FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — Hamilton Junior High School lifted a lockdown after Fresno police responded to a burglary alarm at a nearby home on Thursday. Authorities say they received a call for a residential burglary alarm at about 10 a.m. at a home on N Harrison Avenue near Cambridge Avenue. A heavy police presence was outside…… MORE
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — Every classroom in Clovis Unified School District is about to get an essential supply. Narcan, which rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, will be put in every class next week. Parents and Addicts In Need (or PAIN) is giving the district more than 2,000 boxes of the life-saving drug. “They’re going…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) Senator Bill Dodd (D-Napa) represents the area of Solano County, California where a group of billionaires have been buying up farmland for what many are calling a new utopian community. He joined KMJ’s Ray Appleton to discuss the controversial and – up until now – secretive plan. Both men agreed the idea…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) Steve Garvey continues to climb in the polls. The former LA Dodger and San Diego Padre great has garnered 18% of voter support, according to a new Emerson College Polling-Inside California Politics poll released Thursday. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) remains the front-runner to replace the late Senator Diane Feinstein with 25%. McClatchy…… MORE
REEDLEY, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — EPA crews will spend far less time cleaning up the illegal Reedley lab than they planned for. The team arrived on Monday to begin clearing out hazardous materials and continued that work Wednesday. Moving trucks sat in front of the former illegal bio lab as teams packed them with chemicals from inside…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — The man who died after being hit by a train in central Fresno has been identified as 66-year-old Leon Perez. It happened around 7 pm Tuesday in the area of Shields and Wishon Avenues. Police say Perez was found dead on the tracks. They are still working to figure out why he…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — An investigation is underway after one person was shot and killed in southwest Fresno. Officers responded to Lorena Avenue and South Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Wednesday afternoon. When officers arrived, they found a man in his mid-20s suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where…… MORE
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Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif — California Governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t intend to sign legislation banning tackle football for children. It comes as a bill, AB 734, from Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty makes rounds through the legislature. “I will not sign legislation that bans youth tackle football. I am deeply concerned about the health and safety of our…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) — Promoters of a secretive Silicon Valley-backed ballot initiative to build a new city on farmland between Sacramento and San Francisco are releasing more details of their plan as they submit paperwork Wednesday to qualify for the November election. California Forever, the company that stealthily snapped up more than $800 million of…… MORE
