MADERA - Over the last few weeks a special task force of law enforcement officers has been on the streets of Madera looking for illegal fireworks. The net result was a much smaller show of aerial fireworks blasting over the roofs of residential house subdivisions and less firework related fires on the Forth of July.
The Madera Police Department has brought attention to the large problem that illegal fireworks cause in our community, through education and targeting those who choose to sell and purchase illegal fireworks. During this time their special task force has seized over five hundred pounds of illegal fireworks by posing as potential buyers and sellers on social media.
MERCED - On April 04, 2014, Merced Police Department officers responded to the 3200 block of Juneau Ct. for a shots fired call. Officers arrived in the area and located a male victim who had been shot twice in the upper body. 
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CHOWCHILLA - The Chowchilla City Council, at its Tuesday Council meeting, unanimously passed its City Budget for the next fiscal year. The balanced budget allocates $38,263,555 over a variety of departments and projects, with the largest portion of the budget supporting the City’s enterprise funds, which include its water, sewer, trash pickup, airport, and storm drainage system. The next largest beneficiary of the budget is the General Fund, of which the majority of the money, 44.2%, supports the Police Department.
MADERA – Cheating on a test in elementary school is something you might expect from a student. When it is done by a sixth-grade teacher on their entire classroom’s state-testing, well then there is a much bigger problem. This is the situation that district officials are now dealing with at Madera Unified. In mid-May of this last school year a sixth-grade teacher was removed from his classroom and placed on paid administrative leave pending a state and district investigation.
