A Madera County correctional officer, who is the brother of a top Fresno police official, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Fresno County Superior Court to charges that include burglary and lying to police about being a carjacking victim. A criminal complaint charges Patrick Henry Foster, 43, of Fresno, with burglary, making a false report, fleeing [...]

Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of robbing a Clovis bank Wednesday morning. The Clovis man was taken into custody at an apartment complex on West Bullard Avenue about 11 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Following up on a tip, detectives went to the apartment complex and detained a man who was tossing into [...]

Neng Yang, the Clovis second-grade teacher who is facing a felony count of producing child pornography, was today denied release from the Fresno County Jail while his federal court case proceeds. In a short hearing in federal court, U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Beck ordered Yang held both because he was a danger to the community [...]

Clovis police have released photos of a man they say robbed a Bank of the West branch this morning. The bandit reportedly entered the bank at 200 Shaw Avenue about 9 a.m., showed a clerk a note that demanded cash and left with an undisclosed amount of money. The suspect is 5 feet, 6 inches [...]

Parents and staff of Freedom Elementary School in Clovis who were shocked to learn that second-grade teacher Neng Yang allegedly molested one of his students in his classroom faced a sobering question: What do we tell the kids? Parents can turn a difficult situation into a teaching moment, said Fresno clinical psychologist Thomas Granata. “It’s [...]

A man has been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run death of a man Saturday night in east-central Fresno, police said. Austin Jantz, 18, of Fresno faces charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, felony drunken driving and felony hit-and-run in the crash late Saturday night, police Lt. Tony Bennink said Tuesday. The dead man has [...]