http://www.yourstreet.com/news/fresno-ca YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us FRESNO, Calif. - California cows are the first in the nation with the legal right to swat flies as nature intended now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill banning the painful practice of tail docking that he once mocked as being a waste of legislators'... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743779/schwarzenegger-says-california-cows-can-keep-tails Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:45:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. — Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, a lifelong educator who looked at a Merced farm field and envisioned a University of California research university, has died in Georgia of breast cancer five months after the first freshmen class graduated from the school. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743892/uc-merced-s-founding-chancellor-carol-tomlinson-keasey-dies-of-cancer Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:13:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. — Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, a lifelong educator who looked at a Merced farm field and envisioned a University of California research university, has died in Georgia of breast cancer five months after the first freshmen class graduated from the school. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743944/uc-merced-s-founding-chancellor-carol-tomlinson-keasey-dies-of-cancer Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:13:08 -0700 A fire broke in a South-East Fresno neighborhood, near Orange and California. The fire started in the attic of the home, and fortunately crews got it out fast. Everyone got out of the house safe, and were able to save most of the items inside.Firefighters are still... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734962/fire-broke-out-in-south-east-fresno Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:53:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. -- The offenses barely had a chance to rest before the other team responded with a big play. It was a classic game of "can you top this?" http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729275/boise-state,-fresno-state-tangle-in-a-wild-one-that-had-85-points,-987-yard Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:10:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A federal grand jury in California investigating an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Laos has dropped charges against a leading figure in the nation’s Hmong community, the U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento said Friday. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748237/charges-dropped-against-laotian-hero-in-calif- Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:41:08 -0700 CBS47 is a proud sponsor of the 5th Annual Raider Nation Blood Drive on Saturday, September 12th in Fresno, Visalia and Sanger! All donors will receive a commemorative Raider Nation Blood Drive T-shirt and the chance to win tickets to an Oakland Raiders home game!... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6716709/5th-annual-raider-nation-blood-drive Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:33:08 -0700 ...aided and abetted by mainstream media that loves a spectacle. Two surveys were done yesterday on the "appropriateness" of President Obama's speech to schoolchildren, one asking the opinions of parents of schoolkids in Fresno, CA , the other of parents of... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6682679/momocrats-facts-figures-show,-hall-pass-resistance-to-president- Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:17:08 -0700 Every week, Debi Garrison drives seven hours from her farming community near Fresno, Calif., to deliver produce to several farmers markets in the Las Vegas Valley, ending her rounds at a newly established market on Fremont Street at Las Vegas Boulevard. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6678598/fremont-street-still-struggles Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:01:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. — Fresno State's offseason-long quarterback race ended Tuesday just as many believed it would, with coach Pat Hill naming junior Ryan Colburn the starter. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6670395/cfb-colburn-named-starting-qb-at-fresno-state Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:41:08 -0700 FRESNO, CALIF. By JOAN OBRA McClatchy Newspapers Amid all of the shopping and scheduling that marks back-to-school season, packing a variety of children's lunches can seem daunting. But what if your children helped assemble their own lunches? That's something even... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6661860/kids-can-help-make-nutritious,-tasty-school-lunches Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:51:08 -0700 The "25th Anniversary of the Elgin High School Western Reunion" will be held the first weekend in October where it all began during May 1984 in Fresno, Calif. They had 238 attend that first gathering. It was such a success that they decided to hold another in 1986.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6643278/elgin-high-celebrates-anniversary-of-western-reunion-in-california Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:00:08 -0700 VERNON TOWNSHIP -- A man wanted in Fresno, Calif., on a 1999 forgery warrant was arrested in southern Crawford County early Friday morning. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6642838/fugitive-caught-in-crawford-county Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:08 -0700 VERNON TOWNSHIP -- A man wanted in Fresno, Calif., on a 1999 forgery warrant was arrested in southern Crawford County early Friday morning. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6643102/fugitive-caught-in-crawford-county Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Geologists are monitoring the cliffs behind Yosemite National Park's majestic Ahwahnee Hotel after tumbling boulders from the Royal Arches formation forced the evacuation of all 300 guests Wednesday. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6623644/yosemite-rockfall-forces-hotel-evacuation Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:01:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. — The light brown apple moth is either a voracious annihilator of fruits or a benign bug indistinguishable from dozens of its relatives present in California. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6609177/bug-experts-california-moth-eradication-effort-wasted Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:45:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. — Fresno County, Calif., officials say that Paul Haros, an Army National Guardsman who is just back from Iraq, may not be laid off from his correctional officer job after all. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6552508/guardsman,-who-returned-from-iraq-to-no-job,-may-get-it-back Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:08:08 -0700 FRESNO, Calif. — Fresno State's women's basketball team has been stripped of its 2007-08 Western Athletic Conference championships because a point guard played 32 minutes with an Australian professional team four years ago. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6540062/wac-removes-fresno-state-women-s-basketball-titles Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:09:08 -0700 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least 21 people in Colorado and 10 other U.S. states have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak that prompted the recall of more than 800,000 pounds of ground beef, federal and state officials said on Friday. Raw hamburger associated with... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6507905/salmonella-outbreak-prompts-recall-of-800,000-pounds-of-beef Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:15:08 -0700 A Fresno meatpacker's massive recall Thursday prompted Safeway and Sam's Club to urge customers to return or throw out ground beef purchased during much of the last two months. The nearly 826,000 pounds of beef recalled by Beef Packers Inc., a Cargill subsidiary, may... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6501639/warning-issued-on-meat-sold-at-sacramento-area-safeways,-sam-s-clubs Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:00:08 -0700