Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has written to U.S. President Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, and urged her to contact Israel's prime minister and raise the plight of children in Gaza, authorities in Ankara said on Saturday. Emine Erdogan wrote that she had been inspired by the letter Melania Trump...
Fresno Crash Sends Car Into Building After Running Red Light
A driver ran a red light Friday at the intersection of Herndon and West avenues, clipping another vehicle before crashing into a nearby building, Fresno police said. No injuries were reported in the incident, and the car involved is being towed from the scene. Police described the crash as minor,...
Fresno City Gets Extension in Herndon 4-Story Apartment Case
Fresno County Superior Court Judge Robert Whalen gave the city another two months to come up with a plan to allow a controversial four-story apartment at the corner of Herndon and Prospect avenues. In a previous ruling, Whalen gave the city until Sept. 12 to decide what environmental requirements would...
Atwater Prison Inmate Charged for Threatening to Kill Prosecutor’s Family
A federal grand jury has indicted an Atwater prison inmate accused of threatening to kill the family of a federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced on Friday. Stanislav Yelizarov, 35, who is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Atwater, was charged with threatening the family of a federal official....
Multiple Passengers Are Killed After Bus Crashes in Western New York
A tour bus traveling from Niagara Falls to New York City crashed on a highway outside Buffalo on Friday, killing multiple passengers, including at least one child, and leaving some people trapped beneath the vehicle, officials said. The crash occurred on the New York State Thruway about 30 miles east...
Fresno Firefighters Contain Cambridge Avenue Blaze, No Injuries Reported
Fresno firefighters contained a house fire Friday morning on the 1600 block of East Cambridge Avenue, preventing major damage, officials said. Crews were dispatched shortly after 10 a.m. for reports of smoke coming from a home. When firefighters arrived, they saw smoke coming from a second-story window and requested additional...
With Major Heat Risk Forecast, This Is a Good Weekend to Stay Indoors in Fresno
Fresnans usually say when they're talking about hot summer weather that "at least it's a dry heat." This weekend, not so much. Humidity levels will be higher than usual thanks to monsoonal storms pushing into the Central Valley from the Desert Southwest and Four Corners region, and that will not...
Trump Says Intel Has Agreed to Deal for US to Take 10% Equity Stake
President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America. An official announcement on the arrangement is expected later in the...
Epstein Associate Maxwell Says She Never Saw Trump Behave Inappropriately
Ghislane Maxwell, an associate of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, told a top Justice Department official last month that she never saw President Donald Trump in an "inappropriate setting," according to a transcript of an interview released on Friday. "I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate...
Wrongly Deported Migrant Abrego to Be Released Soon, Lawyer Says
Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation in March to his native El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, is expected to be released from criminal custody in Tennessee soon, his lawyer said on Friday. A Fox affiliate in Nashville had earlier reported that Abrego had been released...