Ag Labor Fix Tied to DACA Bill in Congress

  A complete overhaul of the American agricultural guest worker program is a major part of a House of Representatives’ plan to fix the immigration status of young people involved in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. The DACA program is currently tied up in an immigration reform battle on Capitol Hill. A DTN…MORE

Parents Suspected of Keeping Kids Chained in California Home

[Photo: Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept.] PERRIS, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say an emaciated teenager led deputies to a California home where her 12 brothers and sisters were locked up in filthy conditions, with some of them malnourished and chained to beds. Riverside County sheriff’s deputies arrested the parents Sunday at the home in Perris east…MORE

Register for the Fresno Co. Emergency Alert Program

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE FRESNO COUNTY EMERGENCY ALERT PROGRAM: (CNN) – Human error is blamed for a false alarm of a missile heading for Hawaii, but the scare left Americans wondering how the missile detection and emergency messaging systems are supposed to work — and what went wrong. The US military is in…MORE

California Faces Long Recovery After Mudslides

[van id=”weather/2018/01/13/california-mudslides-vercammen-sot-nr.cnn”] (CNN) – California evokes images of sunny beaches, majestic mountains, Hollywood celebs, coastal highways and all variations of good times. But lately, the Golden State has elicited visions of a different kind — houses buried in mud, scorched hillsides and flu-stricken hospital patients. Californians have dealt with all that and more in these…MORE