Stockton

DNA Test To Prove If Remains Found In ‘Speed Freak Killer’ Case Are Of Michaela Garecht

The mother of missing Hayward girl Michaela Garecht is hoping DNA testing will lead to closure in a case that has puzzled detectives for over two decades, and link the case to the infamous Speed Freak Killers.

2012/10/11

Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden speaks to a reporter following an anti-violence community meeting in Stockton's Victory Park. (CBS)

A’s Pitcher Braden Calls Out Stockton Police At Anti-Violence Meeting

Oakland Athletics pitcher Dallas Braden was nearly removed from a community meeting in Stockton Wednesday evening after a heated exchange with the city’s police chief in which he called the chief a liar and said violence in his hometown is so bad he is moving out.

2012/09/27

Lenders Say Stockton Bankruptcy Costing Millions, While City Continues Pension Payments

A bond insurer said lenders are losing millions in Stockton’s bankruptcy while the city continues to fund pricey pensions.

2012/08/03

Petra Anderson, a recent graduate of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, was wounded in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. on July 20. 2012. (University of the Pacific)

Recent Stockton College Grad Wounded In Colorado Massacre

Petra Anderson, who graduated from the University of the Pacific in May, was shot four times with pellets during a midnight showing of the Batman movie. One pellet entered her nose and traveled through her brain.

2012/07/20

Stockton Officially Declares Bankruptcy, Largest US City To File

Stockton has filed for Chapter 9 protection, making it the largest American city ever to declare bankruptcy.

2012/06/28

Stockton Bankruptcy To Hit City Retirees Hard

When Stockton becomes the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy, it will strike a hard blow to residents, especially city employees and retirees whose health benefits and pensions helped drive the city toward insolvency.

2012/06/27

A foreclosed Stockton home. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Stockton Bankruptcy Set After Mediation With Creditors Fails

Officials in Stockton said Tuesday that mediation with the city’s creditors has failed, meaning it is set to become the largest American city ever to declare bankruptcy.

2012/06/26

Acemoore Pittman and Johnnie Johnson drowned when their boat capsized along the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on June 16, 2012. (CBS)

2 Bay Area Men Killed In Delta Boating Accident

A Bay Area family is mourning the deaths of two cousins who drowned when their boat capsized in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta west of Stockton.

2012/06/18

Stockton TB Patient Arrested For Not Getting Treatment

A Stockton man was arrested on Tuesday after not making himself available for tuberculosis treatment, according to the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office.

2012/05/16