Coalinga News

A 19-year-old San Jose man died early Sunday when a vehicle he was riding in struck a power pole north of Coalinga, the California Highway Patrol said.

Published: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:48 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:48 a.m. A 19-year-old Central Valley man sentenced to more than 12 years in state prison for his conviction in a drunken driving crash was in a Sonoma County courtroom Wednesday morning to learn when he would hear about a possible new sentence.

Sirhan Sirhan has been transferred to a new prison and his life could be in danger, his attorney said this week.

Sirhan Sirhan, charged with the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy during a campaign stop in California, on June 13, 1968.

Highway 198 was shut down on Friday afternoon west of Coalinga due to a crash involving a tanker truck.

A chemical spill has shut down a section of Highway 198 in Western Fresno County.

Fresno County Sheriff's Deputies arrested two people for trying to smuggle drugs and other items into a Coalinga prison.

A pair of married contract pharmacists at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga persuaded their boss that they should be paid for working 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- and the boss agreed, according to court testimony Monday during the couple's preliminary hearing.

A parolee was arrested today for allegedly tossing a soccer ball stuffed with drugs, cell phones and tobacco over the fence of the Claremont Correctional Center in Coalinga.

The Fresno County Department of Public Health will offer seasonal flu clinics at the following locations next week: Coalinga Senior Center, 220 E. Forest Ave, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monday; Mosqueda Center, 4670 E. Butler Ave.

Convicted sex offender James Vincent Lamb has a plane ticket to fly to Arizona five days after a hearing to determine whether he will have to continue living in Monterey County, according to court documents.

Exeter 3, Selma 0 One thing that hasn't changed from last year is Monarch volleyball's dominance over CSL opponents.

Bill Silverfarb/Daily Journal Marine Lance Cpl. Bernardo Narvaez is greeted by his family in San Bruno yesterday.

Coalinga has no shortage of sunshine or agriculture waste, both of which can be put to good use if two new biofuel plants are built.

The mayor of the small Fresno County community of Huron was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of real estate fraud, grand theft and posession of stolen property.

You couldn't really blame farmers and farm workers in the vast stretches of west San Joaquin Valley these days if they were muttering something like "water czar, schmater czar." For even though U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar came to Fresno and Coalinga at midsummer to announce that he's making his chief deputy secretary an ambassador to the ...

Central Valley veterans turned out Thursday morning to receive the free services offered during the Veterans Stand Down 2009 event at the VFW Post 8900 in Fresno.

The Mayor of Huron has found himself on the other side of the law. Fresno County Sheriff's Deputies announced on Wednesday the arrest of Huron Mayor Ramon Dominguez.

Huron Mayor Ramon Dominguez was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of real estate fraud, grand theft and possession of stolen and serialized property.

Remember what happened this week in 1994? 'Tulare was saddened by the death of Manuel Toste, a college freshman murdered by six men in Coalinga.