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Here’s a look at the top stories making headlines on the “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.”

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) — A lesson on literary techniques ended with dozens of students becoming published authors and illustrators. At Garfield Elementary School, students in Diana Baruti’s 4th grade class take reading, writing and learning seriously. So it was important to Baruti to make sure students really understood tough literary concepts like idioms. “And so you say one thing, but you mean something different. For example, the common one, ‘It’s raining cats and dogs.’ means it’s raining really hard,” Baruti said. So as a class, they researched different idioms and how to use them. But a post on Instagram from Student Treasures Publishing inspired Baruti to take the learning a little further. “As teachers, we look for different ways to reach kids, to help kids enjoy learning,” Baruti said. Student Treasures Publishing allows teachers to submit student’s work to be published in a hard-cover book. The teacher gets a copy for free. So each student picked an idiom, wrote about it figuratively and literally, then illustrated it. This is Millie Ogan’s page — she chose “Losing his marbles.” “I think it fits me because I

Saturday, April 13, 2024 12:23AM A local softball star has done something no other Central Section player has done before. MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) — Out in Madera Ranchos, Liberty’s Rylee Bocchini is on the hunt for another Northwest Sequoia title. “She’s a phenomenal athlete,” says coach Keith Davis. I saw that day one coming in.” In March, the senior catcher did something so unlikely, it seems impossible. In six straight at-bats against Riverdale and Parlier, Rylee hit six straight home runs. Nobody in Central Section history has ever accomplished the feat. “Once I got to like my fourth one, I was like, ‘Oh shoot, when am I going to stop?'” Rylee would finish the two-game stretch 8-9, with six home runs and 13 RBIs. It’s a tear she credits to her time behind the dish. “Honestly, I think being a catcher helps me be such a great hitter,” she said. The dual-threat also caught the eye of Fresno State. “My number-one was Fresno State,” she said. In 2022, Rylee verbally committed to play for the Bulldogs — an opportunity helped made possible by her coach.

Saturday, April 13, 2024 12:21AM A repeat DUI offender is now being held responsible for his crime nearly four years after he hit and killed a Fresno County teenager. FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — A repeat DUI offender is now being held responsible for his crime nearly four years after he hit and killed a Fresno County teenager. Albert Fimbrez was drinking and on prescription drugs when prosecutors say he crashed his pickup truck into Dayvon Fletcher. “He mixed alcohol and, specifically, Prozac,” Fresno County Superior Court Judge Arlan Harrell said. It happened back in November 2019 near the intersection of Valentine and Shields Avenues. The speed limit was 40 miles per hour. Fimbrez was going 70. “It’s the use of substances and then making the decision to drive this vehicle,” Deputy District Attorney Steven Ueltzen said. That behavior killed Dayvon, who was 16 years old. It also injured his teenage friend who was walking with him. Fimbrez was not legally drunk, but it was a tragedy that did not have to happen. The 59-year-old has at least four previous DUI convictions dating back two

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Fresno State has officially introduced Vance Walberg as the new head men’s basketball coach. The new coach comes to Fresno State following his second stint as the head coach at Clovis West High School, where he has been since 2016. RELATED: Clovis West’s Vance Walberg hired as the Fresno State Men’s Basketball new head coach Walberg also spent four seasons as an NBA assistant coach with the Sacramento Kings, Philadelphia 76ers and Denver Nuggets. Additional experience includes two seasons at Pepperdine, three seasons as an assistant at the University of Massachusetts and four seasons as head coach at Fresno City College. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.

NEW YORK — Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93. MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to his daughter, Alison MacNeil. MacNeil first gained prominence for his coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings for the public broadcasting service and began his half-hour “Robert MacNeil Report” on PBS in 1975 with his friend Lehrer as Washington correspondent. The broadcast became the “MacNeil-Lehrer Report” and then, in 1983, was expanded to an hour and renamed the “MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.” The nation’s first one-hour evening news broadcast, and recipient of several Emmy and Peabody awards, it remains on the air today with Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz as anchors. It was MacNeil’s and Lehrer’s disenchantment with the style and content of rival news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC that led to the program’s creation. “We don’t need to SELL the news,” MacNeil told the Chicago Tribune in 1983. “The networks hype the news to make it

Israel remains on high alert, bracing itself for the possibility of an attack by Iran in retaliation for the bombing of its consulate in Damascus, Syria. It comes amid fears that the region could be on the brink of an expanded conflict. Debora Patta has more from Tel Aviv.

The son of President Biden is charged with lying about his drug use on a form to buy a gun in October 2018.

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Arizona Friday, where she blamed former President Donald Trump for the Arizona Supreme Court ruling earlier this week which could pave the way to revive a near-total abortion ban. Janet Shamlian has more.

U.S. intelligence believes Iran is preparing a retaliatory attack on Israel that could come at any time. A defense official tells CBS News that the U.S. is sending additional assets to the region to increase force protection for American troops already on the ground. Weijia Jiang is at the White House with the latest developments.

