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A worker at a chicken-processing plant in Fresno, Calif., killed two workers and wounded a third before shooting himself dead outside, the county coroner reports. The suspect was identified as 42-year-old Lawrence Jones 42. He was pronounced dead at Community Regional Medical Center with a head wound. One of his victims died in the operating room, the Fresno Bee reports. Another died at the plant.

The Buddhist landmark is on the market. The Fresno temple has served as a wedding site, burial ground and more for generations of Japanese Americans. The century-old Buddhist temple is for sale.

This city is grappling with one of the most troubling contradictions of the new economy: Even as it has one of the nation's highest unemployment rates, it has thousands of job openings.

A man who rescued an 8-year-old girl who had been abducted by a stranger has told how he was "beyond scared" as he forced the kidnapper's truck to stop.

An 8-year-old girl who was abducted by a stranger while playing outside a Fresno home escapes from her captor after a 'good Samaritan' driver recognizes the suspect's vehicle and cuts it off, police say.

Five people died and at least 34 were injured -- four of them critically -- in a crash involving a Greyhound bus and two other vehicles on a highway in Fresno, California, early Thursday, the California Highway Patrol said.

A Fresno-based beef company is recalling hundreds of thousands of ground beef products because of concerns it may be linked to an outbreak of salmonella.