LOS ANGELES — Thieves stole as much as $30 million in an Easter Sunday burglary at a Los Angeles money storage facility in one of the largest cash heists in city history, police said Wednesday. The burglary occurred Sunday night at an unnamed facility in the Sylmar area of the...
Futures of Chiefs & Royals Uncertain in KC After Tax Measure Rejection
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Royals owner John Sherman and Chiefs president Mark Donovan stood on a small stage in the second-floor lounge of the historic J. Rieger & Co. distillery in Kansas City on Tuesday night, acknowledging the will of voters who had rejected a sales tax initiative that would...
A Look Behind the Scenes at Oxotic Supercars Bass Lake Run
Get ready for a high-speed adventure on the latest episode of "Central Octane" featuring the thrilling "Oxotic Bass Lake Run." Join us as we take a thrilling ride with Kevin Mosesian, owner of Oxotic Fresno Supercar Driving Experience. This episode celebrates speed, engineering, and the timeless allure of supercars —...
How the Saga of California’s Contentious Income-Based Utility Charge Began
A year ago, California’s three big investor-owned electric power utilities – Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric – proposed new fixed charges on their residential customers that would vary by income. Households making less than $69,000 a year would pay $20 to $34...
Prop 47 Signature Drive Event on Thursday in Downtown Fresno
The Business Journal is hosting an event on Thursday aimed at qualifying a revision of California's Proposition 47 sentencing reform law for the November ballot. Volunteers will collect signatures to support the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, which would rework 2014's Prop 47. Among other things, Prop. 47...
Rashee Rice’s Leased Lamborghini Involved in Dallas Crash
DALLAS — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was leasing a Lamborghini sport utility vehicle that authorities say was one of two speeding sports cars that caused a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway, an attorney for the company that owns the vehicle said Tuesday. Dallas police have not...
Valley Residents Report Seeing a Meteor. Check Out the Video.
The American Meteor Society says it has received multiple reports of a meteor streaking across the Valley sky this week. If you see or video a meteor, AMS wants to hear from you. Report the sighting at this link. Here are tips on reporting meteors: Don't report sighting...
Sanger Trustee Injects Race Into Fresno Unified Superintendent Search
Sanger Unified School District Trustee Va Her has accused Fresno Unified Board President Susan Wittrup of being racist by talking about Deputy Superintendent Misty Her's candidacy to become the district's new superintendent and also about whether Misty Her's relatives are on the district payroll. Wittrup vehemently denied Va Her's unsubstantiated...
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Go Offline in Brief Outage
In a major technical glitch, Meta's major platforms — Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook — experienced a temporary shutdown on Wednesday. This follows a similar widespread disruption that occurred about a month ago. Instagram and its microblogging platform, Threads, also faced user-reported issues this week. Meta, the parent company, had not...
