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Estrada’s Spanish Kitchen used to be at this location on North Blackstone Avenue at Grant Avenue near downtown Fresno. The building is now Saiz Construction & Development, which buys and manages\/rents houses and does construction. Estrada’s was there from 1928 to 1997. It was hugely popular.<\/p>\n
CRAIG KOHLRUSS<\/p>\n
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Wednesday\u2019s top stories from The Fresno Bee brought a mix of courtroom drama, a nostalgic look at Fresno\u2019s dining history and a fatal crash on Central Valley roads. From new testimony in the Caleb Quick murder trial to memories of a beloved Blackstone Avenue restaurant that closed decades ago, here are the top stories of the day from The Fresno Bee.<\/p>\n
Here are Wednesday\u2019s top stories to catch you up Original stories by Thaddeus Miller, Bethany Clough and Nick Fenley<\/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 Related Stories from Fresno Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Estrada’s Spanish Kitchen used to be at this location on North Blackstone Avenue at Grant Avenue near downtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-425622","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\/425622","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=425622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Cassandra Michael, 18, enters Department 50 of the Fresno County Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, on the third day of trial. She\u2019s accused of the murder of Caleb Quick from April 2025, when she was 16. THADDEUS MILLER tmiller@fresnobee.com Texts between teens charged with murder of Caleb Quick in Clovis detailed in court: On the third day of the juvenile trial, a Clovis detective read text messages between Cassandra Michael and boyfriend Byron Rangel<\/a> from the day before and after Caleb Quick was fatally shot outside a McDonald\u2019s in April 2025. Prosecutors argue Michael served as getaway driver in a revenge plot over an alleged sexual assault, while her defense says she never expressed any desire to harm Quick. DNA from both teens was found on a silver Smith & Wesson revolver, though the defense argues it could have transferred through secondary contact.Remember this Blackstone Ave. restaurant? Its Fresno history spanned 8 decades: Estrada\u2019s Spanish Kitchen operated at 370 Blackstone Ave. for nearly 70 years before closing in 1997 amid a messy probate dispute<\/a>. Founded in 1917 by Cruz Marcella Estrada Dillard \u2014 known as Nini \u2014 the restaurant became famous for its tostada compuesta, which she invented at age 11. Her grandson Ralph Dillard Jr., the last living relative trained by her, published a cookbook last year that has already sold more than 2,000 copies.Man killed in early-morning rollover crash near Sanger, CHP says: A driver was killed Wednesday morning after his 2009 Toyota Camry crossed the center median and overturned at least once near McCall Avenue<\/a> around 6:45 a.m. CHP Sgt. Christopher Swanberg said the man, born in 1991, was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene. His identity is pending, and it\u2019s unclear whether he was speeding.<\/p>\n