The Turlock Mosquito Abatement District and the East Side Mosquito Abatement District have both confirmed the presence of West Nile Virus in Stanislaus County, but has of yet there have been no human cases.
The Turlock Mosquito Abatement District has found the virus in one mosquito sample as of June 12.
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The State of California’s Employee Development Department released its month labor report this week, and the statistics show that unemployment rates in the region had little movement during the month of May. It comes as California and the United States have seen slight rises in unemployment rates.
In Stanislaus County, the unemployment rose slightly from 6.2% in April to 6.4% in May, representing approximately 15,600 individuals.
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A man was killed and two others, including a child, were injured in a wrong-way driving collision on Highway 99 in Turlock early Tuesday morning.
The crash occurred at 3:17 a.m. north of Lander Avenue. A man in a white sedan was driving south in the northbound lanes, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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A 22-year-old man who kidnapped a woman at gunpoint at a home in Turlock was arrested after a high-speed chase, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said.
Angel Primitivo Garcia is accused of forcing entry into the home of a woman with whom he used to be in a relationship on S Morgan Road on Sunday. He allegedly hit a child with a gun and threatened other people in the home before dragging the woman out into his car.
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Firefighters are working to extinguish a two-alarm grass fire along the American River Parkway in Sacramento, fire officials said.
Flames first broke out around 1:27 p.m. Saturday near the 1400 block of Northgate Boulevard. The fire is a half-acre in size.
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More than seven million pills-worth of fentanyl was found when Turlock police executed a search warrant leading to the arrest of 44-year-old resident Frank Romero, Thursday.
Police say they seized 24.75 pounds of the deadly drug — enough to potentially kill more than five million people — from a home in the 1000 block of West Avenue South.
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Police suspect that the deaths of two men in a fiery car crash in Alameda County may be connected to the killing of a woman in Manteca. The sequence of violent events began on Sunday evening when a woman was shot outside a strip mall on West Yosemite Avenue in Manteca. Law enforcement arrived at the scene around 10 p.m. and found the injured woman seeking help in one of the businesses.
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A Patterson man previously arrested in Turlock for human trafficking was apprehended again on June 6 – this time in Ceres – for allegedly trafficking the same victim, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department.
The suspect, Alex Santana, 24, was in possession of a loaded firearm when he was arrested outside a Ceres motel. He made an attempt to flee from detectives but was quickly apprehended after his shoe fell off.
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The gathering that brought Dylan Dooling’s family and friends together to reflect on his achievements and character should’ve been a graduation party. Instead, it was a vigil that brought them all together in a shared grief as they grapple with the violent act that took his life.
Around 10:45 p.m. on June 2, Dooling and his girlfriend were leaving a house party in the 2000 block of N. Daubenberger Road when they were confronted by a group of males, possibly three, and a physical fight broke out.
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The Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority (StanRTA), City of Turlock (Turlock Transit) and Transit Joint Powers Authority for Merced County (The Bus) announced today that all rides on all fixed-route, commuter, and ADA Paratransit buses will be free for passengers during July as part of a joint free-ride promotion. This includes local fixed-route services as well as ACE, BART, and Stockton Commuter bus services, The Micro Bus in Merced County, ADA Paratransit, and Medivan, but excludes Turlock Transit’s On-Demand Service.
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