[Photo: randajarrar.com] UPDATE: Fresno City College — issuing a statement this Wednesday afternoon saying that Randa Jarrar will not headline Lit Hop this weekend as previously scheduled. The school also clarifying that Jarrar’s views are not reflective of them nor of Lit Hop. Statement Regarding Randa Jarrar Fresno City College and the LitHop 2018 organizers wish…… MORE
SANGER, CA (KMJ) An elderly Sanger man has gone missing and police are asking for your help in finding him. 82 year Alberto Aldava was last seen Tuesday morning around 9:00am. Police say he was driving to Sanger Park in a green Chevy Venture. Per Sanger PD: Aldava is 82 years old, 5’9, approximately 220…… MORE
(CNN) Barbara Bush, the matriarch of a Republican political dynasty and a first lady who elevated the cause of literacy, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. She was 92. Only the second woman in American history to have had a husband and a son elected President (Abigail Adams was the first), Bush was seen as a…… MORE
[File: KMJ] FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno city college students are serving up a new flavor at a local ice cream shop. Mojito Sorbet, Cherry Bomb After Cereal Milk, and Caramel Corn. These are the flavors a group of Fresno city college students whipped up. The College’s Culinary Arts Department and Ampersand ice cream on…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra wants to help Medicare beneficiaries and seniors protect themselves against identity theft and fraud. The Attorney General announced on Tuesday that in an effort to prevent the fraud seen with the old card, 5.7 million California seniors and people with disabilities will receive a new medicare…… MORE
COALINGA (KMJ) — Patients at Coalinga State Hospital are planning a protest inside the facility, amid claims of abuse and frightened staff. “It’s a toxic environment,” explained patient Jeffrey Gambord. His complaints are focused on the sexually violent predator program,; figures from the Department of State Hospitals shows 73% of those inside are classified as…… MORE
[Photo: Fresno PD] FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno police respond after a fourth grader brought a fake, but very realistic, gun to school. It happened Tuesday around 9:00 a.m. at Vinland Elementary School. According to Fresno Police, the student was showing the fake gun to school friends. Police say the boy did not make…… MORE
[Photo: Similar Model to Stolen Bike] FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A retired officer with the California Highway Patrol was beaten and robbed of his bicycle. Property crimes detectives with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office are investigating this case and are in need of the public’s help. Just before 6:30 am on Sunday, April, 15th,…… MORE
[File – Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office] (CNN) – The body of a 12-year-old boy was found in a California river, 6 miles away from where the rest of his family was found dead. Siddhant Thottapilly was the last to be found after the family of four went missing earlier this month. Sandeep Thottapilly, 41,…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Police have a suspect in the city’s latest homicide in Southwest Fresno. It was just after 8:00 Sunday night that police got the 911 call that a man was covered in blood and lying in the parking lot at the Country Mart on North and Elm. The victim, 54 year-old Bernard…… MORE
