FRESNO – Celebrity football players will team up this weekend for the inaugural Big B.A.N.G. (Building A New Generation) Weekend, which will benefit roughly 30 foster kids under the care of the Keeping Youth Journeying Onward (KYJO) Foster Family Agency. The weekend kicks off with the Celebrity Bowling Challenge this Friday evening at AMF Sierra [...]

FRESNO -More than 10,000 fans crowded Chukchansi Park last night for the Fresno Grizzlies Independence Day Fireworks Extravaganza, which was also the start of a seven-game homestand. Despite the large crowd, the Grizzlies lost to the Sacramento River Cats with a score of 1-0.  The Grizzlies will face the River Cats three more times before [...]

FRESNO – July 18 is now being referred to as a “Ladies’ Night Out,” as Susan G. Komen will host its inaugural Pink Bag Social in the Holiday Inn Skyroom Lounge in downtown Fresno, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The event is free to the public, and in addition to complimentary hors d’oeuvres, no-host bar and [...]

NEW YORK, July 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Provincetown, located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, is the United States’ most expensive destination in terms of its hotel costs. That’s the finding of a new survey from CheapHotels.org. The survey compared hotel rates for all destinations in theUSA for this summer’s main travel period of July 1 to August 31. The rankings were determined based [...]

SAN DIEGO, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – CEOs held optimistic views about the overall economy as well as for their own firms in the Q2 2013 Vistage CEO Confidence Index. While there was a slight shift in their assessments of the economy, how CEOs viewed prospects for their own firms has been remarkably stable since the start of the year. The Vistage CEO [...]

MADERA – In 1958, Valley Children’s Hospital performed its first open heart surgery. Yesterday, Children’s Hospital Central California was the first hospital in the valley to perform heart valve replacement  without open heart surgery. Cardiac Interventionist Dr. Paolo Aquino lead the Children’s Hospital team in successfully implanting Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valves in two patients on Monday, July [...]

FRESNO – The Big Fresno Fair wants your nominations for two of its most prestigious recognition programs – its Hall of Fame, which is in its 7th year, and its Community Champions Awards, now in its 6th year. “We are focused on honoring those individuals who keep our Fair tradition alive, as well as those [...]

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $24.70 billion for the month of May 2013, an increase of 4.6 percent from the previous month when sales were $23.62 billion. This represents the largest sequential monthly increase in sales for the industry since March [...]

SELMA – Gregory L. Garner was sworn in as the City of Selma’s 12th police chief at Abraham Lincoln Middle School on Monday. “We are pleased to have someone with Greg’s skills and abilities right outside our door,” said Selma City Manager D-B Heusser.   “He was head and shoulders above the rest of the finalists.  [...]

FRESNO —Two Fresno State faculty members, Dr. The Nguyen and Dr. Fariborz M. Tehrani, both of the Lyles School of Engineering, were selected to be Coleman Fellows for Fresno State by the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Coleman Foundation. Nguyen is currently assistant professor for the Mechanical Engineering Department and will be [...]

NEW YORK and LONDON, July 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The normal cyclical rise in interest rates, which was delayed due to the financial crisis and recession and by Federal Reserve actions to hold down bond yields, is now emerging, according to BNY Mellon Chief Economist Richard Hoey as outlined in his most recent Economic Update. “We believe that a persistent multi-year upward [...]