PORTERVILLE, Just after 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, TCSO Deputies were called to a shooting in a vineyard near Avenue 152 and Road 200, just west of Porterville, where field workers were harvesting grapes. When they arrived, Deputies learned a man in a gray Honda drove up and began firing toward an empty canal, about 100 yards…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Negotiations are continuing into Monday evening as Fresno Unified teachers and administrators work to avoid a strike that’s scheduled to start Wednesday. On Monday, Fresno Unified and the Fresno Teachers Association announced that negotiators have spent several hours over the past couple of days trying to reach a contract agreement. In a…… MORE
Was a local biker gang destroying evidence of murders by utilizing the services of a Fresno funeral home? It certainly appears so. Federal prosecutors say at least four missing Hells Angels were illegally cremated in a funeral home in downtown Fresno. According to documents filed in court, 54-year-old Fresno Hells Angel Merl Hefferman was involved…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. McCarthy’s chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the “motion…… MORE
MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — The Madera County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating a suspicious death in the area of La Vina as a homicide. Just after 9 a.m. Sunday, the Madera County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a dead adult male at a migrant labor community on Avenue 9 and Road 24. Deputies…… MORE
FRESNO, CA – Mayor Jerry Dyer is happy to announce that the City of Fresno is expanding its mobile shower services for our unhoused residents. Starting Tuesday, August 15, 2023, a second mobile shower unit is now active and providing the unhoused community with free showers and restroom services. The shower units are funded by…… MORE
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ) — A DNA sample collected from a murder victim nearly 30 years ago has identified her suspected killer. The naked body of 31-year-old Bernice Wright, a.k.a. Vi, was discovered in a vineyard near Orange and Manning Avenues in Fresno County in October of 1993. The cold case was reviewed in 2021…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pamela Smith remembers vividly the last time she saw her only son alive. It was 3:18 a.m. on July 3, 2016, in Fresno, California, and 22-year-old Jackson Smith was lying motionless on a table in an emergency room while a nurse performed chest compressions. Earlier that night, he had taken an…… MORE
The American Farm Bureau Federation is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Farm Dog of the Year. Farmers and ranchers can show how their dogs are more than just pets. Terri Moore, American Farm Bureau Federation Vice President of Communications, says “The Farm Dog of the Year contest has been one of the really fun…… MORE
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is grateful for Congress taking swift action to prevent a crippling national rail shutdown. “A rail strike would have had significant and long-lasting effects on the American economy,” Vilsack says. “U.S. farmers and ranchers can breathe a sigh of relief that the trains will stay on track to deliver food, inputs,…… MORE
