Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

Tulare County Sheriff’s Department Asks Help To Identify This Suspect

Tulare County Sheriff’s Department Asks Help To Identify This Suspect

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The Tulare County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect. Back on March 20th, Deputies responded to the 1100 block of Avenue 24, IN Earlimart, over the theft of a C-Train and other household items from a vacant mobile home on the property. A nearby neighbor…MORE

Tulare Man Sentenced To Life For Child Molestation

Tulare Man Sentenced To Life For Child Molestation

  FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A Tulare man is sentenced to life in prison for child molestation. On Thursday in the Tulare County Superior Court, 69 year-old Oscar Moreno received 40 years-to-life in prison for child molestation. On June 15, 2018, Moreno pleaded no contest to three counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a…MORE

New Poll Shows Clear Front-Runner in CA Governor’s Race

New Poll Shows Clear Front-Runner in CA Governor’s Race

(KMJ) – A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California shows one candidate seeking to succeed Jerry Brown as California’s next Governor,  with a clear, early lead. In numbers released Wednesday, Democrat and current Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom leads Republican businessman John Cox by a margin of 55 to 31 percent. The poll…MORE

One Dead In Head-On Crash With Military Vehicle Near Cholame Y

One Dead In Head-On Crash With Military Vehicle Near Cholame Y

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – One person has been killed in a head-on crash Wednesday morning with a military vehicle near Cholame. It was about 7:45 a.m., when the California Highway Patrol says a military vehicle blew a tire by where Highway 41 meets Highway 46, in the Cholame Y. The military transport vehicle veered into…MORE

Suspect Arrested in Fresno Kidnapping, Sexual Assault

Suspect Arrested in Fresno Kidnapping, Sexual Assault

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Chief Jerry Dyer announced the arrest of 35-year-old parolee Joseph Ward of Fresno Wednesday morning. On June 22, Ward allegedly broke into a northeast Fresno home, where a 24-year-old nanny was watching a 1-year-old baby. Dyers says, “While the suspect was still holding this 10 in. kitchen knife in his hand, he…MORE

Yosemite Visitors Evacuate as Ferguson Fire Grows

Yosemite Visitors Evacuate as Ferguson Fire Grows

(CNN) Some of the most iconic areas of Yosemite National Park will close Wednesday because of a nearby deadly fire. The park announced that Yosemite Valley, home to such famous destinations as El Capitan and Half Dome, and Wawona will be closed to all visitors. This means all campgrounds, hotels and visitor services in the…MORE

CNN Obtains Secret Trump-Cohen Recording, President Responds

CNN Obtains Secret Trump-Cohen Recording, President Responds

[van id=”politics/2018/07/24/cohen-trump-audio-recording-cuomo-vpx.cnn”] WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday, the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two. “What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape…MORE

Vandal Smashes President Trump’s Hollywood Star

Vandal Smashes President Trump’s Hollywood Star

(KMJ) – A vandalism suspect turned himself in after he allegedly used a pickax to destroy President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame early Wednesday morning. According to witnesses, a man removed the pickax from a guitar case about 3 a.m. and began swinging it at the star on Hollywood Boulevard. The LAPD…MORE

Hockey Is Coming Back To Downtown Fresno At Selland Arena

Hockey Is Coming Back To Downtown Fresno At Selland Arena

  FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The City of Fresno and the Fresno Monsters have come to an agreement announcing that hockey is coming to Downtown Fresno’s Selland Arena. Fresno Mayor Lee Brand calls it one more positive thing for the downtown area, speaking during a press conference Tuesday at the Selland Arena. “Glad we worked…MORE