Aquatics Sports Dominate CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-District At-Large Teams

19 May 2012, 4:13 pm

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 19. THE 2012 Capital One Academic All-District? Men's and Women's At-Large Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize...... Read More »

Murdered Merced teen's family has a message

17 May 2012, 5:46 pm

Police are investigating the murder of a Merced High School senior. Someone shot Andrew Flores, 18, to death over the weekend.... Read More »

6-year-old boy drowns after raft tips over

15 May 2012, 1:06 am

The family of a Merced 6-year-old who drowned Sunday in a Mariposa County lake is struggling to cope... Read More »

An Inferno Demolishes A Mariposa Strip Mall

12 May 2012, 7:15 am

Mariposa, CA -- An overnight fire destroys nearly 6 businesses in Mariposa. Thick smoke clouded the downtown area when a fire erupted at the Pizza Factory attic in a strip-mall on Highway 140... Read More »

Fitch Affirms Merced City School Dist, CA's GOs at 'AA-'; Outlook Negative

10 May 2012, 9:55 am

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following Merced City School District, CA ratings:... Read More »

3 more Calif. gang members sentenced in crackdown

8 May 2012, 9:13 pm

SACRAMENTO - Three leaders of a Northern California gang have been sentenced to federal prison as part of an ongoing crackdown on its drug trafficking activities.... Read More »

Label Technology Installs New Equipment

8 May 2012, 5:52 am

New flexographic press, pouch forming line and plate imaging technologies MERCED, CA- -Label Technology, Inc., a leader in flexographic printing and converting of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive labels, today announced that it has installed a new ten-color 26-inch flexographic press for co... Read More »

For chronically unemployed, more bad news in California

6 May 2012, 11:59 am

MERCED - Across California 93,000 unemployed workers will receive more bad news: federal long-term benefits for chronically unemployed workers are set to expire.... Read More »

Public testifies in Fresno on high-speed rail project

2 May 2012, 10:41 am

About 50 people from the central San Joaquin Valley on Wednesday spoke out -- from enthusiastic support to outright condemnation and not-so-veiled threats of lawsuits -- on the Merced-to-Fresno section of California's proposed high-speed train project.... Read More »

Heavy rain could sour mountain trout stream opener

25 April 2012, 10:37 pm

The quirks of weather could have a strong impact on Saturday's opening of the mountain stream trout season. Most forecasts are calling for more than a half inch of rain in the north state Wednesday night through...... Read More »