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
(KMJ) – Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and Secretary of State, has died from COVID-19 complications, his family said Monday. In an announcement on social media, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. Powell was the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state.…… MORE
TULARE COUNTY (KMJ) – The body of a man is found in an orchard in Terra Bella. Just after 12:30 Friday afternoon, TCSO Deputies were called to the area of Avenue 80, just east of Avenue 256 in Terra Bella for a man down in an orchard. When they arrived on scene, Deputies found a…… MORE
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters reported significant progress in corralling a wildfire in Southern California coastal mountains on Friday. The Alisal Fire in the Santa Ynez Mountains west of Santa Barbara grew only slightly since Thursday morning to 26.4 square miles (68 square kilometers) and containment of the blaze jumped to 41%, up from…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Concerns over Coronavirus is causing the Central Unified School District to cancel Friday night’s Central High School game. The Central Unified School District sent out an alert Friday afternoon – saying the Varsity football game versus Clovis East High School was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. The school says they still…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Lack of space in group homes has some foster children in Fresno County sleeping on floors, and one Valley Assemblyman is calling on the governor and state agencies to help. Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson calls it a “bureaucratic nightmare.” He says foster youth are having to sleep on the floor in…… MORE
Fresno, CA- Council Vice President Nelson Esparza and Councilmember Tyler Maxwell announce that the Fresno City Council passed the Smoke Free Multi-Unit Housing Ordinance at Thursday’s Council Meeting. They say this ordinance will ensure that the City of Fresno renters living in multi-unit housing are protected the dangers of second and third hand smoke. This…… MORE
[KMJ) – For the first time in its history, the Fresno Unified School Board votes to rename one of its schools for a prominent Valley Armenian-American. In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Fresno Unified School Board voted to rename Forkner Elementary School to Roger Tatarian Elementary. Tatarian, a Fresno native, was considered a world-renowned journalist.…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California mother faces 39 charges alleging that she hosted alcohol-filled parties for her teenage son and his friends at her home and other places and encouraged them to drink heavily and engage in sex acts with intoxicated girls, some of them non-consensual. California prosecutors say 47-year-old Shannon Marie O’Connor was…… MORE
(KMJ) – Wednesday Night’s Midland concert at the Big Fresno Fair is canceled after a member of that band tests positive for COVID-19. Here is the official statement from the Big Fresno Fair: The Big Fresno Fair Management sadly announces Midland has cancelled their October 13 concert at the Fair due to a positive COVID-19…… MORE
