(Burn Fresno) – 9/3/2010 – Janitorial company ABM will be forced to pay $5.8 million to several valley women who say they were sexually harassed on the job. One victim was so emotional that she fainted while describing the event.
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(Burn Fresno) – A Madera County Judge today ruled that Madera teen Brittany Navarra cannot get a fair trial from jurors in Madera County. She stands accused of killing Krista Pike in January 2008 for reasons of romantic rivalry.
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The City of Fresno has unveiled a plan to provide full disclosure of city employee salary and perks called the “Transparency in City Government Act”. It would cover all city workers such as hired vendors and police officers and firemen. It would also require future administrations to post salaries. This event was likely brought on by the salaries of city officials in Bell, California, which were discovered to be excessively high.
City Manager – $189,500
Assistant City Manager 0 :$162,804
Police Chief Jerry Dyer: $169,700
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(Burn Fresno) – 8/17/2010- Anyone in Fresno that regularly drives around town will have noticed a recent wave of graffiti and an increase in Fresno Police graffiti cleanup crews. The city has eight trucks on their graffiti cleanup crew and all have been busy driving around town. No news on if anyone has been prosecuted for this yet.
It’s been especially noticeable downtown, an area Fresno is currently trying to transform into a hot spot for all kinds of entertainment and activities. Hmong gang activity has been attributed to much graffiti in Fresno in the past, and with the slump in the economy the number of jobless young adults with nothing to keep them busy is likely large.
Graffiti sees no profit for the person who commits the crime, so I cannot fathom how someone would want to ruin the future look of their city. Perhaps they have been so brainwashed with a gang mentality that they are unable to see anything outside of that world, and feel “representing” their gang by advertising it is helpful to their cause.
What they do not realize is that they will one day too want to live in a world without pointless scribbles on the walls of buildings. Actual art is one thing, but scrawling a persons initials or the name of their gang has no place on the walls and surfaces of our city.
(Burn Fresno) Coroners from the Tulare County Coroner’s Office have identified the body found in Lake Kaweah as 46 year old Mark Burgess of Tulare. He went missing after he was ejected from his boat on Memorial Day weekend when it collided with a jet ski. When the body was first found Sheriff’s investigators were unsure of the identity of the drowning victim. But it has now been confirmed by the Coroner’s Office.
