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• Plugging up problems

• Lodi residents help Iowa town battle floodwaters

• Final career flight

• Truly a piece of Lodi's gold

• Tattoos embraced by Tokay students, staff

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi police conduct gang sweep in crime-prone neighborhood

November 2nd, 2009

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

November 7th, 2009

• Lodi High graduate was at Fort Hood

• Lining up for flu shots in Lodi

• Tour packs buses as birdwatchers admire Sandhill cranes

• City of Lodi staff looking into possibility of limiting number of taco trucks

• Daytime thieves targeting Lodi homes

• Lodi High School rally featured on 'Good Day Sacramento'

• Out of control

• Homicide suspect Anthony Hubbard arraigned

• Regional Roundup

• New Lodi Memorial rule to combat spread of H1N1: Visitors must be older than 16

November 6th, 2009

• Short sales make up nearly half of Lodi market

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi man accused of smuggling drugs, weapons for inmates at state prison

• 'I-5 Strangler' sentenced to 6 terms of life

• Jury convicts Acampo man of torture, assault of his girlfriend

• Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit

• Woman in wheelchair struck by car

November 5th, 2009

• A lower Lodi Lake

• Streetside scarecrows

• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

• Speakers address Lodi Unified School District budget shortfalls, plea to keep programs

• Armed robbers still targeting Lodi shops

• Regional Roundup

• California voters have final say over $11 billion water bond

• Weekend bus service to continue until Lodi City Council makes decision

• Paul Tebbel shines spotlight on sandhill cranes

• Your complete guide to Sandhill Crane Festival

• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy

• Man wanted in Acampo homicide gives up to San Joaquin County Sheriff's detectives

November 4th, 2009

• Candle fire

• Rep. Jerry McNerney sets telephone town hall for Thursday

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

• Regional Roundup

• Galt City Council argues over ordinance hiring residents

• San Joaquin County sues state over prison hospital planned for Stockton

• Big win for Allen Baroni in reclamation election

• California sends Democratic loyalist John Garamendi to Congress

• Bicycling father raising awareness of teen suicide

• Lodi City Council weighs raising fares to restore some bus service

November 3rd, 2009

• 500 attend service for Kyle Coumas

• Correction

• Galt considers ordinance that would require city contractors to hire locally

• Regional Roundup

• Have you seen a missing guide dog puppy in Lodi?

• Galt man dies after weekend Highway 12 crash

• Jason Behrmann is top candidate for Galt city manager

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

• Clarification

November 2nd, 2009

• Downtown Lodi trick or treat

• Public Meetings

• Correction

• Kyle Coumas funeral today

• 27-year-old man shot to death Saturday night in front of Acampo home

• Regional Roundup

• Group investigates reports of haunting

• Sandhill Cranes Festival comes to Lodi next weekend

• Lamborghini lovers gather for show, fine wine, luncheon in Woodbridge

• Lodi's 'Biggest Loser' Christy Richesin runs 5K Halloween race

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Grand opening barbecue and fundraiser

As part of its grand opening, Cutting Edge Martial Arts is having a barbecue today beginning at noon at 2411 Stockton St., near Salas Park. Chicken and ribs will be available for purchase and there will be bounce-abouts for children and seminars for children and parents. Proceeds of the event will benefit the competition team to help them get to nationals.

Fair activities continue this weekend

The San Joaquin County Fair wraps up today and Sunday with two final days of fun.

Today at 3 p.m., the Stockton Classic car show will feature vehicles from before 1972. Following the car show at 6 p.m. is a professional bull riding show.

On stage tonight at 8 p.m. will be the Grand Funk Railroad.

Sunday's event includes a Charread Mexican Rodeo at 4 p.m. and music by Ramon Ayala at 8 p.m.

The fair will be held from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. both days, and admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children, and $20 for carnival wristbands.

Other exhibits include:

Junior livestock auction: 9:30 a.m., 9:45 a.m.

Rain forest exhibit: 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m.

Ham Bone Express (racing pigs): 2:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 9 p.m.

Showboat Marionettes: 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

Swan Bros. Circus: 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m.

Hypnotist, Suzy Haner: 6 p.m., 8 p.m., 10 p.m.

Stephen Lord, one-man band: 1 p.m.-6 p.m.

Grand jury finds fault with San Joaquin transit service

The San Joaquin County grand jury has accused the county's transit service of misusing credit cards, improper purchasing procedures and poor contract management, according to a report released Friday.

The district serves every city in the county as well as some rural routes.

Some of the jury's findings include staff using a district purchase card to buy a $1,038 dinner at Stockton restaurant and a $800 purchase at a Starbucks.

The jury had several recommendations for the district including to review all consultant contracts, enforce sanctions for credit card misuse and utilize "best practices" in hiring new staff.

In a statement responding to the jury's report, the district spokesman Paul Rapp said the jury did not consider all the pertinent information or "the many good things" the district has accomplished in the year such as increased ridership and improved transit services.

Rapp said district staff will submit a written response and rebuttal to the findings and recommendations of the jury.

The entire report can be found at www.stocktoncourt.org/grandjury.

McNerney votes against war spending bill

U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, who represents Lodi, voted against the funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

McNerney's spokesman, Andy Stone, said the Congressman "was unwilling to cut another blank check for President Bush."

Stone said McNerney has a son in the U.S. Air Force and would never do anything to imperil U.S. soldiers. However, Stone said, McNerney could not support a bill that had "no restrictions, no benchmarks, no nothing.

"The Congressman is an advocate for a timetable for reducing troops in Iraq," Stone said. "It's the only way to get the Iraqi government to step up and take responsibility and conduct the political reconcilliation that hasn't taken place."

U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, who represents Galt, did vote for the bill.