FIREBAUGH, Calif. (KMJ) –A woman is sentenced in the killing of a 20-year-old in Firebaugh back in 2019. On Thursday, September 26, Tyrel Truss drove to Mendota to meet a woman he had been communicating with on the internet. Alexa Ramos who was 20 at the time and was from Firebaugh spoke online with Truss…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s corrections agency routinely refers inmates who appear to be “foreign-born” to federal immigration authorities even if they are U.S. citizens and lawful residents, with some improperly detained by the government for weeks after their sentences, said a lawsuit filed in state court Thursday. The lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties…… MORE
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Much of the famed valley at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Friday due to a forecast of flooding as rising temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack. Park officials said Tuesday that the eastern section of Yosemite Valley will stay shut at least until May…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, CA (KMJ) – On Thursday morning, Assembly Democrats held a special hearing of the Assembly Public Safety Committee to hear fentanyl bills that they refused to hear previously. Hundreds of Californians are dying every month by counterfeit drugs laced with the deadly drug. There were seven bipartisan bills read that would have imposed consequences…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Every day, locomotives pull rail cars filled with food, lumber, oil and other products through railyards near neighborhoods in Oakland, Commerce, San Bernadino and other California cities. They run on diesel, a more powerful fuel than gasoline, and burning all that diesel produces pollution that is harmful for people who live…… MORE
(KMJ) – Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The City of Fresno raised the Armenian flag at City Hall in honor of the day It was 108 years ago, on April 24th, in 1915, that the Ottoman empire, now known as Turkey began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders. One and a half million…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts, an issue that previously came up in a case involving former President Donald Trump. Two years ago the Supreme Court dismissed a case over Trump’s efforts to block critics from his…… MORE
According to the Turlock Police Department, officers were patrolling the Venice Motel parking lot when they spotted someone believed to be on probation with an active arrest warrant. Officers say they pulled his vehicle over and arrested the driver, Daniel Sossamon. Following a search of the vehicle, the Turlock Police Department says they found over…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. They are appealing a lower court ruling that…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two men who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of attempted murder after a 2004 shooting were declared innocent Thursday by a California judge. Under a new law, the state is required to pay them each $140 for every day they spent behind bars, or about $900,000.…… MORE
