Mendota News

With the state Legislature having finished its work on a package of water legislation, analysts turn their attention to Washington, D.C., where a number of developments in coming weeks could affect both short- and long-term water supplies for California.

Prosecutor: Killing of Seattle cop a 'one man war' Prosecutor: Killing of Seattle cop a 'one man war' Christopher Monfort waged a "one-man war" against law enforcement starting with the firebombing of four police vehicles and continuing even after the fatal shooting of a Seattle officer on Halloween, a prosecutor said Thursday in charging him with ...

Environmental activists are trying to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury, selenium and other pollutants into the same river where coal ash was spilled at its Kingston Plant.

The family of fouryearold Alex Mercado showed up to court Tuesday wearing tshirts that read "Forever in my heart" with Alex's birthday and the day he was brutally murdered.

Many Valley families aren't even thinking about gifts this holiday season; they just want food to put on their table.

Catholic Charities Diocese of Fresno is hosting its 2nd Annual "Fill the Mayflower" food drive in the Borders parking lot at River Park this weekend.

No water, no work. That's the ripple effect from a three year drought and only a trickle of federal irrigation water.

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.