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Another downtown Turlock shooting; same area where Merced deputy was hit by gunfire

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Investigators were looking for a suspect who fired a gun into the air early Sunday outside a business along West Main Street in Turlock, the same area where an off-duty Merced County sheriff’s deputy was struck by gunfire the week before.

The latest shooting was reported about 1:30 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of West Main. Nobody was injured, according to a news release from the Turlock Police Department.

The previous shooting was reported about 2:30 a.m. Aug. 18 in the 100 block of South First Street in Turlock. The off-duty deputy was critically injured in that shooting. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told The Merced Sun-Star last week that the deputy was expected to survive.

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‘Embarrassed and incredibly disappointed,’ says California sheriff of deputy’s sniper hoax

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A Southern California sheriff's deputy who set off a massive manhunt when he allegedly faked being shot by a sniper outside his station has left colleagues furious, with his boss moving to boot him off the force and investigators probing potential criminal charges.

Deputy Angel Reinosa, a 21-year-old trainee with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, prompted widespread panic and a large-scale response from law enforcement last week when he radioed an emergency dispatcher and dramatically stated he'd been hit by sniper fire in the parking lot of the sheriff department's Lancaster station. He even showed investigators his damaged bulletproof vest, which he claimed saved his life, officials said.

But in a stunning twist, officials said on Saturday that Reinosa confessed to fabricating the attack by a sharpshooter, and cut a hole in his bulletproof vest to bolster his hoax.

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For undocumented workers, demanding better work conditions could mean deportation

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The cow kicked hard, and fast, straight into Luis Alberto Echeverría’s chest. It was 2008, and Echeverría said he was prepping the cow for milking at the dairy farm he worked at in Turlock, California, east of San Francisco. The cow’s kick left him unconscious. 

“When I came to, one of my co-workers was standing over me, fanning me, saying, ‘Wake up! Wake up!’” Echeverría said.

But when he told his boss, Joe Sallaberry, about what happened, he was ordered to keep working — through any pain. Sallaberry, who owned the dairy farm, did not believe he had been injured, and was still doubtful even after Echeverría returned from a hospital with painkillers and a doctor’s note saying he had a fractured rib, and needed rest.

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California deputy dies 6 years after collapsing during SWAT tryout

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A California sheriff’s deputy who collapsed during a 2013 SWAT tryout never regained consciousness — and succumbed to his injuries six years later, authorities said.

Carlos Cammon, 35, died at a local rehab facility late Friday, the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs announced on Facebook.

Cammon was 29 years old and a six-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, working out of the Stanton station, at the time of the July 2013 tryout for the department’s SWAT team, Sheriff Don Barnes tweeted over the weekend.

Days after the incident, Cammon was placed on a ventilator at a Santa Ana Hospital for “severe dehydration and cardiac issues,” though he was expected to survive, the Orange County Register reported at the time.

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Football rankings: Week 2 Bay Area Preps HQ Top 25

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De La Salle remained firmly atop the latest Bay Area Preps HQ Top 25 rankings despite losing to St. Thomas Aquinas 24-14 on Friday.

St. Thomas entered the game ranked No. 1 nationally by USA Today and De La Salle still has not lost to a Northern California team north of the Fresno area in 28 years.

Liberty is still No. 2, followed Valley Christian, Serra and Menlo-Atherton.

One team to slide was Rancho Cotate, which lost its opener Saturday night at Sacramento 24-6. The Santa Rosa school fell six spots, to No. 18.

The other to fall was Moreau Catholic, which went from No. 25 in the preseason rankings to on the outside looking in after a 20-19 loss to Del Norte-Crescent City.

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CCAA takes notice as women’s volleyball rebuild comes of age

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The rebuilding of the Stanislaus State women’s volleyball team is taking shape. The rest of the California Collegiate Athletic Association is taking notice.

In the preseason coaches’ poll, the Warriors were picked to finish second behind Stan Francisco State.

Stanislaus State, 16-11 overall, 9-9 in the CCAA last season, reached the conference tournament but lost in the first round.

"(The poll result) hopefully will give our team some confidence going into the season being recognized and gained the respect from other coaches in the conference," said fifth-year coach Mallori Gibson-Rossi, whose team opens the season at the Dixie State Tournament Sept. 6-7.

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Moderate mag. 5.0 earthquake – 18km E of Little Lake, CA (USA) on Thursday, 22 August 2019 – 17 hours ago

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"I felt it" reports:
(132.4 km WSW from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: Did not feel it or hear it or see it. Was in my basement workshop and didn't have any idea that there was an earthquake until I got off later and checked my notifications. Lol Coworkers on the ground floor also did not feel it. (via app)
North Wales / not felt: People in CA need to stay alert and be ready..definitly a slow slip happening but worse to come.. you can thank the greedy elites for the millions of holes from the drilling stations .. they drilled on both sides of the San Andreas fault line too..
Lake Isabella, CA / MMI III (Weak shaking)
Wofford Heights / MMI IV (Light shaking): I was blasting my music while sitting when this quake hit. It was a shock and scared the shite out of me at first. It hit with a strong jolt followed by some strong back and forth shifting. Everything in the house had a slight rattle.
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Unemployment rate steady in county

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The unemployment rate in Stanislaus County increased by the slightest margin in July according to the latest report from the Employment Development Department.

Stanislaus County had an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent in July, up from a revised rate of 6.5 percent in June, the EDD reported. The July rate was below the year-ago estimate of 6.9 percent.

Five sectors in the county had neither job gains or losses, including the Farming sector. Four sectors posted job gains in July, with Manufacturing leading with an estimated 1,800 new jobs. Of those, 18.9 percent were in food processing, which typically sees gains as the harvest comes in and declines once the harvest is over.

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Man behind a ‘Straight Pride’ event is ridiculed for saying organizers are ‘peaceful racist group’

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A man behind a planned ‘Straight Pride’ event in California provoked laughter at a meeting when he referred to the organizers as a ‘totally peaceful racist group.’

Don Grundmann addressed a Modesto City Council meeting on Wednesday about his plans to hold a ‘Straight Pride’ rally on August 24.

He chastened council-member Kristi Ah You, accusing her of ‘pulling the race card’ and allegedly inflaming tensions by attacking the group as racists.

Footage then shows him make the embarrassing gaffe, with the room erupting into laughter at his remarks.

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Industry Sees What Damage Stink Bug Can Do

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(UC ANR) — Last May, a Turlock almond grower noticed nearly all the nuts on a row of trees in his orchard had fallen to the ground.

“It looked like we shook this row,” he said. “I was scared. I thought the whole orchard was going to go.”

He called UC Cooperative Extension.

UCCE Integrated Pest Management advisor Jhalendra Rijal, who serves Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties, determined the cause was an infestation of brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), an invasive pest from Asia. For years, BMSB had only been found in urban areas of California – most notably a 2013 infestation in midtown Sacramento.

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