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STOCKTON — San Joaquin Delta College will honor a local and well-known civil rights advocate in a more permanent way.Delta College trustees recently agreed to rename the campus’ plaza to honor Dolores Huerta, who grew up in Stockton and graduated from Delta when it was previously known as Stockton College.Funds are currently being raised for a plaque memorializing Huerta, with additional money going to a new scholarship fund in her name. The public [...]

MORADA — Christmas Day arrived early for nearly 100 students at Davis Elementary School in Morada this weekend as they tore open gifts containing Legos, clothing and action figures provided by local law enforcement officers.The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office hosted its 6th Annual Giving Tree event Saturday morning, bringing smiles to the school’s students, parents and staff.Deputy Ezequiel Pena, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office, said schools [...]

Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 70 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Saturday. At that time, there were 1,258 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: An employee of a business in the 4900 block of Claremont Avenue confronted a man who attempted to take some merchandise without [...]

Scientists from Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics agency said it could have been caused by undersea landslides from the eruption of Anak Krakatau, a volcanic island formed over years from the nearby Krakatau volcano.

STOCKTON — Ten homes were evacuated when a punctured PG&E line began leaking gas after a suspected drunken driver crashed into a home in north Stockton, according to authorities.Labrea Harris, 26, was arrested on suspicion of DUI and booked into the San Joaquin County Jail after reportedly crashing into a home in the 7000 block of Hemet Avenue at 2:02 a.m. Saturday.Responding officers discovered that a gas line had been punctured in the collision and gas was [...]

A listing of children recently born in San Joaquin County.

Homicide victim ID'dSTOCKTON — The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office this week identified the victim of Stockton’s 32nd homicide as Christopher Antonio Elliott of Stockton.Elliott, 30, was found by Stockton Fire Department personnel early Friday morning lying in the street in the 3100 block of Kelley Court with a gunshot wound to his chest.Stockton Police Department officers arrived on scene at 2:27 a.m., and Elliott was [...]

STOCKTON — The Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees welcomed three new individuals to its group, and minutes after taking the dais for the first time, they were each learning the ropes in the proper way to administer votes.AngelAnn Flores, Scot McBrian and Candelaria Vargas were sworn in Tuesday evening during a regularly scheduled board meeting. Incumbent Maria Mendez ushered in her second full-term.Trustee Lange Luntao was named board president, [...]

After a brutal 2017 hurricane season, tropical storms in 2018 were watched closely.In late August, Hurricane Florence – a Category 4 hurricane— hit North and South Carolina the hardest and both declared states of emergencies.Nearly a month later, in early October, another Category 4 hurricane, Hurricane Michael, hit the United States and led to the deaths of 45 people across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.Later in October, the last hurricane [...]

A Delray Beach, Fla., high school no longer has vending machines, and has a small gray rodent to thank for that.A junior at Atlantic High School captured video of a rat crawling on packaged snacks inside a courtyard vending machine. The video spread on social media and in television news reports and prompted the Palm Beach County School District to remove all vending machines on the campus.Latoya Johnson, the mother of the teenager who shot the video, said she contacted [...]