Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

Attorney: Caleb Quick’s Killer was “Avenging an Egregious Harm”

Attorney: Caleb Quick’s Killer was “Avenging an Egregious Harm”

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Action News has learned new details in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Caleb Quick outside a Clovis McDonald’s, with the attorney for the teenage suspect suggesting the killing may have been motivated by allegations of sexual misconduct involving Quick. Attorney Mark Coleman, who represents the 16-year-old boy charged in the April…MORE

Husband Killer, Erika Sandoval Sentenced to 50-to-Life

Husband Killer, Erika Sandoval Sentenced to 50-to-Life

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — The woman found guilty by a jury of murdering her ex-husband has learned her sentence. A judge ordered Erika Sandoval to spend 50 years to life in prison after a jury found her guilty in the deadly shooting of Exeter police officer Daniel Green. This was the second time Sandoval…MORE

CHP Officers Save Man Trapped In Car After Head-on Crash   

CHP Officers Save Man Trapped In Car After Head-on Crash  

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — Courage and strength: that’s what CHP officers Bernavet Mendez Padilla and Christian Ramirez used as they worked to save a man trapped in a car after a head-on crash in Merced County last month.  “We have a pin in, be advised, it’s a red sedan that overturned in the canal.…MORE

Dozens Of Smoke Shops To Close Across Fresno As New Laws Take Effect 

Dozens Of Smoke Shops To Close Across Fresno As New Laws Take Effect 

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — New rules in effect Thursday will change the landscape of the more than 120 smoke shops across the City of Fresno, narrowing that number down to seven per council district, allowing for a total of 49.  “Every council district south of Shaw is completely overwhelmed by smoke shops, and those smoke…MORE

Heroes Honored In Monache High School Stabbing 

Heroes Honored In Monache High School Stabbing 

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — A standing ovation Tuesday night in Porterville for those who took action when a Monache High School student was stabbed last month.  “Their courage, dedication, and commitment provided security to all the students and others in our community and made a profound difference that day, which could’ve been extremely worse,” Porterville…MORE

Duffy Releases Damning Report on HSR, Threatens Billions in Funds

Duffy Releases Damning Report on HSR, Threatens Billions in Funds

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy released a report Wednesday critical of California’s embattled High Speed Rail Project. With billions of taxpayer dollars on the line, the clock is ticking for the bullet train boss to respond. In an appearance on Fox News, Duffy said “We have a 300 page report that basically says…MORE

Schwarzenegger Tells Environmentalists Dismayed By Trump To ‘Stop Whining’ And Get To Work

Schwarzenegger Tells Environmentalists Dismayed By Trump To ‘Stop Whining’ And Get To Work

VIENNA (AP NEWS) – Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the the approach of President Donald Trump’s administration: “Stop whining and get to work.” The new U.S. administration has taken an ax to Biden-era environmental ambitions, rolled back landmark regulations, withdrawn climate project funding and instead bolstered support for oil and gas…MORE

Weekend Standoff Suspect Who Fresno Police Shot At Identified

Weekend Standoff Suspect Who Fresno Police Shot At Identified

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — The man who got into a standoff with police over the weekend in east central Fresno has been identified. He has been identified as 23-year-old Andrew Garcia. Fresno Police say Garcia was wanted in connection to a traffic stop on Friday night. Garcia is a parolee, after serving time for domestic violence…MORE

Man Sentenced To Over 3 Years In Federal Prison For Defrauding Bitwise Investors 

Man Sentenced To Over 3 Years In Federal Prison For Defrauding Bitwise Investors 

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — A 31-year-old man is headed to prison after admitting to defrauding investors with loans made to the failed Fresno-based startup company Bitwise.  Andrew Adler was sentenced in Federal court this morning in downtown Fresno after pleading guilty in February to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.  Adler was ordered to spend just…MORE

Forward Progress On Rector Fire In Yokuts Valley Stopped 

Forward Progress On Rector Fire In Yokuts Valley Stopped 

YOKUTS VALLEY, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — Flames consumed dry brush and plumes of smoke filled the air in Yokuts Valley Monday afternoon as the Rector Fire burned through a hillside.  Forward progress on the flames has been stopped, which has burned at least 56 acres and is 35% contained.  Dolores Kennedy was on her porch when…MORE