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Mendota police Chief Jerry Galvin is on paid administrative leave due to “an ongoing personnel matter,” city manager Vince DiMaggio said Sunday. Read comments

Many of the nursing home chains doing business in California go to great lengths to obscure their financial backers, creating convoluted layers of limited liability companies and partnerships with bewildering relationships to one another. The tangled corporate webs make it difficult for consumers and government regulators to identify who is running the operations — and who should be held responsible when things go wrong.

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Eight Boy Scouts from San Joaquin District Sequoia Council Troop 301 were honored with Scouting's highest honor during an Eagle Scout Court of Honor at the Fresno County Sportmen's Club on Sunday. Read comments

A Firebaugh man was killed early Sunday in a crash on Avenue 7 and Road 24 1/2 in Madera County, the California Highway Patrol reported. Read comments

When Michelle Ulloa sits down to write the eulogy for her former high school English student, she knows she’ll be overwhelmed with friends’ and family members’ glowing memories about the 22-year-old from Fowler who died Friday. Read comments

Fresno County’s retirement board is stopping payment later this month of a bonus benefit that has been added to the checks of about 6,700 retirees in the county’s retirement system. Read comments

Californians who experienced verbal, physical, sexual abuse or neglect in childhood are more likely to have long-lasting serious health problems, according to a health report released to the public Thursday. Read comments

A family of cats living on the roof of Wolfe Manor was rescued just in time before the haunted house’s demolition. Read comments

Westside Rescue will hold a low-cost pet clinic in southeast Fresno on Sunday, providing vaccines, spaying and neutering for cats and dogs. Read comments