Fresno County News

Update: Authorities today released the name of the man shot and killed by a Fresno police sergeant Tuesday and said the man apparently was not armed.

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

A Central California burglary suspect is behind bars after investigators say he dropped his cell phone outside a home that had been broken into.

Fresno police announced Tuesday that they conducted 20 sobriety checkpoints since Aug.

Fresno County leaders may divert funds from Measure C, the county's half-cent transportation sales tax, to attract a high-speed rail maintenance yard that could employ 1,500 skilled workers.

A murder suspect, who once told the court he wanted to die, appears to have changed his mind.

Three men are in custody after a man was badly beaten and robbed late Monday in central Fresno, police said.

Gary Gooden admits he mouthed off to sheriff's deputies after they told him he had to take off his belt to enter the Fresno County civil courthouse.

A man shot last week by Fresno police had a moderate level of the stimulant drug PCP in his system, the Fresno County Coroner's Office confirmed today.

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.

A public power authority has decided to build a 565-megawatt natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Parlier, despite opposition from neighbors.

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

The son of Orange Cove Mayor, Victor Lopez is behind bars tonight. Multimedia Watch The Video The Fresno County Sheriffa s Department arrested 43 year old Victor Lopez Jr.

FSU isn't the only thing hurt by the economy. Fresno County libraries are getting ready to cut costs.

Kenneth Wilson, who was found mentally incompetent to stand trial in the February 2008 shooting death of a Fresno mechanic, was back in court Thursday after a stay at Atascadero State Hospital.

The second man fatally shot by Fresno police this week was identified on Thursday as the brother of a man whose naked, decomposed body was found Oct.

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.

The Fresno County Department of Public Health opened the doors to the first of its valley flu clinics Monday.

The Mendota mother of a 4-year-old boy whose body was found inside a neighbor's home Saturday speaks out about her son's death.

There is good news for the Marjaree Mason Center, right in time for the holidays.