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Golden State Annex immigration detention facility in McFarland, CA photographed on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025.<\/p>\n
Melissa Montalvo<\/p>\n
Fresno Bee<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a rundown of The Bee\u2019s top stories for Wednesday, including Erewhon-style smoothies in Fresno, a \u201clandmark\u201d safety settlement for detained immigrants and a list of new restaurants gracing the Central Valley this summer.<\/p>\n
Top stories for Wednesday Original stories by Hana Tilksew, Melissa Montalvo and Amber Hair.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Annex immigration detention facility in McFarland, CA photographed on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. Melissa Montalvo Fresno…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-391536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Four](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783565349_77_EXPRESSRYSMOOTHIES.JPG\" "\\"EXPRESSRYSMOOTHIES.JPG\\"")
Four smoothies sold by Expressry Deli are on display. @expressrydeli on Instagram Influencers flock to Fresno deli for its version of trendy Erewhon smoothies<\/a>: Smoothies available at Expressry Deli and Market are being promoted by local influencers as Fresno\u2019s version of those sold at Erewhon, a high-end grocery store in Los Angeles. The local drinks, like \u201cBerry Sweet,\u201d \u201cSmurfie Smoothie\u201d and \u201cDate Me Mango,\u201d are said to closely resemble Erewhon\u2019s viral offerings. The traffic boom prompted Expressry to ask customers to be patient about long wait times.Detainees at California ICE facility win \u2018landmark\u2019 safety settlement, protections<\/a>: Geo Group, a Florida-based private prison operator, agreed to pay a $104,510 civil penalty to settle a Cal\/OSHA complaint. The complaint was filed in June 2022 and alleged that immigrants held at the Golden State Annex ICE detention facility in McFarland worked in unsafe conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. The company also agreed to implement an \u201cAerosol Transmissible Diseases\u201d exposure control plan and give detained workers necessary PPE.In the mood for something new? 15 restaurants coming to Fresno area this summer<\/a>: Fifteen restaurants opened, added locations or announced plans to come to the Fresno area this summer. Some of the notable arrivals include Pijja Paradise \u2014 an Indian-American pizza and arcade concept on West Shaw Avenue that\u2019s holding its grand opening Friday \u2014 and Masa Madre, a rebranding of the El Mariachi restaurant that offers tortilla-making classes.<\/p>\n