Kerman News

Funeral services for Alex Christopher Mercado, the 4-year-old Mendota boy who was killed last week, have been arranged.

Fresno County Jail's health manager has found a way to cut drug costs by $70,000 a month or more, winning praise from corrections officials around the state.

Sheriff Margaret Mims said Alex Christopher Mercado was playing outside his Tuft Street home Friday when a 14-year-old neighbor boy brought him into the neighbor's home and killed him.

Kenneth Wilson, who was found mentally incompetent to stand trial in the February 2008 shooting death of a Fresno mechanic, was back in court Thursday after a stay at Atascadero State Hospital.

Residents of Mendota are struggling to come to terms with the weekend killing of a 4-year-old boy and the arrest of a teenage neighbor implicated in his death.

Fresno police, responding to a burglar alarm, arrested two juveniles Sunday on suspicion of burglarizing Mayfair Elementary School at 3305 E. Home Ave.

Clovis police arrested three people and broke up 19 teen parties Saturday night in an operation targeting underage drinking.

In the Feb. 21 Bee, Rep. Devin Nunes called for Congress to both fund restoration of the San Joaquin River and finance a drainage system for farm wastewaters in the western San Joaquin Valley.

At least one in five inmates released early from Fresno County Jail over the past year already has landed back behind bars for crimes including murder and assault.

A 47-year-old Kerman man was identified Monday as the victim of a single-vehicle crash Sunday near Fresno.

One man was killed and several people were hurt Friday evening in a three-vehicle pileup southeast of Kerman.

In his first season with the Redskins after transferring from Mt. Whitney, the senior has chased perfection, completing 76% of his attempts for 1,219 yards and 17 touchdowns, without an interception.

Old West enthusiasts are well acquainted with the concept of "ghost towns." Most of them were one time promising mining ventures and railroad communities that went belly up.

Nearly a century ago at a fair in Toronto, a young nurse's aide watched an exhibition of stunt flying, as a pilot began diving at the crowd.

As the market for cloud storage continues to heat-up, numerous cloud storage providers have started to emerge.

A Fresno man who police say severely beat 10-year-old Seth Ireland, causing injuries that led to his death eight days later, will stand trial on murder charges, a judge ruled Friday.

For years many farmers have been hindered by a lack of rain. This storm poses problems of a different kind for the Valley's biggest industry.

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San Joaquin Valley lawmakers didn't get much of a break this August recess -- and neither did the health-care reform package now awaiting them on Capitol Hill.

A discussion about health care in America will be the topic for an upcoming town hall-style meeting on Monday.