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The Visalia Senior Center will be closed until Tuesday after maintenance workers found an unidentified gas line while repairing the kitchen’s sewer line. Read comments

Outgoing Chowchilla Police Chief Jay Varney was sworn in Tuesday as the new sheriff of Madera County, taking over from four-term Sheriff John Anderson in a brief ceremony at the sheriff’s headquarters in the 14000 block of Road 28. Read comments

Pacific Gas & Electric detected three gas leaks Tuesday in west-central Fresno that were repaired by crews early in the afternoon. Read comments

District 4 Supervisor Steve Worthley of Dinuba was named Tuesday as chairman of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors. Read comments

Fire caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to a home on Shaw Avenue about four miles west of Highway 99, the Fresno Fire Department reported. Read comments

The Fresno Chinatown Revitalization Inc. will hold a demonstration Tuesday morning to discuss its concerns on the effects of high-speed rail through the historic downtown neighborhood. Read comments

A 2-year-old Hanford boy sustained severe burns on his upper body after falling into a tub of boiling water on New Year’s Day. Read comments

A kitchen fire in one unit of an apartment complex at 1671 E. Bulldog Lane in northeast Fresno caused $50,000 worth of damage Monday night, the Fresno Fire Department said. Read comments

Centro La Familia Advocacy Services will host “A Community Convening: Conversations Not Heard” to raise public awareness of human trafficking and domestic violence from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at 5115 E. McKinley Ave. in Fresno. Read comments

A major effort to restore Fresno County’s mental health services has started this winter inside a building on the old University Medical Center campus at Cedar Avenue and Kings Canyon Road. Read comments