A narrow stretch of Lower Sacramento Road that goes underneath the Union Pacific Railroad trestle in Acampo should become safer during the summer.

A San Francisco Bay area family has been reunited with its dog more than four years after he went missing.

The Palo Alto Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/YlpDcp) that Oreo — a black and white Boston terrier — was spotted on Tuesday near a public storage facility in Daly City and taken to the Peninsula Humane Society's San Mateo shelter.

The San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation says a plan by Viaggio Winery to add a deli on its farm violates the state’s Williamson Act, which protects agricultural land from being sold for urban uses.

Oak View Union Elementary School District will try to match its high-ranking standardized test score with fundraising efforts this weekend.

The Federal Aviation Administration proposes fining a skydiving instructor $2,200, claiming he did not properly secure his student's harness before the two tumbled from a plane at 13,000 feet above Earth.

Santa Claus will be visiting the following areas with the Woodbridge Fire District from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the following days:

The attorney for Molly Rachelle Wilson, 25, is still receiving discovery and is not yet ready to begin her murder trial.

The Parachute Center in Acampo faces a second fine for allegedly operating a DeHavilland twin Otter on 41 flights when it was not in compliance with federal regulations, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday.

The community is invited to give their opinions on Wednesday about a possible communications tower planned for the Woodbridge fire station at 25440 N. Eunice Ave., Acampo.

Graciela Carrillo, 56, of Acampo, died May 9. She was born on Dec. 4, 1954 in Mexico.

Victor Samuel Luna, 20, of Lodi, has been identified by the San Joaquin Sheriff's Department as the driver who died in a solo-vehicle accident Monday evening in Lodi.

Tracy Kelley, a media sales executive with wide experience, has been named advertising director of the News-Sentinel.

Roy Winn could fix almost anything.

Matthew Joseph Riesberg, of Portland, Ore., and Kayla Marie Ramsdell, of Acampo, were engaged in January.

Accomplishment: After his wrestling season ended prematurely because of a broken clavical, Tokay High School senior Kevin Yeats is making the most of his swimming season and last semester as a student-athlete at Tokay.

It all started when John Vinson hung a flag on an overpass to mourn lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001.

Residents will have the opportunity to tell county planners how and where San Joaquin County should grow during the next 20 years at a forum tonight.

It may seem like a routine maintenance job for San Joaquin County — giving Acampo Road a fresh coat of asphalt — but there had better not be any migratory birds in the area, according to San Joaquin County and state officials.

After enduring two years of unused railroad cars being stored on tracks adjacent to Kennefick Road, about 200 of them have been removed because of an increased demand for them to carry lumber and steel.

The man accused of murdering an Acampo father and son last month declared his intention to plead guilty Monday morning, even if that meant a possible death sentence.

Howard Daniel Smith, 40, allegedly shot and killed Jonathan Meagher, 48, and his father, 84-year-old William Robert Meagher, on March 25, according to prosecutors.

During an arraignment hearing Tuesday, Smith expressed his desire to plead guilty, and reiterated his previous refusal of an attorney.

Howard Daniel Smith knocked on Lorie-Ann Irvine's door and told her, "I just killed Bill and Jay for talking smack about me stealing stuff."

"Then I noticed the rifle in his hand," Irvine said.

Irvine, 43, and her boyfriend, Gary Morris, 34, told the News-Sentinel about what they saw on March 25, when Smith allegedly shot to death Jonathan "Jay" Meagher, 48, and his father, William Meagher, 84, at their residence on Homestead Lane in northeastern Acampo.

You live near Highway 99 on the north side of the Mokelumne River, but you don't have a car. That means you can't cross the river over the Highway 99 bridge, which is just a stone's throw away. Instead, you must walk or bike 2.5 miles west to Lower Sacramento Road and south through Woodbridge.

The man accused of murdering an Acampo father and son appeared in court for an arraignment Tuesday afternoon, and was charged with 19 pages worth of violations.

The two men shot and killed in Acampo on Friday night have been identified as a father and son.

The victims were Jonathan Meagher, 48, and his father, William Robert Meagher, 84, according to Deputy Les Garcia with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department.

Deputies have arrested Howard Daniel Smith in connection with the killings. Police encountered Smith, 40, in a blue Ford Ranger pickup truck when they responded to the shooting.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office has named Howard D. Smith, 40, as the suspect they believe shot and killed two people and wounded a third individual on Friday afternoon.

Smith was arrested shortly after the vehicle he was driving collided with another vehicle on southbound Highway 99 at Harney Lane, according to sheriff's Deputy Dave Konecny.

Smith, whose residence was not disclosed, was booked into San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp on suspicion of two counts of homicide, one count of attempted murder and burglary.