“I was 16 the first time Gary Bettencourt molested me,” a victim of the former Los Banos High Schoolteacher said during an impact statement delivered at a sentencing hearing Friday. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Ex-Livingston police officer sentenced to 3 months jail
Tyson Perry, a now former Livingston police officer, was sentenced Thursday to serve three months in jail for assaulting a handcuffed man in 2012, according to the Merced County District … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced sees 10 straight months of manufacturing job growth
April’s jobless rate down slightly from last year and from March County’s unemployment rate still double the state and national averages … Click to Continue »
Read More »Couple is sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling sea turtle eggs from Mexico
A Southern California couple has been sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling more than 900 endangered sea turtle eggs into the United States from Mexico, the U.S. attorney’s office said. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced tallies nine straight months of new manufacturing jobs
March unemployment rate fell 1 percent compared with March 2015 Manufacturing and government sectors added 2,100 total jobs County jobless rate still more than double the state average … Click to Continue »
Read More »18-year-old shot after first OIS in more than 7 months
It’s the first officer-involved shooting of 2015 in Fresno, and it’s a complex investigation involving two guns at the scene and four total shots fired. Police say it all started with a domestic dispute and are still trying to determine who actually fired the wounding shot.
Read More »Local Food Pantry Burglarized Twice In Six Months
A Valley food pantry now asking for help after it’s storage supply was broken into over the weekend. Three Rivers Bread Basket serves bags of food to families twice a month, and just days before one of it’s distributions, some decided to clean out their supplies. A lock picked open, …
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