MADERA COUNTY — Coarsegold resident Rachel Nickole James, 34, was convicted of felony violations including assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats, as well as a misdemeanor petty theft, at a jury trial in the Madera County Superior Courthouse on Thursday, July 28. The trial related to an incident that occurred on December 7, 2015, at the Chevron station on ...

MADERA COUNTY – Following are details from the Madera County Sheriff’s Office of reports taken locally from Sunday, July 17 to Sunday, July 24, 2016: Oakhurst vehicle vandalism On Sunday, July 17, at 8:23 a.m., a deputy was dispatched to the 43000 block of Road 415 regarding a vehicle which had been stripped of its car parts. A report was ...

MADERA COUNTY — The Madera County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously during a special meeting today to approve the Draft Sales Tax Expenditure Plan aimed at putting a public safety tax measure before the voters in March 2017. This is the next step toward putting a one-cent sales tax measure on the ballot, revenues from which would be specifically designated ...

OAKHURST — A three-vehicle crash on Highway 41, followed by a vehicle fire on the north end of town kept firefighters and law enforcement busy in the Oakhurst area this morning. At 8:46 a.m., reports came in of a multi-vehicle crash on Deadwood just south of Oakhurst. A 63-year-old Coarsegold man was southbound on Highway 41 in a 2001 Toyota ...

OAKHURST —  A Coarsegold man was taken into custody on suspicion of DUI this afternoon after rolling his 2003 Toyota Tacoma on the 25 mph corner near the Llama Ranch east of Oakhurst. At 5:15 p.m., Russell Tevis was westbound on Road 426 coming through the very sharp curve about a mile below Bass Lake Heights at a stated speed ...

COARSEGOLD — A woman was arrested for suspicion of DUI last night in Yosemite Lakes Park after she was injured while trying to push her disabled car. Just before 11 p.m. on Sunday, July 24, Rebekah Jane Flores Biccum, 33, of Fresno, was headed up Lilley Mountain Drive in a 1996 Toyota Avalon when she ran out of gas, according ...

OAKHURST – A single-vehicle crash just south of Oakhurst on Highway 41 yesterday ended with one person being arrested for driving under the influence. Just after 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, Kristina May Tallent, 34, of Oakhurst, was southbound just past Victoria Lane at the 40 mph corner when she drifted off the right side of the road, hit ...

MADERA COUNTY — After months of rigorous training, both in the field and in the classroom, 29 new volunteers have graduated from the Madera County Search & Rescue Academy, and joined the ranks of those ready to respond. During a swearing-in ceremony at the main Sheriff’s Office in Madera on Friday, 24 graduates raised their right hand to take the ...

COARSEGOLD — Being distracted by a ringing cell phone was a contributing factor in a single-vehicle rollover accident on Road 415 this afternoon, according to CHP at the scene. Just before 3 p.m., a 20-year-old female driver was eastbound headed into Coarsegold approaching Trabuco Road when her cell phone rang. The driver told officers she did not answer the phone, ...

BASS LAKE – What was supposed to be a nice outing to the mountains for a group of four young people turned into a Search and Rescue mission near Bass Lake this afternoon. The group of two young women from Fresno, and two young men — one from Sanger and another from New York — arrived in the Angel Falls ...