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OAKLAND -- In an ongoing effort to support customers facing financial hardship, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is extending its Match My Payment Program. The program will continue into 2026 while funds last.
The PG&E Match My Payment Program offers a dollar-for-dollar match, up to $1,000, for qualifying low-to-moderate-income customers to pay past-due energy bills to prevent service disconnections.
FRESNO COUNTY - Law enforcement ended the Christmas season with a total of 21 men arrested and booked into the Fresno County Jail on various charges related to arranging to meet with a child for sex.
They range in age from 21 to 66. The arrests are a result of the undercover effort called “Operation Naughty or Nice”, which was a multi-agency operation conducted from December 18th – 21st, 2025. Some arrestees have since posted bond, been assigned a court date, and released from custody.
SACRAMENTO. — A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Jasmeet Singh, 30, an Indian national who had been living in Fresno, charging him with transmitting threats to injure another person, United States Attorney Eric Grant announced.
According to court documents, on May 27, 2024, Singh sent multiple threats to a victim living in Canada, threatening to kill the victim because of that victim’s prior cooperation with Indian law enforcement. Singh sent the victim a picture of the victim’s car in front of the victim’s residence, told the victim he knew the victim’s daily habits, including the type of coffee the victim drank, and that the victim could not run because Singh and his associates would kill him/her.
TUCSON, Ariz. - Fresno State defeated Miami (Ohio) 18-3 in the 2025 Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl, Presented by Ginn & Juice by Dre & Snoop. With the win, Matt Entz became the second Bulldog head coach to win a bowl game in their first season in program history. The Bulldogs cap the 2025 season with a 9-4 overall record.
SACRAMENTO - A Trump administration presidential executive order threatens to whitewash our nation’s history and silence people’s true experiences. But we're pushing back.
At the height of World War II, ACLU NorCal Executive Director Ernest Besig drove 400 miles to Tule Lake, a desolate stretch of high desert surrounded by barbed wire near the Oregon border, to investigate the brutal conditions endured by Japanese Americans incarcerated there under Executive Order 9066. Prisoners had gone on a hunger strike to protest beatings, months of isolation in the stockade, and midnight raids where they were forced to stand in the snow for hours in their underwear and zoris (traditional Japanese sandals made of straw).
