Tyson Foods suspended its chief financial officer – a great-grandson of the company’s founder – after his arrest Thursday on charges of driving while intoxicated. John R. Tyson, 34, was arrested early Thursday by University of Arkansas police in Fayetteville, Arkansas, according to police records. He was also charged with...
Ex-US Customs Officer Convicted of Letting Drug-Filled Cars Enter from Mexico
LOS ANGELES — A former U.S. Customs officer has been convicted of accepting bribes to let drug-filled vehicles into the United States from Mexico, giving traffickers a one-hour window to reach his lane at a San Diego border crossing and pocketing at least $13,000 per vehicle, officials said Thursday. Prosecutors...
Elon Musk Wins Back His $44.9 Billion Tesla Pay Package in Shareholder Vote
DETROIT — Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to restore CEO Elon Musk's record $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year. Vote totals weren't immediately announced at Tesla’s annual stockholders' meeting, but the company said they voted for Musk's compensation plan, which initially was...
Dos Rios Ranch State Park Opens in Modesto After Nearly 20-Year Wait
Dos Rios Ranch State Park opened its gates to the public Wednesday, marking the debut of Stanislaus County's second state park, The Modesto Bee reported. Turlock Lake State Recreation Area, the only other state park in the county, has been closed since 2021 as officials seek a new operator. The...
Arias Asks the Big Question: Is Benching Chief Balderrama About Race?
Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias is speaking on the sidelining of Police Chief Paco Balderrama — the first of his colleagues to go public with their thoughts. In comments from the dais during Thursday's council meeting, Arias asked the media to leave Balderrama's family out of stories and openly questioned...
Fresno’s Juneteenth Freedom Run/Walk Inspired by Legacy of Opal Lee
“The 5-mile run distance is twice the length that Opal Lee, the 96-year-old who is known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” walked to collect signatures to make Juneteenth a holiday,” note organizers of Fresno's Juneteenth Freedom Run/Walk. “The initial 2.5 miles were a symbol that, in Texas, ‘the enslaved didn’t...
Fresno State’s Craig School Dean Honored with Humanitarian Award
Dr. Julie B. Olson-Buchanan, dean of the Craig School of Business at Fresno State, was honored by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology with its 2024 Humanitarian Award, presented at the society’s annual conference in April. The Humanitarian Award recognizes members who have enhanced the society through their research,...
What’s the Value of a Fresno Unified Diploma When These ‘Classes’ Are as Easy as A-B-C?
A regulation basketball hoop is 10 feet high. Now imagine that, in some high school gyms, it’s been moved down a notch. Then it continues to edge down from time to time. Would making a basket have the same value under these altered conditions? Definitely not. At what point would...
Trustees OK Bullard High Security Fence, Deny Charter School’s Independent Study Bid
Bullard High School will finally get its long-awaited security fence after the Fresno Unified School Board voted 7-0 Wednesday to approved a $2 million contract for fencing and security gates. The project will align the northwest Fresno high school with many other district schools that have a single point of...
Fresno Dutch Bros, Other Businesses Will Have to Make Way for Railroad Project
The Fresno City Council decided Thursday to buy several properties at Blackstone and McKinley avenues, including a Dutch Bros and one of Fresno's oldest auto shops, to make way for two underpasses. To cross beneath the railroad tracks at that intersection, the city needs to use its eminent domain powers...