By GUY McCARTHY The Union Democrat A Sonora police sergeant resigned in May during a dispute with his neighbors on BlackbirdLane, off Campo Seco Road and southwest of Sonora city limits, and the police department is investigating. Scott Mallon, a U.S. Navy, Army and Army National Guard veteran who has served in law enforcement for... Read More

The father of one of two men killed in an alleged DUI crash in Ceres has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the driver and her boyfriend, who had been arrested earlier in the day on separate DUI charges and whose truck later was used in the fatal wreck. Twenty-eight-year-old Fair Oaks resident Danielle Morgan was... Read More

A woman who was renting a residence from Atwater’s city manager has filed a claim against the city, alleging the top city executive abused her authority by using the city’s police officers in an attempt to solve a private tenancy dispute. Sandra Rahn, the former resident and a retired Atwater recreation supervisor who worked for... Read More