FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A teacher at Tenaya Middle School has been arrested – accused of sex crimes with a 14-year-old student. The Fresno Police Department says 30-year-old Justine Nelson is facing three felony counts of oral copulation with a minor under 16 years of age, and two felony counts of possession of child pornography. The crimes allegedly…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — The man accused of shooting two correctional officers inside the lobby of Fresno County Jail has entered a not guilty plea. Thong Vang appeared in front of a judge once again Thursday morning, dressed in a yellow jumpsuit. The color indicates he remains in solitary confinement following his alleged actions on September…… MORE
DOS PALOS – Police investigating what they called “very serious” hazing among football players at a high school in California’s Central Valley have arrested three teenage boys in a case they said could be emotionally difficult for their small city to face. Few details were released about the actions that led to the Wednesday arrests…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – 53 year old Luis Moreno was found guilty of murder – for a deadly drunken collision – on Wednesday. A jury found Moreno guilty on all three felony counts – including second degree murder – for the collision that took place back in 2013. That’s when Moreno drove drunk on Friant…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Robocalls have hit a new record in the U.S. New figures released by YouMail show that unwanted calls grew to more than 2.6 billion last month. That’s a more than 9 percent increase from July. The State of Texas has been bombarded with the largest number of robocalls, followed by California. …… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested the driver who caused a crash at Blackstone and McKinley Avenues in Fresno on Wednesday. 36-year-old Stephen Yates was booked on felony hit-and-run and a probation violation. Around 10am, Yates was spotted driving recklessly and when deputies tried to stop him he allegedly took off in…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — Hillary Clinton’s recent pneumonia diagnosis, won’t impact her campaign to be the next President of the United States. That’s the opinion of Chair of Fresno County Democratic Party Michael Evans. “She has pneumonia, and she was working at a break-neck pace. The fact that she got ill, or that anybody got ill…… MORE
(CNN) – California became the first state to ban breeding killer whales and holding them in captivity. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law Tuesday. The law, which goes into effect in 2017, passed after years of controversy over keeping killer whales to entertain humans. Under the new law, the killer whales or orcas…… MORE
MARYSVILLE, Calif. (AP) — An investigator “with a bit of free time” decided to send for testing DNA samples from a long-dormant cold case, which led authorities to arrest a pair of men linked to the 1973 shotgun slayings of two young girls, authorities said. Police in Oklahoma and California arrested the two 65-year-old suspects…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – 6 men and 8 women are deciding the fate of 52 year old Luis Moreno – accused of killing a 54 year old mother of eight while driving drunk – when he hit her car three years ago. The defense is disputing count 1 that Moreno deliberately acted with “conscious disregard”…… MORE
