Fresno News

Police revealed the names of the officers involved in last Wednesday's fatal shooting of a northwest Fresno man.

Fresno police announced Tuesday that they conducted 20 sobriety checkpoints since Aug.

Three men are in custody after a man was badly beaten and robbed late Monday in central Fresno, police said.

Madera County narcotics officers have seized 8.2 pounds of black tar heroin worth $300,000 and arrested two men with ties to a Mexican drug cartel, a sheriff's spokeswoman said today.

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By Dennis Hart Fresno police put on a manhunt in the darkness on Wednesday night after an armed robbery that led to the department's third officer-involved shooting in the past week.

The Fresno police officer who fatally shot an unarmed driver did so after the man suddenly reached toward the floor of his SUV as if for a gun, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

A man shot last week by Fresno police had a moderate level of the stimulant drug PCP in his system, the Fresno County Coroner's Office confirmed today.

It's late summer in this hamlet just outside the western border of Yosemite National Park.

Fresno police are hoping to get leads on the robbers who cleaned out a check cashing store.

Three bandits involved in a series of increasingly violent early-morning attacks throughout Fresno are in custody, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said Thursday.

Julio Ortiz was at his home near Woodward and Chance just before five Wednesday when a noise outside startled him.

People began lining up for swine-flu shots at 5 a.m. today at Manchester Center for a shot clinic that wouldn't start until 4 p.m. By mid-afternoon, more than 1,300 were waiting in a line that stretched along outside the length of the Blackstone Avenue side of the mall.

The city of Fresno has named its first independent police auditor: Eddie J. Aubrey, a resident of the state of Washington with nearly 30 years experience at various levels of America's justice system.

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A candlelight vigil was held Tuesday night for the Fresno boy who was hit and killed by a car while riding his bike.

Sales-tax revenues in the central San Joaquin Valley fell sharply in the second quarter of this year, marking some of the worst declines in decades and posing scary budget threats for local government.

After only three hours of deliberations, a jury found a Fresno gang member guilty of first-degree murder late Tuesday afternoon in the slaying of another gang member.

The man, who was not identified, was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, said Fresno County Sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice.

Kenneth Wilson, who was found mentally incompetent to stand trial in the February 2008 shooting death of a Fresno mechanic, was back in court Thursday after a stay at Atascadero State Hospital.