BASS LAKE – A crash on Beasore Road claimed the life of a young mountain area man this morning when his motorcycle hit a tree. Just after 8:30 a.m., CHP and EMS responded to reports of a motorcycle accident just east of Forest Road 5S27 above Bass Lake about a mile from Jones Store. According to CHP, the man, age ...

MARIPOSA –  The body of a Midpines woman has been recovered from the Merced River along Highway 140 three days after she went missing while driving home from work in El Portal. Jennifer Victoriano-Manzanares, age 26, was last seen on Saturday, May 18, when she left her job at Yosemite View Lodge in a gray Mitsubishi Endeavor. According to the ...

MARIPOSA – The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of the man killed in yesterday’s head-on collision on Highway 49. Kenneth Keuning, 82, of Mariposa, died when his vehicle crashed into a large truck near Wass Road in the Bootjack area of Mariposa County. The accident happened just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 29.

NORTH FORK – A motorcyclist has died after being in an accident involving a dog on Road 222 near North Fork yesterday afternoon. At 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, Arthur Johnston, 76, of Tollhouse, was southbound on Road 222 about 1/2-mile south of Road 200 on a Yamaha Star motorcycle. According to a witness who was cycling in the ...