My home town, in the news

A mother is being accused of killing her son and leaving another son seriously injured Saturday, in a case Tulare County Sheriff’s deputies are calling “horrific.”Details are preliminary. The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that deputies around 5:30 a.m. responded to a home on Avenue 184 in Porterville for “suspicious circumstances.”A caller told the Sheriff’s Office that a woman, identified as Sherri Telnas, 45, took her two boys — ages 12 and 7 — into a corn field across the street from their home. There, the children were possibly thrown into a ditch, the release said.By the time deputies arrived, one of the boys was nearly dead. The caller said the woman had been acting strange.Both boys were taken to a nearby hospital, but medical staff could not save the older child. The 7-year-old remains in a critical condition.

I never thought corn was a profitable crop around here.