Clovis News

Confession time: We were fixing to pooh-pooh Jeremy Lin, the NBA's new Asian sensation, until watching the Knicks' point guard torch the Lakers for 38 points and seven assists.

Gen. Vang Pao, the venerated Hmong leader who died in 2011, is now the subject of a campaign seeking to have him honored on a U.S. postage stamp.

Unemployment remains a significant problem in the central San Joaquin Valley, running at about double the national average.

Every time emergency crews are called in Clovis, it costs the city an average of $391. Now, Clovis is looking into ways to cut the number of calls.

The store-within-a-store concept is growing in Fresno and nationwide as a way for bigger businesses to nab new customers and smaller shops to grow without paying big bucks for their own stores.

A Fresno man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his brother-in-law in Clovis last year, police said today.

A federal grand jury in Fresno today handed up a four-count indictment charging 44-year-old Clovis Unified school teacher Neng Yang with producing child pornography.

12 / The Cellar Door, 101 W. Main St., Visalia / $10 / ticketweb.com, 636-9463 Pioneering indie rock band Camper Van Beethoven is reunited, working on a new album and making a tour stop in Visalia on Sunday.

A Fresno murder-for-hire case took another bizarre twist today when it emerged in court that the key witness in the case photographed himself wearing a Fresno police uniform and riding in a police helicopter.

Country singer Will Banister will be performing 7 p.m. Saturday at the Lyceum Theatre in celebration of his upcoming appearance at the Country Music Festival at Wembley Stadium in England.

Southeast Fresno's new elementary school will bear the name General Vang Pao Elementary School, honoring the Hmong leader who died more than a year ago.

A press conference was held this morning at the Sonora Opera Hall. Speakers included Sonora Mayor Bill Canning, City Administrator Tim Miller, and local Amgen Tour committee members Darrell Slocum and Gail Witzlsteiner.

Clovis teacher Neng Yang appeared in court in shackles this morning on his student molestation case, but a judge agreed that Yang won't have to attend his next court hearing because he fears other defendants will hurt him.

Details of the Amgen Tour of California course were unveiled this morning by race organizers, and Stage 4 between Sonora and Clovis has a familiar look.

The Amgen Tour of California will release details of its eight-stage professional bicycle race at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

Police say the suspects broke into the back of a storage unit that Children's Hospital was renting at a mini storage near Fowler and Alluvial in Clovis.

Kenneth J. Ryan, a criminologist at California State University. Here's his take on the recent sex crimes against children making headline news today.

Casildo Varbarin, 22, of Clovis, was taken into custody early Saturday after officers went to an apartment complex on Willow Avenue just north of Ashlan Avenue about 11 p.m. Friday and found a man who had been stabbed to death.

A 22-year-old man was arrested in the stabbing death Friday of another man at the suspect's Clovis apartment, police said Saturday.

They're somebody like Neng Yang, a longtime teacher whose wife recently was promoted to school principal, who comes from a good family and who has a nice home in an upper-middle class Clovis neighborhood.