A sergeant from the California Highway Patrol Central Division seized approximately 5 pounds of fentanyl valued at $227,000 during a traffic stop on Interstate 5 in western Fresno County on Wednesday, authorities reported in a Friday afternoon social media post. The sergeant pulled over an Audi Q7 near Russell Avenue...
Fresno Unified Was Target of Bad-Check Scheme Totaling $7M
Fresno Unified School District announced Friday that it had been the target of a check fraud ring that attempted to cash unauthorized checks totaling $7 million from the district to one of its vendors. The district said that after learning of the fraud earlier this year, the Department of Homeland...
Big Fresno Fair Says Cows Must Stay Home This Year
Cow-milking presentations and the auction of heifers are some of the more popular activities at the Big Fresno Fair visits in prior years, but this year the cow barn will be empty. Blame the highly contagious Avian flu that has been sweeping through herds, including in Fresno County. The Big...
Chargers QB Justin Herbert Listed as Questionable, Likely to Be Game-Time Decision
CHARLOTTE — Justin Herbert's status for Sunday's game at Pittsburgh could come down to a game-time decision after the Los Angeles Chargers quarterback did not practice on Friday because of a high right ankle sprain. Herbert is listed as questionable on the injury report but said it is "something that's...
A Strike by Boeing Factory Workers Shows No Signs of Ending After Its First Week
A labor strike at Boeing showed no signs of ending Friday, as the walkout by 33,000 union machinists entered its eighth day and the company started rolling furloughs of nonunion employees to conserve cash. Federal mediators joined talks between Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers this...
Lainey Wilson Proves She’s Country’s Queen with High-Energy Fresno Show
Country superstar Lainey Wilson rocked a packed Save Mart Center on Thursday night with a high-energy performance. Rolling through Fresno on her "Country's Cool Again" tour, Wilson delivered a show that lived up to the name. Riding a Wave of Success Wilson has been riding a wave of success since...
2 Black Women Could Make Senate History on Election Day
WASHINGTON — The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall, with not one, but two, Black women possibly elected to the chamber, a situation never seen in America since Congress was created more than 200 years ago. Delaware's Lisa Blunt Rochester marks the milestone by saying that the reason...
Police Arrest 15-Year Old for Making Social Media Threats against DC Schools
WASHINGTON — Police on Friday arrested a 15-year-old boy on charges related to threats on social media that prompted an increased police presence at multiple schools in Washington, D.C. Parents at several different Washington schools were notified Thursday by public school administrators of “threats being made on multiple platforms targeting...
Federal Officials Have Increased Staff in Recent Months at NY Jail Where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Is Held
NEW YORK — The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months to make up for staggering shortfalls at the troubled New York City jail where Sean "Diddy" Combs is awaiting trial after pleading not guilty Tuesday to sex trafficking charges. The agency's push to fix...
Trump’s Impulse After Robinson Bombshell Report: Ignore, and Power Through
Donald Trump’s advisers knew they had a problem in North Carolina. What they were frantically trying to learn was how big it would be. Word had reached the former president’s high command Thursday that a “bad” story was coming about Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican running for governor in...