House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wrote a letter to Republican conference members Sunday accusing Democrats of politicizing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack to “divide” the country. McCarthy ripped Democrats for failing to answer “the central question of how the Capitol was left so unprepared and what must be done to ensure it never happens again.” “Instead,…… MORE
A massive sewage spill has led to the temporary closure of all swimming areas at beaches in the Southern California city of Long Beach. City officials announced the spill in a news release Friday, confirming millions of gallons of untreated sewage was discharged into the Dominguez Channel, a waterway that empties into Los Angeles Harbor.…… MORE
TULARE, CA (KMJ) – A woman says she was robbed and pistol whipped at the Tulare Outlet Mall. At approximately 8:50 AM, on December 29, 2021, Tulare Police Dispatchers received a report of an armed robbery that had just occurred. Tulare Police officers responded and contacted two elderly females who advised that they had just…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the…… MORE
TULARE, COUNTY CA (KMJ) – Detectives are investigating a body found Monday morning in Tulare. Just after 10:00 a.m., the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said their Deputies were called to the area of Ave 244, west of road 68, in Tulare for a man down in a field. When they arrived, Deputies found a man…… MORE
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Searchers were battling blizzard conditions at a closed Lake Tahoe-area ski resort in a bid to find a 43-year-old California ski shop manager reported missing after failing to meet friends for Christmas dinner. A Placer County sheriff’s sergeant says Rory Angelotta of Truckee was reported missing late Saturday at Northstar California…… MORE
Blowing snow in mountains of Northern California and Nevada closed key highways over the weekend, while an arctic blast brought frigid temperatures to the Pacific Northwest and unusually warm weather settled over parts of Texas and the Southeast. At Donner Pass in the Sierra, officials with the University of California, Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory…… MORE
U.S. airlines canceled about 800 more flights on Monday after nixing thousands of flights during the Christmas holiday weekend, as Omicron cases across the country rise, forcing crews to isolate and travelers to seek other forms of travel. Shares of American Airlines Group Inc, United Airlines Holdings Inc, Delta Air Line Inc and Southwest Airlines…… MORE
Homicide detectives with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office have arrested 23 year old Austin Alvarez of Reedley. He has been booked into the Fresno County jail on two charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder. His bail is set at $2.5 million. Around 1:45 pm on December 25th, Fresno County Sheriff’s deputies responded…… MORE
A male surfer was killed in a shark attack in Morro Bay, California, on Christmas Eve, the Morro Bay Harbor Department confirmed to CNN. “Harbor, Police and Fire Departments responded to a report of a male victim unresponsive on the beach after he was pulled from the water suffering from an apparent shark attack,” the…… MORE
