Murder suspect pleads guilty
A man charged in a 2015 murder, and later an attempted murder, awaits sentencing on both cases. In the Madera County Superior Court on...
D. August Promnitz
Suspect’s mother pleads guilty to obstruction
The mother of the suspected getaway driver in a fatal June shooting has changed her plea for her role in helping her son evade law...
D. August Promnitz


Date set for DUI suspect’s prelim
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Candice Ooley, the Clovis woman accused of killing a Lemoore man in May in a drunken-driving...
D. August Promnitz


Sheriff’s Deputy Chuck Reiring honored
A wreath memorializing the passing of Sgt. Chuck Reiring of Madera who supervised security at the Madera District Fair for many years....
Tami Jo Nix
‘A little trouble with our video’
It was a little after 5 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time, another beautiful morning in Ridgecrest, Kern County, where beautiful mornings are...
Chuck Doud
Murder in park: Victim shot in car at McNally
Madera Police are looking for suspects in a fatal shooting that took place in the city at McNally Park. According to a press release by...
D. August Promnitz
Child brides a worldwide abomination
Some of the posts on Facebook get so disturbing. This week a horrifying story about an 8-year-old girl being married to a man three times...
Tami Jo Nix


Civic leader Jack Perialas dies at 86
Celebrating what they all knew to be his final birthday, friends of Jack Perialas, from left standing, Dick Wyatt, Bud Saunders, Jim...
Tami Jo Nix