SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/KMJ) – The California Assembly has narrowly passed a bill to make California the first state to completely eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial and replace it with a risk-assessment system. The bill, SB 10 authored by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), passed Monday with no votes to spare and over concerns…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Male prison guards will be prohibited from pat-down searching incarcerated women and viewing them while they are not fully dressed under a new law signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown. Brown announced he signed the bill Monday. It will take effect in 2019. The bill bans male guards from entering areas…… MORE
FRESNO, CA( KMJ) – Caltrans today announced that the California Transportation Commission (CTC) approved funding for more than 100 transportation projects funded entirely or at least partly by $690 million from SB 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. “These projects are a just a small portion of the key improvements we…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — Fresno State faculty and staff have been officially welcomed back to campus, but the Fall Assembly took place under the shadow of what President Joseph Castro described as “turbulence” from earlier in the year. “While we have undoubtedly been on an upward trajectory in so many different ways, we are living in…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Merced CHP is looking for a driver who left two kilos of heroin behind. An officer pulled over a white BMW on August 17, and found the driver’s license was suspended. While he was impounding the car in a Burger King parking lot off Childs Avenue, just east of SR-99 in…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The bodies of two people who went missing in Yosemite National Park have now been located. The 48-year-old Scott Tenczar from San Jose was an Afghanistan veteran and an experienced hiker. He was last seen July 25th. Tenczar had been planning to backpack to Crown and Peeler Lakes when he…… MORE
(KMJ) – After battling the Ferguson Fire for nearly 40 days in Mariposa County, fire crews say they fully contained the deadly blaze on Sunday. The cause of this fire, which began July 13th in the Merced River Canyon, remains under investigation. But in the battle against it, two fire fighters, Braden Varney and Brian…… MORE
(KMJ) – Visalia Police say a dispute between several transients ends with threats made with an axe and a knife. Officers were called to Mary’s Vineyard on the 1400 block of East Noble Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. There, they say 47-year old Deanna Espino and her 49-year old husband, Anthony Espino, Jr., got into…… MORE
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FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A National Parks Service employee who went missing in Yosemite Valley has been found dead. John Cogdell was last seen on Wednesday August 15th, in Upper Pines Campground. His body was discovered Friday. The National Parks Service is not giving any details about his death. … MORE
