Fresno News

A house is reflected in a puddle of water from an irrigated front yard Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in San Diego.

About 10 years ago, Mariah Walton traded in her probation officer's badge for bouquets.

Editor's note: This is the third installment of "On Duty," a column by officer David Singer of the California Highway Patrol's Central Division office in Fresno.

Police say 35-year-old Omar Perez was involved in an argument with another man inside Ewell's Bar at Chestnut and McKinley in southeast Fresno.

The World Cup's final match kept many people in air-conditioned homes or restaurants for part of Sunday in the Fresno area, sparing them from temperatures that crept back up past the century mark.

A crash on Highway 41 south of Avenal on Saturday afternoon left an 80-year-old Fresno woman dead and three others with minor to moderate injuries, the California Highway Patrol said.

The Fresno County Mental Health Board will meet Wednesday to evaluate and discuss two local programs provided by the Department of Behavioral Health.

Freddie Alexander Smoke III was arrested Saturday and accused of recklessly causing a fire and with marijuana cultivation, both felonies, according to the California Department of Fire and Forestry Protection.

Eli Setencich was a longtime Fresno Bee columnist whose work showcased his love of language and appreciation for all things humorous, whether he was covering politics or writing about harvesting figs as a youngster in the Sanger area.

The Dry Creek canal crosses Clovis Avenue, seen to the left, just south of Alluvial Avenue on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 in Clovis, Calif.

Fresno County supervisors have supported high-speed rail for the past seven years, but that support is waning and could change Tuesday.

The Center for Search & Investigation for Missing Children and the Hanford Police Department are asking for help in finding a missing teenager believed to be in the Fresno area.

A man was beaten unconscious by several men, robbed and then dragged by his feet into a southeast Fresno apartment early Friday, Fresno police said.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) July 12--It's better than the American dream: An immigrant couple brings their three young sons to the U.S. and buys a restaurant.

Fresnans looking for a pet can adopt one from the Central California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' mobile adoption unit at River Park on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The CCSPCA is attempting to have 2,880 pets adopted this summer as part of the ASPCA Rachel Ray $100K Challenge, a contest in which 50 shelters across the U.S.

It was July 2, and I was listening to KMJ radio when Ray Appleton's talk show started.

The forest where the fire started is south of and separate from the Sequoia National Park east of Fresno, which is famous for its giant Sequoia trees.

A Fresno man was arrested Tuesday in Santa Barbara on drug and child endangerment charges after police found a video of his young son sucking on a marijuana water pipe, police reported.

An old bar on a rundown section of Golden State Boulevard in central Fresno will be among the first buildings to fall to make way for construction of California's high-speed rail project.

Fresno native Tony Smith bogeyed his final two holes Friday at the U.S. Senior Open and is projected to miss the cut by two strokes.