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STOCKTON — The man who was recovered Monday from the Calaveras River near University of the Pacific was identified as 41-year-old Leroy Sauceda of Stockton, the San Joaquin County Coroner’s Office reported.Police classified Sauceda’s death as a drowning. His body was pulled from the river near where it flows under Pacific Avenue by a boat rescue crew from the Stockton Fire Department. Once on shore, medics attempted to revive him but were unsuccessful. [...]

Vice mayor's community office hour setSpeak with Vice Mayor Dan Wright at his monthly office hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. March 4 at Starbucks, 7810 Thornton Road, at the corner of Thornton and Lower Sacramento roads. Wright holds a monthly office hour for members of the community interested in talking with him one-on-one directly about topics of interest or concern. For more information about the vice mayor and District 2, go to www.stocktonca.gov/district2 or call [...]

STOCKTON — The struggles and the promise of San Joaquin County were side by side at Tuesday’s meeting of the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors.Immediately after Chairman Miguel Villapudua delivered the annual State of the County address, a large group of $12-an-hour In-Home Support Services workers and their patients shared their stories during the portion of the meeting reserved for the public to comment.“IHSS has done the world for me,” an [...]

Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 57 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. At that time, there were 1,358 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,550. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.Stockton PoliceAssault with a deadly weapon: A man was stabbed by another man with a broken bottle at 11:54 a.m. Monday in the [...]

Two sentenced to prison for identity, mail theft STOCKTON — Two men were sentenced on Monday to five years in prison on several charges relating to identity theft and being in possession of stolen mail.Linden resident Jeffrey Wilhite, 31, and Derek Hillgert, a 29-year-old Carmichael man, worked together to steal U.S. mail and conduct transactions with stolen identities, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott of the Eastern District of California said [...]

STOCKTON — After another meeting filled with disruptions Tuesday night, Stockton City Council members are questioning what can be done to alleviate the problem.“While people were giving presentations, and while Mrs. Friday was trying to speak to us (during public comment), there was a lot of talking coming from this corner over here,” Councilman Sol Jobrack said, motioning to the corner of the room under the electronic board that displays the council’s [...]

STOCKTON — If they have learned anything new about last weekend’s double slaying of two teenage boys in north Stockton, police are not releasing that information publicly as they continue to seek the community’s help in piecing together what happened.What they have said is that “homicide detectives have been working nonstop” since responding to the shooting deaths of 14-year-old Nicholas Sihalath of Stockton and 15-year-old Advan Vang of [...]

John Mitchell hopped into a taxi in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.The renowned economist struck up a conversation with the driver. When Mitchell said he was catching a flight to speak at the 30th annual Economic Forecast in Stockton, the driver exclaimed, “Stockton. That’s the place with the guaranteed income.”Known widely during the recession in the late 2000s as the largest U.S. [...]

STOCKTON — Imagine if you will a service designed to meet all the medical and social needs of the community’s frail seniors with the goal of keeping them out of nursing homes and hospitals.And for most participants with Medi-Cal or a combination of Medicare and Medi-Cal with no share of cost, all of its services are free.If you’re from any other California metro area, you may be familiar with PACE, or Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. [...]

STOCKTON — Dash-cam video footage from an early-morning officer-involved fatal shooting in Ripon two years ago was played and replayed in painstaking detail Wednesday afternoon at the preliminary hearing for Stanislaus County Deputy Sheriff Justin Wall.Wall, 26, sat silently as the video showed the final moments in the life of Evin Olsen Yadegar, 46. Her husband, 57-year-old Hanibal Yadegar, acknowledged that it was difficult to watch.“It is, but I’ve been [...]