FRESNO (KMJ/AP) — Assemblyman Jim Patterson warned that PG&E’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy will result in higher bills for customers. The declaration, made midnight Tuesday, allows the utility to continue operations while a solution is figured out. “Our rates are going to go up, and I think they’re going to go up faster and…… MORE
Pacific Gas and Electric has filed for bankruptcy protection after coming under pressure from billions of dollars in claims tied to deadly wildfires. California’s largest power company said in a statement Tuesday that it had submitted a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the Northern District of California. PG&E said it was committed to maintaining services…… MORE
[van id=”politics/2019/01/29/kamala-harris-iowa-town-hall-medicare-for-all-sot-vpx.cnn”] As Kamala Harris introduced herself as a 2020 presidential candidate to Iowa caucus-goers and the nation on Monday night, she showed exactly why she is viewed as such a formidable contender. During a CNN town hall at Drake University in Des Moines, she demonstrated an easy command of the policies that are most…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Children are becoming unintended victims of shootings in Fresno. “We are going to make it very uncomfortable for gang members,” said Fresno Police Deputy Chief Pat Farmer, at a press Conference at Police Headquarters on Monday, after a 4 year-old girl, and a 12 year-old boy were struck recently by…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Tens of thousands of parolees would be allowed to vote under a constitutional amendment proposed by California’s secretary of state and Democratic state lawmakers. The amendment announced Monday would affect nearly 50,000 ex-felons who currently are prohibited from registering to vote in local, state or federal elections. Secretary of State Alex…… MORE
[van id=”politics/2019/01/27/kamala-harris-formal-2020-bid-sot-vpx.cnn”] Kamala Harris did not mention President Donald Trump by name as she officially announced her run for president on Sunday, but she she issued a sharp, mocking attack on his relationship with Russia. In one of her sharpest attacks on Trump’s perceived coziness with Russia, she decried a time, “When we have foreign…… MORE
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney maintained Sunday that President Donald Trump will use his executive authority to get funding for a wall on the southern border if he doesn’t get it through Congress. Mulvaney, speaking on “Fox News Sunday” two days after Trump agreed to reopen the federal government despite not receiving any money…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) Fresno Police have arrested a man they say is responsible for a series of recent armed robberies. 27 year old Daniel Franco was nabbed Friday while leaving his Northeast Fresno home. He was armed with a handgun, according to police. Investigators say the string of robberies began Christmas day 2018 when Franco…… MORE
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FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A suspected Fresno drug dealer is indicted in deaths of two people. A federal grand jury has returned a two count indictment against 40-year-old Darnell Pearson. He’s charged with distribution of the drug, fentanyl, resulting in death. Federal prosecutors say Pearson was supposed to sell the victims cocaine, instead, he…… MORE
