If there’s one thing Leland Decker will teach you, it’s this. People who love to be around horses, they really love to be around horses. There’s no gray area. “My work is horses, my spare time is horses, my hobby is horses,” he says. His vacation is horses. “I don’t …
Read More »COVID-19 Vaccines Not Yet Reaching All Communities Who Need Them – Virus Update For Feb. 19, 2021
Early on in the pandemic, the state of California put an emphasis on equity in its pandemic response, requiring specific levels of testing and outreach in disadvantaged census tracts in order for counties to advance through the state’s reopening blueprint. Now, obstacles to vaccine access have introduced the potential for …
Read More »Ordered To Leave Their Homes, Creek Fire Evacuees Decide What Goes With Them
More than 30,000 people in Fresno County have had to leave their homes due to the Creek Fire. Sharon Souza is one of them. She left Tollhouse Tuesday morning, but spent the weekend deciding what items would stay and what would go. She says she tried to be practical rather …
Read More »Healthcare Wastes Tons Of Usable Supplies—And This Clovis Organization Takes Them
In a loading dock in northeast Fresno, two men pull up to the warehouse at Saint Agnes Medical Center in a white moving van. They meet a contract coordinator with the hospital named Heather Ritter, who pulls out a clipboard and asks them to sign a form. “As is, no …
Read More »Work And College: Students Take On Both, But Research Says That’s Putting Them Behind
College has become more expensive over the years, but students have managed by taking out loans or working in addition to their studies. Recent reporting from Larry Gordon at Edsource, an online media outlet that focuses on education in California, says that working too many hours can make it even …
Read More »They broke into a Merced County store, deputies say. CHP chased them to Sacramento
An interrupted burglary at a drug store in Planada turned into a pursuit from Merced County to Sacramento, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday. A burglary alarm at San Joaquin Drug … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced has new public speech rules. You break them, it’s a misdemeanor
Merced City Council adopted decorum rules for council meetings this week that leaders say will protect speech, but detractors say are a roadblock to public input. The council approved making … Click to Continue »
Read More »Hurricane Maria stripped Puerto Rico’s forests bare. Now conservationists and scientists are working to replenish them
When Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico last September, the physical destruction was not limited to houses, buildings, the electricity grid and other infrastructure. The storm also toppled or stripped … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced benches may be coming back. Would they bring the homeless with them?
It’s coming up on four years since the city of Merced removed several benches from Bob Hart Square to shoo away homeless people, and now the benches may be coming … Click to Continue »
Read More »Lionfish-killing contests help control them, study claims
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – They are festive killing sprees, contests among divers armed with spears and nets to catch the biggest haul of venomous, non-native fish that have colonized South … Click to Continue »
Read More »Watch as Madera police pursue ATV driver who ran red light in front of them
The driver of a quad ATV who led police on a low-speed chase Friday after running a red light and stop sign was caught after he crashed in a field, … Click to Continue »
Read More »More workers say their bosses are threatening to have them deported
The deal the worker struck was simple: $ 150 a day to tile a bathroom and stucco the walls of a home in Arcadia. The pay was to come at the … Click to Continue »
Read More »Girls said a school aide was molesting them, but a teacher ‘believed none of it,’ lawsuit says
It was so bad for some girls at Perry Upper Elementary School in Perry, Oklahoma, that they would cry together in the bathroom and hide evidence of those tears with … Click to Continue »
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