Modesto police arrested four people and seized about $27,000 in cash during an undercover enforcement operation targeting illegal gambling and smoke shop violations at several businesses across the ...

Modesto recorded zero homicides in 2025, marking the city’s first year without a killing in at least four decades, according ...

Former Roosevelt Junior High School Principal Brian Chubon faces criminal charges in Merced County relating to an alleged ...

District officials said he worked as a paraprofessional at La Loma Junior High and as a football and basketball coach at ...

The man qualifies as a third-strike offender and faces a potential sentence of life in prison when he returns to court for ...

Prosecutors argued he continues to pose an unreasonable risk to public safety based on the severity of his crimes and his ...

Editor's note: The Modesto Bee uses the legal definition of homicide to mean the slaying or killing of one person by another. By that definition, it includes officer-involved deaths, of which there ...

Looking over the Modesto arch as the sun sets behind the Diablo Range in January 2024. Andy Alfaro aalfaro@modbee.com Editor’s note: The Modesto Bee uses the legal definition of homicide to mean the ...