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CHRISTOPHER WINTERFELDT/cwinterfeldt@mercedsunstar.com Children rushed to jump in and have some fun in the pool during the opening of the McNamara Park Pool on Thursday (6-13-13) in Merced. The City of Merced, partnering with the Central Valley Red Cross, hosted a pool party celebrating the opening of McNamara Pool for the summer season. The pool was open an extra hour to allow for more swimming during the day. Entrance to the pool was free, with the cost being paid for by the Red Cross. The party began at noon with a free hot dog feed, and the pool was open from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Opening ceremonies for the pool began at 1:30 p.m. with comments from City officials, other local officials, and representatives of the Red Cross and Pacific Gas and Electric. The Red Cross used a grant from PG&E to help fund the event.

Donations to help fund kids' swim lessons in Merced

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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. 3 hours ago

Opinion

Inmates wait in the Roger Bauman intake facility for assessment before integrating into the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center. More than 50 years old, the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center doesn’t look ready for a new era of corrections. Some of the buildings are decrepit. Some of the jail cells have bars, instead of secured doors, a relic of construction at older prisons such as Alcatraz. Photo taken March 01, 2012 in Elk Grove, California.

Our View: Shield staff, inmates from valley fever

Whatever crimes they committed, the inmates at two state prisons in the San Joaquin Valley weren't given death sentences. Yet state officials' sluggish... 3 hours ago

State

Mary Czech and Richard Burns of St. Mark's United Methodist Church ride Saturday in the Sacramento Pride parade. Some parade watchers discussed the U.S. Supreme Court's pending decision on Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.

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... 2 hours ago

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...

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