Meet Snow, a spunky little girl with a heart as big as her name suggests. Snow's journey to us was anything but easy. It was around Christmas when she was found laying on the side of the road, her tiny body emaciated and broken after being hit by a car....
Dolores Huerta, Mayors Dyer and Ashbeck Oppose Tax Protection Measure. What Does it Do?
Famed civil rights activist Dolores Huerta rallied at Fresno City Hall, opposing a proposed state ballot measure that would make it more difficult to raise taxes. "It takes away the right of citizens to be able to vote for the things that they need because it's so difficult," Huerta told...
Fresno State Opens 2024 Mountain West Championship With Loss to Air Force
Fresno State's season-ending slide continued Thursday as the fourth-seeded Bulldogs fell 3-2 to top-seeded Air Force in the opening round of the Mountain West baseball tournament in San Diego. It was the sixth straight loss for Fresno State (29-27), which faces second-seeded New Mexico at 1:30 p.m. today in the...
Arizona Doctors Can Come to California to Perform Abortions Under New Law Signed by Gov. Newsom
SACRAMENTO — Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California’s law is meant to give Arizonans an option to receive legal abortions from their doctor over the next several months. The move was a...
Second Flag Carried by Jan. 6 Rioters Displayed Outside House Owned by Justice Alito, Report Says
WASHINGTON — A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, The New York Times reported Wednesday. An “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside Alito’s beach...
The Bodies of 3 More Hostages Are Recovered from Gaza by the Israeli Army
TEL AVIV, Israel — The bodies of three more hostages killed on Oct 7. were recovered overnight from Gaza, Israel's army said Friday, as the top United Nations court prepares to rule on whether Israel must halt its military operations and withdraw from the enclave. The bodies of Hanan Yablonka,...
California Supreme Court Weighs Two Cases That Could Limit the Ballot Initiative Process
Seven years ago, California’s Supreme Court declared broad support for the historic right of voters to make law through the initiative process. Ruling in a case dubbed “Upland,” the court said that while governments are subject to voter-approved constitutional restraints on raising taxes, tax increases proposed via initiative need only simple...
Documentary Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, Who Skewered Fast Food Industry, Dies at 53
NEW YORK — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous work skewered American food and diets and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died Thursday in New York from complications...
Rapper Sean Kingston Arrested in California After SWAT Raids His Florida Home
FORT LAUDERDALE — Rapper Sean Kingston was arrested in California on fraud charges Thursday, several hours after a SWAT team raided his rented South Florida mansion and carted away a van load of items. The Broward County Sheriff's Office said Kingston was arrested without incident on a Florida warrant in...
Top UN Court Orders Israel to Halt Military Offensive in Rafah, but Israel Unlikely to Comply
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. While Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet up the...