FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ) — A retired software engineer is now dedicating his time to making handmade wooden toys for children in Fresno County. 78-year-old Michael Vogt made a generous donation to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday of dozens of wooden patrol cars, fire trucks, tractors, and more. Deputies often carry books and…… MORE
Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission (Fresno EOC) announced Wednesday that free meals will be provided to children ages 1-18 over the upcoming winter break. According to Fresno EOC, several locations throughout both the City of Fresno and Fresno County will offer free meals to kiddos starting December 19 through January 2. No meals, however, will be…… MORE
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, shortly before 12:30 P.M., officers from the Northwest Policing District and members from the Fresno Fire Departmentresponded to a dirt access road behind 4488 North Cornelia Avenue regarding a report of a deceased woman who appeared to have been set on fire. Officersand Fire personnel arrived and located the deceased…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government charged Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, with a host of financial crimes on Tuesday, alleging he intentionally deceived customers and investors to enrich himself and others, while playing a central role in the company’s multibillion-dollar collapse. The 13-page indictment says that, beginning…… MORE
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Heavy snow fell in the Sierra Nevada as a winter storm packing powerful winds sent ski lift chairs swinging and closed mountain highways while downpours at lower elevations triggered flood watches Sunday across large swaths of California into Nevada. More than 250 miles (400 km) of the Sierra from…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Native American tribe in Northern California is racing toward a Friday deadline to conclude its search for human remains and cultural artifacts on what was once a tribal village site but will soon be home to a shared-use path and parking area. Ancestors of the Wintu Tribe of Northern California…… MORE
The Lively Arts Foundation proudly presents the Central California Ballet Nutcracker ’22! Lively Arts Foundation’s presentation of Central California Ballet’s joyous and highly entertaining Nutcracker Ballet has been recognized in Dance Magazine for its resurrection of the character of the vengeful Mouse Queen from E.T.A. Hoffman’s original Nutcracker fairy tale. Set to Tchaikovsky’s memorable music,…… MORE
(AP) – Embattled vaping company Juul Labs has reached settlements covering thousands of lawsuits over its e-cigarettes, which in recent years became a scourge in schools and communities nationwide. Financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Juul said that it has secured an equity investment to fund it. Buffeted by lawsuits, Juul announced…… MORE
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The first-ever U.S. auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in the deep waters off the West Coast attracted $757 million in winning bids Wednesday from mostly European companies, in a project watched by other regions and countries just getting their own plans for floating offshore wind started. The…… MORE
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — A prison inmate who spent more than 30 years on California’s death row for beating to death a woman and her 2-year-old daughter during a burglary died early Wednesday of natural causes, state corrections officials said. Richard Gonzales Samayoa, 69, was found unresponsive in his cell in the infirmary at…… MORE
