AKRON, Ohio, July 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Goodyear (NASDAQ: GT), the best-known tire company inNorth America, is hard at work on the construction of its newest airship. This week marks an important milestone in the company’s plans to replace its current fleet of blimps as workers install an envelope over the aluminum and carbon fiber framework of the [...]

CLOVIS – The Clovis Community Medical Center Guild delivered a huge surprise to the hospital’s baby nursery in June – a $250,000 pledge that will benefit the more than 3,400 babies born there each year. Guild President Joyce Morrelli announced the gift after the group’s June board meeting. “This gift raises the Guild to the [...]

CHICAGO, July 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — U.S. workers can expect a stable employment environment over the next six months along with an upswing in temporary jobs. In CareerBuilder’s latest national survey, employers indicated that full-time, permanent hiring in the second half of 2013 will mirror that of 2012 while temporary and contract hiring is expected to increase [...]

OAKHURST – The Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau unveiled a new logo featuring more graphics and vivid colors Wednesday. The new logo is meant to capture people’s attention by using an iconic image from Yosemite National Park. “We wanted to have a logo that quickly grabbed people’s attention as today’s society zeroes in on images more [...]

NEW YORK, July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Forty percent of business executives, whose organizations are contemplating merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in 2013, expect the deals will occur in North America. According to a recent Deloitte online poll, more than one quarter of these deals (28 percent) will be under $1 billion. “It may seem to go against conventional [...]

FRESNO – Fresno Grizzlies catcher Johnny Monell has been selected to participate in the 2013 IGT Triple-A All-Star Home Run Derby, Triple-A Baseball announced. Monell will be among six participants, three from the Pacific Coast League and three from the International League, in the Home Run Derby, which will take place on Monday, July 15th [...]

CHICAGO, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — This August, retailers can expect that prepared parents will shop and spend more during the “back-to-school season” than they did last year. According to ShopperTrak – the world’s largest counter and analyzer of retail foot traffic – national retail sales, when compared to the same period last year, will rise 4.3 percent in [...]

FRESNO – 14 students will spend the coming weeks in hospitals, clinics and labs although they aren’t sick. For the 25th year, UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program is offering Central San Joaquin Valley high school students the chance to experience hands-on biomedical research through its Summer Biomedical Research Internship Program (SBI). Now through Aug. 7, [...]

NEW YORK , July 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Commodities were lower in June as uncertainty surrounding the future of the global economic recovery remained high. Nelson Louie, Global Head of Commodities in Credit Suisse’s Asset Management business, said, “Macroeconomic news out of China weighed on commodities in June.  With China now shifting to a more moderate [...]

NEW YORK, July 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The latest edition of Bankrate.com’s (NYSE: RATE) annual cash-back credit card rewards survey found that more than half of the cards (55%) offer introductory bonuses. But some cards are offering fewer points or require more spending in order to get the same bonus as last year. Fifty-three percent of the cards [...]

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 [...]