The men and women in the Senior Stretch and Tone Class -- people who flew planes in World War II, danced rumbas and climbed Half Dome -- shuffle through simple aerobics. It's the most faithfully attended exercise class in the Clovis city recreation system.

KINGSBURG — People talk. That’s why a murder in this Swedish-themed town of about 11,000 has created two mysteries, not just one.

Dennis is selling a 2-year-old sleep apnea machine for $350. He'll throw in a humidifier.

Each year, letters to Santa -- scribbled and sealed tight (children really seem to like glue) -- arrive at local post offices.

SANGER -- Alex Gonzales, daughter of a pool hall owner, can't shoot pool. She doesn't even know how to rack the balls. Her father, Juan Enrique Gonzales, never felt a pool hall was a proper place for his daughters or his wife, Angela.

DINUBA -- Three signs in the short alley point the way to Pete's Shoe Repair. When you walk in the door there's Pete Hodian, 80, wearing a bright yellow hat that says "Pete's Shoe Repair," leaving no doubt that you found the place

Jim Simonian isn't the sort to sip pomegranate martinis, buff his skin with a pomegranate scrub or read the sort of magazines that would apprise him about Academy Award nominees getting Pom juice in their gift bags.

MARIPOSA -- Two young Germans passing through this mountain hamlet on their honeymoon entered "cinema" into their global positioning system.

A lot of numbers are floating around a packed, smoky Clovis Bingo Hall, and only some of them are coming from the bingo caller.

The setting sun is an orange stamp on a rice-paper sky. A late summer breeze rustles through 10-foot sugarcane tickling the stillness. A coat with Thai embroidery hangs inside an unoccupied shed fashioned from bamboo, cornhusks and a cardboard refrigerato

EL PORTAL -- It's late summer in this hamlet just outside the western border of Yosemite National Park.

Tinker to Evers to Chance. If you're a big-time baseball fan, those words probably mean something to you. If not, just know the names are synonymous with baseball's double play -- a study in multiple connections -- and that Fresno's link to baseball lore plays a role in this story of a lost baseball field and a rediscovered friendship.

At this hand-powered Madera County flower farm, bouquet colors don't match, potatoes show up among the zigzagging zinnias and the well just ran dry -- but that's a source of entertainment as well as alarm.

The driveway to Jensen's Armstrong Stables is a passageway into the country from the center of the city.

DUNLAP -- These Sierra foothills are home to a lot of things: cults, a cheetah refuge, church camps. Down the road, there's a Greek priest buried on a hill behind the domes and arches of a Byzantine-style monastery. A man eating lunch at the local di

The day after a story about Huntington Boulevard ran, the city of Fresno hustled out there to close down a shaved ice stand catering to neighborhood kids.

In a small, shingled 100-year-old farmhouse near Fowler, there lives a two-headed, bearded dragon lizard.