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A rainbow is seen in the water coming from New Exchequer Dam in Snelling on Wednesday.
Boaters and fishermen might want to head to the local lakes and reservoirs as the weather is expected to be springlike through the weekend with highs in the low 70s.A mother of a Chenoweth Elementary School student, who has allegedly contracted lice five times since December, recently expressed concern over the Merced City School District's one-year old policy on head lice in an unpublished letter to the editor.
ATWATER -- Bobby Fleming, the city's longest-serving employee and a fixture atop his street sweeper behind every parade, has died. He was 79.
Merced police are on the lookout for a man who stole surveillance cameras from Millennium Sports Club -- and they're hoping images of the crook will help solve the case.
It's official. You can add Santa Cruz and the Surf City Vintners to the list of walking wine tasting routes. This would be wine-walk No. 5. Can you remember the first four? We happened onto this area last year while tracking down the new Bonny Doon Winery tasting room and restaurant. Having "doon-sized," Bonny Doon Winery moved into this industrial-chic area on the west side of Santa Cruz on Ingalls Street. The tasting room and adjacent Cellar Door Café are quite impressive. We returned for a second visit and decided that this location definitely qualifies for a walking wine-tasting route.
WASHINGTON -- Foster Farms unfairly sought to deter labor organizers at its Porterville plant by promising workers improved benefits, a National Labor Relations Board judge has concluded.
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Merced police are on the lookout for a man who stole surveillance cameras from Millennium Sports Club -- and they're hoping images of the crook will help solve the case.
A label attached to a YouTube video about UC Merced students' recent push for a Chicano Studies minor warned students that watching it might cause uncontrollable laughter.
But some UC Merced students aren't laughing.
ATWATER -- For several years, Atwater's Police Department has overspent its overtime budget, prompting one city councilman to ask, "Does the city need more officers?"
Surprisingly, the answer from Chief Richard Hawthorne is no.LIVINGSTON -- The city's newest planning commissioners are young, male and educated.
A prominent national environmental organization is making good on its threat to try to stymie Richard Pombo's attempt to return to Congress.
