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CHP searches for Stockton hit-and-run driverSTOCKTON — A 27-year-old man suffered major but non-life-threatening injuries Friday night when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver, according to the California Highway Patrol.The CHP reported the pedestrian was walking south across Alpine Avenue at the intersection with Franklin Avenue, within a marked crosswalk, when he was struck. The vehicle immediately fled the scene heading west on Alpine, according to [...]

STOCKTON — Stephanie Schipper doesn’t remember exactly where she and Christian Harrison were when they met for the first time about six years ago.But she knows he made a strong impression."I just know we started talking and joking around," Schipper recalled Saturday afternoon. "We instantly clicked. I felt in my heart, I need to have this person in my life. He was my soul mate."Schipper was composed and calm as she shared her remembrance. The [...]

Every Feb. 2, a little groundhog pokes his head out of the ground to see if he can spot his shadow. As the legend goes, if he sees his shadow, he gets scared and burrows back into the ground, which means there will be six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see his shadow, it means spring is coming early.So what's the story behind Groundhog Day? Why do we still celebrate it? Here's everything you need to know.It all started in 1887.Groundhog [...]

PHILLIPS STATION — January storms raised the vital Sierra Nevada snowpack to normal for this time of year, an important development for California’s water supply, state officials said Thursday after the second survey of the winter.The snowpack was 100 percent of average to date, the California Department of Water Resources said.“This is a significant increase since the last survey,” said John King, a water resources engineer who conducted a manual [...]

Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 74 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. At that time, there were 1,360 people held at the jail, which has a total capacity of 1,550. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.Stockton PoliceRobbery: A 15-year-old boy was walking in the 4300 block of Maddie Circle at 7 a.m. Thursday when a man drove up and cut off his path. The [...]

SAN ANDREAS — Calaveras County sheriff’s deputies were called to a San Andreas gas station at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, where a California Highway Patrol officer had stopped a vehicle for speeding.The CHP officer discovered marijuana, marijuana products and a handgun in the vehicle.Ten pounds of marijuana, 210 grams of individual packages containing concentrated cannabis, and about 650 electronic cigarette refill cartridges containing THC were found in the vehicle, the [...]

LOCKEFORD — San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies responded to a bank robbery in the 13000 block of East Highway 12 at 10 a.m. Monday.The robbers had taken an unknown amount of money and left in a vehicle before deputies arrived, the Sheriff’s Office said.During the investigation, the robbers’ vehicle was located in Elk Grove on the 7400 block of Grenfell Court by Elk Grove police officers.The Sheriff’s Office SWAT and Critical Incident [...]

STOCKTON — San Joaquin County supervisors on Tuesday voted by a narrow margin to move discussion of Supervisor Tom Patti’s alleged ethics violation back to a later date.Patti made the motion at the beginning of what was to be a discussion Tuesday of whether or not he violated the confidentiality of the county’s search for its first independent medical examiner by expressing strong support for forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in an article in The Record. [...]

Two arrested in Lockeford bank robberyLOCKEFORD — San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies responded to a bank robbery in the 13000 block of East Highway 12 at 10 a.m. Monday.The robbers had taken an unknown amount of money and left in a vehicle before deputies arrived, the Sheriff’s Office said.During the investigation, the robbers’ vehicle was located in Elk Grove on the 7400 block of Grenfell Court by Elk Grove police officers. [...]

STOCKTON — Eric Hammer, the “heart and soul” of University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, according to Peter Witte, his friend, colleague and the dean of the department, died suddenly at his Lodi home on Monday, four days after having back surgery. He was 68.The director of bands and a music education teacher for 26 years at Pacific, Hammer was planning to retire after the current semester and was to have put the exclamation point on his career by [...]