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Ask Winton residents about the needs of their community, and some might say it needs more good men like Ernest Solis.
Whether its coordinating graffiti cleanup efforts with at-risk youth around town, helping a needy family with food for the week, or fixing broken windows on the home of a senior citizen, volunteerism isn't an extracurricular activity for Solis -- it's a way of life.
A 21-year-old man is dead after a drive-by shooting Saturday afternoon in Dos Palos, the Merced County Sheriff's Department reported.
Running a small pharmacy in a world of big chain-store competitors is tough.
Jeff Hill, owner of Valley Prescription and Compounding Pharmacy in Merced, bought the little 13th Street pharmacy in June 2009. He and his partner, Andy Keenan, immediately started trying to make the shop better.Three people were killed and one was seriously injured in a pair of separate solo vehicle crashes in Merced County this weekend.
A big-play passing offense that can carry a team even when the running game struggles. A defensive front that can contain the spread and pressure the quarterback.
For many of us, Labor Day marks the end of a three-day weekend, which falls at the end of a of a hot week. If cooling off in the water sounds appealing, here's some nearby places where you can enjoy the water.
I sometimes go home for lunch during the workweek, and of late I have been treated to a cacophony of sound from the G Street construction project.
MARIPOSA -- It was a brisk, late-summer morning in New York City as the masses headed for work, school and myriad other destinations. The summer crowds were gone, the leaves had yet to turn, but the promise of another beautiful autumn seemed just around the corner.
A 25-year-old man known to law enforcement as the “Band-Aid Bandit” pleaded no contest this morning to a string of robberies that targeted eight stores from Modesto to Turlock during summer 2008.
In the dusty foothills east of Bakersfield, college students and community organizers are taking the values and words of farm labor leader Cesar E. Chavez and applying them to helping students in low income areas throughout the Southwest.
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