Food left on a stove triggered a fire Thursday morning that caused an estimated $50,000 worth of damage to a central Fresno restaurant.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Former Kingsburg High star Tyler Bray was one of several Volunteers trying to impress Wednesday at Tennessee's Pro Day event.

The President revealed Wednesday that he has picked Cal as one of his Final Four women's basketball teams for the NCAA Tournament.

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 Fresno County judge delayed for two weeks an arraignment for the parents and sister of Spencer Scarber on charges of allegedly helping the convicted rapist escape to Mexico.

WASHINGTON -- A top Department of Veterans Affairs official told a congressional committee Wednesday that the agency's decision to temporarily shutter and retrain staff at its troubled Oakland office proved so successful that it has employed the same tactics to speed the delivery of benefits to disabled veterans in Los Angeles and Baltimore.

The Fresno Police Department's auto theft unit arrested 18 people over the last three days on suspicion of stealing vehicles, said Sgt. Tim Tiejten.

Nearly a dozen burly raisin growers watched intently Wednesday as Supreme Court justices struggled to figure out how their industry works.

Authorities are looking for a 19-year-old man wanted for questioning in three recent arson fires at two Fresno markets that are believed to be gang-related.

Visalia property owners voted to keep a monthly fee and apply it to maintaining the city's storm water drainage system, officials said Wednesday.

Police arrested a 17-year-old Corcoran High School male student Tuesday on suspicion of sending out threats on Twitter to kill teachers and shoot up the school.

Because the murder of a farmworker sleeping in his car was gang-related, a Fresno man will face a longer prison term, a Fresno County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday.

An 18-year-old Coarsegold man was arrested Tuesday after brandishing a replica handgun at a school bus stop as he rode past in a car, prompting the lockdown of a campus, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

Two H&R Block customers have sued the company over its recent tax filing mistakes that are delaying thousands of refunds.

A fire that started in a garage caused about $300,000 in damages to a home in Visalia late Tuesday night, the Fire Department said.

A 17-year-old boy seeking treatment for cuts to his hand was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of burglary at a Hanford home where blood was found near a shattered sliding glass door, police said.

Fresno police officers arrested a 44-year-old parolee who allegedly was driving a stolen car and had a loaded Glock handgun in a holster on his belt.

Fresno police on Tuesday arrested a man -- a 51-year-old with two DUI convictions -- on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after his SUV allegedly rear-ended another vehicle at a stop light, struck a mailbox and hit a fence.

The Tulare County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a 45-day moratorium prohibiting the expansion of medical marijuana collectives or the opening of new ones, county officials said.

Navy brass and civilian officials gathered here Tuesday to answer the public's questions about a recommendation to bring a new generation of fighter jet to Lemoore Naval Air Station. But those who attended came largely to cheer the recommendation, not quibble with it.

The first of two open-house workshops on high-speed rail options in the Chowchilla area will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the Galilee Baptist Church in Fairmead.

Steve Salomon, who has served as Visalia city manager since 1996, said he will retire this fall.

New facts about convicted rapist Spencer Scarber's escape to Mexico surfaced in a felony criminal complaint that names his parents and sister and was filed Tuesday in Fresno County Superior Court.

The Central California Blood Center will hold a series of blood drives across the San Joaquin Valley starting Sunday.

Concerned about broken promises of assistance for the nation's veterans, the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs called Tuesday for the head of the agency's benefits administration to resign.

A 13-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of shooting a flare gun into a home in Visalia last week in an incident that police said was gang-related.

A distraught 16-year-old Visalia girl was arrested Tuesday after firing an airgun into the ground as police surrounded her, Visalia police said.

Five Fresno and Tulare county residents are among 37 defendants accused of taking part in a nationwide marijuana and cigarette trafficking ring, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in New York.

Two passengers killed in a solo vehicle crash Saturday east of Hanford were identified by the Kings County coroner as Maria Maldonado, 49, and Julian Maldonado, 90, both of Armona.

A Crips gang member who police said was driving a car stolen Tuesday morning was taken into custody that afternoon in central Fresno.

A day after he withdrew his guilty plea in the Dystiny Myers murder case, Cody Lane Miller of Fresno entered another one Tuesday -- this time for a longer prison term.

Leaders from across Fresno and Madera counties pledged Tuesday to cool their long-standing feud over how the region should grow, but only after hours of debate showed that a détente won't come easy.

A little more than two months ago, Bakersfield Democrat Leticia Perez was sworn in to her first term on the Kern County Board of Supervisors.

About 800 families received food and home supplies Tuesday morning in an effort to feed the needy organized by Fresno's Cornerstone Church.

A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a collision with a car Monday morning near Porterville, the California Highway Patrol reported.

10:50 p.m.: A power outage caused by a single vehicle car accident on Chestnut north of Barstow Avenue earlier Tuesday morning left parts of the University Farm Laboratory in the dark, including the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market, according to Fresno State.

An urban hunter was detained by police early Tuesday in central Fresno after alarmed residents reported a man was firing a shotgun.

A long-running Sierra Nevada forest planning dispute will now be settled by the Supreme Court in what could shape up as a crucial public lands case.

Federal prosecutors said Monday they intend to retry a Fresno police sergeant and three former officers for brutality and obstruction of justice after a jury was pronounced hung in the case last month.

A $35,000 report commissioned by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office tells local leaders something they already know: the county jail fails to meet demand, and the situation is only going to get worse.

A proposal to base F-35C fighter jets at Lemoore Naval Air Station beginning in 2017 is the topic of a public meeting Tuesday in Lemoore.

Fresno police arrested an 18-year-old man and his 21-year-old sister on Saturday when they returned to a southeast Fresno market to buy cigarettes just hours after allegedly shooting someone at the same location.

More than 300 people eagerly waited for the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market at Fresno State to open Monday — and it wasn’t for the famed sweet corn. This crowd of school officials, students, benefactors and loyal customers gathered to celebrate the grand opening of a new 4,800-square-foot store.

Fresno State has been waiting for this, a chance to return to the Women's NCAA Tournament.

Police recovered a luxury sports car and another stolen vehicle and arrested four people after a burglary Monday in southeast Fresno.

About two dozen people -- including members of Kings County's grassroots opposition group Citizens for California High-Speed Rail Accountability -- on Monday crammed into a conference room in the downtown Fresno office of developer Tom Richards, who is one of the authority board's vice chairpersons, for a teleconference that originated from the state Treasurer's Office in Sacramento.

Kings County Supervisor Richard Valle said he will not seek election to the state Senate.

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a Fresno State fraternity because of a hazing incident that led to a 18-year-old pledge Philip Dhanens' alcohol-related death last year.

Fresno police arrested 14 people on charges of driving under the influence at a sobriety checkpoint Sunday night in northeast Fresno.