A health magazine recently identified Fresno as the drunkest city in the United States, based on death rates from alcoholic liver disease, alcohol-related car accidents,
Category: Community Health
When two young men started shooting during a late-night Fresno house party on Saturday, November 28, 2009 over rival tagging crew disputes, twelve people became wounded. In an article by The Fresno Bee, Police Chief Jerry Dyer noted this has been “the most wounded in a single shooting incident in Fresno in recent memory.” Here, youth from The kNOw express their concerns about the incident, and the need for more positive things for teens to do.
The school day finally ended. I was anxious to get home to eat all the delicious Chinese food my sister-in-law had just prepared for me. I went to the front of the school, as usual, to wait and play cards with my buddies.
Youth Journalist Marcus Vega takes viewers on a tour of an abandoned home, where he and many other homeless youth have spent the night. “At night time, this place gets pitch black, there are rats here…I used to sleep here at night time when it sounds like much more is going on, things going in and out of the walls,” he shares in the video.
It’s all too common to hear about children and teens who have to jump over fences and sneak onto school grounds during weekends just so