Archive for October 8th, 2009

Nineteen low-performing Fresno schools will lose close to $16 million -- money already accounted for in this year's budget -- if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger allows nearly $400 million in Quality Education Investment Act funds to be cut, Fresno Unified School District officials said Thursday. Read comments »

A Tulare County jury needed only 35 minutes Thursday to find Nancy Ortiz guilty of second-degree murder for wrapping her newborn daughter in a black sweater and then leaving her in the back of a neighbor's pickup in December 2006. Read comments »

Muriel Smittcamp, matriarch of a Clovis farming family that has contributed millions to philanthropic causes in the Valley, will be memorialized at a service today. Read comments »

A judge said Thursday he needed more time before deciding whether to shut down nine medical marijuana dispensaries that opened in Fresno this year. Read comments »

Several hundred downtown Fresno property owners are being asked whether to start taxing themselves to pay for services ranging from marketing to graffiti removal. Read comments »

Police said officers have uncovered a drug-dealing operation run by gang members at a homeless encampment in downtown Fresno. Read comments »

Fresno County sheriff's searchers rescued one of two missing hikers Wednesday and found the body of the second hiker Thursday afternoon east of Edison Lake. Read comments »

A state appellate court this week upheld a controversial and unusual fee that makes developers pay for pollution caused by traffic coming from new homes and businesses on the edges of cities. Read comments »

Golden Valley Unified School District will hold a special board meeting starting at 4:30 p.m. today at Liberty High School in Madera Ranchos that will take place mostly behind closed doors. Read comments »

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MERCED — A suspect sought in connection with two bodies found inside a Merced home last week is in custody, the Merced County Sheriff's Department confirmed Thursday. »

Police say two men have been arrested in a hit-and-run that killed an 84-year-old Montebello woman and her dog. »

The son of the Dos Palos police chief has been sentenced to a year in jail for robbing a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint in Merced. »

California Highway Patrol officers continue to investigate the death of a 28-year-old pedestrian killed on McHenry Avenue early Monday. »

An earthquake has struck a remote area of eastern California that has been shaken by a sequence of tremors in the past week. »