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Massive Blaze In Tracy Destroys One-Million-Square-Foot Warehouse, No Injuries Reported

Fortunately no one was injured when a one-million-square-foot Tracy warehouse owned by a medical supply distributor was rapidly engulfed in flames Thursday, after a fire broke out on the roof and caused it to collapse.

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Tracy Father of Newborn Triplets Found Dead In Lake Berryessa Was Likely Victim of Mistaken Identity

Authorities are now saying that Avtar Singh, the 57-year-old Tracy man who was found dead in Napa's Lake Berryessa after going missing near his home, was likely not the intended target of his abductors and killers.

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Body of Man Found In Lake Berryessa Suspected to Be Victim of Kidnapping

After 57-year-old Avtar Singh was reported missing in Tracy last Tuesday, authorities have confirmed that a body found in Lake Berryessa on Friday is his, and surveillance video indicates foul play by three suspected kidnappers.

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Sunday Links: Ninety-Five Percent of Oakland Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike

A body that was found in Napa County is believed to be connected to the kidnapping of a Sikh man in the Central Valley; cartel violence has taken over Puerto Vallarta; and Oakland’s teachers’ union is demanding a 12% pay increase as 95% of educators voted to strike.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Major Fire Burning Near Tracy

A fire at a recycling center near Tracy prompted some early morning evacuations; an overturned big rig near San Leandro was causing major traffic headaches; and the route of the Big Sur marathon has been changed due to that road slip-out.

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Owner of East Bay Popeyes Who Allegedly Hired a 13-Year-Old Fined For Child Labor Violations and Wage Theft

The owners of a Popeyes franchisee, which ran three fast food restaurants in Oakland, Tracy, and Newark, had to pay $212K after a federal investigation revealed numerous labor law offences.

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CHP Baffled As Same Sinkhole Near Tracy Claims Three Vehicles — All Because Drivers Ignore Road Closure Signs

Out in San Joaquin County, it seems a few drivers don't like to abide by road closures that inconvenience them, and this has resulted in three vehicles in two weeks getting fully lodged in a sinkhole that's about 12 to 15 feet wide.

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Tracy Man Famous for Holiday Light Shows Does Xmas Tribute for Wife After She Survived a Stroke

Tom BetGeorge, the lighting designer whose holiday light displays on his home in Tracy at Halloween and Christmas time have been the stuff of much local-news fodder the past few years, is back at it, but with new personal meaning to this year's work.

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Tracy Mayor Calls for Busing His City's Homeless Off to Stockton

Not even hiding it, the mayor of Tracy says “I know they just built a nice big shelter in Stockton” and “get a bus ticket to some of these shelters.”

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Tracy Man Is At It Again With Crazy Halloween Light Show Set To Skrillex

A former music teacher in the East Bay who has made a habit over the last decade of making elaborate light-show sequences at his home set to music for both Halloween and Christmas is back at it again with a new Halloween display set to Skrillex's "Bangarang."

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Details Revealed In Sandra Cantu Killing

"I shouldn't have taken Sandra from you. She did not suffer and I did not sexually molest your daughter," said convicted murdered Melissa Huckaby, who, just this morning, was

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Melissa Huckaby Pleads 'Guilty'

Melissa Huckaby, the 28-year-old Tracy woman accused to kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in April 2009, made a surprise decision by pleading guilty to murder. In a

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Plea, Huckaby, Plea!

Melissa Huckaby, the 28-year-old Tracy woman accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering Sandra Cantu back in April, has yet to enter a plea in court. Lots of crying and grimacing? Sure.

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Tracy, Twisted Crime Capital of CA?

Residents busted for shackling and torturing a teenager, a doctor arrested for allegedly sexually abusing patients, and a substitute teacher fingered for molesting "upward of 15 students" -- these are just a

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Huckaby 'Person Of Interest' In SoCal Arsons

Rape, murder, kidnapping, drugging, Ogilvie home perm disasters -- is there any crime Melissa Huckaby won't commit? Well, now we might be able to add 'arson' to her ever-growing

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Cantu Murder Suspect Swallowed Knife Blades Before Arrest

In a murder case that's getting increasingly odd, Melissa Huckaby, who was charged with the rape and murder of Sandra Cantu, reportedly tried to kill herself just days before her arrest

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Cantu Suspect Melissa Huckaby Charged with Murder, Rape

Melissa Huckaby, the woman accused of killing Sandra Cantu, was officially charged with murder and rape today. And good news, crazy death penalty zealots: After adding three special circumstances to the charges, Huckaby

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Family of Sandra Cantu Slaying Suspect Can't Stop Calling Her "Churchgoing"

The family of Tracy's own Melissa Huckaby -- who we mentioned earlier is the prime suspect in the slaying of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu -- can't stop talking about how

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Fourth Suspect Arrested in Tracy Teen Abuse Case

29-year-old Anthony Waiters was arrested in Pleasanton on Tuesday for reportedly participating in the torture the 16-year-old Tracy boy, whose case has made national headlines. The four allegedly took

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Details of Tracy Abuse Case Unfold

The whole story of the Tracy child abuse case is starting to emerge. The boy's aunt, Caren Ramirez, who was arrested on Tuesday night, was charged in 2006 with inflicting "

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Tracy Teen's Aunt Arrested in Berkeley

The final suspect in this week's terrible Tracy child abuse case has been nabbed. Caren Ramirez, 43, was picked up by police at her Berkeley home at around 9:30 p.