SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The Trump administration has given California permission to oversee federal environmental reviews for its high-speed rail project. It comes as the administration is simultaneously trying to cancel a nearly $1 billion federal grant for the project. California won about $3.5 billion in federal help during the Obama administration to build the…… MORE
Food Supply Protection Bill Advances
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved a bill to protect the nation’s food supply. The committee unanimously approved The Protecting America’s Food & Agriculture Act of 2019, introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee leaders Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow. The bill would authorize U.S. Customs and Border Protection to hire additional…… MORE
Father of 5 Killed in DUI Crash – Fresno PD Says Suspect 2 Times Over Legal Limit
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno Police say the suspect in a DUI crash that killed a father of 5 was driving 2-times over the legal limit. Police say the suspect, 21-year-old Gustavo Adrian Blanco Jr. from Tulare was speeding more than 70 miles per hour as he plowed through a red light just…… MORE
National Geographic Aims to Solve Amelia Earhart Mystery
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – The deep-sea explorer who discovered the wrecked Titanic is tackling an aviation mystery: Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. Robert Ballard and a National Geographic expedition will search for her plane next month near a Pacific Ocean atoll that’s part of the Phoenix Islands. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were attempting an around-the-world…… MORE
Tesla Not In Self-Driving Mode in SF Crash That Killed Clovis Man
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (KMJ) – Investigators say Tesla’s autopilot feature was not on during a crash in San Francisco that killed a Central Valley man, and injured his wife over the weekend. The couple had been in a crosswalk on Sunday when San Francisco Police say a Tesla ran a red light. Clovis…… MORE
Insurers Offer Competing Plan to Rescue PG&E from Bankruptcy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Insurance companies that say Pacific Gas & Electric owes them more than $20 billion from wildfire claims want to take over the California utility and pull it out of bankruptcy. The insurers filed court documents Tuesday to end PG&E’s exclusive right to file a reorganization plan. They want the right to…… MORE
San Francisco Looks to House 1,100 Homeless
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A new public engagement campaign is calling on San Franciscans to put aside political differences and tackle the city’s homeless crisis with the urgency the issue deserves. Philanthropist Daniel Lurie, founder of the nonprofit behind the new “All In” campaign, hopes to inspire residents to support building or finding homes for…… MORE
Governor in Sanger, Talks DMV Reform
FRESNO (KMJ) – Governor Gavin Newsom in Sanger, talking about the Department of Motor Vehicles. His remarks coming the same day DMV offices statewide were shutdown until early afternoon, while its employees underwent additional training. Newsom says he was personally at the DMV yesterday, as a customer, to get his Real ID. “I sat in…… MORE
Nunes on Appleton: ‘I’m not saying Mueller is a Democrat or a socialist’
Congressman Devin Nunes called in to the Ray Appleton Show from Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon, after the long-awaited Mueller hearings concluded:… MORE
Newsom in Sanger to Sign Clean Water Bill
FRESNO (KMJ) – Governor Gavin Newsom, in the community of Tombstone a few miles outside of Sanger to sign SB 200 which creates the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. “This is the wealthiest state in the wealthiest democracy in the world, and it’s happened…… MORE
