I have this habit of opening my mouth.

As students returned to classrooms on Monday, local schools planned to answer questions from students and discuss safety plans following the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and six adults dead.

"Enfermera." Charlene Martin says the word hesitantly, scanning the eyes of nine men sitting elbow-to-elbow in folding chairs.

Should Stephen Glass be allowed to practice law in California?

Realtor members of the California Association of Realtors work hard to uphold our image as being fair and ethical in all of our dealings. CAR and the Lodi Association of Realtors work hand in hand with the State Department of Real Estate to monitor and discipline when necessary. Sometimes there are misunderstandings or difficulties and we want you to know where to turn if you have issues or questions. The California Department of Real Estate, www.dre.ca.gov Summer 2011 Real Estate Bulletin has provided the information below.

Over the weekend, Tokay High School's yearbook and newspaper students displayed their writing and photographic skills at the San Joaquin Valley Scholastic Press Association conference sponsored by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. It was held at California State University, Fresno.

Teen of the Month

Dear Readers: I recently aired reader responses to the column where I sided with the mother who stopped allowing her daughter to sleep over with her long-term friend who was now lesbian. Today I'm featuring panel responses to my advice (which they didn't like much either).

Dear Straight Talk: I checked a link where teenagers ask questions to each other. From what I read, I suspect my 15-year-old daughter is performing oral sex on boys. What is the best way to talk to her about this?

A Lodi man accused of robbing a Lodi coffee shop at gunpoint last month will spend three years in state prison after pleading guilty.

Rumors of a possible gang shooting at Tokay High School were exacerbated Tuesday evening by a barrage of text messages from concerned students that vibrated through cell phones across Lodi.

Seven Tokay High School students knelt facing a wall in a dark school hallway Wednesday.

The call came in at 9:32 a.m. An armed gunman had taken teenage hostages on a Lodi city bus at Oak Street and Ham Lane.

Mark Chandler's job is to tell the world about Lodi wine. And after 17 years of persistence, his efforts are paying off.

It is said that Easter Sunday is the Super Bowl of Sunday worship, drawing more people to church than any other day of the year. The idea is for pastors to pull the best sermon of the year out of their pocket, motivating people who do not regularly attend church to come back again.

Soroptimists holding annual clothing sale

Dora Helms, of Galt, sits in a noisy Starbucks quietly reading an article in Sacramento Magazine when a male patron's cell phone loudly rings nearby.

It's a crisp afternoon and 4-year-old Jackson Stormes is attacking Lodi's Legion Park playground like a young lion.

There's a poster hanging on the wall in my economics class that says, "Teenagers use the phrase 'it's not fair' on average 85 times a day."

There's a poster hanging on the wall in my economics class that says, "Teenagers use the phrase 'it's not fair' on average 85 times a day."

By April 1917 "The Great War" - as it was known then, for there hadn't been a second one to give it a number - had been raging for more than two-and-a-half years and had engulfed most of Europe in a holocaust of unprecedented slaughter in which hundreds of thousands of men had died on hundreds of battlefields.

By April 1917 "The Great War" - as it was known then, for there hadn't been a second one to give it a number - had been raging for more than two-and-a-half years and had engulfed most of Europe in a holocaust of unprecedented slaughter in which hundreds of thousands of men had died on hundreds of battlefields.

Just what has Roger Woo been up to all these years?

Nine-year-old Brian Kaelber of Lodi emerged from the bathroom after vomiting and slumped down on the couch.