CLOVIS, Calif. – On June 14th, also known as Flag Day, Patty Dawson dropped her uncle off at the Fresno train station after a family visit, and headed for home around 2:30 p.m. What happened next she will never forget. Dawson said she was at a stop sign in the small town of Clovis when [...]

Washington State hasn’t played in a bowl since the 2003 season, but two players from the central San Joaquin Valley are out to change that this season. Junior quarterback Jeff Tuel (Clovis West High) and sophomore receiver Marquess Wilson (Tulare High) never met in high school, but they’ve meshed into a formidable duo in Pullman. [...]

A new tire and service center opened this month in Fresno, employing three generations of the McDonough family. Patrick McDonough, who was a manager at Blackstone Tire & Service until it went out of business last year, decided to start his own company, All American Tire. McDonough said his company offers to pick up customers [...]

Villyan Bijev, a local soccer star who recently graduated from Clovis North High, is turning pro. And Bijev isn’t signing with just any professional soccer team — but with Liverpool F.C. of the Premier League in Europe. Bijev, 18, signed a three-year deal Friday and passed a physical Saturday en route to joining one of [...]

Twice in the past four months, Valley police chases have turned deadly. On July 17, a panhandler at the Jensen Avenue offramp from Highway 99 was killed by a speeding car whose driver was fleeing officers. In April, three members of a Visalia family — a husband, his wife, and their 17-year-old son — were [...]

It’s getting harder to go anywhere in the Valley without running into a film crew. Over at the KMPH studios last week, movie director Matt Sconce had taken over a control room. He was coaching Channel 26.1 anchor and part-time actor Kopi Sotiropulos on how to say “What a great day” with just the right [...]