Fresno Bee

Man arrested after pot garden found in home Read comments

Fresno County Zoo Authority members complained Wednesday about the slow pace of promised improvements at the zoo and the city of Fresno's hesitancy to commit money for some of those upgrades. Read comments

Eric Kaai was a typical fisherman. Proud owner of a 14-foot Boston Whaler, equipped with a 40-horse motor. Read comments

The Falcons acquired left wing Grant Goeckner-Zoeller from the Dayton Bombers in a trade that cost them defenseman Joe Van Culin. Read comments

OAKS 5, BLAZE 1 Read comments

Tulare's Thunderbowl Raceway has canceled its three-day U.S. Western States Modified Nationals, citing a low number of preregistered cars. Read comments

Fresno State baseball ace Tanner Scheppers is not returning for his senior year. Read comments

Robert Kendrick and Raquel Kops-Jones, two Fresnans on the fringes of the top professional tennis tours, came up with big victories Wednesday at the U.S. Open in New York. Read comments

They are volleyball programs that have moved in entirely different directions the past few years. Read comments

Fresno fire and school officials are asking the public for help to prevent more arson fires at Bullard High School, where there have been half a dozen since May 24. Read comments

A prosecutor in the Fresno County District Attorney's Office who was arrested this year on suspicion of soliciting an undercover officer disguised as a prostitute was placed into a police education program rather than being charged with a crime. Read comments

A federal court jury on Wednesday rejected claims that two California Highway Patrol officers used excessive force and violated the civil rights of a Fresno man after an April 2007 altercation at a south Fresno office of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Read comments

Support Kids Safety First received a check from Allied Waste Service of Madera for $1,000, to purchase the state-of-the-art crossing sign and others that display "SLOW" mounted on stands down the street from Madera's Lincoln Elementary, batteries and chargers, vests, badges and other training equipment for the safety of kids. Read comments

The last days of summer will not go quietly. Read comments

Fourteen Clovis Community Medical Center patients -- some of whom were on the maternity ward -- may have been exposed to hepatitis and HIV last week when doctors used instruments that may not have been fully sterilized. Read comments

First it was driving. Now, as Labor Day weekend ends the traditional summer travel season, some travelers are giving up flying as well. Read comments

It's now clear what the California Correctional Peace Officers Association is up to, and it's worse than we imagined. The union that represents prison guards is circulating a draft bill that would make an end run around the normal bargaining process to give the union a pay raise. The union wants the Senate to do the dirty work by "gutting and amending" Assembly Bill 1279 by Assemblyman Joe Coto, D-San Jose, which originally dealt with child care. Read comments

We've been warning the Fresno County Board of Supervisors that budgeting in this poor economy must be realistic, and not aimed at delaying difficult decisions. But the supervisors have yet to grasp the concept that you can't spend more money than you have. Their inability to do basic math has led to meeting after meeting in which they wring their hands over the problems caused by their poor decisions. Read comments

Mayor Alan Autry on Wednesday urged the county to reconsider its plan to free inmates and offered to help the county find other ways to save money. Read comments

Pitcher Tanner Scheppers, who was drafted in the second round of the major league draft in June but did not sign with a team, will not return to Fresno State for his senior year. Scheppers said Wednesday that he was academically eligible to return but that Fresno State no longer was the "correct fit," as the right-hander turns his focus on rehabbing his shoulder and improving his stock for the next year's draft. Read comments