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Tracy has the Grand Theatre for the Arts. Stockton has the Haggin Museum. Turlock has the Carnegie Arts Center. Modesto has the Mistlin Gallery. And Manteca has its downtown.
When it comes to art displays nobody in the 209 has a bigger venue or larger canvases than Manteca.
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Turlock Unified School District’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday received information regarding recent data from the California Department of Education’s Dashboard website, which shows schools’ achievement ratings achievement ratings in several key categories. While TUSD schools improved their scores in many of these sections, many campuses are still struggling to meet state standards overall.
The Dashboard site displays statewide data based on status (how each school or district performed) and change (how much they have improved since the last year), with performance levels indicated by color ranging from red as the lowest and blue as the highest.
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TEMESCAL VALLEY, CALIF.
A Southern California driver intentionally rammed a Toyota Prius with six teenage boys inside, killing three and injuring three others before fleeing, authorities said Monday.
The Prius went off the road and slammed into a tree at around 10:30 p.m. Sunday in Temescal Valley in Riverside County, southeast of Los Angeles.
Anurag Chandra, 42, of Corona was arrested a short time later in a neighborhood near the crash site, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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A family of three is safe after they plunged through ice and into freezing water in California on Saturday, police say.
Around 2:30 p.m., police arrived at Big Bear Lake to learn a father, mother and their child had fallen through the ice while they were out playing on the frozen lake, KTTV reported.
“The two ladies were yelling but they were kind of thrashing around which is the worst thing to do in ice apparently,” witness Sandy Bussey told KNBC. “We were just trying to yell at them, ‘stay calm don’t move, just hold on.’”
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It's a claim frequently made: Homeless people in town are from somewhere else. It's really not true. In related news, Gov. Newsom wraps up a homelessness tour in Oakland, where he promises to "own the issue." And planning a trip to Yosemite this long weekend? One word: norovirus.
It's news for Thursday.
But first, Carlos Santana plans to launch his own line of cannabis and CBD products in the state. Will they be smooth?
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One of four defendants charged with robbing and beating a man to death in Turlock’s Donnelly Park in 2017 has taken a plea deal with a six-year sentence.
Terry Van Meter of Manteca was 16 when he and three others were arrested in the murder of 21-year-old Cameron Tracy, who was beaten unconscious with a metal baseball bat on Dec. 4, 2017. Tracy died from his injuries on Dec. 13.
Van Meter, Shaun Santos, 24, and Lavinia Perez, 41, both of Modesto, were charged with murder and two counts of robbery for the attack on Tracy and his girlfriend, as well as with two other robberies at the park the week before.
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A teenager was killed in a double shooting that left a portion of Highway 145 in southern Fresno County closed Wednesday afternoon, according to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department.
The 17-year-old was shot in his lower body and flown to a hospital in Hanford, where he died, said spokesperson Tony Botti. The second victim, an 18-year-old man, had a non-lethal gunshot wound to the arm.
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MODESTO (CBS13) — They’re seen all over town: shopping carts dumped after people take them from grocery stores and use them to transport their belongings.
The City of Modesto and the Modesto Police Department have found a high-tech solution to combat this part of homelessness.
For people like Victor Brummett, these carts hold life’s belongings.
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A 22-year-old Turlock man suffered major injuries Monday near Delhi when he was struck by a vehicle in a felony hit-and-run collision, according to the California Highway Patrol.
According to Officer Eric Zuniga, the man said he was walking southbound on the west shoulder of Griffith Road when he was struck by a Ford truck of unknown color and make shortly before 7 a.m. Au
It’s unknown if the vehicle sustained damage in the collision. The victim said the truck was driving northbound on Griffith Road, north of West Bradbury Road, when it made a U-turn across both lanes and struck him.
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