Mendota News

A Mendota 14-year-old confessed to killing a 4-year-old neighbor because the boy was going to tell his mother the teen had molested him, according to a court affidavit made public Wednesday.

The 4-year-old Mendota boy who disappeared Friday was drowned and placed in a neighbor's dryer before a search for the child had even begun, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Monday.

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

A Mendota 14-year-old confessed to killing a 4-year-old neighbor because the boy was going to tell his mother the teen had molested him, according to a court affidavit made public Wednesday.

The mother of the teen accused of killing a 4-year-old neighbor found the child dead in the clothes dryer of her Mendota home, according to a Fresno County Superior Court affidavit made public today.

CNN : A 14-year-old California boy told police he drowned his 4-year-old neighbor on Friday because the child had threatened to tell his mother the older boy had molested him, according to an affidavit made public Wednesday.

It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.

Body was found in clothes dryer at neighbor's home. The Fresno Bee 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.

The arraignment of a Mendota teen accused of killing a 4-year-old boy has been postponed.

Authorities say in court documents that a 14-year-old Mendota boy charged with murder confessed to killing a 4-year-old neighbor because the child was going to reveal that the teen molested him.

The makeshift memorial in front of the apartment where four-year-old Alex Mercado lived continues to grow.

The 4-year-old Mendota boy who disappeared Friday was drowned and placed in a neighbor's dryer before a search for the child had even begun, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

Nasal spray vaccine to ward off swine flu began arriving Tuesday in the central San Joaquin Valley.

An autopsy was completed today on 4-year-old Alex Mercado of Mendota, whose body was found in a neighbor's dryer Saturday.

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A Fresno woman suffered fatal injuries early Saturday when her vehicle overturned on a rural road south of Mendota, the California Highway Patrol said.

Authorities say the body of a missing 4-year-old boy in Fresno County was found in the clothes dryer of a neighbor's home and a 14-year-old boy from the house in Mendota has been arrested on suspicion of the killing.

After 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her way home from school, investigators tailed nine garbage trucks from her neighborhood to a Georgia landfill nearly 50 miles away, then picked through the trash as each rig spilled its load.

A 14-year-old boy is arrested in Mendota Saturday after the body of a missing 4-year-old boy is found inside a home off Tuft Avenue.

Fresno County Sheriff's deputies have found the body of a young child and have called off the search for a missing 4 year old Mendota boy.