STOCKTON — Authorities say 50 people were arrested and dozens of guns seized in a law enforcement operation targeting the Norteno street gang in central California. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday that the gang members are suspected of a variety of crimes in Stockton. The defendants could face...
Woman Who Livestreamed Fatal Merced Crash Arrested Again
STOCKTON — A California woman on parole after serving a sentence for driving drunk while livestreaming a crash that killed her younger sister in Merced County was arrested Thursday after crashing a car during a police pursuit, officials said. Officers arrested Obdulia Sanchez, 20, on weapons and traffic charges and...
Stockton’s Free Cash Initiative: Where Did the Money Go?
SACRAMENTO — The first data from an experiment in a California city where needy people get $500 a month from the government shows they spend most of it on things such as food, clothing and utility bills. The 18-month, privately funded program started in February and involves 125 people in...
$500 a Month for Free: Data Shows How People Spent the Money
SACRAMENTO — The first data from an experiment in a California city where needy people get $500 a month from the government shows they spend most of it on things such as food, clothing and utility bills. The 18-month, privately funded program started in February and involves 125 people in...
Stockton Tests Yang's Buzzy Campaign Idea for Income
STOCKTON — Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants to give cash to every American each month. Susie Garza has never heard of Yang. But since February, she's been getting $500 a month from a nonprofit in Stockton, California, as part of an experiment that offers something unusual in presidential politics: a trial...
Police Aren’t the Only Ones Who Can Make Communities Safer
After a recent string of shootings in Stockton, the search for answers seems to have turned almost entirely to law enforcement. Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones recently said his first action would be to dispatch additional officers from California Highway Patrol and the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office to patrol...
What Is Advance Peace? Group's Founder Explains.
On Monday, Fresno Mayor Lee Brand vetoed $200,000 earmarked by the city council in the 2019-20 budget for Advance Peace, an anti-gun violence initiative. Council members now have 30 days to attempt an override of the mayor's veto pen. The Advance Peace proposal has sparked controversy with opponents describing it...
Stockton School Newspaper Will Run Story on Student Working in Porn
STOCKTON — The Lodi Unified School District has decided to allow a high school newspaper to publish a profile of an 18-year-old student who works in the porn industry. The district won't stop the story from running Friday in the Bear Creek High School paper, the Stockton Record reported Thursday. The paper's...
Drive 100 MPH on I-5?, Highway 99? Bill Creates Valley Autobahn.
State Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) introduced a bill Friday that would add new lanes to I-5 and Highway 99 with no posted speed limit. Moorlach told Los Angeles television station KTLA he came up with the idea in part to help ease traffic and reduce greenhouse gases, but also...
RIP, Alex Spanos, 95. He Went From Selling Sandwiches to Owning Chargers.
STOCKTON — Alex Spanos, the son of Greek immigrants who used a self-made fortune from construction and real estate to buy the Chargers in 1984, died Tuesday. He was 95. The Chargers announced Spanos' death. Faye Spanos, his wife, died in August at 92. After building a nationwide construction empire...