The new, 12-team College Football Playoff brings with it a promise to be bigger, more exciting, more lucrative. Perfect or 100% fair? Well, nobody ever believed that. The first expanded playoff bracket unveiled Sunday left a presumably deserving Alabama team on the sideline in favor of an SMU squad that...
Fresno Pacific Names New Finance VP
Anthony Gardner, director of financial management for the Yale University's Center for Clinical Investigation, will be Fresno Pacific University's next vice president for finance and business affairs. Gardner is scheduled to begin work at Fresno Pacific on Feb. 10. He replaces Robert Lippert, who retired earlier this year after a...
Visalia Teen Arrested for Stabbing 2-Year-Old Brother, Attempting to Strangle Mother
A 17-year-old male was arrested Saturday after he allegedly stabbed his 2-year-old brother multiple times and attempted to strangle his mother at a home near the intersection of K Avenue and Burke Street, the Visalia Police Department said in a statement. Officers were dispatched to the scene just before 2...
How Some Voters Moved From Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump
They feel frustrated by the status quo, and they’re fed up with the system. They don’t trust politicians, and they want revolutionary change. They are men, many of them younger, who are looking for a champion. Once, they liked Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as a presidential candidate. This election, they...
The Winners and Losers Following the Fall of Assad
Opinion by Nicholas Kristof on Dec. 8, 2024. The stunning collapse of the brutal Assad regime in Syria, a family business since the 1970s, is a geopolitical earthquake creating winners and losers around the world. First, the losers: — Iran is a big loser; Syria has been a close ally...
JD Vance, Elon Musk and the Future of America
Opinion by Ross Douthat on Dec. 7, 2024. Beneath all the furor around Donald Trump’s appointments — Matt Gaetz down and out, Pete Hegseth down but maybe coming back, the Kash Patel drama waiting in the wings — the most important figures in this administration’s orbit have not changed since...
Carlos Stewart Scores 18 as Santa Clara Sends Bulldogs to 4th Straight Loss
SANTA CLARA — Carlos Stewart scored 18 points as Santa Clara beat Fresno State 81-66 to hand the Bulldogs their fourth straight defeat on Saturday night. Stewart Leads Broncos' Offensive Charge Stewart shot 5-for-8 (including 3-of-4 from 3-point range) and 5-of-6 from the free-throw line for the Broncos (5-5) in...
FLDS Leader With 20 ‘Wives’ Faces Sentencing for Criminal Sex Acts With Children
PHOENIX — A polygamous religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison at his sentencing on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults. Samuel Bateman, whose small...
Chiefs Win 9th Straight AFC West Title, Edge Chargers on Bank-Shot Field Goal
KANSAS CITY — Andy Reid doesn't need to schedule a stress test anytime soon. He seems to get one every week. The Kansas City Chiefs coach saw his third-string kicker doink a 31-yard field goal off the left upright and through for a victory that secured the Chiefs' ninth straight...
Zelenskyy Open to Western Troops Providing Security for End to War in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he's open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia. The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining NATO,...