Fresno police are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing 16-year-old girl last seen leaving her home earlier this month. Sheyla Esquival-Bahena was last seen on the morning of Friday, Jan. 16, leaving her house in the area of West Cesar Chavez Boulevard and North Fruit Avenue, police...
Madera Police Arrest 14-Year-Old After Pursuit of Stolen Vehicle, Recover Loaded Gun
A 14-year-old boy was taken into custody early Friday after police located a stolen vehicle and recovered a loaded firearm following a pursuit in Madera, authorities said. An officer spotted the stolen vehicle in the city’s northeast limits, an area where multiple vehicles were reported stolen the night before, the...
The Human Cost of Letting Fresno County’s Measure C Expire
There are moments in public service when the infighting has to stop, the facts have to speak, and the work needs to take place. Measure C, our local road tax, is one of those moments. Measure C is not a new tax. It has been in place for decades and has helped build our region...
A Look Inside California Lawmakers’ High-End Bash With Lobbyists
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Assemblymember Tina McKinnor stood at the free tequila bar. The Inglewood Democrat had asked for three glasses of Patrón El Alto, “the pinnacle of luxury” priced at roughly $150 a bottle. She kept one glass, leaving the other...
Voters Are Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE, Poll Finds
Roughly half of voters support President Donald Trump’s deportations and his handling of the border with Mexico, but a sizable majority believes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone too far, according to a poll from The New York Times and Siena University. Fifty percent of voters said that they...
US Threatens to Starve Iraq of Its Oil Dollars Over Iranian Influence, Sources Say
Washington has threatened senior Iraqi politicians with sanctions targeting the Iraqi state - including potentially its critical oil revenues - should armed groups backed by Iran be included in the next government, four sources told Reuters. The warning is the starkest example yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to curb Iran-linked...
TikTok Reaches Deal for New US Joint Venture to Avoid American Ban
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, finalized a deal on Thursday to set up a majority American-owned joint venture company to avoid a U.S. ban on the popular social media app used by more than 200 million Americans. The deal is a milestone for the short video app...
Fresno Police Arrest Three in Separate Incidents Involving US Postal Service Employees
Three people were arrested this week in two unrelated incidents involving assaults or threats against U.S. Postal Service employees in Fresno, the Fresno Police Department said in a statement. In the first incident, officers responded around 2:20 p.m. Tuesday near North Marks and West Dakota avenues to a report of...
Bid to Rein in Trump’s Venezuela War Powers Fails in US House
U.S. House of Representatives Republicans narrowly defeated a resolution on Thursday that would have barred President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without the authorization of Congress, days after a similar measure failed in the Senate. The House voted 215 to 215, a tie that defeated the resolution...
Madera Man Arrested for Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material
The Madera County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 32-year-old Madera resident Wednesday following an investigation into the distribution of child sexual abuse material. Bryan Francis Gittings was taken into custody after Madera County detectives, with assistance from the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the FBI, served a...