Merced Sun-Star

DOS PALOS -- Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday -- by wearing patriotic regalia to school -- after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag.

A construction crane fell across the Merced River at Highway 59 on Wednesday afternoon at a construction site. Nobody was injured in the accident.

A woman suffered second-degree burns on her arms Thursday from a kitchen fire that caused major damage to her apartment.

A 28-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of a two-car collision near Dell Street and East Highway 140 on Thursday, according to the Merced Police Department.

LE GRAND -- Jo Hernandez harbors no delusions about the 500-square-foot Le Grand home that her children lovingly call their shack. She admits they're right.

The effort to restore Merced's most recognizable landmark, the Merced Theatre, got its biggest donation to date this week: $1 million.

Merced County Sheriff's Department investigators reported that one of two men suspected of committing an armed robbery at the El Tareb Market in Merced is now in custody

Students at St. Luke's Episcopal School had an unexpected visitor on Thursday. A gray fox was found in a first-grade classroom at the West Yosemite Avenue campus.

Merced County sheriff's officials are looking for two men suspected of robbing the El Tareb Market at Stretch and Santa Fe roads in Merced.