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What Pitman High School junior and senior students thought was going to be a regular assembly turned out to be a depiction of a violent, bloody and emotional DUI scene on Thursday morning.

Turlock Fire officials want to add nine more firefighters to their ranks to more efficiently respond to calls.

Jaxon Shaneyfelt of Turlock knows first-hand just how valuable organ donors are. If it wasn’t for his living kidney donor, Sarah Best of Sacramento, it’s likely that the 14-year-old would not be alive today.

The Minor League Baseball season is just over a week old, and local baseball players are off to the races with their respective teams at the various levels.

Saturday, April 13, 2024 2:56AM A driver has been sentenced for a crash that killed a 15-year-old boy in 2022. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A driver has been sentenced for a crash that killed a 15-year-old boy in 2022. On Wednesday, Lisa Spoors was given five years in prison for a deadly hit-and-run that left Rashad Al-Hakim Jr. dead in October 2022. “Rashad was an amazing kid whose smile would light up the room,” Rashad’s aunt told the court. “He had the most infectious laugh.” Rashad was a high school student with a dream of playing basketball. He was crossing First Street and was not in a crosswalk when authorities say Spoors drove into him and left. “The fact that she knew she was under the influence at the time of her driving based upon her recorded statements,” said Deputy District Attorney Steven Ueltzen. Prosecutors first charged Spoors with murder and DUI for Rashad’s death. However, they had trouble proving if Spoors was actually under the influence. So, they dropped the DUI and related murder charge, and Spoors agreed not to fight the manslaughter and

WEATHER ALERT Winter Weather Advisory WATCH LIVE Welcome, Manage MyDisney Account Log Out Saturday, April 13, 2024 1:27AM Police have identified the suspect in a central Fresno shooting that killed 42-year-old Yong Vang Monday. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Police have identified the suspect in a central Fresno shooting that killed 42-year-old Yong Vang Monday. He’s been identified as 41-year-old Robert Phompong. A warrant for his arrest has been issued. Police say Phompong is a known gang member who is unhoused. Phompong is considered armed and dangerous. The shooting happened just before 4:20 pm on 9th Street near Pine Avenue. Investigators say Vang was in a fight with Phompong before gunshots rang out. When officers arrived, they found Vang with a bullet wound. Vang was rushed to Community Regional Medical Center, where he died. Anyone who spots Phompong should not approach and immediately call 911. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved. Homicide Top Stories

WEATHER ALERT Winter Weather Advisory WATCH LIVE Welcome, Manage MyDisney Account Log Out Saturday, April 13, 2024 1:18AM In Merced County, a special student is celebrating a major milestone two months earlier than his classmates. MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — In Merced County, a special student is celebrating a major milestone two months earlier than his classmates. Gustine High School held a commencement ceremony on Friday for Bryan Ortiz, a senior who is bravely battling cancer. A police escort was provided for Bryan from his home to the high school for the special event. Once at school, Bryan was greeted by a crowd of his peers and teachers, cheering him on. Bryan’s older sister, Alondra, says the cancer was discovered after her brother started losing strength last year. “Back in September, he started feeling kind of like sick… He felt more weaker and then he had an accident at school,” explained Alondra. “I remember when he had an accident they took it into the hospital and that’s when they kind of figure out like that he had cancer.” Action News photojournalist Alex Ruiz shows us

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s actions set up a series of confrontations with the Republican-supermajority Legislature over those issues.

Lana Zak reports on a potential attack from Iran on Israel, what Americans are experiencing this allergy season, and a preview of Coachella.

OAKLAND — It’s not so much the three digits on the radar gun that are impressive as the fact that it looks so effortless for Mason Miller. If Miller played for any other team than the Oakland-turned-Sacramento-someday Las Vegas Athletics, he’d be all over SportsCenter. As it is, Miller’s high-velocity conversion from promising starter to closer is starting to gain momentum as a league-wide story. The Athletics completed a six-game road trip in Detroit and Texas winning both series and Miller getting his first two saves with his four-seam fastball and wipeout slider. In a 1-0 win over the Rangers Wednesday, Miller threw nine consecutive pitches at 100 miles per hour or better, topping out at an obscene 104. Five pitches were 102 or better. What’s it like to throw that hard? “It’s pretty cool for sure,” Miller said Friday before the A’s began a three-game series against the Washington Nationals at the Coliseum. “I mean, the fastball for me, just try not to do too much with it. The ones I try to get on and throw harder, they end up not getting as

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It was 72 degrees inside Tropicana Field at first pitch Friday evening without a whiff of wind inside the domed stadium. The pristine, climate-controlled conditions weren’t enough to wake up the San Francisco Giants’ bats, even thousands of miles away from cold and windy Oracle Park. The offensive woes continued in a 2-1 loss to the Rays that kicked off a six-game swing through Florida, with the would-be tying run left stranded at third base. Pinch-hitting to lead off the ninth, Wilmer Flores worked a walk, then gave way to pinch-runner Tyler Fitzgerald, who stole second and made it to third, but representative of the Giants’ issues all game long — and for much of the season — they couldn’t deliver the timely hit to drive him in. So fed up was manager Bob Melvin that he was ejected arguing balls and strikes after Jorge Soler was rung up to end the seventh inning, spoiling another scoring opportunity. Both men protested the called strike three at the knees, and Melvin earned his first ejection with the Giants (the 60th of his

SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors rested Klay Thompson and Draymond Green in Portland with hopes of being at full-strength for a high-stakes game against the Pelicans on Friday, but it didn’t work out that way. Jonathan Kuminga and Gary Payton II, two valuable two-way contributors, were ruled out ahead of the New Orleans matchup in Chase Center. Kuminga suffered a right pelvic contusion against Portland and Payton has tightness in his left calf. “He fell and bruised his tail bone,” Steve Kerr said of Kuminga. “He’s in a lot of pain. And with Gary, it’s a calf. Trying to be cautious with it.” A win against the Pelicans Friday night, coupled with a win in Game 82 against the lowly Jazz, would give the Warriors a strong chance at reaching the eighth seed. In that scenario, the Warriors would have two chances to advance out of the play-in round and have a shot at avoiding the top-seeded Denver Nuggets in the first round. But the Pelicans are tough, especially if you’re short-handed. New Orleans is down star wing Brandon Ingram, but is otherwise healthy. They

The annual two-weekend Coachella music festival began Friday in Indio, California, with the most sluggish ticket sales in 10 years. Paul Thompson, a Pitchfork contributor attending the festival, has covered the event for several years and joins CBS News to discuss the latest.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump unveiled a bill Friday that would ban noncitizens from voting in elections, despite it already being illegal. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa reports.

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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