“On Tuesday afternoon, Fresno EOC Advance Peace Fresno received word that its $2 million, three-year grant from the Department of Justice ended immediately with no forewarning,” Brian Angus, Interim CEO of Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission, said in a statement to The Bee Thursday afternoon.

Months after California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 to strengthen criminal penalties for drug and theft crimes, reversing a decade of decriminalization, a new report from a top California think tank shows a surprising chasm between two major Central Valley counties and how they are pursuing cases.

The court decided that contractually limiting willful injury damages is just as improper as agreeing to eliminate those damages. It said, “contractual releases of tort liability threaten to undermine our tort system’s goal of maintaining community standards of conduct and ensuring wrongdoers compensate those they harm.”

The Metropolitan Water District recently took a group of visitors to see the 13-mile tunnel beneath Mt. San Jacinto that delivers water to Southern California.