September 2, 2010 RSS feed / Around the County

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Joint effort nets $14.6 million in pot

With information obtained from a joint investigation with the United States Forest Service and the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office, Yosemite National Park rangers raided a large marijuana cultivation site in El Portal early Tuesday morning, A More...

Plastic shopping bag debate begins

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lawmakers are preparing to decide whether California should become the first state to ban disposable plastic shopping bags. More...

Hike benefits Wounded Warriors

BRYCE BATTERSHELL, A RESIDENT OF MARIPOSA, COMPLETED HIS SIXDAY, 60-MILE HIKE IN YOSEMITE VALLEY AUG 28. FROM LEFT, ARE MARIPOSA COUNTY SUPERVISOR BRAD ABORN, SSG. ERNESTO JIMENEZ, SGT. More...

Deputies bust car thieves

On Aug. 26, Mariposa County Sheriff’s Deputies and the California Highway Patrol responded to a residence on White Rock Road in Mariposa County for a residential burglary and stolen vehicle report. More...

ACLU: Raided firm mistreated illegal workers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Civil rights lawyers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a government contractor that was the target of an immigration raid this summer, accusing the company of bilking illegal workers out of pay and violating their righ More...

State legislators continue the annual budget battle

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday began their overdue debate about how to close a $19 billion budget deficit, casting their differences as a struggle over the future of the nation's most populous state. More...

One seriously injured in Cathey's Valley crash

GARY WILLIAMS, 48, OF CATHEY’S VALLEY, SUSTAINED MAJOR HEAD INJURIES IN THIS ACCIDENT ON AUG. 26. More...

Ethie's tribute

CONGRESSMAN GEORGE RADANOVICH (LEFT), FLANKED BY HIS SON, KING, PARTICIPATED IN THE TRIBUTE AND DEDICATION CEREMONY HELD BY THE MARIPOSA BEARS YOUTH FOOTBALL ORGANIZATION LAST SATURDAY IN PIONEER MARK More...

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