Iran said on Wednesday that airstrikes had hit the infrastructure of the vast South Pars offshore gas field, the largest attack on Iran’s energy production since the war began nearly three weeks ago. Oil prices rose following reports of the strikes, which hit oil and petrochemical facilities in the southern...
Valley Crime Stoppers’ Most Wanted Person of the Day: Marissa Selena Hawkins
March 18, 2026 Most Wanted Person of the Day Suspect Name: Marissa Selena Hawkins Suspects Date of Birth: February 21, 2000 Physical Description: Hispanic Female, 5’ 2, 115 lbs., Black Hair, Brown Eyes. Charges: Receiving stolen property Warrant Number: F24902088 Synopsis of the Case: Marissa Selena Hawkins is wanted on...
Fresno Police Plan Saturday DUI Checkpoint
The Fresno Police Department will conduct a driving under the influence checkpoint Saturday from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. at an undisclosed location. Officials said checkpoint locations are selected based on data showing incidents of impaired driving-related crashes, with the primary goal of promoting public safety by removing suspected impaired...
X Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
X, formerly Twitter, experienced an outage Wednesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 16,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 8:18 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reported an issue with...
Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s Year of Unchecked Force
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign. A collaboration between...
Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack
SAN FRANCISCO — In January, Doug Fulop was riding home from a night out in San Francisco when a man crossed the street in front of his car, doubled back and began screaming at him. The man punched the car’s windows and tried lifting up the vehicle. He then yelled...
Fresno County Authorities Warn of Scam Impersonating Sheriff’s Officials
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about an ongoing phone scam in which a caller falsely claims to be a high-ranking member of the department and demands money. Authorities say they have received multiple reports of a man with a strong southern accent making random calls to...
Iran’s Huge Gulf Gas Field Is Struck in Major Escalation
Iran's huge Pars gas field was hit on Wednesday in the first reported strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure in the Gulf during the U.S.-Israeli war, a major escalation that prompted Tehran to warn its neighbors to evacuate their energy installations. Pars is the Iranian sector of the world's largest natural...
Top Republican Calls out Trump’s Homeland Nominee Over Inflammatory Rhetoric
U.S. Senator Rand Paul, the Republican chairman of a Senate panel weighing the nomination of President Donald Trump's pick for homeland security, sharply criticized the nominee on Wednesday over inflammatory remarks a month ago saying he understood why a neighbor attacked Paul in 2017. The nominee, Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin...
US to Require $15,000 Bond to Visa Recipients From 12 More Countries
President Donald Trump's administration will require citizens from 50 countries to post bonds of $15,000 to apply for U.S. entry, a State Department official said on Wednesday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 12 countries are being added to a list that already includes 38 other nations, largely in...