Woodville News

A man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly firing a stolen shotgun. The shotgun was illegally altered, authorities report.

A plaque commemorating a piece of Tulare County's earliest official history was found to be missing last week from its roadside site east of Visalia.

Tulare County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an early-Monday shooting in which a Woodville home was hit 11 times by gunfire.

Woodville Union Elementary School near Porterville will reopen Monday after the flu swept through the campus in the wake, causing the county health department to shut down the rural school for a week to avoid more infections and the possible spread of the swine flu.

Sunnyside Elementary School in Strathmore closed down Friday and will be closed at least through Monday.

The county health department closed down two more schools today, one in Strathmore and another in Woodville.

Tulare Health Officials announced on Friday the closures of two more schools due to health concerns related to the H1N1 Virus.

Authorities are looking for whoever set a portion of a Woodville home and two adjacent cars on fire Thursday morning.

Authorities are investigating a pair of break-ins reported Tuesday at public buildings located in close proximity to one another.

Tulare County Sheriff's deputies arrested this morning a Woodville man accused of failing to register as a sex offender.

Tulare County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the stabbing of a 15-year-old Woodville boy Saturday.

Three separate gunfire incidents were reported over the weekend, leading to at least three injuries, Tulare County Sheriff's deputies reported.

An 82-year-old Tulare man died Thursday afternoon in a head-on crash south of Woodville.

Students and staff at Pixley Elementary School are grieving over the loss of a fifth-grade teacher who was killed in one of a pair of crashes involving four vehicles in Thursday morning's dense fog.