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ACLU sues City of McFarland over approval of ICE facility
The ACLU is challenging the approval of a new ICE facility serving as an extention of the Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield.
August 25, 2020
Seeking to get back on campus, Tulare Co. schools reopen as “day camps”
Two schools in Tulare County are playing in the legal grey area of 2020 back to school season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
August 25, 2020
Immanuel Schools beats back early Fresno Co. effort to close school
The Reedley-based Christian school that defied public health orders by reopening will not be forced to shutdown, a Fresno County Judge ruled on Tuesday.
August 25, 2020
Brandau announces opposition to legal blitz on Immanuel Schools
The Fresno County Supervisor broke rank with his colleagues and high-ranking County officials, opposing a brewing legal battle to shut down Immanuel Schools
August 24, 2020
Fresno Co. to declare emergency due to heatwave-driven cow carcass pile-up
Oddly enough, livestock deaths will take center state at the Fresno County Board of Supervisors’ special meeting Tuesday.
August 24, 2020
Calif. Supreme Court vacates death penalty for Scott Peterson
The Modesto-based murderer of his wife and their unborn son may be again sentenced to death after a second penalty phase trial.
August 24, 2020
Fresno Co. files injunction to shut down Immanuel Schools
Fresno County followed through Thursday with its threat to file an injunction to shut the private Christian schools down.
August 23, 2020
Cozy relationships landed Fresno BHC a $2mil COVID-19 deal, Bredefeld alleges
“She obviously supports burning healthy communities, not building them,” Garry Bredefeld said of Fresno Building Healthy Communities chief Sandra Celedon.
August 20, 2020
Resnick takes Pistachio War to Tulare, eyes halting another Assemi pistachio plant
The feud between two mammoth players in California pistachios – Stewart Resnick and the Assemi family – has turned to a new location with a familiar fight.
August 20, 2020
Calif. water agency wrestles 7,000-percent cost increase or state takeover
In the Mojave Desert, the long-awaited conflict between California's ambitious 2014 law to limit groundwater use and the people of California has arrived.
August 20, 2020