New England Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez will have to wait one more week to make his 2025 debut, as he's been ruled out for their season-opener against the Las Vegas Raiders with a hamstring injury. Gonzalez began his collegiate career with the Colorado Buffaloes before transferring to the Oregon Ducks...
Why I Am Not a Liberal
Last May, a study came out suggesting that merely giving people money doesn’t do much to lift them out of poverty. Families with at least one child received $333 a month. They had more money to spend, which is a good thing, but the children fared no better than similar...
US Will Enforce Foreign Worker Laws, White House Says After Hyundai Raid
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will enforce laws that require foreign workers have proper authorization to be in the United States, the White House said on Friday after immigration authorities raided a Hyundai facility in Georgia. "Any foreign workers brought in for specific projects must enter the United States legally...
Tulare County High School Athlete of the Week: Mission Oak’s Ruben Llamas
Readers voted Mission Oak kicker Ruben Llamas as the Visalia Times-Delta Tulare County high school athlete of the week. In an online poll that closed on Sept. 5 Llamas received 208 votes, or a 25.58% majority, of the 813 responses. Llamas kicked a game-winning 37-yard field goal as time expired to lift...
49ers RB Christian McCaffrey Plans to Play vs. Seahawks, Says He ‘Feels Great’
San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey missed most of the 2024 season due to Achilles and knee injuries, limiting him to just 202 yards on 4.0 yards per attempt in four games. While McCaffrey was healthy throughout training camp and was a healthy scratch from the team's three preseason...
Trump Says US in ‘Very Deep’ Negotiations With Hamas, Urges Release of Hostages
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington was in "very deep" negotiations with Palestinian militant group Hamas and urged them to release all hostages held in Gaza. "We are in very deep negotiation with Hamas," Trump told reporters, saying the situation will be "tough" and "nasty" if...
Visalia Police Arrest 9 in Narcotics Operation at Sequoia Lodge
Nine people were arrested Friday morning during a narcotics operation at the Sequoia Lodge in Visalia, police said. At about 7:30 a.m., the Visalia Police Department’s Narcotics Unit, Special Enforcement Unit and HOPE teams carried out two narcotics-related search warrants and a probation search at the complex, located at 1400...
Wildfires Explode in California’s Gold Country, Ravage Historic Town
A cluster of lightning-sparked wildfires raged across portions of two Northern California counties on Wednesday, forcing widespread evacuations and engulfing part of an historic Gold Rush mining town once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants. Wind-whipped flames from nearly two dozen separate blazes have scorched more than 13,000 acres of sun-baked dry...
Trump Brings Back the War Department. What to Know
By renaming the Defense Department the Department of War, President Donald Trump has restored the name that had been used until shortly after World War II. The executive order on the name change, which Trump signed Friday, makes good on a pledge he had made for months. Trump has argued...
Visalia Construction CEO Mackey Arrested in $4 Million COVID-19 Loan Fraud
A Visalia construction company CEO was arrested Friday on a federal complaint accusing him of fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million in COVID-19 relief funds and using the money to build a real estate empire, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant said. Court documents allege that between April and June 2020, Joey...