Fresno News

Easter worshippers at Clovis Hills Community Church received a bonus Sunday when a helicopter dropped more than 7,000 candy-filled plastic eggs to kids waiting with baskets.

Crews begin work on a 42,000 square-foot facility that will become the new Future Ford showroom, parts and service departments on Shaw Avenue in Clovis, Thursday, April 17, 2014.

Old-timers remember when downtown Fresno was once a thriving commercial hub, and the tall buildings that still define the cityscape made economic sense to build.

Police are searching for 30-year-old Demar Bateman in connection to a Sunday evening stabbing at a Motel 6 on Blackstone Avenue in central Fresno.

A line of cars waits to enter the gate at Audubon Drive in Woodward Park in north Fresno where droves of residents came to celebrate Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014.

A large gathering of four families enjoys a picnic lunch along with many others who ventured out to Woodward Park in north Fresno to celebrate Easter Sunday and the nice weather Sunday, April 20, 2014.

The Marjaree Mason Center is working with Starbucks locations in Fresno and Clovis to host a Diaper Drive throughout the month of April.

Update : Gerald Perry, 65, the victim of a gunshot wound to the head on Friday, has died, according to the Fresno County Coroner.

Two public-interest groups are making a final stand in a long legal battle to stop Friant Ranch, a 2,270-home and commercial development that's been approved for the foothills near the San Joaquin River, 10 miles northeast of Fresno.

A motorist early Saturday led authorities on a chase southwest of Fresno before exiting his car, fleeing on foot and finally pointing a firearm at officers who shot and killed him, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department reported.

This shocking case involves a man on the operating table for open-heart surgery.

Thumbs up to Isis Frausto-Vicencio , a sophomore at College of the Sequoias and a Strathmore High School graduate.

California became the nation's first state to ratify a new constitutional amendment making naturalized US citizens eligible for the Presidency, clearing the way for Governor Bieber's expected run this fall.

A Fresno family is holding a car wash Saturday at Blackstone and Ashlan Avenues to raise funds for a baby due this summer, but which could die soon after because of a genetic condition.

Deacon Berj K. Apkarian, center, of Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church in Fresno swings an incense censer during a prayer service next to the Armenian memorial monument at Ararat Cemetery to commemorate the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Tuesday, April 23, 2013.

Fresno County's unemployment rate trickled upward in March, fueled by a seasonal slump in agricultural jobs.

Rosie Torres, owner of Rosie's Flower Shop, prepares easter lily arrangements on April 16, 2014.

Two friends were found guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the killing of a registered sex offender who was stabbed 58 times and his body dumped near Chandler Downtown Airport in southwest Fresno.

Fresno police are now beefing up patrols after a vicious beating outside a bar that was caught on camera.

Eastbound Herndon Avenue near Millbrook Avenue in northeast Fresno in front of St. Agnes Medical Center for a landscaping project.