Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

KMJ Exclusive: FUSD’s Slatic Facing Complaints at Bullard High

KMJ Exclusive: FUSD’s Slatic Facing Complaints at Bullard High

FRESNO (KMJ) – Another campus controversy involving Fresno Unified School Board member Terry Slatic. Dozens of parents of Bullard High School cheerleaders gathered in the school library, along with Superintendent Bob Nelson, to address safety concerns surrounding Trustee Terry Slatic. Parents say Slatic showed up to cheer practice on campus Wednesday afternoon and held held an…MORE

Trump Orders Federal Departments & Agencies to Share Citizenship Data

Trump Orders Federal Departments & Agencies to Share Citizenship Data

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump and the issue of adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census (all times local): 5:45 p.m. President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Instead, Trump says he’s ordering every federal department and agency to provide the…MORE

VIDEO: SLO Police Chief Leaves Gun In Restroom, Says It Was Stolen

VIDEO: SLO Police Chief Leaves Gun In Restroom, Says It Was Stolen

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) – A California police chief says she left her gun in a restaurant restroom and it was immediately stolen. San Luis Obispo Chief Deanna Cantrell revealed her mistake in a video on the department’s Facebook page Wednesday.     Cantrell says within minutes she realized what she’d done and returned…MORE

Calif. Lawmakers OK $26 Billion Wildfire Plan

Calif. Lawmakers OK $26 Billion Wildfire Plan

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California lawmakers have approved a sprawling bill meant to shore up the state’s major electric utilities in the face of another wildfire season. The biggest power companies will have to spend billions of dollars on safety improvements under the bill lawmakers sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday. The measure would…MORE

Fresno Infant Continues to Recover After Being Shot in The Head

Fresno Infant Continues to Recover After Being Shot in The Head

(KMJ) – 10-month old Fayth Percy was shot in the head on June 24th in Central Fresno after a man fired several times into a car allegedly targeting her mother. Wednesday, Fresno Police released this photo along with an update on her recovery.  Fayth is no longer in critical condition and her family says they…MORE

VP Pence Talks Trade in Lemoore

VP Pence Talks Trade in Lemoore

FRESNO (KMJ) – Vice President Mike Pence flew in for a fundraising lunch benefiting President Trump’s reelection campaign at Harris Ranch in Coalinga. Then he spoke at the Freitas family farm, just outside Lemoore. Pence spoke to a crowd of hundreds to rally support for the Trump Administration’s USMCA, the renegotiated trade deal with Mexico…MORE

Calif. Assembly Speaker Calls Gig Economy ‘F*****g Feudalism’

Calif. Assembly Speaker Calls Gig Economy ‘F*****g Feudalism’

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The California Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee approved Assembly Bill 5 on Wednesday. The controversial measure calls for reclassifying thousands of independent contractors as employees. Outside the California State Capitol, a rally was held, in which Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon claimed that independent contracting amounts to “corporations trying to oppress workers.”…MORE

Likely Quake-related Death Reported

Likely Quake-related Death Reported

FRESNO (KMJ) – It was originally believed there was no loss of life caused by last week’s major earthquakes, but that may have changed. Authorities say the July Fourth temblor in the Southern California desert may have killed a man – in Nevada. Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies in Nye county discovered the body of a 56-year-old…MORE

Water Alliance: State Bill Could Punish Farmers for Following Federal Law

Water Alliance: State Bill Could Punish Farmers for Following Federal Law

FRESNO (KMJ) – A state bill that includes keeping federal environmental laws in place, even if the federal government changes those laws, is raising concerns. The assembly Judiciary Committee approved SB-1 on Tuesday. It’s a bill authored by Senator Toni Atkins of San Diego, who spoke about it earlier this year. “SB-1 is California’s insurance…MORE

41 To Close During Visit from Vice President Pence

41 To Close During Visit from Vice President Pence

(KMJ) – If your travel plans take you on Highway 41 through Lemoore, you should prepare for delays and detours Wednesday afternoon. Vice President Mike Pence will discuss the USMCA at a Lemoore farm that can been seen from Highway 41.  So that is prompting the closure of the highway during his visit. if you’re…MORE