A 16-year-old was arrested Thursday evening for pointing a laser at a Fresno Police Department helicopter, authorities said. Shortly before 6:30 p.m., the department’s Air Support Crew was assisting officers on a traffic stop near Fruit Avenue and Cesar Chavez Boulevard when they noticed a red laser beam tracking the...
Merced Needs a New Police Station, Chief Says. What Are the Obstacles?
Old pipes. Broken air conditioners. Offices in closets. These are the challenges Merced police officers face day in and day out while working from an aging headquarters the department has outgrown. Staffing at the police department is the best it’s been in years, Chief Steven Stanfield told The FOCUS. But...
Slack Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Slack, a messaging and communications platform, experienced a possible outage Monday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 15,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 10:30 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users...
Oil Prices See-Saw as Oversupply Concerns Persist
NEW YORK — Oil prices swung between gains and losses on Monday as analysts stuck to predictions that rising supply will outweigh demand in the months ahead, while hopes of progress in ending a U.S. government shutdown raised investors' risk appetite. Brent crude futures rose 26 cents, or around 0.4%,...
New Fresno Sandwich Shop Brings New York’s Chopped Cheese Flavor West
David Boursalyan admired the chopped cheese shops in New York. He watched videos of them when he was young and took a trip to New York to see and taste them. Now, the budding entrepreneur is bringing the concept to Fresno. He opened Chop Cheese Bodega in central Fresno last...
US Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military killed six people Sunday in two more strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday. The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and...
Trump Threatens to Sue as BBC Admits Erroneous Speech Edit
LONDON/NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC for its editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters overran the Capitol, which the British broadcaster admitted on Monday was an "error of judgment". The president's lawyers said the BBC must...
Israeli Hostage Says Faith Sustained Him in Hamas Captivity
HOLON, Israel — Released Israeli hostage Bar Kupershtein says he managed to survive two years in a cramped Hamas tunnel in Gaza with no sunlight, little food and regular beatings, by clinging to his belief that he was in God's hands the entire time. Kupershtein, 23, was released on October...
Six Takeaways from the Senate Deal to End the Shutdown
WASHINGTON — After more than a month of stalemate, the Senate on Sunday took a crucial step toward reopening the government, when a small but critical group of Democrats broke from their party and voted with Republicans to advance legislation that would end the longest government shutdown in history The...
Veterans Day Quiz: From Sports Stars to 5-Star Generals
Given the physical demands of military service, it’s no surprise that several of America’s prominent veterans were also star athletes. From the playing fields to the battlefields, they displayed courage, determination and leadership. As we celebrate America’s men and women in uniform on Veterans Day, we remember the athletes who...