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Tracy getting closer to finding next city attorney

originally scheduled to be in place by February of this year. TRACY — Six people from throughout Northern California are expected to be in Tracy on Wednesday to meet with the City Council as members zero in on the next potential city attorney, only the ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Contra Costa Times,  14 Jul 2009

Man found dead in San Joaquin River

FRENCH CAMP — San Joaquin County Sheriff's deputies pulled the body of an unidentified man out of the San Joaquin River Sunday afternoon after it was discovered by jet skiers. Authorities haven't released the man's name, pending confirmation through ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Inside Bay Area,  13 Jul 2009
Related Topics: University of California Berkeley

Tracy City Council approves fees for downtown businesses

business owners agreed to the fees again because they fund the wine stroll, one of their biggest events." TRACY — With the dissolution of an organization designed to bring people downtown on the horizon, the Tracy City Council voted unanimously earlier ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Inside Bay Area,  10 Jul 2009

Melissa Huckaby's ex granted custody of daughter

filed last month, prosecutors added a count of child endangerment and two counts of furnishing someone a harmful substance — one relating to a second unnamed child and the other to a Hayward man — against Melissa Huckaby. Those charges are not part of ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Contra Costa Times,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Sandra Cantu

Group asks Tracy to drop religion from invocations

turn nonbelievers and non-Christians into political outsiders of their own community and government. The constitutional rights of citizens to participate in government meetings ... should not be predicated upon being subjected to Christian-based ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Inside Bay Area,  8 Jul 2009

Sandra Cantu case could go before grand jury, according to media reports

kidnapping, lewd or lascivious acts upon a child, and rape by a foreign object — in a five-page complaint with one count of child endangerment and two counts of furnishing someone a harmful substance, one relating to a second unnamed child and the ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Contra Costa Times,  6 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Sandra Cantu

Depot fire chief resigns after less than seven months

LOS OLIVOS, Calif.—Like an old Western boomtown, the funky little makeshift village that sprang up around the gates of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was vanishing Friday, its residents and vendors packing up tents, tarps and piles of Jackson ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Contra Costa Times,  3 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Michael Jackson

Ex-city employees accuse Tracy HR director of creating hostile work environment, lawsuit says

TRACY -- A lawsuit filed by two former city of Tracy employees accuses current Human Resources Director Maria Olvera of violating workplace policies she's supposed to enforce. documents, the city rejected a 2008 claim filed by Allred because it was not ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Contra Costa Times,  2 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Matt Robinson

CHP looking to solve seven-year-old fatal hit-and-run

exit on I-205, someone made an unsafe lane change in front of Sabanal, clipping the white GMC four-wheel drive pickup he was driving, causing it to swerve off the freeway and roll over several times before coming to a stop upright, according to the ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Inside Bay Area,  2 Jul 2009

Public safety, health care take hits in San Joaquin County budget

six years, according to county records. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, faced with cutting more than 50 positions, was able to keep 40 of those jobs on the books, but they are not currently funded. Sheriff Steve Moore hopes to fill the jobs ...

From MIKE MARTINEZ, Contra Costa Times,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Steve Moore

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