Merced Sun Star
Registrar: redistricting has created many new voting precincts in Merced
The Registrar of Voters office has completed the redistricting process and has created many new precincts due to the redistricting of the Board of Supervisors.
Bloss Scholarship applications available to MUHSD seniors and graduates
Bloss Scholarship applications are now available to seniors and graduates of the Merced Union High School District who are planning to attend an accredited California college or vocational school. Applicants must have graduated from Merced Union High District in June 1973 or after. Applications are due by April 11th. Applications are available on the Internet: www.muhsd.k12.ca.us (click on departments, College/Scholarship Counseling) or at the local high school guidance offices.
Six Merced College theater students attend national festival in Utah
Six Merced College theater students recently attended the American College Theatre Festival at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. The six — Julian Bremer, Alma Reyes, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Amber Fowler, Jenna George and Barrett Roseman — attended the festival Feb. 6-11.
Merced College accepting course proposal for summer College for Kids
Merced College's Community Services is now accepting course proposals for the summer 2012 College for Kids program. The programs will begin in mid-June and end in early-August. Most classes are two-week courses and can be offered several times throughout the summer.
Fox Sports
No more couch: Lin rents swanky condo
Breakout Knicks star Jeremy Lin is renting an all-inclusive, impeccably furnished pad at the W Hotel in Manhattan's Financial District, sources said. His swanky, 1,182-square-foot (110-square-meter) condo at the Sunshine Select Residences is in addition to his new digs at the Trump Tower in White Plains.
Follow Tiger in Round 1 of the WGC
Can Tiger’s foe back up his swagger now that they’re on the course?
Round 1 of the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship
World's best golfers tee it up at WGC in Arizona.
Brady's personal quarterback coach dies
Tom Martinez, the longtime personal coach to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, has died at 67.
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5 die in possible murder-suicide at Georgia spa
Wednesday, 4:50 AM
Five people were killed in a suburban Atlanta spa Tuesday night in a shooting that police said appeared to be a murder-suicide.
Indiana lawmaker: Girl Scouts promote homosexuality
Wednesday, 1:31 AM
An Indiana lawmaker who opposes celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America says the group "sexualizes" young girls, promotes homosexuality and is a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.
Smithsonian breaking ground on black history museum
Wednesday, 8:32 AM
The Smithsonian Institution will officially begin construction Wednesday on a new museum dedicated to African American culture and heritage -- a complex committed to the celebration and study one of the central components of the American story.
New York's Bloomberg defends city surveillance of Muslims
Tuesday, 7:42 PM
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday fired back at the president of Yale University and others who have suggested city police went too far in their surveillance of Muslims.