Armona News

Two weeks ago Action News brought you the story of a barber shop pole stolen from a shop in Hanford.

Homer Ratcliff passed away at home in Armona, Calif., on April 25, 2009. He was in good health and excellent spirits at the time of his sudden passing, so it was a shock to his family and his many friends.

The victims were sitting in a car Tuesday afternoon when the accused bandits, 15 and 17, tried to take the car.

The Madera County Sheriff's Office is trying to sort out the identity of a young man stabbed to death in Chowchilla following a fight with his stepfather.

A father and son were arrested today on suspicion of putting a knife to a man's throat and striking him with rocks in a dispute over a bamboo hut in Armona, the Kings County Sheriff's Office said.