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Fresno County Jail forces cheap meds

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:09:25 PDT

Fresno County Jail's health manager has found a way to cut drug costs by $70,000 a month or more, winning praise from corrections officials around the state. Read comments

Fresno ranked greenest in Valley

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:48:50 PDT

Out of 100 Central Valley cities, Fresno has the greenest ideas for growth over the next three decades, says a groundbreaking study by the University of California at Davis. Read comments

Fresno meeting to discuss medical school for Valley

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:06:58 PDT

Fresno County residents will have a chance to offer ideas and suggestions about plans for a medical school in Merced at a meeting Tuesday evening. Read comments

Local briefs: Kings River crowded

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:14:37 PDT

The cool water beckoned thousands to the Kings River on the Fourth of July -- creating challenges for the Fresno County Sheriff's Department boating unit. Read comments

Fowler family escapes home fire

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:13:20 PDT

A Fowler family of nine escaped injury Saturday afternoon when a fire that began in the garage spread into the attic, the kitchen, living room and a bedroom. Read comments

2,900 marijuana plants destroyed

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:10:26 PDT

More than 2,900 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of more than $11.6 million were eradicated Friday east of Orosi, according to the Tulare County Sheriff's Department. Read comments

Canal plan upsets delta farmers

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:42:54 PDT

CLARKSBURG -- Chuck Baker grows pears on land his family has worked since 1851 and has a farmer's sensitivity to the plagues of modern agriculture -- pesticide regulations, the intrusive hand of federal regulators, the threat to private property posed by wetlands restoration -- and, most of all, the need for water. Read comments

Aviators return to friends, family at Lemoore base

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:49:12 PDT

Plenty of red, white and blue emotions filled a hangar at Lemoore Naval Air Station on the eve of Independence Day as family and friends greeted about 50 aviators returning from a six-month deployment overseas. Read comments

Campus named for former Clovis Unified leader

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:50:23 PDT

As Clovis Unified Superintendent Terry Bradley left the district this week, he was honored as just one other Clovis superintendent -- Floyd "Doc" Buchanan -- has been recognized before: with the naming of a campus. Read comments

Madera County teen dies during basketball game

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:46:19 PDT

A 14-year-old Madera County boy who dreamed of playing pro basketball died Thursday after collapsing during a summer-league basketball game at a north Fresno high school. Read comments