Tulare News Archives

Wednesday, Feb. 27 Baseball Redwood at Clovis Tournament Sunnyside at Tulare Union, 4 p.m. Girls basketball El Diamante at Centennial, 7 p.m. Redwood at Hanford, 7 p.m. Corcoran at Exeter, 7 p.m. Boys Golf ... via Tulare Advance-Register

By Luis Hernandez lhernand@visalia.gannett.com Post Comment The Tulare City Council will meet at 7 p.m. today at the Civic Affairs Building, 125 So. via Tulare Advance-Register

The College of the Sequoias music department's Sunday Choral Classics Concert will feature student singers from COS, San Francisco State University and El Diamante High School. via Visalia Times-Delta

An altercation between more than a dozen youths near Tulare Union High School led to one student being stabbed this morning. via Tulare Advance-Register

“There was heavy traffic [Wednesday] morning”

Tulare police's traffic directing-and-parking system at the World Ag Expo was severely tested Wednesday, typically the expo's largest attendance day. via Tulare Advance-Register

BY LUIS HERNANDEZ lhernand@visalia.gannett.com Arson is the suspected cause of a fire that consumed an abandoned building south of Tulare on Friday night. via Tulare Advance-Register

“The only evidence found was from obvious squatters or transients, such as alcohol bottles and bags of personal hygiene products like toothpaste, shampoo, soap and that kind of stuff.”

A Tulare Fire Department investigator says he does not believe vagrants squatting in a Ventura Avenue apartment that burned Tuesday intentionally started the blaze. via Visalia Times-Delta

Army Sgt. Timothy P. Martin, 27, was killed in action on Friday, February 8, 2008, in Iraq. via Porterville Recorder

A Tulare woman has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after she reportedly ran a stop sign Thursday afternoon northwest of Tulare and collided with another car, seriously injuring the ... via Visalia Times-Delta

“All I could think of was trying to slow them down”

Two people were critically injured Tuesday morning after dense fog blanketed a stretch of Highway 99 near Kingsburg, causing a series of pileups that halted southbound traffic for hours. via Fresno Bee

“We're disappointed that we were not given an opportunity to exhaust any possibility ... for continued use as a Welcome Center”

The caboose that serves as the city's Welcome Center has been sold. New owner Rob Hilarides paid $15,000 for the caboose, which has greeted visitors at the Preferred Outlets at Tulare for more than a decade. via Tulare Advance-Register

“I saw three children pulled out and taken away by ambulance”

Truck driver Kevin Coger had three terrifying options Tuesday morning as he barreled toward a pileup on fog-shrouded Highway 99, one of several in Kingsburg that left 10 injured. via Visalia Times-Delta

A reminder to parents: There will be no school Monday for Visalia and Tulare students because of the Lincoln's birthday holiday. via Tulare Advance-Register

Authorities checking on registered sex offenders Saturday in Dinuba and other parts of northwest Tulare County said they found 16 who could face prosecution for being out of compliance. via Visalia Times-Delta

“It's a huge, huge traffic operation.”

In Julius Caesar's times all roads led to Rome. On World Ag Expo days, all of Laspina Street south of Paige Avenue leads to the International Agri-Center. That's the approach Tulare police take to keep an ... via Visalia Times-Delta

“I knew right away that's where I wanted to be.”

Two Tulare high school seniors signed letters of intent to play with Division I football programs Wednesday. via Visalia Times-Delta

The driver of a service truck was ejected after a collision with a passenger vehicle at 2:20 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of Avenue 208 and Road 152. via Porterville Recorder

“We give $1,000 for the first year and then the scholarship winners can re-apply for the second year, also for $1,000, if they are still in school”

It's that time of year again. The Morning Kiwanis Club of Tulare - also known as the Greater Tulare Kiwanis - and the Tulare Western Key Club are hosting, with the directors of the World Ag Expo, the annual ... via Visalia Times-Delta

The Tulare Youth Center was packed with girls of all ages Monday night for the third annual Girls Night Out event. via Tulare Advance-Register

All lanes are open on Highway 198 at Rd. 156 after a two vehicle collision was cleared, according to the California Highway Patrol. via Tulare Advance-Register

By Luis Hernandez lhernand@visalia.gannett.com The Tulare Planning Commission will meet at 7 p.m. today at the Civic Affairs Building, 125 So. via Tulare Advance-Register

With evidence that serious crime in Tulare is on a downward trend in our quickly growing community, police officials need to look toward a logical next step. via Tulare Advance-Register

“The results of the research are promising”

Some good news will be in the offing for growers and processors at the California Garlic and Onion Symposium Feb. via Packer

A Tulare man was taken to a local hospital today after the silage truck he was driving overturned on a rural road southwest of Tulare. via Tulare Advance-Register

By Mike Hazelwood mhazelwo@visalia.gannett.com Post Comment Bill Ingram is the new band director at Mission Oak High School in Tulare, which opens in August. via Tulare Advance-Register

“We're in growth mode right now.”

Music students at Pioneer Middle School are achieving new heights. With some students recently selected to be in an all-star band and the school's jazz band's recent acclaimed performance, music director Rob ... via Twin City Times