Fresno County News

Less than 24 hours after winning the Texas Primary and clinching enough votes to be the GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney visited the Central Valley.

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.

Despite newly released records that show Tony Vang voted outside the school district, the Fresno Unified school board president maintained through his lawyer Tuesday that he always has lived inside the area he was elected to serve.

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.

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.

People at the bus stop on M Street at Courthouse Park might be surprised to know that just over their shoulders stood the gallows where, nearly 120 years ago, Fresno County carried out its only legal hanging.

Ruben Ramirez earned a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts as a World War II infantryman fighting Nazi troops in North Africa and Italy.

Fresno County Sheriff's deputies are looking for two men posing as police officers who they say are responsible for two home robberies last week.

The Fresno County Elections Office released documents Friday confirming that Fresno Unified school board President Tony Vang registered to vote and did vote from a home outside school district boundaries.

Memorial Day was established 144 years ago, three years after the end of the Civil War.

One person was shot and another grazed by a bullet during a drive-by shooting northwest of Del Rey before noon today, according to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

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Fire crews today are monitoring hot spots at a grass fire that burned about 42 acres Friday near Coalinga, a Cal Fire spokesman said.

The Fresno County Elections Office released documents Friday confirming that Fresno Unified school board President Tony Vang registered to vote and did vote from a home outside school district boundaries.

A cold and damp storm will move out of the area Saturday and temperatures should be in the mid-80s in Fresno for Memorial Day, said Gary Sanger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford.

The Memorial Day weekend is often considered the kick-off to summer vacations and outdoor activities.

It's a sign of the times, Governor Jerry Brown announced unprecedented cuts to the state's judicial branch and now Fresno County Superior Court administrators say they have no other choice, but to make drastic cuts themselves.

Fresno County officials say deep cuts to public services may be a thing of the past, releasing on Friday a $1.8 billion budget plan for the coming fiscal year that represents a 7% increase in spending.

Fresno Police say the man pictured in this surveillance photo walked in to the Walgreens at Cedar and Olive Thursday night and asked for two cartons of cigarettes at the front counter.

Detectives say Williams shot and killed 28-year-old Johnnie Massey on April 20th outside a hotel on Parkway Drive in Northwest Fresno after the two got into a fight at a bar.