A large Madera Police Department presence could be found in the parking lot of Olive Avenue and I Street last week. A Madera Police...

“After three days in the Atlantic Ocean during a heat wave, April Tupelo wasn’t recognizable to her family.” April’s corpse winds up on...

For The Madera Tribune Many of Madera’s outlaws never saw the inside of this old jail--Madera’s first--Old Judge Lynch took care of them....

Phillip Margolin has been a best-selling author for 45 years, since the publication of “Heartstone” in 1978. Five years ago, he started a...

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno, and Chief Probation Officer Chris Childers, far right,...

Set in New Orleans, Erica Spindler’s latest blockbuster mystery, “The Detective’s Daughter” (2022, 395 pages in paperback format),...

For The Madera Tribune A sheriff’s posse poses around the mortally wounded train robber, John Sontag. Shown second from the left is Hiram...

In “Mean Streak,” (2014, 471 pages in paperback format), Sandra Brown introduces readers to Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a successful...