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Fire crews battled a small fire in a building at the USDA research lab in Parlier on Tuesday night, the Fresno County Fire Department said.

Fire crews battled a small fire in a building at the USDA research lab in Parlier on Tuesday night, the Fresno County Fire Department said.

Firefighters are battling a house and grass fire in Orosi that started in a vacant home and spread to surrounding grass.

What's Trending with Pamela 5-21-12: Will Smith Kiss, Fresno State "Call Me, Maybe" Cover, Graduation Shout-Outs Emergency crews were called to the scene of a gas leak in Parlier at Mendocino and Industrial Avenues, just south of Manning.

CHP officers say the driver of a pickup -- later identified as 41-year-old Gary Ragsdale -- was drunk as he pulled into a driveway.

Two men are wanted in Madera County after shooting at a farmer during a metal theft Wednesday, Madera County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Erica Stuart said.

Even as Fresno County can’t fully staff the jail, or provide other basic services, the Board of Supervisors and the sheriff continue to be locked in a petty power struggle that has cost taxpayers almost a half-million dollars.

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.

Kristy Schwarm was introduced to collection agencies after she bounced an $83.41 check at a Mendocino County FoodMaxx.

U.C. Davis researchers tested water in California and found that the Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley have unsafe levels of nitrate in drinking water.