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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jessica Alba, 43; Penelope Cruz, 50; Jay Leno, 74; Ann-Margret, 83. Happy Birthday: Express yourself and speak passionately about your concerns, dreams and desires. Find out where you stand and adjust to what you discover, and you’ll position yourself for success. Take the initiative to collect your thoughts, plan your actions and execute your goals boldly, and you will interest people who can contribute and help you reach your destination. Opportunity is knocking; don’t hesitate to open the door. Your numbers are 8, 12, 23, 31, 37, 42, 46. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Pay attention to how you look and present yourself to the world. Learn from experience, and research protocol before you jump into something new. Let your charm, speed and agility lead the way, and you’ll attract the right people. Reconnecting with an old friend will be enlightening. 5 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Find your bliss and do what makes you feel and look your best, and you’ll discover how to strut your stuff, make an impression and gain the confidence to expand your mind and improve

Watch Kawhi Leonard vs. Luca Doncic as the Clippers and Mavericks square off for Game 4 of the NBA Playoffs tonight.

Sunday, April 28, 2024 4:03AM Fresno State Football held its annual spring preview game Saturday afternoon, giving the Red Wave a first look at the 2024 team. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — The Fresno State Bulldogs held its annual spring preview in front of the Red Wave Saturday at Valley Children’s Stadium. With a little more than four months away from the start of the ‘Dogs season opener at the Big House in Michigan, fans got a glimpse of this year’s squad in action with a live scrimmage. Amid the ever-changing transfer portal, head coach Jeff Tedford has kept the majority of the team intact. Redshirt Junior quarterback Mikey Keene returns for his second season with the Dogs. But with defensive leaders like Levelle Bailey and Carlton Johnson leaving this past season, others are ready to step up. RELATED: Here’s the list of former Fresno State Bulldogs heading to NFL as undrafted free agents Coach Tedford says everyone made it out of the spring preview healthy. Fresno State’s season starts August 31 against the defending national champions Michigan in Ann Arbor. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All

Sunday, April 28, 2024 7:11PM Fresno native Kendall Milton and multiple former Bulldogs have signed with NFL teams as undrafted free agents. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Multiple former Fresno State Bulldogs are keeping their NFL hopes alive after signing as undrafted free agents. Full list: LB Levelle Bailey Levelle Bailey has signed with the Denver Broncos. In his final year, the former defensive captain earned second-team All-Mountain West honors after starting in all 13 games. Throughout his career as a Bulldog, Bailey totaled 242 tackles (137 solo), seven sacks and six interceptions. WR Jaelen Gill Jaelen Gill is joining Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert after signing with the Los Angeles Chargers. Gill spent time with Ohio State and Boston College before making his way to the Central Valley. In his one year with the Bulldogs, Gill played in all 13 games and started in three. He tied for a team-high in touchdowns (6) in 49 catches and also threw for two touchdowns. LB Morice Norris Jr. Morice Norris Jr. has signed with the Detroit Lions. The Sanger High graduate returned home to the Bulldogs after

Sunday, April 28, 2024 3:44AM Even with all the fun that goes on at the Clovis Rodeo, the money made goes back into helping local charities and non-profits. CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) — On Saturday afternoon, people packed the rodeo grounds to catch all the action. Even with all the fun, the money made goes back into helping local charities and non-profits. The Veterans Education Program at Fresno State is one of the groups that the Clovis Rodeo gives back to. During a check presentation at the rodeo, the program received a $5000. The money will be used to help student veterans with books, tuition, and housing just to name a few. “Organizations like the Clovis Rodeo provide the financial support for students to matriculate at Fresno State as a degree seeking student,” said Dr. Scott More, the Dean of Continuing and Global Education at Fresno State. “The Veterans Education Program provides a pathway for students who otherwise wouldn’t be admissible to the university.” For Claire Imperial-Payne, the Veterans Education Program helped her navigate her way through Fresno State. Imperial-Payne had been out of school for

Viktoria Nasyrova is accused of using cheesecake as a murder weapon. Her motive was to steal the identity of Olga, who looks a lot like her. “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jack Skahan scored in the second half to help San Jose earn a 1-1 draw with Nashville SC on Saturday night, helping the Earthquakes end their a second four-match losing streak of the season. Skahan scored the equalizer for San Jose (1-8-1) in the 63rd minute when he used an assist from Rodrigues to score his first goal of the season and the third of his career. Skahan drilled a right-footed shot from the center of the box to the center of the goal. Nashville (1-3-5) grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 19th minute after Hany Mukhtar took a pass from Alex Muyl and drilled a right-footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner of the net. It was Mukhtar’s second goal and Muyl’s first assist of the season. The two clubs have played to a draw in four all-time matchups. San Jose (1-8-1) beat Seattle 3-2 for its only win of the season on March 23. Since then, and before Saturday, the Earthquakes lost matches to Houston, Austin, Colorado, and the Los Angeles Galaxy by a combined score

