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Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 46 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. At that time, there were 1,269 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 PoliceResisting arrest: Police arrested 37-year-old Luis Ruiz on suspicion of resisting arrest and being intoxicated in public while officers [...]

Rapper shot after performance at Stockton venueSTOCKTON — A man performing at a rap concert was shot early Friday after confronting another man who the victim alleges harassed his girlfriend.Stockton police took Mack Chaney, 24, into custody and arrested him on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.The shooting occurred about 1:30 a.m. outside of a venue in the 4500 block of North Pershing Road, where the 32-year-old victim had just [...]

Pianist Ryan Ahern is ready for prime time.His concert, which was planned for more than a year and taped in February, will debut on KVIE Channel 6 at 8 p.m. Wednesday as part of the PBS station’s pledge drive.The Las Vegas-born Ahern, who splits his time between his hometown and Stockton, home of his fiance Mia Kinch, will be in KVIE’s Sacramento studio during the broadcast. In addition to CDs and DVDs of the program for those who make pledges, the biggest donors [...]

Photographs. Scrapbooks from high school and college. Mementos from vacations. Letters. Handmade Christmas decorations. Biographies my parents wrote.I can’t imagine losing any of those, much less all of them.But that’s what victims of the Camp Fire are enduring, and Paradise Lost has hit me hard.One of my best friends, Susan, grew up in Paradise. I’d visited her family home, a wonderful place more than 100 years old that sat on two acres of glorious [...]

Predictim is offering parents the same playbook that dozens of other tech firms are selling to employers around the world: artificial-intelligence systems that analyze a person's speech, facial expressions and online history with promises of revealing the hidden aspects of their private lives.

The disputed British territory is a key obstacle on the eve of a European Union summit on Sunday.

Climate change is taking an increasing toll on the nation's environment, health and economy, and the damage will intensify over the century without swift action to slash greenhouse gas emissions, according to a major scientific report released Friday by federal agencies.The congressionally mandated report by 13 federal agencies, the first of its kind under the Trump administration, found that climate change is already being felt in communities across the United States. It projects [...]

Some states are testing smartphone technology for use instead of a hard copy of driver's licenses.

ROME — The Catholic Church's global organization of nuns has denounced the "culture of silence and secrecy" surrounding sexual abuse in the church and is urging sisters who have been abused to report the crimes to police and their superiors.The International Union of Superiors General, which represents more than 500,000 sisters worldwide, vowed to help nuns who have been abused to find the courage to report it, and pledged to help victims heal and seek justice.The [...]

The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico's incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts.