A Fresno man died shortly after competing in a taco eating contest Tuesday night during a Fresno Grizzlies Triple-A baseball game against the Memphis Redbirds. The Fresno County Sheriff's Office identified the man as 41-year-old Dana Hutchings. "We are not ruling a cause of death yet, but we have an...
Sheriff's Office IDs Fresno Taco Eating Contestant Who Died
A Fresno man died shortly after competing in a taco eating contest Tuesday night during a Fresno Grizzlies Triple-A baseball game against the Memphis Redbirds. The Fresno County Sheriff's Office identified the man as 41-year-old Dana Hutchings. "We are not ruling a cause of death yet, but we have an...
Shootout Kills California Officer, Suspect
RIVERSIDE — A man whose pickup truck was being impounded grabbed a rifle and opened fire, killing a California Highway Patrol officer and wounding two others Monday before he was shot to death in a hail of gunfire, authorities said. "We don't know his motive for this crime," Riverside Police...
Shootout Kills California Officer, Suspect
RIVERSIDE — A man whose pickup truck was being impounded grabbed a rifle and opened fire, killing a California Highway Patrol officer and wounding two others Monday before he was shot to death in a hail of gunfire, authorities said. "We don't know his motive for this crime," Riverside Police...
Parents: If You Don't Know How to Spot Drug Use, This Town Hall in Clovis Is for You
Too many parents can't spot the signs that their child is using drugs and miss the opportunity to intervene before drug use becomes drug addiction, says Flindt Andersen, founder and president of Parents & Addicts in Need. The nonprofit PAIN is hosting a town hall meeting Wednesday in Clovis to...
Federal New York Lockup Draws New Scrutiny in Epstein Death
NEW YORK — The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has brought new scrutiny to a federal jail in New York that, despite chronic understaffing, houses some of the highest-security inmates in the country. Epstein's death is also the latest black eye for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, the jail's parent agency that...
John Dillinger Relatives Doubt Body in Grave Is the Gangster
INDIANAPOLIS — Relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed say they have "evidence" the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery beneath a gravestone bearing his name may not be him and FBI agents possibly killed someone else in 1934. The Indiana State Department...
Gilroy Pledges to Remain Strong in Wake of Festival Shooting
GILROY — Only a few days ago, Gilroy was known for one thing: garlic. The rural community near San Francisco lived and breathed the prized, pungent crop. Now it's the site of the latest American mass shooting. On Sunday evening, a 19-year-old gunman with apparent white supremacist views slipped into...
Resumed Federal Executions Raise Death Penalty's 2020 Stakes
WASHINGTON — The question to Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988, was brutally personal. "If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" Bernard Shaw, a CNN anchor, asked, referring to the Massachusetts governor's wife. Dukakis said he wouldn't favor...
Justice Dept. Will Execute Inmates for First Time Since 2003
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Thursday that it will carry out executions of federal death row inmates for the first time since 2003. Five inmates who have been sentenced to death are scheduled to be executed starting in December. In 2014, following a botched state execution in Oklahoma, then-President Barack Obama directed the department to...