(Editor's Note: There have been several proposals to build a soccer stadium in downtown Fresno, including one in 2021 that would have built a $40 million facility in the Fresno Convention Center parking lot. In making these proposals, stadium proponents tout the benefits to downtown revitalization. However, a review of...
Wall Street Mixed as Investors Offload Tech Stocks. Federal Reopening Anticipated
Wall Street's main indexes were mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow at a record high and the Nasdaq lagging peers, as investors rotated out of technology stocks while monitoring progress on a likely end to the historic U.S. government shutdown. Most big tech stocks fell with Alphabet, Tesla and Meta...
Valley Crime Stoppers’ Most Wanted Person of the Day: Carlo Jovannie Ignorosa
November 12, 2025 Most Wanted Person of the Day Suspect Name: Carlo Jovannie Ignorosa Suspects Date of Birth: June 5, 1996 Physical Description: Hispanic Male, 5’ 8, 156 lbs., Black Hair, Brown Eyes. Charges: Domestic violence Warrant Number: F22907104 Synopsis of the Case: Carlo Jovannie Ignorosa is wanted on a...
Kern County Authorities Arrest Four in Diesel Theft and Credit Card Skimming Scheme
Four people were arrested last week after authorities said they stole diesel fuel and used skimming devices to make fraudulent credit card purchases at a truck stop in Kern County. Deputies from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office North Area Substation in Buttonwillow responded Nov. 6 to reports of fraudulent credit...
Ken Parker, Who Sought to Reinvent the Guitar, Dies at 73
Ken Parker, an iconoclastic guitar maker who upended entrenched luthier traditions by producing hyper-engineered, flyweight guitars seemingly designed for an art gallery, if not the 23rd century, died Oct. 5 at his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was 73. His death was confirmed in a family statement, which did not...
Steve Bannon Thinks Zohran Mamdani Is a Genius. It’s Not a Feint.
KEY ELEMENTS OF THE MAYOR-ELECT’S CAMPAIGN HAVE ENORMOUS POTENTIAL FOR A PARTY THAT WAS BADLY BEATEN IN 2024. It’s only been a week, but the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York last Tuesday raises key questions for those seeking to put the Democratic Party on a winning...
What if Democrats’ Big Shutdown Loss Turns Out to Be a Win?
WASHINGTON — At first blush, the deal that paved the way to end the government shutdown this week looked exactly like the kind of feeble outcome many Democrats have come to expect from their leaders in Washington. After waging a 40-day fight to protect Americans’ access to health care —...
There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy.
The world’s leading energy agency is backing away, sort of, from its view that global demand for fossil fuels could very well peak by the end of the decade. Two years ago, the International Energy Agency caused a stir when it published a widely read analysis suggesting that the world’s...
Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees
WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator has criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio for paying $7.5 million to the government of Equatorial Guinea to agree to take deportees from the United States who are not its citizens. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations...
US Vaccine Panel May Vote on Hepatitis B Shots in December
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee is scheduled to meet on December 4 and 5, and could vote on policy concerning shots for hepatitis B, a Federal Register notice from the agency showed on Wednesday. The members of the panel, selected by health secretary and...