Law Enforcement Preps For Rodeo Days
Oakdale Leader
If you want to see crazy in action, just catch Oakdale before and during the rodeo weekend, and while it's a wild good time for most, for law enforcement and certain city agencies, it spells overtime, a black out on vacation time, ...

Communities and homeowners throughout California have experienced serious damage to trees due to harsh winter weather and very heavy snow fall. After a storm, it is common for people claiming to be "tree specialists" to show up at residents’ front doors offering their services to remove or repair damaged trees.

Contractors seem to come out of the woodwork after a storm and are often inexperienced and not qualified to properly care for trees and their damage following a storm. They are often people who are unlicensed to do the work. Unfortunately, many such individuals have little or no training, and sometimes have little interest in removing anything but money from the pocketbooks of unsuspecting residents.

CAL FIRE and the Arbor Day Foundation are urging homeowners not be a victim.

TURLOCK, CA - One woman is dead after the van she was riding in was hit by another car.

It happened just before six a.m. on West Main near Jennings between Patterson and Turlock. California Highway Patrol said the driver of a black Mercedes was headed west bound on West Main when he crossed over to the east bound lane, hitting the silver van with a family in it head on. The woman, a mother of two, was in the passenger seat of the van and was pinned by the car and declared dead at the scene. The driver of the van, who CHP thinks was the woman's husband, suffered moderate injuries while two children in the back seat, a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old, suffered non-life threatening injuries. All three were transported to the hospital.

The driver of the Mercedes was also taken to the hospital with with major injuries, but it is expected to survive. He was pulled out of his car by near by witnesses before his car caught fire. No word on whether he will face any charges.