While they’d never admit it, some people are procrastinators when it comes to Mother’s Day. Busy schedules, meetings and plain forgetfulness are all routine — and rarely credible excuses.

A decorated paratrooper from Lodi stationed at Fort Bragg died March 7 after sustaining a gunshot wound, base officials said in a release Wednesday.

A parachutist suffered cuts to his face and shoulder while possibly breaking a leg after crashing into a vineyard northwest of Peltier Road and the western Highway 99 frontage road shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.

It seems tailgate parties are no longer just for football games. 

(BPT) - When the Navy needs to complete seemingly impossible missions or track elusive targets, the job is often assigned to Naval Special Warfare (NSW) or Naval Special Operations (NSO) teams. These elite men and women work with dedication and intense courage in locations all over the world, and in every possible climate, to neutralize potential threats.

Here are the 10 stories from 2012 that received the most page views on Lodinews.com:

Who: Wendell and Lana Houck of Herald, Gerry Bryant of Walnut Creek, Joanne and Dennis Seibel of Lodi and Bill Moersch.

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.

A Foresthill Bridge BASE jumper was arrested after getting hung up Monday night on a tree branch near the end of his 730-foot plunge.

JoAnn Kupka stands over a stainless steel sink, scraping leftover country potatoes and crust from toast into the trash before rinsing them and placing them in the industrial dishwasher. Behind her, there is the chatter of weekday morning diners and the soft clink and clank of ceramic coffee cups on light wooden table tops.

It was the stunt heard ’round the world: Last Wednesday, as Google co-founder Sergey Brin prepared to promote his latest pet project, a team of Lodi-based skydivers leapt from a zeppelin hovering over San Francisco’s Moscone Center, landed on the roof and hand-delivered to Brin a pair of Google’s “Project Glass” computing glasses — all while connected in real-time to the Internet so those below could see the action from the divers’ perspective.

"I see something," Mitch said, pointing to a glint in the forest maybe 50 yards ahead.

An 81-year old woman was featured on "Today" with Matt Lauer on Tuesday after video of her skydiving misadventure at the Lodi Parachute Center went viral.

Just off of Highway 99, a dozen parachutes erupt like popcorn kernels before skydivers weave in and out of clouds thousands of feet in the air, gracefully back to camp at the Lodi Parachute Center.

A man was airlifted to a trauma center in South Sacramento after a hard parachute landing Monday at the Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo.

Parachuter down: A man was injured after a hard landing at the Lodi Parachute center and was airlifted to Kaiser Hospital in south Sacramento. Reporter Sara Jane Pohlman went to the scene to see what happened.

Unknowingly, the USA trained the 9/11 hijack pilots by allowing these Islamic citizens of Saudi Arabia to enroll in American flight schools. Now, after 10 years of contemplation, we know that their enrollment raised suspicions that were unfortunately ignored.

A man died Thursday after crash-landing in a vineyard off of Jahant Road while skydiving at the Lodi Parachute Center. The victim was identified Friday as William L. Calhoun, 71, of Novato, Calif.