Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

250,000 California EV Buyers Received Incentives Worth  $319 Million+

250,000 California EV Buyers Received Incentives Worth $319 Million+

SACRAMENTO – More than 250,000 Californians have now received a financial Clean Fuel Reward, worth more than $319 million in total, when they purchased or leased a plug-in electric vehicle – helping California’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales exceed 16 percent of all new vehicles sold this year. Electric vehicles are one of the state’s top exports, and California represents…MORE

Fresno Co. Sheriff’s Office Asks Help Finding Missing Sex Offender

Fresno Co. Sheriff’s Office Asks Help Finding Missing Sex Offender

(KMJ) – The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help to locate 63 year old John Anthony Camacho. He is a registered sex offender who has a prior conviction for rape. He has an active warrant out for his arrest on an elder abuse charge and he has not registered his new address with…MORE

No Charges For Mike Tyson For Punching Airplane Passenger

No Charges For Mike Tyson For Punching Airplane Passenger

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said it has closed the case. The victim…MORE

DEA Recognizes First Ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day

DEA Recognizes First Ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day

WASHINGTON – In an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie” and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat that fentanyl poses to the safety,…MORE

Sheriff: Ex-Jail Official, Inmate She Helped Escape Caught

Sheriff: Ex-Jail Official, Inmate She Helped Escape Caught

(AP NEWS) – Escaped inmate Casey White and former jail official Vicky White were taken into custody Monday in Indiana, according to an Alabama sheriff. Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said they two fugitives were caught near Evansville, Indiana, after a chase with U.S. Marshals. Marshals were pursuing a pickup driven by Casey White when…MORE

Scorpions Announce Tour Stop at Fresno’s Save Mart Center with Whitesnake

Scorpions Announce Tour Stop at Fresno’s Save Mart Center with Whitesnake

FRESNO, Calif. — The Scorpions are bringing the Rock Believer World Tour to Fresno’s Save Mart Center on October 7, 2022 with special guest Whitesnake. Whitesnake is on a farewell tour in 2022. The Scorpions recently wrapped up a sold-out residency in Last Vegas and is going on the road for a two-month-long tour. “After…MORE

Two Baby Colobus Make Their Debut At Fresno’s Chaffee Zoo

Two Baby Colobus Make Their Debut At Fresno’s Chaffee Zoo

(KMJ) — The Chaffee Zoo announced on Monday that two baby colobus have made their debut. Lyn Myers, General Curator with the Fresno Chaffee Zoo says the Zoo is very excited to add two new members to our colobus troop, and cannot wait to see these babies grow and develop with the help of their…MORE

Controversial Photo Prompts Policy Changes Within Fresno Unified

Controversial Photo Prompts Policy Changes Within Fresno Unified

(KMJ) – Administrators at Fresno Unified say they are now making changes to District policies as a result of the controversy surrounding a picture that appears to show a student wearing a makeshift KKK hood. The picture circulated through social media Thursday, and appears to have been taken in a weight room at Bullard High…MORE

Scorpions World Tour Set to Rock the Save Mart Center

Scorpions World Tour Set to Rock the Save Mart Center

(KMJ) – Scorpions, one of the most iconic and influential hard rock bands of all time will return to North America on the Rock Believer World Tour with special guests Whitesnake, who are now on their Farewell tour. Rolling Stone describes Scorpions as the “heroes of heavy metal”, and MTV called them “Ambassadors of Rock”.…MORE

CAL FIRE Plans Prescribed Burn Along Highway 41 in Coarsegold

CAL FIRE Plans Prescribed Burn Along Highway 41 in Coarsegold

Coarsegold, CA – The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), in cooperation with California Highway Patrol, CAL TRANS, Pacific Southwest Research Station / Fresno State University, Private Landowners, and San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, aim to reduce large conflagrative fires and high suppression costs, to the citizens of California, by…MORE