‘Tough decisions’: Mendota fights to open in-person vote center for California Special Election

The rural City of Mendota has not had an in-person vote center for California’s special election. Mendota Mayor Victor ...

Mendota’s mayor on how shutdown delays millions for city project

CBS47’s Mederios Babb interviewed Mendota Mayor Victor Martinez about the special election, government shutdown affecting city projects, and future plans.
Modesto Bee

MS-13 gang member who was part of ‘reign of terror’ in California city gets life sentence

An MS-13 gang member Wednesday was sentenced to life in federal prison for the 2017 kidnapping and murder of a Mendota man. Authorities say Israel Alberto Rivas Gomez ...
Modesto Bee

10 indicted for roles in MS-13 reign of terror in California town. All face life in prison

Federal and Fresno-area law enforcement announced the indictment of 10 men Thursday they say terrorized the central California town of Mendota to the benefit of the MS-13 gang. Two of the men named in ...
The San Joaquin Valley Sun

Fresno County’s rural towns lack in-person voting options. One Mayor is speaking out.

Mendota Mayor Victor Martinez is displeased with Fresno County for not giving the city a vote center for the Proposition 50 special election.
AOL

‘Mendota is bustling,’ rural city rising five years after major MS-13 gang crackdown

Joseph Riofrio still remembers the flash-bangs, bullhorns and a law enforcement armored humvee in the alley behind his house that startled him awake in the middle of the night five years ago -- it was ...
Sacramento Bee

Mendota still remembers its fallen 50 years after end of Vietnam War | Opinion

Public officials and relatives of Jesús Rojas Bermúdez and Loy Wendell attended a rededication ceremony of Rojas-Pierce Park in Mendota in 2008. Juan Esparza Loera Vida en el Valle File Photo The ...