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(Feb. 22, 2012) -- Your California State Legislature’s abuse of the per diem rules were on display again this past President’s Day weekend. Both the Senate and the Assembly met just long enough on Friday to allow them...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- Two dozen city and county governments in California face a combined $136 billion in unfunded liabilities, according to a study released Tuesday. And the problem is growing. The Stanford Institute study looked at...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- The proposal by a Mexican cement company to mine gravel from Jesse Morrow Mountain east of Fresno has brought supporters and opponents out into the open. The county has not yet approved the surface mine, but new...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- Three people were killed early this morning in a grinding, head-on crash on Highway 180 about four miles east of Mendota. The California Highway Patrol says a big rig traveling westbound on HIghway 180 struck...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- The leadership skills of Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway of Tulare are producing big financial results for republican candidates. The Visalia Times-Delta reports that Conway has raised more than a million dollars...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- An Asian citrus psyllid has been found in an insect trap just east of Lindsay. It’s the first time that the destructive pest has been found in the Valley’s citrus belt. Ag officials say...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- Fresno police arrested a 24-year- old man Tuesday afternoon at a chop shop he was suspected of operating in southeast Fresno. Police followed him to the location near Pitt and Orange streets, where the...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- A $100,000 reward was offered Tuesday for the arrest and conviction of the people who firebombed several big rig trucks at the harris ranch last month. Jim guy reports in the fresno bee that the bombs...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- A middle-aged woman was hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after being struck by an Amtrak train in central Fresno near Blackstone and McKinley. It happened during the noon hour as the northbound passenger train...

(Feb. 22, 2012) -- Troy Phillips, 47, who was stabbed in the neck with a pencil by a fellow Fresno County jail inmate recently, was taken off life support early Tuesday morning. His organs were harvested for transplant donation to others....