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ESCALON — The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office released the names of the two Escalon officers involved in Wednesday’s fatal shooting.The Escalon Police Department officers were identified as Gustavo Flores, a 20-year veteran, and Vincent Quilici, who has been with the agency for four months, the Sheriff’s Office reported. Neither had been in a shooting prior to Wednesday’s incident.Flores and Quilici reported that they shot 39-year-old [...]

Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 87 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Saturday. At that time, there were 1,397 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 PoliceWeapons arrest: Officers arrested 29-year-old Marquis Drake on suspicion of weapons charges and for outstanding warrants at 3 p.m. [...]

Authorities in Calaveras County are searching for a 44-year-old Sacramento County automotive journalist who was reported missing Wednesday, the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office reported Saturday.The California Highway Patrol found a parked motorcycle belonging to David Gordon Johnson at Big Bar River Access near Mokelumne Hill just after midnight Saturday, but he was not found, the Sheriff’s Office said.He reportedly sent a text message to a friend sitting near a [...]

STOCKTON — More than two dozen north Stockton residents on Saturday had a candid — at times emotional — conversation about ways to stop the recent surge of gun violence turning their neighborhood into a “terror zone.”   Vice Mayor Dan Wright organized the meeting at the Polo Run Apartments on Palisades Drive as a result of the fatal shooting of [...]

FRENCH CAMP — Denise Lemus wanted to win.So the 12-year-old girl and her two teammates tinkered and altered their footlong cardboard and aluminum foil boat multiple times to ensure it floated. But she let out a quick howl when it capsized under the weight of 87 pennies.Despite the hiccups in construction, Denise was enjoying the sun-drenched day with the other girls who live in her housing project, where the Girl Scouts Heart of Central California run a day camp to [...]

STOCKTON — Passengers on a flight from Las Vegas to Stockton got a scare on Saturday when the presence of smoke forced their plane to return to the airport.Patricia Clark and her husband, who were in Las Vegas to celebrate their wedding anniversary, were aboard an Allegiant Air flight that departed at 11:48 a.m. when after about 5-10 minutes in the air, smoke could be seen inside the aircraft, she said. It wasn’t thick, but it was present and it smelled like [...]

ARNOLD — A prescribed burn is scheduled for Thursday or Friday at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California State Parks has announced.According to the department, the burn will be conducted in collaboration with the California Department of Forestry and Fire protection (CAL FIRE). The plan is for the burn to cover the 41-acre Big Tree Creek segment.[gh:blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/ckhSSWm"][gh:a href="//imgur. [...]

Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 92 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Sunday. At that time, there were 1,429 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 PoliceStabbing: A man was approached by another man who accused him of stealing unspecified property in the 600 block of East Alpine Avenue [...]

STOCKTON — The tidy sum of $1.8 billion sounds like a lot of money, but billions don’t go nearly as far as they once did.Just ask San Joaquin County officials, who will bring the proposed 2019-20 fiscal-year budget of just more than $1.8 billion before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.The proposed budget is more than $40.8 million larger than the 2018-19 fiscal-year budget, which expires June 30. But easy come, easy go.[gh:blockquote [...]

STOCKTON — For a fleeting moment Sunday — until the next competition — Hot Toddy was the reigning Supreme Champion of the 2019 San Joaquin AgFest Junior Show & Auction.And there is plenty of competition continuing all week long and showcasing Boer goats like Hot Toddy, sheep, beef and dairy cattle, swine, rabbits and dogs at AgFest, taking place at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds at South Airport Way and East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [...]