SAN FRANCISCO — A pair of lousy sliders from Taylor Rogers sank the Giants in extra innings on Saturday night. Rogers replaced closer Camilo Doval in a tie game in the 10th inning, then allowed back-to-back home runs on back-to-back hanging sliders to Bryan Reynolds and Ke’Bryan Hayes as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Giants, 4-3, in front of 34,841 fans at Oracle Park. “Just a couple breaking balls that were up in the zone,” said manager Bob Melvin. “He’s done really well against righties this year. He was next in line for that. Just hung a couple.” Jorge Soler blasted a two-run shot in the bottom of the 10th to give the Giants hope, but they couldn’t get the tying run across against Pirates closer David Bednar. It was an anticlimactic loss for the Giants, who fell to 13-15 and wasted a magical performance by Jordan Hicks. The first inning foreshadowed a fascinating evening as Hicks struck out each of the Pirates’ first three batters on the same pitch, a splitter that evaporated from midair and reappeared in the catcher’s mitt. The splitter was

Mr. Biden, like most of his predecessors, used the glitzy annual White House Correspondents’ Association banquet to jab at his rival, former President Donald Trump.

Troy Franklin had to wait a little longer than he’d hoped, but will join up with a familiar face after being drafted Saturday by the Denver Broncos. Franklin, an East Palo Alto product who played at Menlo-Atherton and collegiately at Oregon, was an early Day 3 selection in the fourth round, No. 102 overall. Denver also took Franklin’s college quarterback, Bo Nix, with the 12th overall pick in Friday’s first round. “I don’t even know what to say right now,” Franklin told reporters in Denver. “He makes the receivers’ job easier. That’s my guy right there.” Projected on some quarters to be a second- or third-round pick, Franklin caught 81 passes for 1,383 yards and a 17.1 average with 14 touchdowns last season. “I think all elements of my game are pretty sharp,” Franklin told reporters. “I feel like I can do everything.” Safety Evan Williams, a teammate of Franklin’s at Oregon who played locally at St. Francis High in Mountain View, was also a fourth-round pick, No. 111 overall, by the Green Bay Packers. Also selected Saturday was Sione Vaki, who played both safety

Viktoria Nasyrova attempted to murder a woman with cheesecake. As one private investigator would find out, she had a list of alleged victims — including her ex-boyfriend’s dog.

Bernhard Langer admitted that his injury came from playing pickleball.

SANTA CLARA – No drastic measures were taken by the 49ers in the NFL Draft, nor in this spring’s free agency, nor on the hypothetical trade market. Their roster, simply put, remains ever-ready to defend the NFC crown. A long road awaits in that regard, not to mention the potential to stop the Kansas City Chiefs’ three-peat bid. “We did it through free agency as good as we could. We did it through the draft as good as we can,” coach Kyle Shanahan said Saturday. “Now I’m excited to focus on real football and going to work.” These are your 2024 49ers, give or take a roster’s natural evolution leading up to, ideally, Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9 in New Orleans. It’s been 2 1/2 months since they lost in overtime to the Chiefs with the Lombardi Trophy on the line. With all but a couple of defensive starters returning, the 49ers know the increased urgency to win a championship with such a large group of handsomely paid and highly decorated players. “When you get close to the Super Bowl and you don’t win

A look at 49ers’ 2024 draft class: First round, No. 31 overall: Ricky Pearsall Jr. , wide receiver, Florida, 6-1, 189 Credentials: Experienced with five seasons at Arizona State and Florida with 159 receptions for 2,240 yards, 14 touchdowns and 21 carries for 253 yards and five scores. With Arizona State, the former youth league quarterback completed all three passes for 111 yards. How he fits: Joins Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel, and presumably Jauan Jennings as one of the top four receivers, with the likelihood of moving up the depth chart in 2025 when the salary cap crunch hits after Brock Purdy signs an extension. The hope is he can contribute as a punt return specialist immediately. Pearsall says: This is a legendary program. I just appreciate the organization taking a chance on me, and I’m going to prove them right. I’m looking forward to getting the work in and showing everybody. Quotable: “There’s not one play where you see him turn something down. He’s going over the middle and do everything he can to catch that ball and not worry about anything else.

