Stockton

Your choices in San Francisco hotels are overwhelming. The prices can be too. So during our staff visit to the City by the Bay, we looked for reasonably priced hotels that had charm, location or both. We came back with 14 ideas on places to bed down. It's not a complete list, but it is eclectic, like the city itself. Mystic Hotel. This property, which opened in April, stands on a tunnel-adjacent block of Stockton Street that you'll never see on a picture postcard, yet it has style, as do the Burritt Tavern bar and restaurant downstairs.

A woman was mauled and killed by a pit bull Thursday night in Stockton. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office got a call about the dog attacking the woman around 8 p.m. on North Lillian Avenue near East Fremont Street. They found the woman unresponsive in the driveway and said she had wounds on her body consistent with that of a dog attack. San Joaquin County investigators are still trying to determine who the victim is and whether she lived at the residence where they found her. Sgt. Tom Rees  told the Record in Stockton that there was "a lot of blood.

STOCKTON -- A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton is eligible for bankruptcy protection, over the objection of creditors who argued the city could come up with more money.  U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said Stockton can move forward with a plan to reorganize debt. He twice stated that the creditors had acted in bad faith and had refused to pay their share of the costs for negotiations. "The creditors got a big black eye today," said Karol Denniston, an attorney who helped draft the legislation that guided Stockton's mandated mediation before filing for bankruptcy protection.

After a federal judge ruled last week that the city of Stockton can reduce its debt through bankruptcy, observers began to frame the battle as one of municipal bondholders against public employees. But it's hard to shed tears for either of them. During the boom years, Stockton promised its future public-sector retirees free lifetime medical coverage. It also adopted rules allowing workers to spike their pensions by letting them include overtime and other payments from their final work year to calculate retirement pay. The city also issued far too many bonds.

The city of Stockton's impending bankruptcy case sets up a battle over employee pensions. A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton was eligible for bankruptcy protection , rebutting Wall Street creditors who claimed the city was not. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein found that Stockton can move forward with a plan to reorganize its debt. The city's creditors, he said, had acted in bad faith by refusing to negotiate. "The creditors got a big black eye today," said Karol Denniston, an attorney who helped draft the legislation that guided Stockton's mandated mediation before filing for Chapter 9 protection.

Let's please resist the temptation to feel smug about Stockton. California's great inland river-port city and Central Valley agricultural hub filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection Wednesday after a series of bad bets and a run of bad luck. No doubt observers in other cities and states, and from various spots in the political spectrum, will be ready with pointing fingers and easy ideologically-based explanations: It was greedy public workers and their unions who brought us to this point.

After a federal judge ruled last week that the city of Stockton can reduce its debt through bankruptcy, observers began to frame the battle as one of municipal bondholders against public employees. But it's hard to shed tears for either of them. During the boom years, Stockton promised its future public-sector retirees free lifetime medical coverage. It also adopted rules allowing workers to spike their pensions by letting them include overtime and other payments from their final work year to calculate retirement pay. The city also issued far too many bonds.

A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton is eligible for bankruptcy protection, despite the objection of creditors who argued the city could come up with more money.  Stockton is the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.   When it filed last June, Mayor Ann Johnston said there were no  alternatives. "We are extremely disappointed that we have been unable to avoid bankruptcy," Johnston said in a statement at the time. "This is what we must do to get our fiscal house in order and protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

A woman was mauled and killed by a pit bull Thursday night in Stockton. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office got a call about the dog attacking the woman around 8 p.m. on North Lillian Avenue near East Fremont Street. They found the woman unresponsive in the driveway and said she had wounds on her body consistent with that of a dog attack. San Joaquin County investigators are still trying to determine who the victim is and whether she lived at the residence where they found her. Sgt. Tom Rees  told the Record in Stockton that there was "a lot of blood.

FRESNO - A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton was eligible for bankruptcy protection - rebutting Wall Street creditors who claimed the city wasn't really broke and setting up a battle over employee pensions. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein found that Stockton can move forward with a plan to reorganize its debt. The city's creditors, he said, had acted in bad faith by refusing to negotiate. "The creditors got a big black eye today," said Karol Denniston, an attorney who helped draft the legislation that guided Stockton's mandated mediation before filing for Chapter 9 protection.

