Cesar Chavez image tattered
Sexual abuse allegations surface The iconography of the legendary Cesar Chavez was left shredded last week when Delores Huerta, his partner and confidante in the farm labor movement, accused the late union organizer of sexual assault. Huerta told New York Times reporter Manny Fernandez that the first offense took place in the early 1960s. She […]
Madera Sheriff’s warrants lead to arrests
The Madera County Sheriff’s Office received an anonymous tip regarding a suspected indoor marijuana cultivation operation inside an enclosed shop located at 18772 Road 21 in Madera County, adjacent to Central Valley Mega Pit (18742 Road 21). During the investigation, deputies assigned to the Madera County Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team identified Jamal Graves, owner […]
Child sex abuse material found
More than 4,000 digital files containing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) were located during a search warrant at 50730 Granite Butte Way in Oakhurst. Madera County Sheriff’s detectives, working alongside the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, executed a search warrant Thursday at the residence based on a tip from the National […]
Toros get scrappy victory over Roosevelt
The Matilda Torres Toros baseball team pulled out a scrappy and resilient 4-3 victory over the Roosevelt Rough Riders at Matilda Torres. The Toros played Friday’s game without three starters who were ill. Roosevelt just came out of a game Tuesday where they defeated Madera South 14-2. The Rough Riders were limited to one run […]
Toros fall in high-scoring softball game to Tigers
By the time the dust settled, the Matilda Torres Toros and the Los Banos Tigers softball teams combined for 18 runs, 29 hits and 17 errors in a non-league game at Torres. The Toros cut the Tigers’ lead to four in the fifth, but the Tigers scored four runs in the seventh to pull away […]
Joseph Holiday wins Sportsman division, Carter wins Sprints at Madera Speedway
2025 Pro Sportsman champion Joseph Holiday of Madera prevailed in Saturday’s 40-lap season opener for the growing division at Madera Speedway. It was a part of a two-pronged night of feature racing which also saw Austin Carter win the season opener for the NCMA Sprint Cars. Both features were filmed for a future telecast on […]
Book Talk: Freida McFadden, ‘Ward D’
Amy Brenner is a second-year medical student whose ultimate goals in terms of specialization are not clear, except that she knows that she does not want to be a psychiatrist.Eight years ago, when she was 16, her best friend Jade Carpenter had been confined to a mental hospital, and Amy visited her.It was an experience […]
Letters: Is this really the best we can do?
In Fresno recently, a gentleman convicted of possessing child sex abuse material took out papers to run for the Fresno City Council. A political firestorm erupted. Plans were made to introduce a law in the state assembly to prevent convicted sex offenders from running for local or state public office. However, the gentleman in question […]
Westfall: A sheriff of second chances
When Samson Westfall ran against John Jones in 1910, and jerked the sheriff’s badge away from the two-term lawman, he thought the job would be a breeze. After all, he had served once before as sheriff of Madera County, from 1895 to 1899, and things had gone along smoothly then. He had reckoned, however, without […]