Bill Coate
Mordecai just missed the killing
Madera County Historical Society George W. Mordecai, 1873. George Washington Mordecai had every right to be a little nervous on May 16,...
Bill Coate
Madera almost had a lynching
Madera County Historical Society Justice came quickly for Walter Yeager after he murdered police officer Clarence Pickett in 1923....
Bill Coate
Ode to an ‘Okie’
Wendy Alexander/Madera Tribune File Photo Ed Gwartney educates students about making rope at the Ed Gwartney California History Center....
DJ Becker
19-year-old dies from gunshot wounds
Police are asking for more information from the public in the recent homicide of 19-year-old Alejandro Moises Gonzalez of Madera, who was...
DJ Becker
Chowchilla woman dies in solo crash
A Chowchilla woman was killed Saturday after losing control of her car about 6 p.m. on northbound State Route 99 just south of Avenue 17,...
Bill Coate
Did emotions sway the Harlow fire jury?
Madera Tribune File Photo Frederick Litke is shown here standing between his parents, awaiting the jury’s verdict on the charge that he...
Tyler Takeda
Madera loses an aquatics legend
For The Madera Tribune Randy Durbin. If anyone learned to swim in Madera or became a lifeguard, chances are they were taught by Randy...
Bill Coate
Innocent man spent 10 years behind bars
Madera County Historical Society Madera Attorney Joe Barcroft worked for 10 years to free an innocent man from Folsom Prison. In 1919 he...