Kings County News

Police in northern New Jersey nabbed three alleged burglars who fled an apartment with just $2 in change and left behind the keys to their getaway car.

Nasal spray vaccine to ward off swine flu began arriving Tuesday in the central San Joaquin Valley.

Fireplace and wood-stove burning is prohibited today, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District announced.

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has expanded wood-burning restrictions because of deteriorating air quality.

The body of a 4-year-old boy who went missing Friday was discovered in the dryer of a home next door to his family's northwest Mendota home, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Saturday night.

Right now, residents in Kings County are not allowed to burn wood, pellets and manufactured firelogs for 24 hours.

Pete Parra, father of former Assembly Member Nicole Parra, said Tuesday that he's going to challenge Sen.

Police, firefighters and other emergency services workers will begin the 8th annual Battle of the Badges Blood Drive on Monday, Nov.

By Dennis Hart In a stunning turn of events, a suspect in the disappearance of an elderly Lemoore man has confessed that he killed him and led investigators to the body, it was revealed on Tuesday.

The suspect in the 2008 disappearance of an elderly Lemoore man has confessed to the killing and led investigators to the body, buried behind Farmersville High School, the Kings County Sheriff's Office said today.

A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.

A Kings County Sheriff's deputy holds back tears after the only patrol and narcotics dog on the K9 team collapses.

A 6-year-old Hanford boy has died of the H1N1 influenza virus, the Kings County Health Department reported Monday.

With a handheld video camera, a computer and 800 cows, Barbara Martin is letting the world into her life as a dairy operator.

On the day Adrian Gonzalez was born, the odds were against him. "They told me he would last three hours, not even through the day," Martina Villarreal, Adrian's mother said.

HANFORD, Calif. a " Kings County planners have approved the expansion of a hazardous waste facility in Kettleman City, even as state health officials continue weighing the project's possible impacts.The facility is one of the largest hazardous waste dumps in the country, and a large employer in the county's rural reaches near Interstate 5.Monday, ...

Kings County staff will research questions and concerns raised by opponents of the proposed expansion of a hazardous waste landfill and try to provide answers for planning commissioners before their next meeting Oct.

A first grader within the Kings County School District is the first child in the area to die of the H1N1 flu virus, the Department of Public Health announced on Monday.

Kings County Health Officials are reporting the county's first child death from the H1N1 virus.

A South Valley Marine makes the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Alfonso Ochoa Jr.