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Three former executives of the defunct nonprofit Firm Build have been ordered to pay $1.8 million to dozens of victims — many of them high school students at the time — who were exposed to asbestos at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater. Read comments

A 52-year-old truck-driver from Madera was involved in a car crash that left two people dead Saturday in Nevada, the state Highway Patrol said. Read comments

Madera County District Attorney David A. Linn announced the creation of the Mountain Division of the Madera County District Attorney’s Office Monday. Read comments

In hospital beds pushed together in their Easton home, Floyd and Violet Hartwig weren’t able to communicate the day they died — at least, not in words. Read comments

The Fresno City Council is slated Thursday to vote on higher water rates. Read comments

A Fresno psychiatrist who was placed on probation six years ago for a patient death now faces new disciplinary action by the Medical Board of California for a second death. Read comments

Police arrested a Fresno man suspected of causing a collision while driving under the influence in northeast Fresno that left two dead and another in critical condition as of Sunday morning. Read comments

Loud bass drums and gongs reverberated through the cramped Fresno Art Museum lobby Sunday as parents sat their anxious kids in front where they could get a close-up look at a pair of red dancing dragons. Read comments

Lottery winner Bill Deluca learned he was an instant multimillionaire on Valentine’s Day in Fresno County after buying his wife flowers. Read comments

A grand opening for the Veterans Resource Center takes place at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Tulare Public Library in Tulare. Read comments