2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (455+ words) Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria, D-Merced, wants a statewide ban on registered sex offenders holding political office and announced she will soon craft legislation to put before lawmakers. The news comes as registered sex offender Rene Campos, who in 2021 pleaded no contest…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (538+ words) With a registered sex offender is running for the Fresno City Council, multiple councilmembers said they oppose having a person convicted of crimes against children in office. District 1 Councilmember Annalisa Perea said the council plans to introduce an ordinance to…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (319+ words) There has been no sign of the frail 84-year-old since the early morning of February 1, when a doorbell video camera at the front door to her Tucson house captured footage of a man wearing a ski mask, backpack, gloves and…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (146+ words) The Pima County Sheriff's Office issued a public message this week urging media to respect crime scenes, saying interference can disrupt active investigations. "We can't believe we have to say this, but media on scene: please do not order food…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (563+ words) U.S. television network news host Savannah Guthrie took to social media on Monday to plead for the public's assistance in locating her elderly mother, who vanished from her Arizona home more than a week ago in a presumed kidnapping for ransom....

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (182+ words) A man wanted in connection with a DUI manslaughter case has been arrested following an anonymous tip, Valley Crime Stoppers said. Peter Anusith Bandaphone, 42, was arrested Wednesday, three days after Valley Crime Stoppers posted information seeking the public's help, according…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1089+ words) Saying the county needs a way to regulate transitional homes and protect neighbors, Fresno County supervisors Tuesday approved a final limit on how many sex offenders can live in a single home. But while the operators of one facility agreed…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1336+ words) California cities pay far more for water on average than districts that supply farms " with some urban water agencies shelling out more than $2,500 per acre-foot of surface water, and some irrigation districts paying nothing, according to new research. A report…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (368+ words) Technology capable of extracting evaporation from tomato pulp is producing 120,000 gallons a day of "new water" clean enough to drink in Los Banos in Merced County. The "water harvesting" unit was developed by Australian company Botanical Water Technologies, which moved…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (155+ words) A woman was hospitalized Saturday after she was stabbed inside a Visalia home, and police say a suspect is in custody. Officers responded around 4:30 p.m. to the 5500 block of West Tulare Avenue after receiving reports of a stabbing, the Visalia Police…...