(KMJ) – The Fresno Teachers Association is calling for the Fresno Unified school board to suspend Superintendent Michael Hanson and other top officials. The FTA say the reason is their possible role in the alleged shredding of documents amid a federal investigation. FTA President Tish Rice asked the board to place Hanson, Chief Financial Officer…… MORE
(KMJ) – Professors, librarians, counselors and other California State University employees are preparing to vote on whether to permit their labor union to call a strike over stalled salary negotiations. The California Faculty Association is asking its 25,000 members to authorize a strike if contract talks that already have resisted mediation remain unsuccessful. The strike…… MORE
Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More… Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — A committee who advises the California Energy Commission wanted to discuss the causes of high gas prices, which the state saw in the…… MORE
Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More… Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris has announced his intention to retire. Harris, who led the 113-college system through a challenging time of…… MORE
Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More… Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The U.S. Forest Service is being sued by environmental groups, who allege that the agency has allowed Nestle to draw water from a…… MORE
A program to prevent impaired driving and reduce alcohol and drug-impaired traffic fatalities and injuries Is getting funding through the Fresno County DA’s Office. In 2013 there were 36 deaths and 273 serious injuries as a result of DUI crashes in the County. The $717,150 grant to the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office will…… MORE
Fabian Mansanalez – a man who contributed to the murder of a Biola farmer – has been sentenced. Raisin farmer George Salwasser Junior was shot back in may of 2014, when he found people trying to take the tires off of a stolen pick-up truck. Now, the auto thief will spend the next seven years…… MORE
(KMJ) Kern County homicide detectives say they’ve found the body 50 year old Carl Woolwine at a ski resort near Lake Isabella. Three suspects have been arrested. Jail records show Bobbie Rhynes, Joan Noble and Thomas Ertz have been booked on suspicion of murder. The Woolwine family made headlines earlier this year when their teenage…… MORE
(KMJ) – Fresno Police continue to search for a stabbing suspect. Officers were called to the intersection of Fremont and Third Street just after 1 p.m. Tuesday. They initially responded to a minor traffic accident. But after arriving, they found the driver of one of the vehicles had been stabbed once in the torso. He…… MORE
(KMJ) – California corrections officials are dropping a proposal to allow prisoners with violent backgrounds to work in the state’s inmate firefighting unit. A Corrections department spokesman said Tuesday that the state still plans to expand the program to include inmates who have up to seven years left to serve on their sentences, instead of…… MORE