SAN FRANCISCO — With one crack of the bat, Patrick Bailey made a metaphorical announcement: it’s time to forget about the second half of last season. Bailey’s three-run, walk-off homer in the ninth inning on Friday night lifted the Giants over the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0, the culmination of a player who has quickly evolved into one of the most potent offensive forces in the game. The numbers are jumping off the page. Throughout the season’s first month, Bailey leads the majors or is near the top of the majors in almost every batted ball category. “It’s exciting,” he said before Saturday’s game. “I obviously want to start this way instead of the opposite. I’ve had plenty of years where I’ve struggled to hit .150 at this point. So I’m excited with where the adjustments have gotten me but I understand baseball is a tough game. It beats you up.” The wounds from last year are still fresh. He had a strong debut in his first 40 big league games, but as soon as the All-Star break ended, Bailey stopped hitting. In the second half, the

This marks the largest-ever civil penalty seen in a “Made in USA” case, officials said. Sunday, April 28, 2024 12:04AM This marks the largest-ever civil penalty seen in a “Made in USA” case, officials said. NEW YORK — Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order. Williams-Sonoma was charged with advertising multiple products as being “Made in USA” when they were in fact manufactured in other countries, including China. That violated a 2020 commission order requiring the San Francisco-based company to be truthful about whether its products were in fact made in the U.S. The FTC said Friday that Williams-Sonoma has agreed to a settlement, which includes a $3.175 million civil penalty. That marks the largest-ever civil penalty seen in a “Made in USA” case, the commission said. “Williams-Sonoma’s deception misled consumers and harmed honest American businesses,” FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said. “Today’s record-setting civil penalty makes clear that firms committing Made-in-USA fraud will not get a free pass.” In addition to paying the penalty, the seller of cookware and home

Milton is fresh off winning the Orange Bowl MVP in Georgia’s 63-3 blowout win against Florida State. Sunday, April 28, 2024 3:50AM Fresno native Kendall Milton and multiple former Bulldogs have signed with NFL teams as undrafted free agents. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Fresno’s two-time national champion has signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent. Buchanan High alum Kendall Milton joins an Eagles running back room headlined by former New York Giant Saquon Barkley after not hearing his name called at the 2024 NFL Draft. His time as a Georgia Bulldog finished with 1,839 rushing yards and 24 total touchdowns, 14 of which came this past season. Milton had battled injuries early on in his collegiate career. Milton is fresh off winning the Orange Bowl MVP in Georgia’s 63-3 blowout win against Florida State. After the game his head coach thanked him for overcoming his injuries to make the impact he did. “He’s given so much,” Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said. “I still remember going all the way to California, being in his house, seeing him and his parents, and he’s

Saturday, April 27, 2024 9:15PM The City of Madera is getting $2 million in federal aid to improve the city’s critical storm drainage and sewage system. MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) — The City of Madera is getting $2 million in federal aid to improve the city’s critical storm drainage and sewage system. “The City of Madera has been asking for these funds for four years and thank god that today we’re going to get the system in place to get this done because nobody wants to see flooding in our streets or our sewer system to be backed up,” said Mayor Santos Garcia. The city experiences flooding often in the winter and congressman John Duarte, who helped get the funding, saw that firsthand. “Mayor Santos Garcia sent me a photograph in the torrential floods of January 2023 where the sewer line for Madera just blew a hole in it and he was looking for federal help to get that fixed,” Congressman Duarte said. On Friday, that federal help arrived. The city’s Sewer Trunk Main Project received $1 million to improve and replace up to 1.7 miles

The bank’s failure is expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $667 million. Saturday, April 27, 2024 8:42PM Regulators close Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank, first US bank failure this year PHILADELPHIA — Regulators have closed Republic First Bank, a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday it had seized the Philadelphia-based bank, which did business as Republic Bank and had roughly $6 billion in assets and $4 billion in deposits as of Jan. 31. Fulton Bank, which is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, agreed to assume substantially all of the failed bank’s deposits and buy essentially all of its assets, the agency said. Republic Bank’s 32 branches will reopen as branches of Fulton Bank as early as Saturday. Republic First Bank depositors can access their funds via checks or ATMs as early as Friday night, the FDIC said. The bank’s failure is expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $667 million. The lender is the first FDIC-insured institution to fail in the U.S. this year. The last bank failure – Citizens Bank, based in Sac City

MEXICO CITY — If a woman wins Mexico’s presidency on June 2, would she rule with gender in mind? The question has been raised by academics, humans rights organizations and activists ahead of the voting that will likely elect Mexico’s first female president for the term 2024-2030. Out of three candidates, the frontrunner is Claudia Sheinbaum, who has promised to keep President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s legacy on track. Next comes Xóchitl Gálvez, representing several opposition parties, one of which is historically conservative. The triumph of Sheinbaum or Gálvez, however, would not guarantee their support for certain gender-related policies. In a country of more than 98 million Catholics, neither of the two leading candidates has shared specific proposals on abortion. Both have suggested equality and protection measures for women amid a wave of violence and femicide. Here’s a look at some of the challenges that Mexico’s next president would face regarding abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. WHAT’S THE CURRENT ABORTION LANDSCAPE? Twelve of Mexico’s 32 states have decriminalized abortion, most of them in the past five years. One more will join them after its legislature complies

For several dozen Vietnam War veterans from Texas, a journey to visit memorials in Washington, D.C., saw five decades of emotion slowly begin to surface. Doug Dunbar has more.