Authorities arrested three men on weapons charges Thursday following a four-month investigation that involved the execution of 10 search warrants, eight of them in Stockton, according to a criminal complaint that was unsealed by federal officials Friday. One suspect, identified in documents as 30-year-old Somphong Xai Vongsuwan, was arrested by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at his home in Stockton.
U.S. companies that export products, such as agricultural producers in the Midwest, say their businesses will suffer if the U.S. moves forward with imposing tariffs, only to see other countries retaliate with similar measures. WASHINGTON - As a tool of national trade policy, tariffs had long been fading into history, a relic of 19th and early 20th centuries that most experts regarded as mutually harmful to all nations involved.
Dolores Huerta vividly recalls the day Robert F. Kennedy joined thousands of farmworkers in Central California to celebrate the end of Cesar E. Chavez's fast for nonviolence. On March 10, 1968, Huerta greeted Kennedy at the airport and brought him back to an adobe brick building on the union's Forty Acres property, just west of the city of Delano.
"It's been 50 years since the assassination and yet the dream is still alive," the Rev. Dr. Dennis Moore declared in opening Sunday evening's annual Stockton celebration honoring the life and legacy of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. An inspirational - and at times raucous - program of speeches, award presentations, spoken word and music got the crowd of several hundred up on their feet inside downtown's Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium.
Saito, who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Hawaii, was... . FILE - This Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, file photo shows the Hawaii State Hospital in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
BofA California president and ' classic music ' s No. 1 maverick ' also to speak at forum hosted by University of the Pacific Facebook chief operating officer and best-selling author Sheryl Sandberg will be the featured speaker when University of the Pacific hosts the next Advancing Women's Leadership forum Sept.
STOCKTON - Local community leaders and organizations held a rally Saturday at the steps of City Hall to denounce threats by the Trump administration to deny federal crime-fighting resources because of its policy toward immigrants. Two dozen people gathered representing organizations such as Faith in San Joaquin, Fathers and Families of San Joaquin, San Joaquin Immigrant Youth Collective and the Stockton branch NAACP.
Dozens marched along the streets of downtown Stockton to the steps of City Hall on Thursday evening to denounce Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman who defeated Hillary Clinton in an earthshaking upset in Tuesday's presidential election. The San Joaquin Pride Center, Fathers and Families of San Joaquin and the Little Manila Foundation joined forces to organize the march.
As school bus No. 45 rolled up to one of its stops at Panella Park in northeast Stockton early Tuesday, a handful of young, glassy-eyed students were greeted by a warm presence.
Standing in the driveway to his home on Sacramento Street in Stockton, California, 13-year-old Rashawn Harris says goodbye to his daddy. Moments later bullets from a gun owned by Anthony Silva , the Mayor of Stockton, tear through his body, killing him instantly.