Nearly 180 workers will be laid off from a national meat processing giant as a local company looks to purchase its facilities. Minnesota-based Cargill will lay off 178 workers from two plants in Fresno, according to the Employment Development Department of California. The layoffs will be effective Aug. 4. The...
Brown Berets Rip, Stomp US and Israeli Flags in Fresno City Hall Chambers
Jose Solorio, a Fresno Brown Beret, used his public comment time at Thursday's city council meeting to excoriate the council for not passing a resolution supporting a cease-fire in Gaza and demanded that the city disinvest from corporations that do business from Israel. In addition, he cursed councilmember Garry Bredefeld,...
Tyson Foods Heir Suspended as CFO After Second Alcohol-Related Arrest
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...