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STOCKTON — A female Lincoln Unified student walking home from school Thursday was reportedly followed and had to fight back after a man tried to grab her in broad daylight.Between 3-3:30 p.m., the 17-year-old student was said to have been followed by a man in a black SUV in the area of Alexandria Place and Meadow Avenue.The student tried to evade the driver on foot by taking detours and started to run when the man, described as being white and in his 30s, jumped out of [...]

Sheriff’s OfficeThere were 72 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. At that time, there were 1,381 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 PoliceRobbery: A man was walking in the area of Pinchot Street and Wilson Way at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday when he was [...]

Arrests made in 2018 homicide, 7-Eleven shootingSTOCKTON — Two arrests have been made in connection to a homicide in late 2018 and a shooting in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven earlier this year, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.Maurice Buckley was taken into custody and charged on suspicion of robbery and murder that occurred in the early morning of Oct. 2, 2018, outside the Déjà Vu strip club in the 4200 block of [...]

Changes coming to Stockton’s food scene including the shuttering of Outback Steakhouse, Lyon’s

STOCKTON — Officials have narrowed  the list of candidates to one to become San Joaquin County’s chief medical examiner in a newly created department that is scheduled to open no later than July 1, 2020, County Administrator Monica Nino said this week.Nino declined to identify the candidate but said contract negotiations began in late April. She said the unknown top contender was one of three candidates interviewed by the Board of Supervisors over the past [...]

STOCKTON — A 24-year-old man was killed in a solo vehicle collision late Thursday night, and while police were investigating at the scene, a woman slammed into a patrol unit, then fled before she was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.Authorities said they responded to the initial crash in the area of West Lane and Access Street in north Stockton just before 10:30 p.m.According to the report, investigators indicated the driver was going [...]

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Diana Costa no doubt will make some gesture in honor of her mom, Connie Fox, today, Mother’s Day.The Stockton woman doesn’t need a national holiday, however, to let her mom know how special she is.She does it on a regular basis by donating her time to Hospice of San Joaquin, just like her mother.At the organization’s recent Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, Costa and Fox were honored for 2,000 hours of volunteer service, the only mother-daughter team [...]

LODI — Bob Colarossi remembers his first meetings with officials from Santa Rosa.In December 2004, Colarossi was hired by the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) to be the first managing director of a cycling event they wanted to call the Tour of California, an idea several companies had toyed with but never put together.“They sort of just looked at me and said, ‘You want to do what? Who are these people? My friend is a cyclist, can he ride in it? [...]

STOCKTON — “Rapport,” definition: meaning a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well.To 12-year-old Vayun Krishna of Santa Clara County, it also means winning big.Krishna outlasted 54 students from 29 counties to be named the 2019 California State Spelling Bee champion on Saturday at the San Joaquin County Office of Education in Stockton.More than [...]