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Several cities in the Central Valley broke temperature records Saturday as warm air sweeping through the region brought unusually high readings. Read comments

The Human Rights Coalition of the Central Valley and the Fresno County Office of Education will host an anti-bullying event on Dec. 13 at Fresno State in observance of Human Rights Day. Read comments

The Poverello House in Fresno will compete for $20,000 next week in the national Food Pantry Holiday Makeover Campaign, sponsored by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Read comments

Gill Ranch Storage LLC will donate $5,000 to five local families of veterans on Tuesday to ensure they have a good holiday season. Read comments

Community Services Employment Training is asking for volunteers to help prepare free tax returns in 2015 for Tulare County households with less than $50,000 in annual income. Read comments

The Old Town Clovis Kiwanis Club will run the 27th annual Sierra Vista Mall Children's Electric Christmas Parade at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday in Old Town Clovis. Read comments

Kern Street between G and H streets in downtown Fresno will close Monday through Thursday for a sewer improvement project. Read comments

About 20 Fresno residents took to Blackstone Avenue between Shaw and Gettysburg avenues Friday night to protest the recent police actions in Ferguson, Missouri and New York. Read comments

More than 30 community outreach and assistance groups came together in southwest Fresno Saturday to give coats, pajamas, diapers and toothbrushes to around 600 local families in need. Read comments

A woman died Saturday morning after the white Jeep she was driving veered off Road 274 in Bass Lake and rolled 100 feet down an embankment before coming to rest on the north side of the lake. Read comments