Raisin City News

Wednesday was "National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day." Great Day's Kopi Sotiropulos, along with the residents of Raisin City, paraded through the streets to celebrate the big day.

Nestle is taking over a town in celebration of everyone's eighth-favorite chocolate-covered snack.

Emotion filled a Fresno courtroom Friday as a judge prepared to sentence a man for a heinous crime committed on Christmas Eve three years ago.

A 26-year-old farmworker was sentenced this morning to 25 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old disabled girl and then trying to kill her by burying her in a vineyard near Raisin City on Christmas Day 2008.