Madera Police Department Officer Jose Barajas conducted a traffic stop on a blue Honda sedan in the 1100 block of Country Club Drive on Saturday.  The vehicle had been reported stolen. The driver, Jose Solorio, 39, was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Madera County Jail. In a separate incident Saturday night, Officers Phillip Thomas and Daniel Ruby responded to a burglary alarm at a local restaurant in the 1400 block of East Yosemite Avenue.

SACRAMENTO — Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s penalty increase bill for sexual battery in a hospital (AB 848) — was signed into law Friday by Governor Newsom. Soria’s Medical Safety Chaperone Act (AB 849) was signed into law earlier this week, making her public safety bill package complete. “These bills bring to light the injustices that are taking place when felony sexual battery is committed by a hospital employee against a patient,” Soria said. “We need to send a message to

For The Madera Tribune The Brown house on Yosemite Ave. in 1920. Although I am not anxious to go there permanently, I do love to visit Arbor Vitae Cemetery. Not only is it beautiful, it is the final resting place of so many folks whom I have met through the years while doing research for this column.  Just the other day, I went out to stroll up and down the rows looking for my friends from the past. First there was Dr. Joseph Borden and Levin Sledge, two members of the Alabam

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