By beating the Blazers in Portland Thursday night, the Warriors officially surpassed their win total from last year. As if they needed to win more games than last year to prove the simple point: this season’s team is better than last year’s. Their roster makes more sense, they’re less dependent on journeymen bit players, and they gel together better. Steve Kerr has repeatedly said that this season’s group has been among the most fun he’s had the opportunity to coach. Take his word for it. “We’re definitely a better team,” Kerr said this week. “Better two-way basketball, better connection, better chemistry. Much better vibe with this team. So I still believe, firmly, that we can do something special.” Last year’s team entered the playoffs as the six-seed and beat the Kings in the first round before falling to the Lakers in the Western Conference semis. The stacked West this year will pit Golden State somewhere in the play-in round, depending on how the last pair of games shake up. The Warriors (45-35) end the regular season with two home games: tonight against the New Orleans

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case on Friday turned down the former president’s request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case. It’s the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial’s start Monday with jury selection. Among other things, Trump’s lawyers had argued that the jury pool was deluged with what the defense saw as “exceptionally prejudicial” news coverage of the case. The defense maintained that was a reason to hold off the case indefinitely. Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.” Pointing to Trump’s two federal defamation trials and a state civil fraud trial in Manhattan within the past year, Merchan wrote that the ex-president himself “was personally responsible for generating much, if not most, of the surrounding publicity with

By STEFANIE DAZIO (Associated Press) LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to undergo gambling addiction treatment in a sports betting case stemming from allegations he stole $16 million from the Japanese baseball player’s bank account to pay off debts. Ippei Mizuhara exploited his personal and professional relationship with Ohtani to plunder millions from the two-way player’s account for years, prosecutors said, at times impersonating Ohtani to bankers. Mizuhara only spoke on Friday to answer the judge’s questions, saying “yes” when Audero asked if he understood several parts of the case and his bond conditions. Hours after court, his attorney Michael G. Freedman issued a statement saying Mizuhara hopes to “reach an agreement with the government to resolve this case as quickly as possible so that he can take responsibility.” He further added Mizuhara “wishes to apologize to Mr. Ohtani, the Dodgers, Major League Baseball, and his family.” “I’m very grateful for the Department of Justice’s investigation,” Ohtani told the Los Angeles Times on Friday. “For me personally, this marks a

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Beneath the off-white domed ceiling, adjacent to the artificial turf in left field, Blake Snell toed the rubber in Tropicana Field’s foul territory Friday afternoon and found a viewpoint novel even to the left-hander who called this ballpark home for the first five years of his big-league career. For the first time, Snell pitched off the visitor’s bullpen mound for his routine between-starts throwing session. Consider it preparation for another new experience for the two-time Cy Young winner set to come Sunday, when Snell takes the mound between the foul lines here for the first time in road grays. “I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time,” Snell said after making his way from the bullpen mound to a scrum of about a dozen local reporters in front of the third-base dugout. When he gets the ball in the Giants’ series finale against the Rays, it will be his first start at Tropicana Field since the Rays traded him to San Diego after the 2020 season. The sterile environs treated him well, going 23-12 with a 2.51 ERA in

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump urged Arizona lawmakers on Friday to swiftly “remedy” the state Supreme Court ruling allowing prosecutors to enforce a near—total abortion ban that he declared anew “went too far.” Trump has repeatedly expressed pride in his role in overturning the national constitutional right to an abortion by appointing three conservative justices to the U.S. Supreme Court during his one term as president. However, his messaging in the aftermath of the Arizona ruling that a ban on the books since 1864 is constitutional illustrates his struggle to neutralize what has become a potent political weapon for Democrats. His comments Friday came hours before Vice President Kamala Harris spoke out against the ban in Tucson, where she called prohibitions enacted at the state level “Trump abortion bans.” She and President Joe Biden blame Trump for sharply curtailing abortion access, and the issue has become a major liability for the former president in one of the handful of swing states that could decide the November election. Trump’s demand for the state to ease its abortion law came just days after he said abortion rights should

One person is dead and several people are injured after a stolen 18-wheeler crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety building in a town 75 miles west of Houston on Friday. At a news conference, officials said a suspect is in custody.

CBS announces “The Talk” is ending its award-winning run in December with a shortened season 15.

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An 18-wheeler plowed into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in Brenham in an apparent “intentional” act, officials said Friday. Several people were injured. Texas State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst said in a social media statement that the truck was stolen. Tim Gallagher, a former FBI agent, breaks down what’s next in the investigation.

RED BLUFF— Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers in the Tehama County areas of Manton, Paynes Creek, Mineral, and the Shingletownn area in Shasta will be affected by a Friday night planned power outage while the company conducts safety and reliability work. PG&E said the six-hour planned power outage is necessary so crews can safely perform work on insulators, grounds and a switch at the Volta substation near Manton. The planned outage will begin at about 11 p.m. and last until about 5 a.m. The utility company has notified nearly 4,000 customers whose services will be affected by the planned outage through letters and automated phone calls. Regional Vice President of PG&E’s North Valley and Sierra Region Joe Wilson said the company has worked hard to keep this planned power outage as short as possible and to occur at a time that it hopes will cause only a minimal inconvenience to customers while crews perform vital work to ensure safety and reliability. PG&E notified officials in affected counties and emergency agencies in the region to ensure they were aware.