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Our View: Fog requires extra caution on Valley’s highways
December 26, 2009No Comments
The fog season has arrived, and that makes driving especially difficult in the San Joaquin Valley.
Letter: We miss you, Steven
December 26, 2009No Comments
Editor’s note: Andrea Lombard-Davis is the older sister of Steven Lombard, 33, who along with Paul Armstrong, 28, disappeared without a trace the morning of Dec. 17, 1993. The case remains unsolved. Anyone with information about the disappearance of Paul Armstrong and Steven Lombard can call the Merced County Sheriff Department’s Major Crimes Unit at (209) 385-7472. Callers can remain anonymous.
Our View: Finally, relief for stranded air travelers
December 26, 2009No Comments
Government regulators shouldn’t have to force the nation’s airlines to safeguard their own customers’ health, safety and comfort. But given the airlines’ reluctance to look after their own customers, the government was forced to act.
UC Merced researcher elected fellow
December 26, 2009No Comments
UC Merced researcher Samuel Justin Traina has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Two killed in violent collision on rural Merced County road
December 26, 2009No Comments
Two local 25-year-old men were killed Christmas Eve when the pickup one of them was driving ran a stop sign and collided broadside with a Ford Focus.
Merced police report nabbing burglars in the act
December 26, 2009No Comments
Christmas didn’t come early for three Fresno men arrested by Merced police at Merced Power Sports on charges of commercial burglary.
Police say gang members were picking fight at mall
December 25, 2009No Comments
A validated gang member was Tasered by a police officer at the Merced Mall on Wednesday, after an argument between rival gang members, Merced police reported.
The incident happened shortly before 9 p.m., after police received a call about a verbal confrontation involving six males.300 needy children get holiday surprise from Merced County Sheriff’s Department
December 25, 2009No Comments
About 300 needy children are celebrating Christmas with a new toy, thanks to the Merced County Sheriff’s Department’s “Operation Christmas.”
HILMAR — Hilmar Cheese Co., the world’s largest cheese plant, could be allowed to continue polluting local groundwater at its Hilmar plant for another two years, according to a Dec. 8 draft order from the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board.
If state water regulators grant the company an extension of its 4-year-old pollution cleanup agreement, as is stated in the draft order, the company would have until 2011 to become fully compliant and treat 100 percent of its waste. December 2009 had been the previous deadline.
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