Mendota News

Raul Renato Castro, wearing handcuffs and leg shackles, made two brief appearances in Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jon Nick Kapetan's courtroom.

A community is in mourning as the funeral for four-year-old Alex Mercado was held this morning.

The Fresno County Sheriffa s Department is releasing new information about the death of a 4 year old Mendota Boy.

Long-unsolved murders and rapes are moving out of the cold-case files and into Fresno County courtrooms, thanks to extra cash from the federal government.

A Mendota 14-year-old confessed to killing a 4-year-old neighbor because the boy was going to tell his mother the teen had molested him, according to a court affidavit made public Wednesday.

The 4-year-old Mendota boy who disappeared Friday was drowned and placed in a neighbor's dryer before a search for the child had even begun, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Monday.

Funeral services for Alex Christopher Mercado, the 4-year-old Mendota boy who was killed last week, have been arranged.

A Mendota 14-year-old confessed to killing a 4-year-old neighbor because the boy was going to tell his mother the teen had molested him, according to a court affidavit made public Wednesday.

The mother of the teen accused of killing a 4-year-old neighbor found the child dead in the clothes dryer of her Mendota home, according to a Fresno County Superior Court affidavit made public today.

CNN : A 14-year-old California boy told police he drowned his 4-year-old neighbor on Friday because the child had threatened to tell his mother the older boy had molested him, according to an affidavit made public Wednesday.

It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.

Body was found in clothes dryer at neighbor's home. The Fresno Bee Residents of Mendota are struggling to come to terms with the weekend killing of a 4-year-old boy and the arrest of a teenage neighbor implicated in his death.

The arraignment of a Mendota teen accused of killing a 4-year-old boy has been postponed.

Authorities say in court documents that a 14-year-old Mendota boy charged with murder confessed to killing a 4-year-old neighbor because the child was going to reveal that the teen molested him.

The makeshift memorial in front of the apartment where four-year-old Alex Mercado lived continues to grow.

The 4-year-old Mendota boy who disappeared Friday was drowned and placed in a neighbor's dryer before a search for the child had even begun, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

Nasal spray vaccine to ward off swine flu began arriving Tuesday in the central San Joaquin Valley.

An autopsy was completed today on 4-year-old Alex Mercado of Mendota, whose body was found in a neighbor's dryer Saturday.

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A Fresno woman suffered fatal injuries early Saturday when her vehicle overturned on a rural road south of Mendota, the California Highway Patrol said.