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Vincent Madrid was taken into custody at a home in the 2300 block of North Wapona Avenue, near Clinton and Blythe avenues.

The "Mental Health First Aid" program will use role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to respond to a mental health crisis.

I would encourage the board and superintendent of Fresno Unified to use district money in ways that directly benefit our students.

Who finished second to Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin in primary balloting for the state controller job -- Betty Yee, left, or John Perez? Questions and criticism loom in a historic recount for the state controller primary election that involves 15 counties, including Fresno.

Former Fresnan Marcquet Hill has been working on his dance moves since he was three years old.

A Fresno County jury convicted a Fresno man of growing marijuana to sell, but could not decide whether he killed a Sanger teen who tried to steal his illegal plants two years ago.

The honorees are Michael F. Ball, Mario L. Beltramo, Gregory S. Mason, Timothy L. Thompson, Marshall C. Whitney and Michael G. Woods, all from the Fresno firm of McCormick Barstow LLP; Daniel R. Baradat and Warren R. Paboojian of Baradat & Paboojian Inc.; Steven D. McGee of Dowling Aaron Inc.; Riley C. Walter of Walter & Wilhelm Law Group; and ... (more)

A makeover continued Wednesday morning in a southwest Fresno neighborhood where eight houses, a church and a community center will get new paint and sprucing up.

A makeover continued Wednesday morning in a southwest Fresno neighborhood where eight houses, a church and a community center will get new paint and sprucing up.

Republican criticism of Obamacare may have been overtaken by other talking points -- from the influx of unaccompanied minors at the border to the Internal Revenue Service's handling of tax-exempt organizations -- but it hasn't disappeared entirely.

Fresno County Sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice says the man vanished while swimming Friday at Hume Lake, about 60 miles east of Fresno in the Sequoia National Forest.

A motorcycle crash involving another vehicle in Fresno west of Highway 99 sent one man to the hospital Monday, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Foster Farms and its London insurers are facing off over the definition of "product recall" as the poultry producer seeks payment of $14.2 million in claims arising from a government-mandated shutdown of one of its plants, court documents show.

Democracy in a charter city such as Fresno is often messy. The latest example of that fact is the success of a Doug Vagim-led petition drive that could give voters the opportunity to accept or reject increased water rates intended for water-infrastructure upgrades approved by the Fresno City Council.

Fire destroyed two storage units Tuesday afternoon at a northwest Fresno storage company and damaged many others, city fire officials said.

Left to right Ashlee Schuh, 17, and Kaitlyn Xavier, 16, conduct a Just Dance class at the Zimmerman Boys and Girls Club on Belmont near First St. on July 2, 2014.

Bail has been set at $1.1 million each for twin brothers charged with murder in the death of a Good Samaritan who was run over after trying to rescue a woman being assaulted in California.

Police released this security camera video of a foiled robbery June 27 at Joyeria Marlenes jewelry store in southeast Fresno.

Detectives believe each of these suspects are committing identity theft in the city and county of Fresno at this time.

Former Fresno County supervisor Doug Vagim is leading a move to put the city's water rates to a vote, possibly in November..