Fresno State defeated Idaho 31-21 Saturday night at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho. The Bulldogs improve to 6-3, 5-1 in the WAC and play at Nevada next Saturday at 1 p.m.

It's Friday night and Week 9 of Central Section football. Check fresnobee.com tonight and every Friday during the season for scores and details from the action. Here are the Week 9 scores and stats.

The lawyer for the family of Joe Edwin Bowles, 25, of Tulare, who was shot and killed last month by a Porterville police detective working an anti-auto theft detail in Tulare, released details about the shooting at a news conference Friday in Tulare.

Steve Nelsen has increased his lead over incumbent Greg Collins in the Visalia City Council election, according to figures released Friday by the Tulare County Elections Division.

A 44-year-old woman was booked on suspicion of attempted murder Friday morning in connection with the stabbing of her boyfriend, the Madera County Sheriff's Department reported.

Madera County narcotics officers seized 8.2 pounds of black tar heroin worth $300,000 and arrested two men with ties to a Mexican drug cartel, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Friday.

A car was damaged by a Molotov cocktail early this morning in southeast Fresno, the Fresno Fire Department reported.

A police unit that targets southwest Fresno gangs arrested two men and a teen and seized several pounds of marijuana and a .357-caliber magnum handgun Thursday night.