Top Stories

Featured

Check us out on Facebook!

What do Sun-Star readers have to say about current events? Click here and check it out.

We want your feedback!

Is there something you like or don't like about the new site? Click here to give us your thoughts...

Top Photos & Videos

MORE > Photos Submit a Photo

Local

Patterson Police Chief Tori Hughes

Patterson chief to challenge Christianson for sheriff's post

Sheriff’s lieutenant and Patterson Police Chief Tori Hughes has stepped into the race to unseat the man whom she testified against in a civil trial. The 14-year Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department veteran announced her candidacy for sheriff...

Top Jobs

View All

Find a Home

3813 Avocet Dr.
$98,000 Merced
4 bed, 2 full bath. Home auction (06/30/2013 - Nationwide...
VIEW ALL

Find a Car

Search New Cars
New Car Buying Guide Green Guide Sell Your Car

Sports

BEA AHBECK CASSON/bahbeck@mercedsunstar.com Buhach Colony's Jessica Silva during practice in Atwater Wednesday. (11-28-12)

BC star signs with Indiana Tech

Jessica Silva said it was the Indiana Tech sales pitch that won her over. 6 minutes ago

Opinion

Gov. Jerry Brown celebrates the budget deal with Democratic legislative leaders Darrell Steinberg, left, and John A. Pérez.

Our View: Bills trample on our right to know

The current Legislature — and the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown — is shaping up to be the worst in recent memory for transparent government...

State

Ashley "Blossom" Marion of Happily Ever Laughter pumps up balloons Saturday while walking in the parade. Thousands participated, many on edge anticipating a Supreme Court ruling on Prop. 8.

Prop. 8 ruling imminent; gay marriage advocates plan Sacramento events

Opponents of California's Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, plan a slate of activities in Sacramento to coincide with the...

Living & Entertainment

FILE - A child health nurse holds up a vial and box for the HPV vaccine, brand name Gardasil, at a clinic in Kinston, N.C. on Monday March 5, 2012. A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus has cut infections in teen girls by half, according to a study released Wednesday, June 19, 2013. The study confirms research done before the HPV vaccine came on the market in 2006. But this is the first evidence of how well it works now that it is in general use.

HPV vaccine cut infection by half in teen girls

A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus cut infections in teen girls by half in the first study to measure the shot's impact since it came on the...

Business

FILE - In this May 27, 2013 photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Hashimoto earlier said and tweeted that sex slavery by Japan’s Imperial Army before and during World War II was a “necessary” wartime evil. He also used Twitter to post his suggestion that the U.S. military patronize adult entertainment to help reduce sex crimes committed by American troops.

Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians

On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times...

Nation/World

In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo Zita, a liger, half-lioness, half-tiger, carries her one month old liliger cub in the Novosibirsk Zoo. The cub's father is a lion, Sam.

AP PHOTOS: 3 little liligers cavort at Russian zoo

The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, is home to a unique animal - the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and...

Ads by Yahoo!