Fresno police are still seeking a man suspected of shooting Sunday night a man who later died.

Madera County officials are asking for help in finding relatives of a Madera man who died last week.

A 59-year-old security guard died early Friday after he was beaten while investigating a disturbance Thursday night at an east-central Fresno apartment complex.

2:30 p.m.: Highway 41 has been cleared from a series of collisions that caused backups from Ashlan Avenue to the northbound Highway 41 transition from Highway 180. There were no injuries in the main crash, which occurred near the Ashland exit about 12:30 p.m., the California Highway Patrol said.

The Cleveland Indians put infielder Jason Donald on their 40-man roster this morning, protecting the former Buchanan High star in advance of next month's Rule 5 Draft.

Fresno County's unemployment rate surged in October as raisin and almond harvests came to an end, cutting off work for thousands -- and making an already bleak job market even worse.

A man who Fresno police say tried to rob a store owner early Friday in Chinatown is in Fresno County Jail.

A commercial bus was destroyed by fire Thursday night near Highway 99 and Avenue 280, the Tulare County Fire Department reported. No one was injured.

A weak storm front is expected to roll into the central San Joaquin Valley today, bringing a slight chance of showers.

SACRAMENTO -- Pay for California's top elected officials will be slashed by 18% next month, one year earlier than expected, to abide by an opinion Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown.

San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second straight year, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honor to become the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson.

With nearly every ticket for the Thursday midnight showings of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" in Fresno and Clovis sold out, local theater managers scrambled to add last-minute screenings to meet the demand.

Fresno businessman Krikor "Kirk" Vartanian paid a brief visit to a Las Vegas jail this week in what his lawyer described as an effort to clear up a gambling debt.

A 28-year-old Kings County man was arrested on suspicion of murder after charred human remains were found Wednesday in a barn housing an indoor marijuana operation that was destroyed by fire, law enforcement officials said.