Fresno (California)

Fresno Wabo: Trouble in Wabodise

Here we go again. Just when you thought all the Sammy Hagar/Cabo Wabo fuss was over for a while, The Red Rocker issued a statement over the weekend that added a dollop of Gossip Girl-sized drama to the future of Fresno Wabo....

Readers Share Their Favorite Free Vacation Activities

by The Editors, SmarterTravel.com Staff - November 10, 2008 Last month we asked you to share your favorite free things to do on vacation. Kathy Phillips of Fresno, California, says libraries offer "beautiful architecture, clean...

Lawyers group names Paboojian top attorney

The statewide trial lawyers association has named Fresno lawyer Warren Paboojian its attorney of the year for representing former Fresno State women's basketball coach Stacy Johnson-Klein during her high-profile gender...

Burned home of 2 killed lacked smoke detectors

The Fresno Bee, Calif. (November 9, 2008) Nov. 9--The cause of a fire that killed a 3-year-old boy and his grandmother and destroyed their southeast Fresno house late Friday remains a mystery to investigators this weekend. But...

Downturn may fire up self-starters

The faltering economy, tanking retail sales and a real-estate market rife with foreclosures didn't keep Ritsuko Miyazaki from launching a ceramic art store. TOMAS OVALLE / MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS FRESNO, Calif. — The faltering...

50 years later: how the credit card has changed America

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- They called it the Fresno Drop.Fifty years ago, Bank of America mass-mailed to nearly every home in Fresno, Calif., a small piece of plastic called the BankAmericard. The credit card had arrived, a shiny...

BRIEF: Southeast Fresno house fire claims child, woman

The Fresno Bee, Calif. (November 8, 2008) Nov. 8--A child and a woman in her 50s died in a house fire Friday night in southeast Fresno as arriving family members wept and pleaded with police to let them near the burning home....

California Feels Effects Of The Obama Victory

CALIFORNIA FEELS EFFECTS OF THE OBAMA VICTORY By Michael Doyle Fresno Bee Nov 7 2008 CA WASHINGTON -- Robertson took time off from graduate study at Georgetown University Law Center to help run Barack Obama's Capitol Hill...

Search expands for hunter missing in Sierra

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The search for a hunter missing in the Sierra Nevada has expanded to cover 100 square miles and include 70 people. A spokesman says the Fresno County Sheriff's Office also has asked for help from the state...

Fresno cop who killed student seeks damages

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A Fresno police officer who killed the high school student that attacked him with a baseball bat wants the district to pay him for his injuries. Officer Junus Perry said his neck was injured April 16 when...