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Mantecas incoming interim police chief, Capt. Michael Aguilar, is an officer familiar with the job. Acting city manager Lisa Blackmon announced Mike Harden will complete his interim service as police chief at the end of March. Aguilar, Manteca polices operations division commander, will take over as interim police chief on April 1. City officials also announced the search for a permanent police chief has been postponed. This will be Aguilar’s second stint as the interim leader of Manteca’s...

Members of the San Joaquin County Sikh community are organizing to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Free COVID-19 testing will be available at Sikh temples and other locations through the county. No insurance is required, walk-in opportunities are available and immigration status will be neither required nor reported. The testing sites are located at the following locations: • Stockton Sikh Temple: 1930 S. Sikh Temple St., Stockton. Testing is available every Tuesday and Wednesday from 10...

Former Monterey County superintendent named acting head of Stockton Unified [The Record, Stockton, Calif] John Ramirez Jr. is in charge of the Stockton Unified School District, but it is not a permanent appointment. At least not yet. In a closed meeting of SUSD trustees, Ramirez was voted in as the acting superintendent in place of an ailing Brian Biedermann, who is out on medical leave and scheduled to leave his post as interim superintendent on Feb. 25. Ramirez may end up with the interim tit...

“Were you to come visit any of us in a hospital setting and see what it looks like to be critically ill with COVID, you would be doing everything humanly possible to avoid it,” Relman said at Thursday’s town hall. “It is a miserable, miserable disease. You do not want it.” Relman is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University, and he was invited to answer constituents’ questions by McNerney, D-Stockton. In thanking Relman for participating, McNerney stressed th...

Manteca police searching for suspect accused of lewd acts with minor MANTECA — The Manteca Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of a man accused of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old. Investigators are searching for Karl Edward Halyday, 61, who is known to frequent both Manteca and Vernalis. Halyday knows that a warrant has been issued for his arrest, authorities said. Halyday is sought on suspicion of a lewd or lascivious act with a child under 14, and harmful matter ...

Rains continue in Stockton, but winds tail off [The Record, Stockton, Calif] The worst of the current storm is behind Stockton and San Joaquin County, but there’s more rain to come. According to the National Weather Service, rains will continue through Thursday night and likely into Friday morning, but without the strong winds that caused damage and power outages earlier in the week. More: Thousands in Stockton, San Joaquin County still without power in wake of storm “The folks in Stockton ...

The worst of the current storm is behind Stockton and San Joaquin County, but there’s more rain to come. According to the National Weather Service, rains will continue through Thursday night and likely into Friday morning, but without the strong winds that caused damage and power outages earlier in the week. “The folks in Stockton are still in the rainband,” said Karl Swanberg, a forecaster with the NWS in Sacramento. “There will be some wind, but not like it was the other evening.” H...

The Record Thousands of people were still without power in Stockton and San Joaquin County Wednesday after a powerful storm brought rain and howling winds through the region. On Wednesday morning, some local residents took advantage of a break in the storm to begin cleaning up. Alexis Villa of Stockton, who lives on El Camino Avenue in north Stockton, was sweeping up the debris and assessing the damage. She said a couple of fence boards were blown off, a branch from a neighbors tree hit her c...

Officials in Stockton and San Joaquin County confirm that the Stockton Heat has decided to play its 2021 games in Calgary, Alberta.

WEST POINT — A 44-year-old Amador County man is being sought in connection to the homicide of a missing local woman whose remains were discovered last weekend in Calaveras County, authorities said. The Amador County Sheriffs Office has issued a warrant for the arrest of Jerry Lee Adams Jr. of Pine Grove on suspicion of the murder of Savana Lee Burger, 27, also of Pine Grove. Burger disappeared in October, and her remains were discovered last week near West Point in Calaveras County. Amad...