A Kingsburg police investigation led to the arrest of a 25-year-old man last week on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex and other related crimes, the Kingsburg Police Department said in a statement. Uriel Alcala Rios, who recently moved to Visalia from Selma, was arrested on March 27 after...
Camalah Saleh Cruises to Win in Stormy Fresno State Student Elections
The controversial Fresno State student elections concluded Thursday with Camalah Saleh winning the president's post by a wide margin. Saleh is involved in a multitude of groups, including Students for Palestinian Liberation, the League of Women Voters, and the Maddy Institute. “We are so excited and I’m so thankful for...
Trump Goes Golfing While Stock Market Chunks
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two days after sending the economy reeling by announcing widespread tariffs, President Donald Trump insisted his trade policies will never change as he remained ensconced in a bubble of wealth and power in Florida. He woke up on Friday morning at Mar-a-Lago, his private club...
Brandon Vang Wins Fresno City Council Special Election Outright
Brandon Vang is now Fresno City Councilmember-elect. In results certified by Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters James Kus on Friday morning, Vang — an elected Sanger Unified school board member — won 50.19% of the vote in the March 18 special election for District 5. Because Vang won a majority,...
Trump Says He’s Giving TikTok Another 75 Days to Find a US Buyer
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. Congress had mandated...
Tulare County Man Arrested After Firing at Deputies During Eviction Attempt
A Porterville man accused of opening fire on Tulare County Sheriff’s deputies during an attempted eviction was arrested late Thursday, authorities said. Deputies tracked down Kenneth Bratton, 43, around 9:45 p.m. at a home in the 9000 block of Road 256 in Terra Bella, where he was taken into custody,...
If ex-Bitwise CEOs Behave in Prison, How Much Less Time Will They Serve?
When are eleven and nine not what they seem? It happens when computing government math. Although former Bitwise Industries CEOs Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin Jr. started serving sentences of eleven and nine years, respectively, on March 18, that is not how long they are scheduled to serve. Last year,...
Trump Just Bet the Farm
Donald Trump is not known for doing his homework — he's more of a go-with-my-gut kind of guy. What I find most terrifying about what Trump is doing today is that he seems to be largely relying on his gut to bet that he can radically overturn how America's institutions...
Staged Crashes and Insurance Fraud: Is Your California Commute a Target?
Insurance fraud through staged car accidents is a rising problem in California, with the state receiving over 20,000 fraud reports annually. Capt. Eric Hood of the California Department of Insurance describes Southern California as "the fraud capital of California." He explains various schemes criminals use, such as the "sudden stop,"...
Fight Over Phonics: Will CA Require the ‘Science of Reading’ in K-12 Schools?
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Can you spell deja vu? The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading...