SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s oil regulator wants to ban new oil and gas drilling within 3,200 feet of schools, homes and hospitals to protect public health. The draft rule released Thursday would be the nation’s largest buffer zone between drilling and community sites if adopted. Environmental groups and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration say…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A trial date is set in the Kristin Smart murder case. A judge in San Luis Obispo says the trial will begin on April 25, 2022. The defendants, 44-year-old Paul Flores and his father, 60-year-old Ruben Flores have again entered “not guilty” pleas at their arraignment on Wednesday. Kristen Smart disappeared…… MORE
(KMJ) – The Governor’s latest California drought emergency now covers EVERY county in the Golden State. Here’s what Gavin Newsom’s office released over California’s ongoing water crisis: Following the second driest year on record and with near record low storage in California’s largest reservoirs, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation extending the drought emergency statewide…… MORE
(KMJ) A Fresno man now faces a host of charges after he allegedly drove into a crowd gathered outside a Fresno taco truck earlier this month. Here are the details of his case and charges, as released by the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office: Rolando Enrique Alvarenga-Aguilar has been charged in a felony complaint with…… MORE
TULARE COUNTY, CA (KMJ) – A 13-year-old male student is arrested for threatening to shoot up a school in Tulare County. Just after 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Tulare County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to Tipton Elementary School on Evans Road in Tipton for a student threatening to shoot up the school. When Deputies arrived,…… MORE
MADERA, CA (KMJ) – A man is convicted of murdering his estranged wife in front of her three children. Julio Garay was arrested in July of 2020. Madera Police say that’s when he killed his 32-year-old ex-wife, Calley Jean Garay. On July 14, she was in Madera, getting into her van with her children when…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco will give out cash awards of up to $100,000 for information about the ringleaders of high-level auto burglaries — in yet another push to battle crime in a city marked by attention-grabbing vehicle smash and grabs, home break-ins and retail theft. The cash rewards would come from private donors…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Reedley Police say they got a call around 10:30 on July 4, 2021 about a shooting in the 1400 block of N. Columbia Ave. Oficers arrived to find 25-year-old Jcob Ecinia suffering from a gunshot wound. H was transported to Adventist Health in Reedley where he was pronounced dead. After a…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – On October 13th, narcotics detectives with the High Impact Investigation Team arrested 47 year old Jesus Ramos. He was booked into the Fresno County Jail for multiple felony charges for Possessing drugs for sale. However, all of the charges were eligible for Fresno County’s emergency zero dollar bail order, which allowed…… MORE
Across California, some parents kept their children home from school and gathered Monday to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students. Flyers circulating online called for “sit outs” and “walkouts” to demonstrate against California’s first-in-the-nation mandate, which will require students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to go to school in person once vaccines get…… MORE
