A 46-year-old man was killed in a rollover crash Friday south of Modesto, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The man was driving a Mercury east on Service Road approaching Ustick Road about 8:13 a.m. when the vehicle veered off the road and onto the south dirt shoulder.
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TURLOCK, Calif. —A pedestrian died Tuesday afternoon after a vehicle hit them and drove off, the Turlock Police Department said.
The hit-and-run crash in the 2100 block of Fulkerth Road was reported at 3:31 p.m., police said.
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Newly released numbers show the fentanyl crisis is responsible for a sharp increase in drug overdose deaths in Stanislaus County.
County public health has counted 229 deaths involving illegal fentanyl since 2020, when drug addiction counselors noticed that fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills were harming or killing people in Modesto.
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Firefighters early Saturday night continued to battle a blaze involving four mobile homes and 40 vehicles along the Fresno/Merced county line.
Called the Russell Incident by Cal Fire, the fire is on the 12000 block of North Russell, about an hour west of Fresno and a few miles south of Dos Palos.
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A Turlock man died in a motorcycle crash near Jamestown on Sunday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash occurred around 4 p.m. near the intersection where Highways 108 and 120 split west of Jamestown.
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When Jami Hanlin heard her three children had been hit by a car while walking home from school in Antioch, the California mom rushed to the scene.
“I just know it was like a horror scene to me,” Hanlin told KNTV after the crash Friday, Sept. 16, recalling “seeing my son covered in blood telling me, ‘Mommy, I am dying.’”
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A Modesto man who died in a crash on Highway 108/120 east of Knights Ferry over the weekend has been identified.
Andrew Ramsey, 33, was involved in a solo vehicle crash east of Tulloch Road around 10 p.m. Saturday.
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A 20-year-old woman inside a police car parked on railroad tracks north of Platteville was injured when a train struck the vehicle, Colorado officials reported.
A Colorado Bureau of Investigation news release said a Platteville police officer investigating a road rage incident stopped the woman at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, near U.S. 85 and Weld County Road 38.
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An early morning fire broke out in a structure at the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, damaging one of the fair buildings.
At around 3:20 a.m. Wednesday, Modesto firefighters were dispatched to what was initially reported as a “tent fire” on the 800 block of Soderquist Road at the fairgrounds, according to the department’s daily incident report.
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A driver was killed early Sunday in a head-on collision just east of Keyes, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The two-vehicle crash happened about 1:10 a.m. on Keyes Road east of Pioneer Road.
The driver of a 2008 Mazda3 was eastbound on Keyes Road at an “unknown but high rate of speed,” according to a CHP news release.
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