Madera News

Madera County officials are asking for help in finding relatives of a Madera man who died last week.

THE CALIFORNIA Voting Rights Act of 2002 was signed into law by Gov. Gray Davis with little fanfare or protest.

The Centers for Disease Control released new numbers this week regarding those infected and killed by the H1N1 virus.

This Feb. 10, 2009 photo shows Madera Unified School District Supt. John Stafford posing in the... This Feb.

A Madera man in his mid-40s died Nov. 5 in an alleged alcohol-related crash a day after the Chevrolet S-10 he was riding in was struck from behind.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Department has issued a missing person alert for a Lemon Cove man who was last seen by family members Monday.

Madera Mayor, Sam Armentrout, made a sad announcement Thursday morning. Armentrout confirmed he has been diagnosed with an acute form of Leukemia.

Friday was the closing date for candidates filing to run on the Nov. 4 ballot. The candidacy deadline is extended to Wednesday in any race where the incumbent did not file by Friday.

A Sanger man was arrested early Tuesday after he allegedly broke into a house and molested two children, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office reported.

The following is a partial list of calls received by the Madera Police Department on Saturday.

In the rural, low-income community of Fairmead about 10 miles north of Madera, some 800 people rely on a decades-old water pump that could fail at any moment.

A 27-year-old man and his girlfriend, 33, both of Madera, were booked into Madera County Jail on Sunday night after two men were shot, sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart said.

Two people, with ties to a Mexican Drug Cartel, are behind bars-thanks to the Madera County Sheriff's Department.

Madera South High's first ever homecoming was a huge success with more than 100 students waking up at 5 a.m. for the Channel 30 news broadcast, more than 20 floats at our on campus Homecoming parade and a victory for our Stallion Brotherhood Team.

From loans to networking, business strategies and information will be the focus of the 2009 Madera Business Conference planned for Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The conference will be in the Room AM 120 Lecture Hall of Madera Center Community College, the conference host.

A couple of Mexican nationals with ties to Mexican drug cartels have been picked up in Madera -- for selling heroin.

Police and agents from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control held sting operations in Madera over the weekend and found minors were able to buy alcohol about 20 percent of the time.

Helping their community gives people with disabilities a sense of purpose. At its annual Halloween dance, Heartland Opportunity Center kicked off its Heartland Rotary Community Corps annual toy and food drive, Thursday.

An early morning traffic stop of a Chevy Blazer occupied by two self-identified gang members led to the discovery of a loaded shotgun inside, according to authorities.

A Focolare Movement and St. Joachim Church sponsored health fair served more than the 200-person limit that had been set on Saturday.