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• FUSD workshops help students sign up for financial aid, DREAM Act

  FUSD workshops help students sign up for financial aid, DREAM Act

  Fresno Unified School District students and families can get free help signing up for student aid and the DREAM Act beginning at a workshop from 5-8 p.m. Friday at Manchester Mall.

  The workshop will be at the adult school computer lab 2 in the mall at 1901 E. Shields Ave.

  Many qualified students fail to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid applicaton. Fresno Unified was selected in 2011 by the Department of Education as one of 20 sites nationwide to be a FAFSA Pilot Completion District. The pilot program aims at increasing the rate of students who successfully complete their financial aid applications.

• Duchess: Hoping for baby boy, William wants girl

  Duchess: Hoping for baby boy, William wants girl

  The Duchess of Cambridge said Sunday that she doesn't know the sex of her first child - but she hopes it's a boy.

• Break up biggest banks

  Break up biggest banks

  Recently Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference, saying the biggest Wall Street banks must be broken up because they're too big to fail and too big to jail -- echoing a rising conviction on the right and the left of the political spectrum.

  I applaud him for having the fortitude to say that knowing it will bring great political pressure on him. In my opinion, the only way the biggest banks will be broken up is by the creation of a strong third party not beholden to the major financial institutions.

  Political movements in America have emerged over similar concerns. In 1901, Teddy Roosevelt's "progressive movement" emerged to (among other things) bust up the railroads, oil companies and other great concentrations of economic and political power. It can happen again.

• Vigil commemorates life of Martin Luther King Jr.

  Vigil commemorates life of Martin Luther King Jr.

  The 27th annual All Faiths Service and Candle Light Vigil -- which followed more than two hours of speeches, dances, singing and a keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. Robert Smith from Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Ala. -- commemorated the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Fresno native, judge honored on eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  Fresno native, judge honored on eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  The Fresno chapter of the nation's oldest black fraternity on Sunday celebrated the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic speech by honoring a Fresno native who is living her own dream of justice.