Fresno
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Center of a major agricultural area.
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The first touched down Tuesday around 2:20 p.m. near Biola, about eight miles from Fresno.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
The San Joaquin River Parkway in Fresno and Madera counties would join various properties into an 874-acre state park directly upriver from the city of Fresno, with parkland on both sides of the river.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
“We believe there are more crimes occurring than we have records of,” a Fresno County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
That night I dreamed that my family was packing to move to Fresno to pick grapes.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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