Raisin City News

Fresno, not a vacation paradise to be sure, actually has been a popular Thanksgiving break destination for many years.

It's worst than dense fog, that's how many are describing a strong wind storm that made its way through the San Joaquin Valley Tuesday.

In a word, the harvest fair here is: pie. Thick slabs of creamy buttermilk custard, homegrown peach, tart boysenberry and local raisin walnut with a lattice crust top.

A new issue cropped up Thursday in the case of the man accused of sexually assaulting and partially burying a 4-year-old girl in Fresno County last Christmas Eve.

Favored by a pleasant location at the Alamitos Bay Marina and by its proximity to several affluent areas, the Long Beach Southeast farmers market has grown steadily since its founding in 1997.

Nine months after a 4-year-old girl was kidnapped and assaulted near Raisin City, the man accused of doing it made another court appearance on Thursday.

Dennis Oikle checks raisin grapes at his Fresno County vineyard. Yields have been down this year for most raisin growers and there is concern that prices may be lower as well.

A Raisin City farm laborer has confessed to killing a Kerman father of three over a pickup truck, a prosecutor said Friday at the start of the man's criminal trial in Fresno County Superior Court.

A man who killed a farmworker over his pick-up truck was sentenced in a Fresno County Courtroom on Thursday.

A Raisin City farm laborer has confessed to killing a Kerman father of three over a pickup truck, a prosecutor said Friday at the start of the man's criminal trial in Fresno County Superior Court.

Testimony began Friday in the trial of a Fresno County man accused of killing a father of three over a pick-up. Authorities say Jamie Martinez-Lopez, 21, of Raisin City, killed Jose Gallegos, 36, of Kerman, last October.