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Teacher-student relationship raises host of ethical questions

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 4:10pm

MODESTO, Calif. -- A teacher's romantic relationship with a student, even one who is legally an adult, raises thorny issues of morality, accountability and ethics.

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Story of teacher-student romance goes national

Nan Austin Modesto Bee

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 9:56am

MODESTO, Calif. -- The Modesto, Calif., teacher-student couple who revealed their romance this week now must cope with national celebrity.

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Search resumes for hikers swept over Yosemite waterfall

Patty Guerra Modesto Bee

Last updated Friday, September 30, 2011 - 8:39am

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- Two months after three hikers slipped into the Merced River and went over Vernal Fall, searchers resumed the hunt for the bodies of two who have not been found.

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Longtime fugitive nabbed by FBI close to home

Patty Guerra Modesto Bee

Last updated Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 10:23am

SALIDA, Calif. -- A fugitive from the FBI who led investigators to Chicago, Alaska and Canada apparently spent the last 24 years living less than 90 miles from the scene of the California robbery and murder that sent him to prison in the first place. And he might have gone undiscovered if his mother hadn't tried to reach him as she neared death in 2005.

Agents on Friday arrested William Walter Asher III, 66, outside his Salida home. Asher had been living under the name Garry Donald Webb and worked for a truck service company in Lodi.

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This photo provided by the National Park Service shows authorities during their efforts to recover the bodies of three members of a church group who were swept into a raging waterfall at Yosemite National Park in California nearly three weeks ago. The body of one of the men was found, rangers said Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/National Park Service)

No sign of missing Yosemite hikers despite slower river flow

Staff Modesto Bee

Last updated Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 10:42am

MODESTO, Calif. -- Flow in the Merced River has slowed considerably over the last several days, but continuing searches still haven't found any sign of two hikers who went over Vernal Fall in Yosemite National Park in July.

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