Porterville News

Information below is provided to The Recorder by the Porterville Police Department.

Music on Main Street offers another Spring Concert Series event Friday. Talented, professional musicians from the Jacobs School of Music, at the University of Indiana, will perform.

Editor, Shame on you, Rick Elkins and Publisher Paula Patton. You owe Councilman Brian Ward a public apology.

They are wary when they have options in places not opposed to equal rights for their employees and their families.

Tickets are now on sale for a Hawaiian Luau to be held at 6:30 p.m. July 28 at Nuckol's Ranch, 13144 Road 216.

A retired battalion chief and fire marshal in Porterville has been charged with two felony counts of possessing child pornography.

PORTERVILLE, Calif. -- The owner of a 27-year-old horse that could no longer stand says the horse was hit in the head with a sledgehammer in an attempt to euthanize the animal.

Seth Serdynski, who holds a 4.1 GPA, is Summit Charter Collegiate Academy's No. 1 Valedictorian.

A Porterville man was taken into custody Monday morning, making him the fourth person arrested in connection with the homicide of Jorge Luis Nunez Ayon.

As a build-up to the June 5 Porterville City Council election, The Recorder submitted five questions to each of the 11 candidates.

Five people were injured and four others escaped injury in a three-vehicle collision on Highway 65 south of Avenue 80 Saturday night, the California Highway Patrol reported.

City officials, civic leaders and others got to take their shots Friday at the new Porterville Police Shooting Range southwest of the Porterville Fairgrounds.

A fourth person was arrested Monday in connection with the homicide of Jorge Luis Nunez Ayon in Porterville in March, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said.

Two Porterville men are behind bars on animal cruelty charges after sheriff's deputies say the two were caught abusing a horse.

Tulare County Sheriff's officials say 59-year-old Maximo Rodriguez and 50-year-old Martin Padilla were taken into custody on Sunday in Porterville after deputies responded to reports of a horse being hit in the head with a sledgehammer.

Editor, A big thank you to SVDH, all the different vendors, Granite High School and Monache high school students, and people of Porterville and surrounding communities for their support and participation in Porterville Breakfast Rotary 11th annual Cancer Run, held at Granite Hills High School on Saturday May 5. Your giving and participation is what ... (more)

The Issue Memorial Day 2012. Our View We honor all those who have fallen in the line of duty and those they left behind.

At least one new member of the Porterville City Council is certain after the June 5 election because incumbent Ron Irish is not seeking re-election. Eleven candidates are running for three seats.

Two men were arrested in Porterville Sunday on suspicion of beating a horse with a sledgehammer, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said.

Editor, First, Patsy St is in need of repairs. People turn on our street when the Newcomb Ave stop light is on red.