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The former University Medical Center campus in 2019 in Fresno.<\/p>\n
ERIC PAUL ZAMORA<\/p>\n
ezamora@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s news from The Fresno Bee spans a family fight, and an overnight death behind a big-box store and a jury award over a failed hospital campus deal.<\/p>\n
Here are Monday\u2019s top stories to catch you upMan killed by tractor trailer behind Sam\u2019s Club in Fresno, police say \u2014 A man was found dead early Sunday in the rear parking lot of the Sam\u2019s Club near Blackstone and Nees avenues, Fresno police said<\/a>. Officers responded around 1:30 a.m. and found the victim lying on cardboard. Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega said the man appeared to have made a sleeping area beneath the tractor trailer, unaware it would begin moving again.After night of drinking, cousins brawl over keeping party going, Fresno police say \u2014 Two cousins fought at a Fresno home Sunday morning after one wanted to stop drinking and rest while the other wanted the party to continue, police reported<\/a>. The argument near N. Angus Street escalated around 6:30 a.m., and both women briefly picked up weapons \u2014 a butcher knife and scissors. Neither threatened the other with the weapons, and no injuries were reported. The incident was documented as a battery.Developer wins $2.5M from Fresno County. \u2018Made-up reason\u2019 broke contract, lawyer says \u2014 A Fresno County Superior Court jury awarded CMG Construction Management Group Inc. $2.5 million<\/a> after a two-week trial over a failed 2019 deal to buy the University Medical Center campus for $4 million. The county backed out in 2021, citing a conflict of interest involving former Supervisor Sal Quintero\u2019s staffer Steve Rapada, but the judge barred that from evidence. Attorney Butch Wagner said the county later listed the property for $6 million, indicating it had undervalued the site. The county said it plans to challenge the verdict.<\/p>\n Original stories by Anthony Galaviz, Nick Fenley, and Thaddeus Miller<\/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":"The former University Medical Center campus in 2019 in Fresno. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com Monday\u2019s news from The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-429803","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\/429803","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=429803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}