FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Dozens of sharks ashore on Pismo Beach? Two words — fake news. If you, too, saw that photo on Facebook about dead sharks washing up on a Pismo Beach – you have been duped by fake news. A website called React365 posted the story with attribution and a photo. By Thursday, September…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — The first step towards closing down 16 of the City of Fresno’s 22 CRV recycling centers has been taken by district representatives. Concern that the sites are attracting crime and causing blight are two of the reasons cited by Councilmember Paul Caprioglio in his presentation in the Council Chambers Thursday afternoon. “Transients…… MORE
Kyle Allen Sarver of Fresno. A judge has issued two arrest warrants for violating the conditions of his probationary agreement. Last November, a Fresno County Sheriff’s deputy arrested Kyle Sarver in Fresno’s Old Fig Garden Neighborhood. He was found to be in possession of a stolen van. He was booked into the Fresno County Jail.…… MORE
Virginia Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte will introduce a bill the week of September 25th that would replace the H-2A guest worker program. The bill is titled the Agricultural Guestworker Act and would replace the program that many in agriculture use to find labor. A Packer Dot Com article says Goodlatte, Chair of the House…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Alleged vandals who broke into the Tulare County Museum are caught. Visalia Police Department Detectives arrested an 11 year-old boy and a 12 year-old boy on Monday, September 18th. The pair is accused of vandalizing the museum at Mooney Grove Park on the 27000 block of South Mooney Boulevard. An alarm went…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ ) – A convicted rapist working as a security guard at a Fresno rape counseling center enters pleas to criminal charges. The Fresno County DA’s office says 40 year old Damon Rodgers is taking advantage of a settlement with the judge to get a reduced sentence. Rodgers was contracted by an outside security…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Pamela Chimenti, the mother of 30-year-old Michael Ryan Flores, appeared on HLN show Prime Time Justice Wednesday night, as her son seeks to sue 58-year-old Cregg Jerri, who struck him over the head with a chair, when he tried to hold up a Starbucks, back in July. Flores entered the Starbucks wearing…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — The “Raise the Roof” campaign organized by Fresno’s Poverello House, to modernize and rejuvenate facilities on site, is now over following a $1 million grant from the State of California. The money will be used to complete efforts to build a new food storage warehouse, an operations center, and complete community housing…… MORE
A coalition supporting ag exports is urging Senators to pass legislation to expand the Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development program. The Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports and the Agribusiness Coalition for Foreign Market Development say the Cultivating Revitalization by Expanding American Agricultural Trade and Exports, or CREAATE Act, would boost trade’s…… MORE
(KMJ) – Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is now requesting the public’s help for information that will locate next of kin for a South Valley man who died earlier this month. 50-year old Jesus Hernandez (pictured above) died of natural causes on September 2nd. Sheriff’s Deputies say he lived in Tulare, Woodville and Visalia and possibly…… MORE
