The Fresno Grizzlies baseball team is one step closer
to a new owner.

The West Nile Virus has claimed the life of a Clovis
woman. She is the second person to die of West Nile in
Fresno County this month.

South Valley prosecutors say the brothers Tou and Ger
Yang were each carrying pellet guns when Fresno Police
shot them in Goshen.

Tou Yang died at a Fresno hospital.

See? Pellet guns can kill.

Fresno County unveiled the most recent plans for a new
five-story library in downtown Fresno, which will
include a 350-seat auditorium, a large book
collection, computer labs and a career center.

Between 3,000 and 7,000 people are expected to visit
the building each day.

It's not known how much the new building will cost,
but a study done in 2002 showed it could be as much as
$97 million.

Fresno Police set up special DUI checkpoints around
the city and will continue through Labor Day.

Over the last few days Fresno Police towed more than
140 cars. The drivers were either driving without a
license or were under the influence.

Twenty people were arrested for DUI.

More than 20 Rite Aids in central and northern
California have been hit.

Police believe there are 5 different sets of suspects.
So not all the robberies are linked.

Most of the crimes happened when the store was still
open.

So I guess that means if you want to shop there
safely, you should do so when the store is closed.

Authorities are investigating how a male inmate
managed to lock himself up with eight female prisoners
at the Wilson County Jail.

Officials believe Joseph Krist, 34, sneaked into the
cell after he moved a mop and bucket from his cell
into a vestibule located between his and the women's
cell.

Krist apparently didn't return to his cell, but
instead stayed in the vestibule until the women's cell
door was remotely opened by a jail employee for them
to get the mop.

Paul Dalebout wasn't happy to come across a foot of
raw sewage in the basement of his house, but it was a
bathroom that left him horrified: "It was just gushing
up out of the toilet like a geyser."

Authorities blamed a dead dog stuffed down a sewer
manhole and opened a criminal investigation. They
found the dog's owner from an identifying chip
implanted in it. The owner said the dog had been
missing.

Provo offered to reimburse homeowners for the cost of
hiring professional crews to clean up their houses —
for a second time since asphalt chunks clogged their
sewer line five years ago. Other Provo sewer lines
have yielded bowling balls and carpet scraps.

This time crews snaked a high-pressure hose with a
spiked end into a manhole to clear the sewer main,
dislodging the corpse of the large dog.

German police have arrested a 31-year-old man they
caught vandalizing two cars by scratching large
penis-shaped gouges into them and said they believe he
may be responsible for similar markings found on
hundreds of others.

The man was under investigation for vandalizing around
330 vehicles in the region over the last few months,
most of which had also been marked with the same penis
insignia.