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Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Jim Costa showed up unannounced at an ICE detention facility in McFarland and left without getting inside. Here’s what they say happened, and what ICE’s own inspectors found.
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Nav Gurm and Ariana Martinez Lott are making their final push for the open Fresno City Council District 7 seat ahead of Tuesday’s election. Whoever wins will replace Councilmember Nelson Esparza.
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FIRST SIX AT SIX :: Sunday night's Live at Six newscast features a live report from @GrantJohnsonABC about Fresno City Council candidates and their final push before Election Day, a pedestrian fatality in Visalia, and your forecast with a Dense Fog Advisory overnight.
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Trick-or-treaters packed the Tower District for the annual Candy Crawl, while parole agents spent Halloween night checking on sex offenders on parole across Fresno County.
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A masked person reached over a Fresno Unified candidate’s fence and burned holes in her campaign sign. Deshunna Ricks believes it was deliberate, and she’s speaking out days before Election Day.
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Fresno City Council candidate Naindeep Singh tells me he expects to be “fully exonerated” after his arrest on suspicion of drug DUI. He says his own drug screen came back negative. Police toxicology results are still pending.
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Bullets hit two businesses in Fresno’s Tower District on the very first weekend of the city’s new safety plan. Our exclusive video shows how it unfolded and how quickly police got there.
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3 people from Clovis, Fresno and Kerman are accused of voting while not U.S. citizens. They’re among 28 charged across California. Fresno County’s registrar says the DOJ never contacted his office about it.
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Sunday’s shooting was the fourth in Fresno’s Tower District since May. A nightclub owner and the police chief say fixing it will take the whole community, and the owner is sharing ideas for a safer Tower District.
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Protesters gathered outside Fresno’s Tower Theatre for a second straight night, hours after a No Kings rally in Clovis against reported ICE activity. At a rally today in Kentucky, President Donald Trump praised ICE and Border Patrol.
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Julian McElhaney was sentenced Friday to 100 years to life in prison for killing his parents, William and Sylvia McElhaney, in 2022. Three family members spoke in court before the judge handed down the sentence.
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A vendor printing error sent duplicate vote-by-mail ballots to 7,791 City of Tulare voters, more than one in five in the city. The county says only one ballot per voter will count, and a second ballot will be rejected. It hasn’t named the vendor.
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ICE agents showed up at 3 Lennar Homes job sites in Fresno and Madera County in 2 days. Two families say loved ones were detained on the job. We asked Lennar whether agents had warrants or permission to enter. The company didn’t respond.
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UPDATE: Fresno police say the man shot near Fordham and Shields has died. It’s now a homicide investigation. His wife is in critical but stable condition. Five kids who lived there weren’t hurt. No arrests. Tips: 559-621-7000. More on Action News at 11.
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Protesters rallied in north Fresno Saturday, a day after police say an off-duty ICE agent attacked a 72-year-old man and his daughter at their home. Police say the man shot the agent, who was arrested for felony assault. The homeowner faces no charges.
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.@fresnounified named its 10 lowest-enrollment schools, prompting calls from worried parents. Superintendent Misty Her says no closures are needed right now, but they remain an option.
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A 19-year-old is in custody, accused of a deadly shooting in Fresno's Tower District. Here's a breakdown of what Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto shared about the shooting, the SWAT arrest and what's next in the case.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigned in Bakersfield on Sunday alongside Democratic congressional candidate Randy Villegas as part of his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, with 30 days remaining until Election Day. abc7ne.ws/CewTjz
Bernie Sanders rallied in Bakersfield Sunday for Democrat Randy Villegas, who's challenging Rep. David Valadao in CA-22, one of the most closely watched House races in the country. It comes 4 days after Speaker Mike Johnson campaigned for Valadao.
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A man was shot and killed in the garage of a Fresno home near Ashlan and West avenues Saturday evening, police said. The homeowner told Action News he believes the shooting likely involved drugs. Police have not said what led up to it.
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