The heat is being turned up on the State Center Community College District Board of Trustees, who are feeling pressure to dismiss Chancellor Carole Goldsmith immediately because of last month's no-confidence vote by 250 faculty members. However, trustees faced pressure from the other side Tuesday evening at a hastily scheduled...
Venmo Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Venmo experienced a possible outage Wednesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 4,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 3:50 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting problems to Downdetector said...
Madera Unified Teachers Say They Are Ready To Strike
Madera Unified teachers, who are contemplating a strike, gathered Wednesday morning to demand competitive wages amidst what they label a “growing retention crisis.” A crowd of Madera Unified Teacher Association members marched in front of Desmond Middle School and Matilda Torres High School, carrying pickets and issuing choice words for...
California Launches Portal for Public To Report Alleged ICE Wrongdoing
California has launched an online portal to allow the public to send videos, photos and other evidence of possible crimes committed by federal immigration agents, joining other states that have launched similar efforts in response to President Donald Trump's nationwide crackdown on undocumented migrants. U.S. immigration agents, often masked and...
Fresno CEO Accused of $7 Million VA Fraud Arrested at San Francisco Airport
The CEO of a Fresno-based home health care company was arrested at San Francisco International Airport while trying to board a flight to Nigeria and is accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $7 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs for care that prosecutors say was never provided, U.S. Attorney...
US Census Bureau Says Implementing Strategies To Bring Economic Data Releases Back on Track
The U.S. Census Bureau said on Wednesday it was adopting several strategies, including shortening the window for Principal Federal Economic Indicators collection, to get economic data back to their original release schedule "as quickly as possible." "For our PFEIs to return to their original release schedules, processing stages must be...
Fresno Commute Snarled After Thousands of Ammo Casings Spill on Highway
Thousands of loose ammunition casings scattered across the westbound Highway 180 transition to southbound Highway 99 made for an unexpectedly slick commute Wednesday morning, authorities said. According to the California Highway Patrol in Fresno, an unknown driver dropped an ammo can that spilled “more than a couple thousand” empty shell...
Roblox Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Shows
Roblox experienced a possible outage Wednesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 6,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 2:00 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting problems to Downdetector said...
Porterville Man Found Guilty in Tulare County Murder
A Tulare County jury on Tuesday found Douglas Paul, 32, of Porterville, guilty of the 2022 shooting death of a woman in south county, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. Porterville police were called to reports of gunfire on March 16, 2022, and found the victim...
Pentagon Review Faults Hegseth Over Signal Messages on Yemen Strikes
A Pentagon investigation has faulted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for using Signal on his personal device to transmit sensitive information about planned strikes in Yemen, saying it could have endangered U.S. troops if intercepted, two people familiar with the document said on Wednesday. However, the report by the Pentagon's...