A day after Del Monte Foods announced it is pulling out of Kingsburg, city officials are getting inquires about the processor's warehouse.

Firefighters quickly contained a tire fire southwest of Fresno this afternoon, a Fresno County Fire Department spokesman said.

The AMGEN Tour of California will be return to Central California today, and the California Highway Patrol will be managing road closures along the race course to provide safety and security to race participants as well as the public.

Eight Valley non-profit agencies today received their share of $200,000 in grants from Walmart to help fight hunger. The ceremony took place at Community Food Bank in Fresno.

A 20-year-old man is in custody in connection with an April bank robbery in Fresno.

ABC is looking with the new lineup for the 2012-2013 season to continue the winning ways it found with its 2011-2012 TV season when it launched five successful shows. This season, the network will add five new programs to the lineup -- two comedies and three dramas.

Fresno officers collected two handguns from drivers with suspended licenses Monday in separate incidents, according to police reports.

An 8 1/2-month-old child was hurt Monday when he crawled through a car window and hit his head after being left unattended by his father at a Bass Lake picnic area, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said.

Nancy Hinds, the founder and president/CEO of Hinds Hospice, is stepping down to assume other duties, the hospice's board of directors announced Monday.

An arrest warrant for murder has been issued in the disappearance of Sammy Mercado, the Sanger teenager who was attempting to steal marijuana from an outdoor growing site last month, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

California Business for Education Excellence has named 54 Valley schools to its honor roll this year.

San Francisco-based Del Monte Foods is closing its Kingsburg plant after this season as it consolidates its peach processing operations into one plant in Modesto.

California's sputtering economic recovery is putting a heavier-than-expected drag on state tax revenue, leading Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday to propose deep budget cuts across an array of government services and warn again that even more cuts are ahead if voters reject his tax-hike initiative in November.

A man fatally shot Wednesday in Tulare was identified as Leonardo Martinez, 23, of Tulare, police said Monday.

Part of the Internal Revenue Service customer service center in southeast Fresno was evacuated Monday morning after envelopes with a powdery substance were found.

One man was injured in a drive-by shooting near downtown Fresno Sunday night, police said.

Hall of Fame coach Margie Wright and her Fresno State softball team will not get to make a final run in the NCAA Tournament.

One person was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Pixley early Sunday, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said.

An 18-year-old man was found shot to death in north Merced Sunday morning, police said.

The Fresno Fire Department is investigating two structure fires that occurred within one hour of each other on Saturday night.

A Salinas man whose body was found Wednesday morning in a walnut orchard near Farmersville bled to death, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said.

Four Clovis fishermen who got lost Saturday while hiking back to camp from Upper Twin Lake, in the Kaiser Wilderness, were found early this morning by the Fresno County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team.

The Fresno County Coroner's Office has identified the man found shot to death Friday in southwest Fresno. He is George Gowanlock, 52.

The Selma woman who died in a mobile home fire on Saturday morning has been identified.

Brian Doyle recently tossed out a Dumpster's worth of marijuana plants for fear of being raided by the Fresno County sheriff. He calls it a loss of good medicine.

The Fresno City College baseball team rebounded from a huge loss, then held off Merced College on Saturday to advance to the Northern California Super Regional finals in Quincy.

Two suspects are in custody on suspicion of stabbing an 18-year-old man early today in Visalia, police said.

Clovis West and El Diamante high schools -- the cream of the Central Section crop all season -- were awarded top seeds Saturday for the Division I baseball and softball playoffs.

Fresno State lost 8-3 to Brigham Young on Saturday in the Western Athletic Conference softball tournament championship game in Las Cruces, N.M.

A electrical problem is believed to be the cause of a fire that killed a woman in her Selma mobile home this morning, Fire Chief Michael Kain said.

Nine people were arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated in Fresno and Visalia on Friday night and early Saturday.

A man was found shot to death Friday afternoon in a house across the street from the Southwest Fresno police substation.

Mariposa residents were heartbroken Saturday over the loss of a popular pizza restaurant and six other businesses in a historic building that was left in smoldering ruins. A Friday night fire leveled the structure that housed the Mariposa Pizza Factory on Fifth Street, near Highway 140.

With their two wins today, the Bulldogs advanced to the championship round against Brigham Young. Fresno State will need to defeat the Cougars twice Saturday to win the tournament -- and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The first game Saturday starts at 1 p.m.

Six weeks after breaking his leg, Levi Leipheimer will be at the start line for the Amgen Tour of California. But the three-time champion admitted today he’s in no condition to challenge for an overall victory.

Controversial judging cost Avenal boxer Jose Ramirez on Thursday in his 132-pound semifinal at the AIBA Americas Qualifying Event in Rio de Janeiro. The loss has no bearing on Ramirez’s Olympic bid. With his quarterfinal victory Wednesday, he earned a spot to represent Team USA in the Summer Olympics.

Six people were hurt, one with major injuries, in a collision late this morning near Visalia, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Three people were hurt in a collision this afternoon in southeast Fresno.

Decades after a heart condition forced him to retire from racing, Carroll Shelby still loved to drive muscle cars. Well into his 80s, the legendary car designer spent hours testing his last Mustang Shelby GT500, which sets a new record for horsepower and hits a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour.

The California Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal collision between a tractor and a train Friday morning near Alpaugh.

If the former juvenile boot camp near Caruthers is to serve as the area's temporary animal-control center, its distance from Fresno could cause problems for people looking to drop off stray animals. That concern had the new animal-control task force talking Friday about possible satellite centers, including a vacant animal kennel in east-central Fresno and city and county fire stations.

A Fresno birth nurse chosen as 2012 Mother of the Year by the Fresno County Women's Chamber of Commerce will be honored at a luncheon today.

Two people were stranded on an island in the San Joaquin River after their canoe tipped over Friday morning near Friant.

A hit-and-run collision early Friday left two people injured in southwest Fresno, police said.

Vonnie Martin slugged a solo homer in the eighth, her second of the game, and the Fresno State softball team edged San Jose State 4-3 tonight to stay alive at the Western Athletic Conference tournament in Las Cruces, N.M.

Copper wire thieves are keeping AT&T workers busy repairing lines in four more Fresno County areas where phone and Internet service may have been disrupted for as many as 875 customers, the communications company said.

For the second time in six months, products from a dairy near Kerman are being recalled because of concerns over bacterial contamination.

A 17-year-old boy was seriously injured in an Orosi shooting Wednesday night and two others, including a 7-year-old girl, also were injured, according to the Tulare County Sheriff's Department.

Fresno police detectives are looking for a suspect in Tuesday's shooting at a homeless encampment near downtown.