Fresno News

Hanford High's Thomas Spinks, left, drives through the Monache defense in the finals for the Central Section Boy's Division II basketball championship Friday night, March 7, 2014 in Fresno, Calif.

A huge fire in Downtown Fresno destroyed an abandoned warehouse. The fire happened in an industrial area at the corner of Orange Avenue and Church Avenue in an old cotton mill.

A group from NorthPointe Community Church in northwest Fresno Ron visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A Fresno man whose long rap sheet inspired California's Three Strikes law is back in the Fresno County Jail, charged with corporal injury to a spouse and violation of probation.

The Central Section boys and girls championship basketball games are March 7-8 at Selland Area in Fresno.

EL DORADO HILLS Community Services District's new hires started work recently. Left to right are Director of Parks and Planning Kevin Loewen, Director of Recreation Jill Ritzman and Director of Administration and Finance AJ Holms.

Fresno and Clovis Fire Department personnel respond to an accident involving a vehicle in a ditch at the northwest corner of Herndon and Willow Avenues Thursday afternoon, March 6, 2014 in Clovis, Calif.

A member of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office Eagle One helicopter crew talks to students at Jackson Elementary School in Sanger, Calif., on Thursday morning, March 6, 2014, while crew members work on the helicopter.

Ashley Swearengin, mayor of Fresno, Calif., during the United States Conference of Mayors at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2013.

The Fresno Chamber of Commerce presented its annual honors at the Valley Business Awards luncheon March 6 at the Fresno Convention Center.

Businesses were evacuated Thursday morning after a gas line ruptured near G Street and Divisadero in downtown Fresno.

A 21-year-old Fresno man admitted Thursday that he murdered his father and assaulted his mother inside the family home last December.

Breaking news and insight from Bee reporters on the central San Joaquin Valley's lawmakers, movers and shakers.

His wife, Mary, joined him on what he said is his tenth visit to Visalia. He's the eighth president of the 103-year-old university, but the first from the valley to hold the position.

And like he has been every year since 1979, Brian Sturgeon, who was born with cerebral palsy, will be there as a participant.

You've heard about cats getting stuck in trees, but what about a person. It happened to a Fresno man who got stuck in a tree that's thirty feet high and had to be rescued by firefighters.

Fresno County is paying for medical care it should not have to under state law, a lawyer for the county argued while defending a county policy that would end medical services for Fresno County's poorest residents.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation's mobile museum can be viewed Wednesday and Thursday at the Veterans Home of California 9am-6pm both days in Fresno.

A Fresno man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing an innocent victim and her unborn child eight years ago for the benefit of a criminal street gang, a judge ruled Wednesday in Fresno County Superior Court.

A man Fresno police say robbed two stores within five hours is in custody after he was found in a stolen car, authorities reported.