Turlock officials are asking Stanislaus County to postpone a decision Tuesday on a contract extension for a controversial mental health services residential facility on Colorado Avenue. Turlock City Manager Reagan Wilson criticized the county for not communicating with the city when the contract with A&A Health Services, or Alamo Health, would go before the board […]
Michelle Reimers is resigning as general manager of the Turlock Irrigation District after four years in the job. The water and power utility announced the decision, effective June 21, in a news release Friday. Reimers was its first female GM and had started there as a public information officer in 2006. “She does not have […]
The California Highway Patrol arrested a man suspected of having been involved in a freeway shooting last week on Highway 99 in Turlock. Turlock resident Samuel David Leinweber, 26, was on parole when the shooting, in which no one was injured, took place. He was taken into custody March 26 at the California Department of […]
A Turlock Transit bus driver who lives in Modesto has been arrested by Turlock police on suspicion of sex crimes involving a minor. The arrest stemmed from a report by a school employee Tuesday about suspicious activity, according to a Turlock Police Department news release. The caller reported seeing an unknown man handing food and […]
Modesto and Turlock irrigation district crews were busy Sunday afternoon trying to restore power to thousands of customers as high winds and wet soil combined to topple trees and bring down utility poles and lines. “Wind is causing big problems. Currently working 8 separate calls of power lines down and/or trees here in Stanislaus Co,” […]
In the wake of the arrest of Medeiros Elementary School campus supervisor John Snoke on charges related to child pornography, several community members are calling for the resignation of Turlock Unified School District Superintendent Dana Trevethan and Medeiros Principal Anna Ellerson. The demands, made during the public comment period at Tuesday night’s school board meeting, […]
Seventeen men — all but one of them residents of Stanislaus and Merced counties — were arrested in a Turlock Police Department operation to catch sexual predators who target children. The online chat operation was conducted Jan. 5-6, the department said in a news release, and the suspects allegedly “were seeking to meet with underage […]
Jeramie Skylar Hoover, 25, was sentenced to 80 years to life in state prison on Wednesday for the 2020 murder of a man during an attempted gun sale in Turlock. The standard sentence for murder in Stanislaus County is normally 25 years to life. However, his sentence was multiplied and enhanced due to several prior […]