The shooting happened at 3:40 a.m. near Abby Street and Blackstone Avenue. According to police, the man, identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office as Albert Sanchez, 29, was pounding on the roof of a driver's car when an officer arrived and got out of his patrol car. 02/10/12 12:57:21 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2717666/fresno-man-arrested-in-shooting.html A Fresno man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his brother-in-law in Clovis last year, police said today.

Tyrone Parker, 22, is accused of killing Dewayne Young on March 20 after a disturbance at a family gathering, police said. Young's body was found in the road in the 3000 block of Ezie Avenue, in the Tarpey Village area south of Gettysburg Avenue and west of Fowler Avenue. 02/10/12 16:18:01 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2717667/visalia-man-dies-in-motorcycle.html A man died this morning in Visalia when his motorcycle hit a curb, causing him to crash, police said.

Michael Kinser, 27, of Visalia was riding south on Ben Maddox Way just south of Noble Avenue when the accident happened about 8:40 a.m., police said. 02/10/12 16:19:22 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2717685/fresno-jailer-accused-of-sex-with.html A warrant was issued today for the arrest of a former Fresno County Jail correctional officer on suspicion of having sexual contact with a female inmate.

A criminal complaint charges Akinsoji Okin with two misdemeanor counts of engaging in sexual activity with a consenting inmate. If convicted, he faces up to a year in custody and a fine. 02/10/12 16:29:51 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2717485/work-on-california-water-bill.html Controlling California water can seem like a covert affair on Capitol Hill. If you're not in the club, you're left in the dark.

Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, have been quietly overseeing the rewrite of a huge California water bill since last summer. The bill could shape everything from the San Joaquin River to Sacramento Valley water deliveries. But despite the broad-based impact, Democrats feel shut out. 02/10/12 13:19:01 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2715851/hundreds-pack-meeting-for-vote.html Hundreds packed into a standing-room-only hearing Thursday to have their say on a decision on whether to mine Jesse Morrow Mountain. That decision, however, never came.

After hours of public comment, mostly against the proposed 100-acre rock quarry in the Sierra foothills, the Fresno County Planning Commission postponed its vote. Commissioners did not want to rush a verdict before the meeting's scheduled 5 p.m. finish. 02/09/12 22:22:32 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2717485/work-on-california-water-bill.html Controlling California water can seem like a covert affair on Capitol Hill. If you're not in the club, you're left in the dark.

Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, have been quietly overseeing the rewrite of a huge California water bill since last summer. The bill could shape everything from the San Joaquin River to Sacramento Valley water deliveries. But despite the broad-based impact, Democrats feel shut out. 02/10/12 13:19:01 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2716220/couple-loses-suit-against-fresno.html After being on the losing end of some costly civil cases, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer finally got to enjoy a victory lap Thursday when a jury rejected a couple's claim that they were unfairly forced to resign from the Police Department.

"I am grateful and thankful by the outcome of this verdict," Dyer said outside Fresno County Superior Court. "I'm glad this trial is behind us." 02/09/12 22:17:40 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2716370/clovis-teacher-indicted-for-porn.html The family of the girl Clovis schoolteacher Neng Yang is accused of molesting has retained Fresno attorney Warren Paboojian.

"We're all hoping this little girl gets justice," Paboojian said Thursday. 02/09/12 22:44:44 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2716714/more-than-750m-could-be-headed.html Distressed homeowners in the central San Joaquin Valley could reap more than $750 million in benefits from the multistate foreclosure settlement announced Thursday, the state Attorney General's office said.

The settlement is good news for Valley homeowners fighting foreclosure, but it remains to be seen how the plan will be carried out, say Fresno housing experts. 02/09/12 22:26:44 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2716661/moore-bulldogs-slam-way-to-softball.html Before Courtney Moore's grand slam would make a difference Thursday night, the senior designated player and most of her teammates had to be reminded of something important in Fresno State's softball season opener.

Settle down and relax. 02/09/12 23:46:47 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2716580/fresno-state-san-jose-in-double.html SAN JOSE -- They had recovered. Beaten at the defensive end and down early, Fresno State started to crush possessions Thursday night, holding San Jose State to two baskets over 12 minutes and without a single bucket for more than 8 to get a lead.

But the Bulldogs came up empty on five consecutive crucial possessions inside the final 5 minutes of regulation, allowing the Spartans to take the Western Athletic Conference men's basketball game into overtime. 02/10/12 00:00:40 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2716775/central-valley-christians-verhoeven.html HANFORD -- They sat in their country home west of town one evening this week, looked each other in the eye and disagreed on who won their last one-on-one basketball game two years ago.

"I did," says Pete Verhoeven, the father. 02/10/12 00:07:03 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2716753/soccer-coach-rick-martinez-concludes.html The first soccer team Rick Martinez coached at Memorial High in 1984 featured Liz Ostdiek.

The last regular-season game Martinez coached for the Panthers -- a 2-1 County/Metro Athletic Conference loss to Edison on Thursday -- featured Ostdiek's son, Jack DeMera. 02/09/12 23:40:32 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2716776/madera-boys-clinch-trac-in-coccer.html MADERA -- Victor Anaya spends most of his time keeping goals off the board.

But the senior defender's first goal of the season propelled Madera High's boys soccer team to its first league title in 11 years and set the Coyotes up for a likely top-3 seed in the Central Section Division I playoffs. 02/10/12 00:09:57 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2717965/valley-wine-grapes-in-demand.html A smaller crop and growing demand helped boost the value of central San Joaquin Valley wine grapes last year, state statistics show.

Wine industry analysts say Valley grapes have been in demand by the state's wineries as consumers increasingly turn to value-priced wines, a market dominated by the region's wine grape growers. 02/10/12 20:22:03 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/10/2717599/fresno-paper-company-adds-division.html A Fresno paper company has purchased a Mexican division of a U.S. company, a deal that will add about 12 Fresno jobs to the Valley firm.

Paper, Pulp and Film's acquisition of Reliable Packaging will give the Fresno company a full line of paper dry-cleaning products, company president Tal Cloud said. 02/10/12 14:55:49 http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/09/2716054/farmers-still-fighting-for-immigrant.html WASHINGTON -- California and Southern farmers renewed their case Thursday for some kind of an agricultural guest-worker program, but they're sailing against the wind.

Make that a hurricane. 02/09/12 14:03:26