Coalinga News

Pyrophilous jewel beetles of the genus Melanophila approach forest fires and there is considerable evidence that these beetles can detect fires from great distances of more than 60 km.

In the 1940s, visitors watching football games at Berkeley's Californian Memorial Stadium would often be plagued by beetles.

Fire crews today are monitoring hot spots at a grass fire that burned about 42 acres Friday near Coalinga, a Cal Fire spokesman said.

Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims on Friday got the money she needs to open another floor of the jail, allowing her to hold an additional 400 inmates at a time when felons are regularly released early because of space shortages.

Criminal cases can often only be solved using forensics to piece together physical evidence and reconstruct what happened.

The database extends an effort that began two years ago, when The Bee began publishing salary data from city and county governments.

Fresno County leaders are shelving plans to give Sheriff Margaret Mims more money for jail space, choosing instead to examine other options for holding inmates, such as Coalinga's city-owned jail.

Graduation is a major milestone for high school seniors. For Kimberlee Isaac, age 17 of Coalinga, this milestone will be celebrated twice over in just one day.

A baby boy, who was left unattended inside a car parked at the Pine Slope picnic area near Bass Lake on Monday, is in the hospital after crawling out of a window and hurting his head, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said.

A move to give police at California state mental hospitals the freedom to carry guns has exposed a rare rift between two state employee unions over workplace safety.

A Fresno birth nurse chosen as 2012 Mother of the Year by the Fresno County Women's Chamber of Commerce will be honored at a luncheon today.

Incoming Modesto Junior College President Jill Stearns said Wednesday that she is floored by the "fabulous" things happening at the campus.

Trustees with the Hartnell College District are expected to announce late Tuesday afternoon the appointment of the next president of the college.

Modesto Junior College has named Jill Stearns, a vice president at West Hills College in Coalinga, as its new president.

According to Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a key witness to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone and he should be freed, according to reports Tuesday, May 1. Hughes, now 78, says there was a second shooter in the 1968 RFK assassination.

California added about 250,000 residents last year, bringing the total population to just under 37.7 million as the state continues with modest growth amid a weak economy, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Finance.

There was a second shooter in the 1968 assassination of US presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, a witness said in comments aired Monday.