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Medical marijuana dealers found guilty

upi.com     2 hrs ago    3 related    Send to a friend

MODESTO, Calif., May 17 (UPI) -- Two California men could spend 20 years behind bars after a federal jury found them guilty of operating an illegal medical marijuana business, officials said. A Fresno, Calif., federal jury found Modesto residents Luke Anthony Scarmazzo, 28, and Ricardo Ruiz...

Combative flight passenger given probation

nwsource.com     11 hrs ago    9 related    Send to a friend

By Mike Carter Seattle Times staff reporter A Hanford, Calif., woman whose violent attack on a Horizon Air flight attendant resulted in her plane turning around midflight and returning to Seattle was given three years of probation Friday by a federal judge, told to apologize and scolded by a...

Carnival ride collapse injures 18

tmcnet.com     7 hrs ago    100 related    Send to a friend

An investigation was underway Saturday into a California carnival ride collapse that injured 18 people, three seriously. The incident happened Friday evening at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp, Calif., about 50 miles east of Stockton, Calif. An official from the...

Three new judges in Kern County

tmcnet.com     7 hrs ago    1 related    Send to a friend

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 17--After months of suffering overcrowded courtrooms and overburdened court calendars, Kern County Superior Court is getting three new judges. Private attorney Michael E. Dellostritto, county prosecutor John S. Somers and court commissioner Louie L. Vega were...

Chemist gets life for killing husband

ljworld.com     11 hrs ago    3 related    Send to a friend

California — A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday in Fresno, Calif., for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid, possibly while he was still alive. Larissa Schuster was convicted in December of...

News Minute: Bush arrives in Egypt, More deaths in China, Preakness runs today

kwch.com     6 hrs ago    3 related    Send to a friend

Associated Press - May 17, 2008 6:03 AM ET SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - President Bush has arrived in Egypt for two days of talks with leaders from throughout the Middle East. They'll be discussing such issues as Middle East peace and the fight against al-Qaida. The president is also slated to...

CrimeStoppers meets goal set three years ago

modbee.com     8 hrs ago    Send to a friend

The Modesto area CrimeStoppers program began in June 2005 with the goal of capturing 100 suspects by June 2008. The program achieved that goal three weeks before its self-imposed deadline with the May 7 arrest of Benny Maines, 33, who was wanted on suspicion of vehicle theft and domestic...

Chemist gets life for husband's acid vat murder

cnn.com     14 hrs ago    76 related    Send to a friend

Larissa Schuster knocked husband out, threw him in vat of acid His partially dissolved body was found in a barrel in a storage unit Prosecutors said financial gain was the motive FRESNO, California (AP) -- A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for...

Owners of Modesto pot shop guilty of criminal enterprise

cbs47.tv     23 hrs ago    17 related    Send to a friend

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A federal jury has convicted two Modesto men of running a criminal enterprise in connection with a medical marijuana dispensary they operated in the city. Luke Scarmazzo and Ricardo Ruiz Montes - both 27 years old - are facing at least 20 years in federal prison for...

Wine pioneer Robert Mondavi dead at 94

marketwatch.com     16 hrs ago    163 related    Send to a friend

The Robert Mondavi Winery, which Mondavi founded in 1966, said in a statement that the famed wine connoisseur and entrepreneur passed away in his Napa Valley home north of San Francisco. Mondavi was born in Virginia, Minn., to Italian immigrants and grew up in Lodi, Calif., east of the San...