Corcoran News

On a day when hundreds came out to Fresno Memorial Gardens to honor military veterans, their families and the sacrifices they have made, Sandra Simmons was there to remember her son, Lindsey James.

The Central California Blood Center will hold a series of blood drives across the Valley this month and in early June.

A jury has convicted a Corcoran man of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife, the Kings County District Attorney's Office said Friday.

Corcoran will work as a parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Dunedin.

The city of Lindsay has agreed to repay $1 million in money it collected from Measure R sales tax funds used for a downtown revitalization project.

As a passenger rail advocate, I want to see passenger rail serve as many places in California as possible.

Two men killed in a Sunday morning crash north of Corcoran have been identified as Jared Austin Sweeney, 19, of Visalia, and Robert John Andrade Jr., 19, of Tulare.

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The death of an inmate at the state prison in Corcoran is being investigated as a homicide.

Now, many people who live in Corcoran are furious because they didn't even know an inmate was on the loose in their community.

Prison officials in Corcoran say an inmate was discovered missing on Monday, apparently after making a getaway during work being performed at a dairy near the facility.

A Corcoran State Prison inmate who was on a work detail outside the prison fence is missing and presumed to have escaped, the state Department of Corrections said today.

The Attorney General's Office, which was prosecuting the case, said the charges were dropped this morning in Kings County Superior Court.

By Tim Sheehan, The Fresno Bee, Calif. April 30--CORCORAN -- This Kings County farming town has come to rely on Amtrak California's San Joaquin line -- six northbound and six southbound passenger trains stop daily.