during a service on Friday at St. Patrick's Parish in Merced.
MARIPOSA -- A parade of long vehicles, including tour buses and tow trucks, cruised around the Highway 140 rockslide Friday for the first time in more than two years.
As the Central Valley and Northern California areas settled into what promises to be a week of hazy air, more attention was being paid to what that could mean in terms of health.
Eight homes were evacuated Tuesday as blazes that have consumed about 1,800 acres in Mariposa County ran ahead of a small army of firefighters.
A stab wound to the heart took the life of Jose Rivera, a 22-year-old federal correctional officer at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater, according to preliminary autopsy results released Tuesday by the Merced County Sheriff's Department.
PONDEROSA BASIN -- Lightning-sparked fires spread across southern Mariposa County on Monday, prompting concerns about evacuations and placing firefighters at every driveway on a dirt mountain road.
An Amtrak train with faulty wheel equipment started numerous grass fires along train tracks in areas of Le Grand and Planada on Friday, prompting a response from several fire agencies, according to Cal Fire firefighters.
DELHI -- Students complaining of eye, nose and throat irritation at Delhi High School were medically evaluated and sent home wearing yellow jumpsuits Thursday, following an incident involving noxious acid fumes at the school.
