Fresno State's baseball team kept alive its hopes for a Western Athletic Conference tournament championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament, rallying past Sacramento State 9-6 and Louisiana Tech 6-4 Saturday in Mesa, Ariz.

A small private plane landing at Fresno Yosemite International Airport sustained minor damage when its nose gear collasped on Saturday, an airport spokeswoman said.

Fire crews on Saturday were monitoring hot spots at a grass fire that burned about 42 acres Friday near Coalinga, a Cal Fire spokesman said.

A couple who died May 20 after they were unable to escape from their burning home in Orange Cove have been identified.

A Merced County man who died Sunday after his truck hit a concrete bridge abutment, overturned and caught fire in Fresno County has been identified.

The Fresno County Coroner's Office is trying to locate the family of a Fresno woman who died Thursday.

Six people were arrested late Friday night on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a 19-year-old man in Visalia, police said.

Six people were arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated at sobriety checkpoints in Fresno and Visalia on Friday night and early Saturday.

Fresno firefighters fought a large vegetation fire at an abandoned golf course in east-central Fresno on Friday night, Capt. Paul Garnier said.

Holiday travelers will be getting relief as rain and wind are expected to subside across the state by Memorial Day.

Fresno County officials say deep cuts to public services may be a thing of the past, releasing on Friday a $1.8 billion budget plan for the coming fiscal year that represents a 7% increase in spending. Much of the increase merely offsets rising costs, such as an unrelenting employee retirement bill. But the proposed budget, which kicks in July 1, ensures that most programs -- from public safety to public works -- remain intact. Some will even begin to rebuild after years of losses.

Seven Fresno County courthouses outside the city of Fresno will close this summer, and court employees will be asked to take a 10% pay cut or early retirement to help bail out the state's financial mess.

A jury convicted a Corcoran man of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife, the Kings County District Attorney's Office said Friday.

A man riding a motorized scooter who was struck and killed by a garbage truck Monday in Porterville has been identified.

A 4-year-old girl who died after a car crash Monday in Tulare has been identified.

Fresno police are looking for a suspect in the shooting death of a man west of Highway 99 last month.

A Hanford woman was arrested on suspicion of beating her four adopted children with a belt and holding at least one's head under water, the Kings County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

A Parlier man, who intended to shoot a dog that was nipping at his leg but instead fatally shot his sister in front of relatives last year, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison. Jesus Nunez, 38, told his family who gathered in Fresno County Superior Court that he was sorry for shooting Leticia Casa, 40, outside the family home on Cypress Avenue in Parlier.

A 44-year-old Clovis man was arrested Friday on suspicion of possessing child pornography videos, police said.

A bull that was running around in southwest Fresno Friday morning has been caught.

Police said a 26-year-old gang member was arrested Thursday after officers found a .22 Ruger rifle, a high-capacity magazine and crystal methamphetamine at the suspect’s southeast Fresno home.

A 22-year-old Fresno man was arrested early Friday on suspicion of stealing a restored 1951 Chevrolet truck after crashing the pickup with police in pursuit.

Students, school administrators and community members honored Dr. Floyd B. Buchanan on Thursday by unveiling a life-size bronze statue of him installed at Buchanan High.

A small plane carrying a man and a girl crashed Thursday in a farm field in southwest Tulare County, but both got out alive.

Carlos Salazar allowed one hit over 6 2/3 shutout innings while striking out 14 to power top-seeded Kerman past No. 2 and defending champion Bakersfield Christian 2-0 on Thursday in the Central Section Division IV baseball final.

Fresno State faculty members gathered Thursday to express dismay and confusion over the university's decision to chop down 160 mature trees to make room for 600 more parking spaces on the east side of campus.

Dave Childers, executive director of the Fresno Academy for Civic and Entrepreneurial Leadership, is leaving the charter high school to become Coordinator of Leadership Development at the Merced County Office of Education.

A mother who pushed her 2-year-old son out of the way of a big rig was injured Thursday when she was run over by the truck in downtown Fresno.

The National Weather Service says an abnormally cool low pressure system is moving into the central San Joaquin Valley for the start of the Memorial Day weekend, bringing a chance of showers.

City Hall needs to dispel the "Fresno Factor" -- the poor working relationship between the construction industry and Fresno's Public Works Department on city projects, according to a Fresno County grand jury report released Thursday.

A man who answered a knock on his motel room door with a crack pipe in one hand and a handgun in the other realized it was not a social call when he was confronted by police officers Thursday in central Fresno.

Fresno State opened the Western Athletic Conference baseball tournament today with an 8-2 victory against Hawaii in Mesa, Ariz. Bulldogs sophomore Aaron Judge went 4 for 5 with a run and an RBI and senior Tom Harlan picked up the win after scattering eight hits while allowing two runs in 6.1 innings.

Clovis Unified School District trustees Wednesday night promoted Eimear O'Farrell to principal of Clovis West High School.

The Madera County Sheriff's Department is asking the public's help in identifying a man who died in a hit-and-run crash Sunday.

Fresno police said today a woman believed to have been with two men suspected in the fatal shooting of another man early Saturday was not involved in the homicide.

Mechanical failure is believed to have caused a driver to lose control of a vehicle this afternoon and crash into a southeast Fresno home, breaking a gas meter and creating a leak, police said.

A Madera man was arrested this afternoon on suspicion of molesting a 9-year-old, and sheriff's detectives believe there may be more victims.

Former Madera County Supervisor Harry Baker will stand trial on a felony molestation charge involving a 13-year-old girl who secretly recorded Baker allegedly fondling her in a Fresno motel five years ago.

A five-mile section of Reed Avenue north of Reedley was dedicated Wednesday morning to the memory of Reedley Police Corporal Javier Bejar, who was killed on duty in February 2010.

A man who died after apparently falling into a canal while riding his bicycle Thursday was identified by the Fresno County Coroner as Luis Orozco, 31, of Fresno.

The California Highway Patrol says alcohol may have played a part in the one-car crash in Madera County in which one man died.

A woman killed in a rollover crash west of Tulare this morning has been identified.

The California Highway Patrol helicopter based in Fresno helped rescue a climber who fell off a peak in the eastern Sierra this week.

A 24-year-old Porterville-area woman was arrested Tuesday on child endangerment charges in a case of a graduation present gone bad.

Fresno police investigating the sale of parts from a Corvette being sold on the Internet arrested two men Tuesday afternoon in northwest Fresno.

Justin Bieber will bring his "Believe" tour to Fresno's Save Mart Center on Oct. 5. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. June 2. Fresno is the fifth stop on Bieber's tour.

Visalia police are investigating a shooting that occurred Tuesday near Oval Park.

Fresno police have arrested one man and are looking for a second suspect in the shooting death of another man early Saturday in the parking lot of a bar west of Highway 99.

A 2-year-old boy died in a fire at a south Merced apartment complex Tuesday morning, Merced police said.