A woman's body has been recovered from the Delta Mendota Canal near Whitworth and Cottonwood roads in Merced County, the sheriff's office confirms.
The USGS says there have been magnitude 4.4, 3.6, and 4.0 quakes since 5:15 p.m.
A highway memorial sign stands now as a permanent tribute to CAL FIRE Captain Paul Rotondaro, who was killed in a car crash nearly four years ago.
Gustine was founded as a Portuguese dairy community and is home to the largest Portuguese Festa celebrations in the Western US.
A Merced County mother says her special-needs first grader sat on a school bus with no air conditioning for more than two hours on Tuesday in the middle of a brutal heat wave.
In the sleepy Merced County town of Gustine, kids patiently await a different kind of school bus. This one won't take them to class.