Kings County News Archives

Police, firefighters and other emergency services workers will begin the 8th annual Battle of the Badges Blood Drive on Monday, Nov.

By Dennis Hart In a stunning turn of events, a suspect in the disappearance of an elderly Lemoore man has confessed that he killed him and led investigators to the body, it was revealed on Tuesday.

The suspect in the 2008 disappearance of an elderly Lemoore man has confessed to the killing and led investigators to the body, buried behind Farmersville High School, the Kings County Sheriff's Office said today.

A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.

A Kings County Sheriff's deputy holds back tears after the only patrol and narcotics dog on the K9 team collapses.

A 6-year-old Hanford boy has died of the H1N1 influenza virus, the Kings County Health Department reported Monday.

With a handheld video camera, a computer and 800 cows, Barbara Martin is letting the world into her life as a dairy operator.

On the day Adrian Gonzalez was born, the odds were against him. "They told me he would last three hours, not even through the day," Martina Villarreal, Adrian's mother said.

HANFORD, Calif. a " Kings County planners have approved the expansion of a hazardous waste facility in Kettleman City, even as state health officials continue weighing the project's possible impacts.The facility is one of the largest hazardous waste dumps in the country, and a large employer in the county's rural reaches near Interstate 5.Monday, ...

Kings County staff will research questions and concerns raised by opponents of the proposed expansion of a hazardous waste landfill and try to provide answers for planning commissioners before their next meeting Oct.

A first grader within the Kings County School District is the first child in the area to die of the H1N1 flu virus, the Department of Public Health announced on Monday.

Kings County Health Officials are reporting the county's first child death from the H1N1 virus.

A South Valley Marine makes the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Alfonso Ochoa Jr.

If after the blazing days of summer, fall's cooler weather puts you in a contemplative mood, then a roving look into our county's history might be a good way to wile away an approaching weekend.

Citing the need to reduce the spread of the swine flu virus, Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's hospitals announced plans Wednesday to bar children under the age of 16 from visiting patients, including family members, starting Monday.

Performance: Local musicians and educators perform. October 11, 2009 8:04 PM By SARAH de CRESCENZO If Strathmore High School band director Lisa Buringrud had her way, she'd be hosting musical performances on a regular basis during the day and students would be bussed in to listen and learn.

The Kings County Planning Commission listened Monday night to both sides of a controversial proposal to expand the Waste Management hazardous waste landfill near Kettleman City.

Tulare County received its first shipment of Swine Flu vaccines last night. The doses, which will be available as the intranasal vaccine FluMist, are currently being distributed to physicians.

Three recent drug busts on Interstate Five resulted in more than a million dollars worth of drugs being seized.

A public power authority has decided to build a 565-megawatt natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Parlier, despite opposition from neighbors.

The University announced Monday it already has more applications than spaces for freshmen next fall.

Tulare has paid its share, but Hanford will likely not, as cities and towns in Tulare and Kings counties are being asked to shell out $60,000 collectively to preserve full hazardous-materials emergency service until June 2010.

Waiting for the swine flu vaccine? Well, you might have to wait a bit longer for a seasonal flu shot, too.

A 53-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon -- a horse.