(Photo courtesy: Merced County Sheriff’s Office) (KMJ) – The Merced County Sheriff’s Office says three of the six inmates who escaped from its main jail facility over the weekend are now back behind bars. Sheriff Vern Warnke says Edgar Ventura was caught Tuesday near Firebaugh. And, Tuesday Night, Fabian Cruz Roman and Andres Rodriquez were…… MORE
(Photo courtesy: County of Fresno) (KMJ) – Brandi Orth has served as Fresno County’s Clerk and Registrar of Voters for the past nine years. But, this week, she announced her intention to retire. In a statement released Tuesday, Orth writes: On December 17, 2020 my mother’s sudden illness required my personal attendance in North Carolina. As…… MORE
FRESNO COUNTY, CA (KMJ) — A man has died after officers say his car drifted into the path of an oncoming semi truck in Fresno County. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) says a black Volkswagen Jetta was heading westbound on Highway 180 when the driver drifted into the eastbound lane near Blythe Avenue. The car crashed into a big…… MORE
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The University of California San Diego has placed almost a dozen vending machines that dispense self-administered COVID-19 kits on campus to help students adhere to stringent testing requirements. UC San Diego requires all students to test for COVID-19 weekly and the vending machines provide a convenient way to comply with that rule. The 1,000 on-campus…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The Fresno police department gives an update on its violent crime suppression operation. The operation was launched in October as a direct result of the increase in violent crime The Fresno Police Dept. said it was in part issues of $0 bail and early releases from our jail and state prison…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, CA. (AP) — Millions of low-income Californians would get a $600 payment from the state under a budget proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The proposed payment announced Wednesday would go to people with annual incomes of less than $30,000. The pool of eligible people includes some immigrants living in the country illegally who…… MORE
(Photo courtesy: The Associated Press) (KMJ) – The state says hospitals here in the Central Valley and down in Southern California are swamped by the coronavirus pandemic. So now it has ordered medical facilities in the northern part of the state that have room to begin accepting patients from hospitals that are out of intensive…… MORE
(Photo courtesy: Fresno County Sheriff’s Office) (KMJ) – The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office continues to search for the vehicle reportedly used in a December 31st armed robbery. Around 4 p.m. on that date, Deputies say a suspect got out of a mid-2000s model Dodge Charger shot a 32-year-old farm labor supervisor in the hands and…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) — Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval began his term on Jan. 4, 2021, as interim president at California State University, Fresno. He succeeds President Joseph I. Castro, who became chancellor of the 23-campus California State University system. Jiménez-Sandoval has been a Fresno State professor and administrator for 20 years. He most recently…… MORE
