By Tracy Correa / The Fresno Bee

Clovis police are seeking help to solve a robbery and attack on a young woman about 11 p.m. Thursday on DeWitt Avenue near Santa Ana Avenue.

Two men in their mid-20s beat her and tried to take her cell phone before giving up and stealing her purse, police said. The woman was hospitalized but is expected to recover, police said.

By RON OROZCO – McClatchy Newspapers

Jonathan Howry was just weeks into his junior year at Clovis East High School when he offered some food to another student – and was turned down.

A health care town hall at Clovis East High School — will you walk away wiser, will your ears be burning, will you be in a fistfight?

That’s the sad soap opera being played out in so many health forums around the county as the possibility of covering 47 million uninsured people congeals under the rubric of national health insurance reform.

Genny Mayhew was torn between settling for the comfort of California and packing her suitcase for the Sunshine State five years ago.

To accept a volleyball scholarship at Miami, a program in its infancy, or find a program close to home. That was the question as the clock ticked on her final days at Clovis High.

Buchanan High middle blocker Chloe Ferrari, Clovis West setter Melody Mandelbaum and Sanger setter Korrin Wild were among 50 California high school volleyball players named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association/Underarmour All-America 2009 watch list.

This year’s list includes 383 players from 37 states in all, though more can be nominated.

Arlene Stine was the first female runner in the Pikes Peak Marathon.

By Matt James / The Fresno Bee

Three days a week, Arlene Stine goes to a gym at Ashlan and Fowler and gets on a treadmill. She is 79, but she makes sure to put the treadmill at an incline before she walks for 30 minutes.

Not even she realizes what a big deal that is.