Boiling sugar water leads to Modesto kitchen fire

The Modesto City Council will deal with a light agenda after Mayor-elect Garrad Marsh is sworn in this evening.

Stanislaus County will hold its annual tax-default property auction Feb. 29 in the basement chamber at Tenth Street Place, 1010 10th St., Modesto.

A 13-year-old boy badly wounded during a shooting in west Modesto on Sunday afternoon was the victim of gang violence, investigators said Monday.