In the coming months, you’ll be hearing a lot more about Bayer Cropscience and their new public awareness public about the HLB disease. Bayer, along with California Citrus Mutual and growers hope get more homeowners with backyard citrus to get involved with fighting the Asian Citrus Psyllid, a tiny pest that can carry the…… MORE
Izzard Brings “Force Majeure” to the Valley
(KMJ) Emmy-award winning comedian Eddie Izzard can add record-setter to his resume. His “Force Majeure” tour has become the most extensive comedy tour – EVER. It began in March 2013. And Izzard has continue various legs of the comedy adventure since then. Izzard brings his tour to the Valley for the first time ever in…… MORE
Nicholls Fire Culprit Gets 6+ Years
(KMJ) The man responsible for setting the “Nicholls Fire” last year in the Sequoia National Forest has been sentenced to nearly 7 years in prison. 46 year old Edgardo Fournier was sentenced Tuesday in Fresno Federal Court for setting the massive wildfire and for operating an illegal marijuana grow near Smith Canyon. The Nicholls Fire…… MORE
11 Yr Old Earns 3 College Degrees
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An 11-year-old Northern California boy who last year was lauded by President Barack Obama for becoming one of the youngest in the nation to graduate high school has now earned three community college degrees. The Sacramento Bee reports Sacramento native Tanishq Abraham skipped first grade, completed second grade, and then started…… MORE
Goggles, Condoms for Calif. Porn Actors?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A state proposal that would roll out strict safety standards for California porn productions to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases has drawn criticism from adult film workers who feel the regulations go too far. The 21-page draft proposed by the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health calls for…… MORE
CHP Officer Seriously Hurt in Crash
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol says a motorcycle officer was seriously hurt in a crash while racing to the scene of an overturned propane tanker truck east of Stockton. Officials say the seven-year CHP veteran was driving with flashing lights and siren when he attempted to pass a pickup truck on two-lane…… MORE
Woman’s Bones Found 30 Years After Disappearance
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say skeletal remains found in suburban San Francisco are those of a Swedish exchange student who disappeared more than 30 years ago. The Oakland Tribune reports Tuesday that the remains are those Elisabeth Martinsson. The 21-year-old vanished on Jan. 17, 1982. She was working as a nanny and staying…… MORE
Can Aussies Help Solve Our Drought?
(SYDNEY) California’s longest and sharpest drought on record has its increasingly desperate water stewards looking for solutions in Australia, the world’s driest inhabited continent. The struggle to survive with little water is a constant thread in the history of Australia, whose people now view drought as an inevitable feature of the land poet Dorothea Mackellar…… MORE
More work to be done at Santa Barbara Spill
Officials from Plains All American Pipeline say they hope the broken section of a pipeline that spilled oil along the California Coast can be removed for investigation by today. The company downgraded the amount of oil that may have spilled. The new estimate of the worst-case volume of oil released is 101,000 gallons. That’s…… MORE
Mexico Watching American Meat Labels
Reuters reports Mexico announced last week it would decide within 15-days what sanctions to impose on U.S. meat products if Congress doesn’t comply with the World Trade Organization’s ruling on Country-of-Origin Labeling. Mexico Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez says specialists in international law are ready and waiting to see what Congress does.… MORE
