LOS ANGELES — Authorities are continuing to sort out the details of an auto accident that apparently claimed the life of award-winning journalist Michael Hastings.

For 79 years, members of California Association Future Farmers of America were homeless.

LOS ANGELES — Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his employers. He was 33.

LOS ANGELES — For Bob Meistrell, there was always something about the water.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In an accelerated election for a new U.S. senator from New Jersey, the Democratic field is Cory Booker vs. everyone else.

Gary Norwood’s prep career didn’t end on a winning note, but it was a thrilling conclusion nonetheless. The recent Tokay High School graduate suited up in his high school uniform one final time last Saturday night, but his North squad came up on the short end of a 17-14 loss to the South in the Lions All-Star Game at Modesto Junior College.

William Everett Copeland III, 81, of Galt, died June 14. He was born May 25, 1932, in New Haven, Conn.

Ceremony: 9 a.m. Saturday, June 15, 2013, at Humphreys College's ABLE Charter High School, 6515 Inglewood Ave., StocktonNumber of graduates: 180Valedictorian: Tafadzwa Mafurirano

STOCKTON - Sadia Saifuddin is still the "white-hot ball of fire" who graduated from Lincoln High School in 2010.

Punching bags and exercise balls line the walls of Morgan’s Martial Arts, a small training center in Lodi’s industrial section. Inside on the matted floor, Kari Salinas connects combos with her bright-pink boxing gloves.

By Louis Franklin, Tokay High School athletic director

STOCKTON - Marcelo Hernandez took a rewarding walk last week dressed in a red cap and gown.

Certificates and letters line the wall in the waiting room office of Dr. James Kim. The clicking of a typewriter echoes in the room while rows upon rows of files line the shelves of the administrative office. There are no computers. Kim prefers it that way. He says it’s efficient.

School's out for summer, but some would say that's the time to keep the learning going -- or starting, for incoming kindergartners.

With a few starters missing from the lineup, the Lodi Legion baseball team had its hands full against the visiting Sacramento State Stingers on Wednesday at Zupo Field.

Calaveras High School

On Friday, May 30, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) surprised Liberty Ranch High School graduating senior Sierra MacLeod with a $30,000 per year scholarship to complete her college degree. MacLeod believed she was walking into a final interview for the scholarship application process, but upon entering the room was met with a giant check both in size and in amount.

Del Oro High School in Loomis will repeat its commencement indoors tonight, days after intense heat at an outdoor graduation ceremony Saturday morning sent five people to local hospitals and forced the city's fire chief to halt the proceedings.

Recently, I attended Bill Fortuna’s memorial. Even though I hadn’t seen him since we graduated from Lodi High School in 1965, I went to honor his memory.

In her retirement years, Mama had a coffee cup that on one side said, “The kitchen is closed due to illness,” and on the other said, “I’m sick of cooking.”

Beto Garcia and Mia Nino, both of Lodi, were married last September.

(BPT) - Sailors silently gliding underwater while patrolling the ocean depths in a nuclear-powered sub and the pride of earning the coveted Submarine Dolphins. This is the exciting and challenging life for personnel in the United States Naval Submarine force.

Navy Fireman Recruit Nicholas Olvera

Del Oro High School in Loomis will repeat its commencement indoors on Tuesday, because intense heat at an outdoor graduation ceremony Saturday morning sent five people to local hospitals and forced the city's fire chief to cancel the proceedings.