The 6-year-old northeast Fresno girl who was accidentally shot and killed Sunday morning by her toddler brother is survived by six brothers and sisters, her father said Monday. Jason Lavender of Clovis said he wasn’t yet ready to talk about his daughter Emily, a first-grader at Maple Creek Elementary School. Emily was identified Monday afternoon [...]

A Trustee of the California State University will keynote the Graduation Month Dinner at the oldest Armenian Church in the Golden State. Dr. Peter G. Mehas will address members and friends of Fresno’s First Armenian Presbyterian Church Men’s Fellowship on Tuesday evening, June 14, 2011. The dinner will take place at the FAPC Fellowship Hall, [...]

Mark Tennis, editor of Cal-Hi Sports and an employee of ESPN, stood in admiration Friday night at Buchanan High and talked about the school’s house of national champions. He was certain that the Bears’ 30-2 baseball team will maintain their ESPN RISE No. 1 national ranking following a 9-3 Central Section Division I championship win [...]

The Clovis Sidekicks, a second-year Women’s Premier Soccer League club, dropped their first game of the season 1-0 to the North Bay FC Wave on Sunday in Larkspur. The Sidekicks (2-1 overall, 0-1 in the Pacific North Division) held the Wave scoreless into the 87th minute. Boxers score victories Valley boxers Jose Ramirez and Michael [...]

A 6-year-old girl died after she was accidentally shot by her 2-year-old brother Sunday in northeast Fresno. The shooting took place in a quiet neighborhood on the 8500 block of North Boyd Avenue, where Fresno police Sgt. Stephen Viveros said the girl was playing with two other siblings in a bedroom of the family’s home. [...]

Question: In the 1940s, my late cousin, Mike Pentimone, came to Fresno from New Jersey and opened the Italian Kitchen at Palm and Olive avenues. He owned it for a only few years before moving back home, but the family has always believed it was the first pizzeria in Fresno. Was it? – Ann Goodwin, [...]