Today, Officer Hernandez attempted to stop Edwin Ramirez in the area of Tulare Street and Lincoln Avenue. Officer Hernandez learned the vehicle Ramirez was driving was stolen. Ramirez led Officers on a short vehicle pursuit and abandoned the vehicle and fled from Officers on foot. Ramirez was apprehended a couple blocks away along with two…

VENICE (CBSLA.com) — Vandals defaced a memorial to Vietnam war veterans in Venice – an awful sight on this Memorial Day weekend. Stewart Oscars welled up as he looked at the vandalized mural located on Pacific Avenue near Sunset Court. It was covered in graffiti from end to end. “This knocked me out. So sickening.…

An alleged sexual predator, who has impregnated one teenage student and coerced her into having an abortion to cover it up, is currently teaching at Madera South High School, according to charges made during Tuesday night’s school board meeting by Leslie Swan, a former teacher at Madera South. Swan, who taught for 14 years at…

STOCKTON — Calaveras High School will no longer feature a mascot and will be simply referred to as “Calaveras High School.” The school announced late Tuesday at a Calaveras Unified School District board meeting that community input was overwhelming to forgo a mascot change from Redskins. Instead, the school will keep the current logo, which…

A Merced homeowner and a 15-year-old boy exchanged gunfire Wednesday morning after the teen woke the owner while burglarizing the home, Merced police reported. The homeowner woke about 10:30 a.m. to noises inside the house and grabbed his gun to investigate, Merced police Lt. Chris Goodwin said in a news release. When the owner walked…

A comparison of records by David Goldstein, investigative reporter for CBS2/KCAL9, has revealed hundreds of so-called dead voters in Southern California, a vast majority of them in Los Angeles County. “He took a lot of time choosing his candidates,” said Annette Givans of her father, John Cenkner. Cenkner died in Palmdale in 2003. Despite this,…

Officers of the Chowchilla Police Department arrested 38 year old Robbie Lee De La Cruz today for arson, kidnapping, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of prescription narcotics. This all occurred after officers and the Chowchilla Volunteer Fire Dept. were dispatched to a vegetation fire along the Berenda Slough. After arriving at the location, officers…

Today in the City of Madera there was a gang related shooting. Two victims were shot by rival gang members. One was rammed by a car after being shot. Both victims are expected to live. Our Patrol Division, Detectives and Special Investigations Unit worked together to locate the suspects and recover the firearm used in…

Those who, by word and deed, are out of sync with California’s deeply blue political ethos risk social ostracism. Increasingly, however, the state’s dominant politicians want to subject dissenters to discrimination and legal harassment – even infringement of constitutional rights. Smoke a cigarette, own a gun, cut a tree, pan for gold, question the “inconvenient…

Madera Burglary Interrupted, Suspects Arrested At about 2 AM on Wednesday morning Madera Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to an alarm at an irrigation business in the 20000 block of Golden State Boulevard. When Deputies arrived they found an adult female sitting inside a Nissan SUV just south of the business. She was detained while additional…