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Data includes employees with a 2011 gross pay of $17,000 or more at Fresno State; the State Center, West Hills, Kern and College of the Sequoias community college districts; and all unified and high school districts in Fresno, Kings, Madera and Tulare counties

Junior Villarreal, once an earnest high school freshman with a passion for history and baseball, missed hundreds of classes at two Fresno campuses. Last March, he was fatally stabbed a few blocks from Sunnyside High.

Residents of west Goshen again have running water to their homes but are being told not to drink it until bacteria levels go down.

What was once called a "spaghetti bowl" of 14 potential high-speed rail routes in and around Chowchilla has been narrowed to four, and residents got their first close-up look at how their town could be affected in a workshop Wednesday.

A recent letter stated that the value of a person's vote should depend on the perceived value of that individual to society, with a productive working member getting a whole vote and an unproductive citizen receiving only three-quarters of a vote.

The San Joaquin River restoration has hit a strange snag -- a vast area of swiftly sinking farmland. It means the much-heralded return of salmon runs to the state's second-longest river will wait a little longer.

In the depths of the Great Depression, a pair of restaurateurs and a visionary young architect produced a landmark eatery that lit up downtown Fresno.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office has been providing property owners in a Fig Garden neighborhood extra deputies and added firepower at a cut rate, according to county financial statements.