An 18-year-old man suffered moderate injuries after veering off the roadway and crashing into the SR-59 overcrossing on Friday. He was not wearing a seatbelt. The driver was traveling westbound on SR-152, veered onto the right shoulder, up the embankment, and collided with the overcrossing and guardrails. The driver claimed mechanical failure, however CHP found none. During the month of December, CHP Madera has investigated multiple crashes where seat belts had not been worn.

Allen Baraldi/The Madera Tribune A vehicle sits upside-down after a crash on H and 2nd streets December 19. The driver (sitting on the curb) was found to be under the influence, and placed under arrest. CHP Madera officers responded to a solo vehicle roll-over crash in the area of H and 2nd streets, near the northbound SR-99 on-ramp on December 19 just after 1 p.m. A CHP officer arrived within minutes and observed two men walking away from the vehicle. A 20-year-old was detai

Early Saturday morning, the Madera Police Department’s weekend night shift patrol team made several arrests for driving under the influence in different parts of the City. Each incident involved a traffic collision resulting in property damage. Thankfully, no injuries were reported. As the New Year approaches, the Madera Police Department reminds the community to plan ahead and never drink and drive. If anyone plans to drink, please use a rideshare service or designate a sobe

The Madera Coyotes boys basketball team found itself in 12-point first half hole against the Matilda Torres Toros in a match-up before Christmas. The Coyotes battled back to tie the game and hold off the Toros for a 52-49 non-conference victory on December 23 at Torres. Stevie Estrada led the comeback with 21 points and 12 rebounds. He added four steals. Alex Rodriguez scored 14 points and Jeremiah Burk had 10 with five rebounds.

The Matilda Torres girls basketball team is looking for another run in the Div. V Central Section playoffs and took care of the Madera Coyotes before Christmas. The Toros outscored the Coyotes 39-8 in the first half and jumped out to a 51-13 third quarter lead before cruising to a 56-22 victory December 23 at Torres. The Toros had 10 different players score in victory, led by Kaylin Perez with 15 points and seven rebounds, five offensive.

Congratulations go out to Chuck Wieland for his recent letter conveying his thoughts on the state of the economy in the good old USA. There are a few things that I do agree with him on. One is the fact that the extension of the 2017 tax cuts do help the rich, however he did fail to mention that the tax cuts helped a huge majority of the taxpayers and they definitely helped the middle class. Perhaps the ones it didn’t help are the nearly 40 percent of the people who pay little

Lisa Scottoline’s books almost always make the top tier of my favorite books. But I suppose that there’s an exception to everything. “Come Home” (2012, 368 pages in soft cover) simply isn’t up to the vaulted Scottoline standard. The theme that runs through the novel is that a stepmother is always a mother, just as a mother is always a mother. It’s sentimentality taken to the upchuck level. I kept turning pages because I thought that the standard Scottoline would come through

Ceeseven, Wikimedia Commons Crab meat makes a delicious filling for fried wonton appetizers. For those who would like to ring in the New Year with some nibbles, here are a few tried-and-true recipes that have been kicking around in my family for years. So far, nobody has gotten tired of them, but perhaps they are just too polite to complain. Whatever the case may be, they always manage to disappear. They are not like the chocolates my cousins used to take one bite of, then hi