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• McNair High teacher accused of having sexual relationship with student

• Victim flees into Lodi home after being stabbed

• Hundreds turned away during talks on Lodi Unified School District budget woes

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• Who's dumping dead calves? Reward offered for the answer

• Regional Roundup

February 9th, 2010

• Middle College High School rated one of the best — and a bargain, to boot

• Lodi decathlon boasts top team in county

• Man who sparked counterfeit case pleads guilty

• Local businessman will visit Haiti to look for family

• Man who claimed to be Yosemite Sam pleads guilty to meth charge

• David Harmer seeks Republican congressional nod

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• Regional Roundup

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

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February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

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• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

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February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

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• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

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• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Regional Roundup

February 2nd, 2010

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Correction

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

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• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

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Who's dumping dead calves? Reward offered for the answer

About 50 dead calves have been found on San Joaquin County's back roads near Escalon and Lodi in the past two months, and now an animal rescue group from New York wants to find out who's dumping the dead animals.

Farm Sanctuary, a group based in Watkins Glen, New York, is offering a $2,000 reward for any information leading to the identification and arrest of those responsible.

"The more we found out about it, the more appalled we were with the situation," said Russ Meade, a general counsel with Farm Sanctuary. "We want to put out the reward to find the people who did this. We were outraged when we found that someone callously dumped these animals and we have to do something to stop this."

Meade said that most likely, dairy farmers illegally disposed of the male calves; they don't carry much value because they can't bear milk like their female counterparts.

Dairy farmer and San Joaquin County Supervisor Leroy Ornellas of Tracy said that there's a proper way to dispose of male calves, but it carries a price that is sometimes more expensive than the animal's monetary value.

"I know that the industry is in some degree of hurt and the bull calves in particular don't have a lot of value to them," Ornellas said. "I don't understand why someone would do that. Dumping a livestock carcass, not only is it illegal, but it becomes a health issue.

"It creates a bad image for an industry that doesn't deserve that."