Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

Rep. Nunes’ Office Responds To March For Our Lives Fresno

Rep. Nunes’ Office Responds To March For Our Lives Fresno

FRESNO (KMJ) — Valley Congressman Devin Nunes will be unable to participate in a town hall event planned for April 7th, organized by March For Our Lives Fresno. That statement from his Director of Communications Jack Langer, who wrote in an email to KMJ News that he will be “traveling abroad on Intelligence Committee business,…MORE

Orange County Votes to Oppose “Sanctuary State” Law

Orange County Votes to Oppose “Sanctuary State” Law

(CNN) – Not all of California opposes President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Los Alamitos, a small city in Orange County, voted last week to oppose California’s “sanctuary” law. And now the county government is joining the backlash against the state policy, which prohibits local law enforcement from some cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The Orange…MORE

Protesters Storm Sacramento City Council Meeting

Protesters Storm Sacramento City Council Meeting

(CNN) – Stevante Clark made sure he’d be heard. Clark and a large group of protesters stormed a Sacramento City Council meeting Tuesday night to protest the shooting death of his brother — Stephon Clark — by police. While his fellow demonstrators filled the chamber, Stevante Clark marched straight to the front of the room,…MORE

Deliberations Underway In Trial Of Accused Fresno County Jail Shooter

Deliberations Underway In Trial Of Accused Fresno County Jail Shooter

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Deliberations were underway Tuesday inside Fresno County Superior Court in the trial of accused Fresno County Jail shooter Thong Vang. The ex-convict from Laos is facing felony attempted murder charges and being a felon in possession of a gun in the shooting of correctional Officers Juanita Davila (below left) and Toamalama Scanlan…MORE

Parole Denied For Lemoore Child Rapist

Parole Denied For Lemoore Child Rapist

  FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – 29-year-old convicted child rapist Daniel Flanum is denied parole for another three years. The Kings County District Attorney’s Office says Flanum was denied parole on Friday, March 23rd at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, In May of 2006, Flanum was convicted for the forcible rape of a 14-year-old Lemoore girl.…MORE

Battle Over Resuming California Voter-Backed Executions Heads To Court

Battle Over Resuming California Voter-Backed Executions Heads To Court

  [Photo: AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File] FILE — This Sept. 21, 2010, file photo shows the interior of the lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif.   SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The battle over California’s voter-backed effort to resume executions will begin in earnest when state officials and death penalty…MORE

AG Becerra Suing Over “Illegal” Citizenship Question Added To 2020 Census

AG Becerra Suing Over “Illegal” Citizenship Question Added To 2020 Census

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – California files a lawsuit after the Trump Administration adds a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. On Tuesday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla held a news conference in Sacramento to announce the lawsuit.     Becerra says the question is “not just a bad…MORE

Human Remains Found in Search for Missing Actress

Human Remains Found in Search for Missing Actress

[van id=”van/ns-acc/2018/03/27/WE-007TU_CNNA-ST1-10000000047ebf75″] UPDATE: KNX1070 reports that LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division commander William Hayes says human remains have been recovered from a shallow grave in the northern part of the state. Although not yet conclusive, he believes they are the remains of aspiring model and actress Adea Shabani. LAPD detectives were in Dry Creek Tuesday in the…MORE

Search Cut Back For 2 Missing People After Storm In Mariposa County

Search Cut Back For 2 Missing People After Storm In Mariposa County

  [Photo: Madera Sheriff’s Office]   FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A search in Mariposa County for two people believed swept away in Thursday’s storm is being cut back. The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office says 72-year-old Carol Brown of Catheys Valley (below) & 67-year-old John Honesto of Don Pedro were both reported missing during Thursday’s storm.…MORE