Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

11 & 12 year-old Boys Arrested For Vandalizing Tulare County Museum

11 & 12 year-old Boys Arrested For Vandalizing Tulare County Museum

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Alleged vandals who broke into the Tulare County Museum are caught. Visalia Police Department Detectives arrested an 11 year-old boy and a 12 year-old boy on Monday, September 18th. The pair is accused of vandalizing the museum at Mooney Grove Park on the 27000 block of South Mooney Boulevard. An alarm went…MORE

Security Guard At Fresno Rape Counseling Center Enters Pleas To Criminal Charges

Security Guard At Fresno Rape Counseling Center Enters Pleas To Criminal Charges

FRESNO, CA (KMJ ) – A convicted rapist working as a security guard at a Fresno rape counseling center enters pleas to criminal charges. The Fresno County DA’s office says 40 year old Damon Rodgers is taking advantage of a settlement with the judge to get a reduced sentence. Rodgers was contracted by an outside security…MORE

WATCH: Mother of Alleged Fresno Starbucks Robber Defends Son on National TV

WATCH: Mother of Alleged Fresno Starbucks Robber Defends Son on National TV

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — Pamela Chimenti, the mother of 30-year-old Michael Ryan Flores, appeared on HLN show Prime Time Justice Wednesday night, as her son seeks to sue 58-year-old Cregg Jerri, who struck him over the head with a chair, when he tried to hold up a Starbucks, back in July. Flores entered the Starbucks wearing…MORE

Poverello House Completes “Raise The Roof” Campaign With $1m Grant

Poverello House Completes “Raise The Roof” Campaign With $1m Grant

FRESNO (KMJ) — The “Raise the Roof” campaign organized by Fresno’s Poverello House, to modernize and rejuvenate facilities on site, is now over following a $1 million grant from the State of California. The money will be used to complete efforts to build a new food storage warehouse, an operations center, and complete community housing…MORE

Next of Kin Sought in Death of South Valley Man

Next of Kin Sought in Death of South Valley Man

(KMJ) – Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is now requesting the public’s help for information that will locate next of kin for a South Valley man who died earlier this month. 50-year old Jesus Hernandez (pictured above) died of natural causes on September 2nd.  Sheriff’s Deputies say he lived in Tulare, Woodville and Visalia and possibly…MORE

Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputies Investigate Suspicious Death of Calwa Toddler

Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputies Investigate Suspicious Death of Calwa Toddler

[PHOTO: FSO] FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the suspicious death Wednesday of a toddler in Calwa. The call came in to Fresno Police at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning about an unresponsive baby boy from a home on the 24 block of South 9th Street. Police handed the case over to…MORE

Villaraigosa Says HSR “Can Leverage Economic Development” In The Valley

Villaraigosa Says HSR “Can Leverage Economic Development” In The Valley

FRESNO (KMJ) — One of the candidates vying to become the next Governor of California says the High Speed Rail project needs to drive down costs to win public support. Antonio Villaraigosa’s visit to Downtown Fresno Wednesday morning also gave him the opportunity to tour the construction site. “I wanted to come because I have…MORE

Calif. AG Sues Trump Administration Over Proposed Border Wall

Calif. AG Sues Trump Administration Over Proposed Border Wall

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s attorney general has sued the Trump administration over its plan to construct a wall along the country’s border with Mexico. The suit filed Wednesday by Attorney General Xavier Becerra makes arguments similar to those in a lawsuit filed by advocacy groups last week arguing the federal government is overstepping its…MORE

Westlands Votes Against Controversial Twin Tunnels Plan

Westlands Votes Against Controversial Twin Tunnels Plan

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Board members of a key California farming district have voted not to participate in Gov. Jerry Brown’s $16 billion water tunnel proposal. Farmers in Westlands Water District – the nation’s largest irrigation district – said Tuesday the cost was too high to sign on to California’s biggest water project in a…MORE