John Stockton posts
The New York Times - Travel Leonard Gardner makes the rounds in Stockton, from which his novel emerged.
In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It
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Stockton inspired Leonard Gardner’s acclaimed 1969 novel. On the streets with him now, it’s clear much has changed. But boxing endures.
105 months ago
The New York Times The real Stockton is nice enough. But the Stockton of “Fat City” is lurid and legendary.
In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It
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Stockton inspired Leonard Gardner’s acclaimed 1969 novel. On the streets with him now, it’s clear much has changed. But boxing endures.
105 months ago
Sports Illustrated Before becoming an NBA legend, John Stockton was a little-known guard from Spokane, Washington.
108 months ago
The New Yorker Yola Monakhov Stockton's subject for the project “The Nature of Imitation,” in 2015, was nature in general, and birds specifically. For any photographer, birds are particularly difficult subjects to capture, and for Stockton the question of how t Read more ... o control them was both a practical problem and a creative challenge.
108 months ago
The Huffington Post This is the kind of news we like to hear.
This 26-Year-Old Man Just Became Stockton, California's First Black Mayor
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The election of councilman Michael Tubbs as Stockton, California’s first black mayor was one of the few silver linings in an otherwise horrific Tuesday night.
112 months ago
MSN News Last week, San Joaquin County prosecutors revealed that a gun stolen from Silva’s home, which he failed to immediately report, was later used to kill a 13-year-old boy in Stockton.
Stockton mayor accused of filming strip poker at youth camp
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Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva was arrested Thursday on charges that he supplied alcohol to underage counselors at a city-run youth camp in El Dorado National Forest and surreptitiously recorded a group of young people — including a 16-year-old boy Read more ... playing strip poker in Silva’s bedroom at the camp…
116 months ago
CNN Bernie Sanders has just taken the stage at a rally in Stockton, CA. Our politics team is live on the ground there.
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Bernie Sanders is holding a rally in Stockton, CA. We're giving you a tour of the rally, set in the sunny Weber Point Event Center park.
118 months ago
Slate.com Before Rachel Dolezal, there was Stockton, California's Mark Stebbins.
An Interview With Mark Stebbins, the Original Rachel Dolezal
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Before Rachel Dolezal, there was Stockton, California's Mark Stebbins. In 1983 Stebbins won election to the Stockton city council in a largely black and Latino district. During the campaign, when asked about his racial identity, he said he was black. Read more ... But after the election, one of his defeated opponents—a larger-than-life...
129 months ago
HuffPost Crime “The remaining victims, a 38-year-old man, a 32-year-old man, a 25-year-old man, and a 24-year-old man are still at area hospitals and it appears they will survive their injuries.”
3 Dead, 4 Injured In Stockton Shooting
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At least seven people were shot in a drive-by shooting Tuesday in Stockton, California, according to local police. Three people were killed.
SHOOTING UPDATE: Th...
132 months ago
NBC News Three people were killed and at least four others wounded in a drive by shooting outside a small market in Stockton, California, Tuesday night, police said.
Three Dead, Four Wounded in Stockton, California Shooting
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Gang investigators were dispatched to the scene after the shooting.
132 months ago