Sanger News

Wainwright came to Fresno State as part of coach Rodney Terry's staff when he was hired to take over the program in April 2011.

A motorcyclist died early Friday in northwest Fresno when he crashed into a metal pole surrounding a utility box, Fresno police said.

A Mexican cement company plans to appeal after Fresno County planning commissioners decided there will be no mining on a mountain near Sanger.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is scheduled to attend a private luncheon fund-raiser today at the Sanger-area home of prominent west-side rancher John Harris.

In this May 8, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.

Firefighters, specialized rescue crews, children and adults all hope the kitten they heard crying in a Southeast Fresno storm drain Tuesday afternoon somehow makes it out alive.

The hearing, which begins at 11 a.m., is a continuation of the Feb. 9 commission meeting, which ran long because hundreds came out to speak about the project.

Four men, operating with a crew out of Phoenix, are responsible for five violent home-invasion robberies in the central San Joaquin Valley two years ago, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements of the men's trial.

Drastic budget cuts to the Fresno Superior Court has called for drastic measures.

A Fresno man was shot near a McDonald's restaurant in central Fresno Wednesday night, the Fresno Police Department said.

A jury on Monday convicted a Sanger man of kidnapping and assault in the predawn shooting of a Fresno Bee carrier eight years ago on Shaw Avenue near De-Wolf Avenue east of Clovis.

PLAYBOOK STATUS: As you can tell, Harris yesterday was a bit premature in inaccurately announcing Mikey's return today.

But in the last few years, metal theft has become an epidemic, costing farmers tens of millions of dollars each year.

An arrest warrant for murder has been issued in the disappearance of Sammy Mercado, the Sanger teenager who was attempting to steal marijuana from an outdoor growing site last month, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

The California Highway Patrol is looking for an SUV that was involved in the shooting of a CHP officer late Sunday in the Bakersfield area.

A luncheon fundraiser was held on Saturday for a missing 16-year-old Sanger teen.