For the second time in less than a week, comedian Jay Leno turned to Stockton for material. The California city again made headlines this month when it was deemed eligible for bankruptcy protection , allowing it to move forward in reorganizing its debt. In June, the 300,000-person city became the largest in the U.S. to fail financially. On Monday , "The Tonight Show" star pounced. "Stockton is so broke, the founding father is now demanding a paternity test," Leno joked.

Hector Roach was in a race with his draining cellphone battery. "I've been calling everyone, but there sure is nobody here, and now I have no bars. " He had a decision to make: cancel the night walk or go it alone. In an attempt to quell the shootings that have plagued California's second-most-violent city, church members in the hardest-hit neighborhoods -- operating in groups of no fewer than three -- have been going up to youths hanging out on street corners and parking lots.

What does it look like when a city goes bankrupt? The answer was sharp and clear at a contentious Stockton City Council meeting the day after a judge declared the city of 300,000 eligible for bankruptcy. The meeting began at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and ended shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday. The council opposed a sales tax intended to pay for more police officers, which could imperil the city's standing in Bankruptcy Court. PHOTOS: California cities in bankruptcy The chambers were packed with people who said that crime in California's second-most violent city was eating away at their lives.

The city of Stockton's impending bankruptcy case sets up a battle over employee pensions. A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton was eligible for bankruptcy protection , rebutting Wall Street creditors who claimed the city was not. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein found that Stockton can move forward with a plan to reorganize its debt. The city's creditors, he said, had acted in bad faith by refusing to negotiate. "The creditors got a big black eye today," said Karol Denniston, an attorney who helped draft the legislation that guided Stockton's mandated mediation before filing for Chapter 9 protection.

A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton is eligible for bankruptcy protection, despite the objection of creditors who argued the city could come up with more money.  Stockton is the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.   When it filed last June, Mayor Ann Johnston said there were no  alternatives. "We are extremely disappointed that we have been unable to avoid bankruptcy," Johnston said in a statement at the time. "This is what we must do to get our fiscal house in order and protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

FRESNO - A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton was eligible for bankruptcy protection - rebutting Wall Street creditors who claimed the city wasn't really broke and setting up a battle over employee pensions. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein found that Stockton can move forward with a plan to reorganize its debt. The city's creditors, he said, had acted in bad faith by refusing to negotiate. "The creditors got a big black eye today," said Karol Denniston, an attorney who helped draft the legislation that guided Stockton's mandated mediation before filing for Chapter 9 protection.

The appalling crime that transformed a Stockton elementary-school playground into a slaughterhouse on Tuesday evokes horror at its purposelessness, grief for its young victims, outrage over how easily a killer came by the weapon that he would use to murder five children and wound 30 others. Last Aug.

Looking for voter support that his campaign believes went untapped in his unsuccessful 1982 governor's race, Mayor Tom Bradley Thursday wooed voters in this burgeoning San Joaquin County city--the last appearance he is scheduled to make outside Los Angeles before officially declaring his candidacy for governor next week.

STOCKTON -- A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton is eligible for bankruptcy protection, over the objection of creditors who argued the city could come up with more money.  U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said Stockton can move forward with a plan to reorganize debt. He twice stated that the creditors had acted in bad faith and had refused to pay their share of the costs for negotiations. "The creditors got a big black eye today," said Karol Denniston, an attorney who helped draft the legislation that guided Stockton's mandated mediation before filing for bankruptcy protection.

A federal judge ruled Monday that Stockton is eligible for bankruptcy protection, but left the door open for CalPERS obligations to be part of negotiations in the coming phases of the bankruptcy. Over the objection of creditors who argued the city could come up with more money, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said Stockton can move forward with a plan to reorganize debt. He twice stated that the creditors had acted in bad faith and had refused to pay their share of the costs for negotiations.