Crosscurrents from KALW News Yesterday, officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation travelled to Chowchilla in the Central Valley to talk to locals about the pending conversion of Valley State Prison for Women into a men's facility.
Fresno Bee By Michael Doyle - Bee Washington Bureau For inmate Tara Sheneva Williams, this is not a victory. Williams had won an appeal that overturned her conviction for a 1993 murder in Long Beach. But on Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear California's ...
Merced Sun-Star Merced County Supervisor John Pedrozo has set the dates for annual town hall meetings throughout District 1. Town hall meetings are informal public meetings where everyone in the community is invited to attend, voice their opinions and hear the ...
Sierra Star The City of Chowchilla filed a petition for a Writ of Mandate Jan. 6 against California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for failure to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act in its decision to convert Valley State Prison for ...
Merced Sun-Star By JOSHUA EMERSON SMITH - jsmith@mercedsun-star.com Chowchilla illegally fired a former police chief and now the city has to pay him, according to a ruling Tuesday by the 5th District Court of Appeal. The court upheld a lower court ruling that former ...