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Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, fired back at one of his colleagues who publicly criticized him for his announcement last week that as an 18-year-old in the 1980s, he impregnated and then married a 14-year-old girl. In his latest Facebook video, Bouchard attacked Major Floor Leader Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, for his comments to the London Daily Mail newspaper. “[Ogden Driskill] is the same guy that attacked me during my re-election, the same guy who jumped in with a whole host of people endorsing my opponent,” Bouchard said. “He should be looking at all the stuff he’s done to line...

A professor tried to stop a man from abducting his daughter and may have become the Golden State Killer's first murder victim. The retired California police officer suspected of being the notorious Golden State Killer was charged Monday with a 13th murder — that of a father who was fatally shot nearly 44-years-ago while trying to protect his teenage daughter from a masked gunman who had broken into their home. Claude Snelling, who was gunned down at his home in Visalia, California, is believed to be the first victim of suspected serial killer Joseph James DeAngelo, Tulare County District Attorney...

VISALIA — Fire investigators are trying to determine how powdered milk exploded at a processing plant, sparking a two-alarm fire. Seven fire engines responded to California Dairies Inc., where an explosion Monday blew a hole in the side of a powdered milk processing building and forced the evacuation of 200 employees.

<p>Brenda Biesterfeld has become the talk of Lindsay. People are saying she deserves a pat on the back, maybe an award, for telling police that a man was viewing child pornography in the city's library.</p>

VISALIA — A former Visalia police officer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of fondling a woman last month while taking her to a Tulare County detention facility. Xavier Perez, 35, was arrested in Clovis by Tulare County sheriff's detectives on suspicion of felony sexual battery, according to the Sheriff's Department.

FRESNO — Robert Bernardo spent a week this spring traveling the Pacific Northwest, trying to save part of yesterday's future. The high school English teacher swung through Portland and Astoria, Ore., and then on to Ethel, Wash., to drop off a collection of antiquated computers — a PET8032, three VIC-20s, an SX-64 portable and a Commodore 128D. Then on his way home to the Central Valley town of Visalia, Bernardo packed his white Crown Victoria with three more SX-64s, boxes of software and a couple of printers. With any luck, this agglomeration of decades-old circuit boards and dusty disk drives...

<p>Leo Espino credits his younger brother for introducing him to cigars several years ago.</p> <p>But it was a solid round of golf nearly three years ago that got Espino hooked on stogies for good.</p> <p>"I was smoking a cigar and had a good round of golf a few years ago," he said. "I was trying to figure out how it happened and ..."</p>

<p>Two little words, so much controversy.</p> <p>A highway billboard sponsored by Tulare-Kings Right to Life that says "Abortion Sucks" is angering some motorists, even some who say the words degrade their anti-abortion stance.</p> <p>But others say they're glad to see a message that gets to the point.</p>