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Christmas morning 2014 at Poverello House was festive — and safe. Read comments

A motorcyclist who may have been doing a wheelie broadsided a Honda Civic and was thrown from the motorcycle, which then flew across the Shaw Avenue median and struck a van late Monday night near Peach Avenue, Clovis police Sgt. Lonnie Amerjan said. Read comments

Three vehicles were destroyed by fire on the third story of a parking garage at Table Mountain Casino in Friant shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday, Cal Fire Captain Mara Zaver said. Read comments

A fire at a marijuana-growing operation in a vacant home in southeast Fresno on Monday morning alerted authorities to more than 1,000 illegal plants, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office announced. Read comments

A Porterville man killed in a crash west of Visalia has been identified as Joseph Oliveira, 44, the Tulare County Coroner’s Office said Monday. Read comments

An angry ex-husband has been arrested for threatening his former wife and a church pastor, Visalia police said Monday. Read comments

Sequoia Riverlands Trust of Visalia has received a 43-acre easement in a small valley along the Tule River as part of a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. settlement to protect 140,000 acres of watershed land across California. Read comments

As part of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Wilderness Act, the U.S. Forest Service will have a 19th century-era wagon and an equestrian entourage in the 126th Rose Parade in Pasadena on New Year’s Day. Read comments

Representatives of four nonprofit organizations were awarded more than $378,000 based on money raised at this year’s Ruiz 4 Kids Fiesta. Read comments

Ol’ Betsy’s made her last trip carrying pints of blood collected at a national park, community center or high school in the central San Joaquin Valley. Read comments