Miranda Rae Mayo always knew she wanted to act. That’s why as soon as she graduated from Roosevelt High School, the Clovis native packed her bags and moved in with a cousin in Riverside. When pressured to start taking some college classes, Mayo made a bet with her cousin: She would get an agent, manager [...]

The buzz has begun for the 100th Clovis Rodeo in 2014. “It will be a blowout like never before here,” veteran public address announcer Wayne Brooks trumpeted Sunday near the close of the 99th event. A five-day ticket sales window for next year’s rodeo opens today — an unprecedented advance move by rodeo officials. Sheena [...]

Investigators with the Contractors State License Board hit the jackpot of sorts, catching a man on Nevada’s Most Wanted illegal contracting list and a registered sex offender among the 17 suspects cited during sting operations in Coarsegold. State board employees worked with the Madera County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies on April 18 and April [...]

Selma mortician George Page learned the family business from his undertaker father, Frank Page. Every day, he wore a dark suit and tie with polished dress shoes, and for more than five decades, he met with grieving families, often comforting them at their homes. He embalmed bodies and put makeup on the dead to give [...]

It’s nighttime and I’m peddling hard down Van Ness Avenue. As I come up from the underpass that leads to Fresno’s Christmas Tree Lane, I kick my feet off the pedals, lean back some and just drift. The holiday lights are gone and there’s no moon, just the darkness and breeze and the occasional mist [...]

Dustin Lynch is a rising country-music star, with two hit singles and a self-titled album that debuted at No. 1 on the country charts. There’s little doubt the Tennessee native will get an energetic response tonight at the 99th Clovis Rodeo. Especially given the reaction he received in August when he was in town to [...]