{"id":394326,"date":"2026-07-11T03:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:32:12","slug":"top-stories-mall-makeover-athlete-saved-tulare-co-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394326\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories: mall makeover, athlete saved, Tulare Co. crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fresno Bee\u2019s coverage for Friday touched on subjects including a sweeping makeover at Fashion Fair mall, a life-saving response by Fresno City College basketball coaches and an update on a fatal motorcycle crash in Tulare County.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top stories of the day:                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FRS_EPZ_D2_BOYS_03.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"753\" title=\"FRS_EPZ_D2_BOYS_03.JPG\" alt=\"Clovis High's Jackson Scarborough, right, drives past Atascadero's Isaiah Rodriguez, left, in the CIF Central Section 2025-2026 DII Boys Basketball Championship held Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 at Selland Arena in Fresno.\"\/>                                                                                    Former Clovis High standout Jackson Scarborough, right, drives past Atascadero&#8217;s Isaiah Rodriguez, left, in the Central Section D-II championship held Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 at Selland Arena in Fresno.                                                                                            ERIC PAUL ZAMORA                                                                            ezamora@fresnobee.com                                                                                        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/living\/food-drink\/article316450980.html\">Here are the new restaurants, shops added in makeover at Fresno\u2019s Fashion Fair<\/a>: Fashion Fair mall is undergoing major renovations that include an exterior redesign, updated interior lighting and new seating areas. New tenants include Seoul Meat Co., Mongolian chain Mong Q and Filipino french fry franchise Potato Corner. Longtime tenants Hot Dog on a Stick and Bath &amp; Body Works are relocating to larger spaces within the mall, while discount perfume outlet Perfumania and escape room company Escapology are also on the way.<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/sports\/article316462659.html\">Fresno City basketball coaches\u2019 fast response helps save former Clovis High standout<\/a>: Former Clovis High basketball standout Jackson Scarborough is recovering after emergency open-heart surgery following a medical emergency during Monday\u2019s practice at Fresno City College. Staff under coach Robert Haynes immediately called an ambulance when Scarborough began experiencing chest pain, a response his mother Joanna credits with saving his life. The incoming Rams freshman underwent a nine-hour surgery and remained unconscious for several days before waking up Thursday.<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article316452492.html\">Motorcyclist killed in Tulare County solo crash ID\u2019d by coroner<\/a>: The Tulare County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the motorcyclist killed in Wednesday night\u2019s solo crash outside Strathmore as 35-year-old Joshua James Gonzales of Porterville. Gonzales was riding a 2024 Harley-Davidson on Avenue 176 near Road 276 when his motorcycle went off the road and struck a fence around 8:03 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Original stories by Amber Hair, Anthony Galaviz and Maria G. Ortiz-Briones.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno Bee\u2019s coverage for Friday touched on subjects including a sweeping makeover at Fashion Fair mall, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-394326","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\/394326","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=394326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}