Porterville News

A 13-year-old boy walking to school Friday morning discovered a dead body. Coroner's Office officials have listed 62-year-old Pedro Castillo Ramirez's death as a suicide, but it is still under investigation, according to Tulare County Sheriff's Department Sgt.

Porterville resident Bernard Brown was booked into the Porterville Substation on arson charges at 10 p.m. Thursday.

SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST , CA The Shotgun Fire, located in the Golden Trout Wilderness where Shotgun Creek flows into the Little Kern River has grown to 899 acres but is not expected to grow much larger.

A Fresno man was charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter in connection with a June 28 head-on crash in east Tulare.

Porterville police announced today the arrest of a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of raping another teenager.

The fact that there was no fireworks event this year at Jamison stadium did not stop from happening personal celebrations of Independence Day throughout Porterville - with friends, family and individual fireworks.

Crews have made quick work of a wildfire that burned through 61 acres of brush in a rural area east of Bakersfield.

A wildfire continues to burn in the Golden Trout Wilderness, 25 miles northeast of Porterville.

A Fresno gang member who broke the skull of a store clerk during a 2008 robbery was convicted Thursday of several crimes, including kidnapping with the intent to rob.

Leadership Porterville officials are currently recruiting candidates for participation in the class of 2009-10, which begins in September.

A man suspected of stealing more than $1,000 in property from a Lindsay-area farm was arrested Monday night.

Whether loading groceries, making a coffee stop, or simply out and about, people around Porterville took a moment over the weekend to express their sentiments for the recently-deceased King of Pop.

Two men were arrested Friday, after narcotics officers served a search warrant on a car and its occupants.

A man convicted last week of sexually assaulting three Porterville-area girls, one of him his stepdaughter, faces up to 229 years in prison, the Tulare County District Attorney's office announced today in a press release.

Fire officials Monday arrested a man suspected of starting two blazes off Yokohl Drive near Balch Park Road, north of Springville.

Three cases of the swine flu, or H1N1, have been confirmed at the Porterville Developmental Center.

The Porterville City Council is scheduling four community or town hall meetings to provide an opportunity for residents to ask questions or express concerns to the City Council and staff.

On Sunday, someone broke in to a vehicle and stole several items. Tulare County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched at about 6:11 in response to a vehicle burglary report.

The City Council on a split vote Tuesday approved Porterville's 2009-10 budget, complete with more than $200,000 in planned overspending in the General Fund.

A 69 year old female on Monday, June 8, was allegedly assaulted by her daughter.