SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Some California lawmakers want to repeal laws passed at the height of the AIDS epidemic that they say unfairly punish HIV-positive people based on outdated science. Several gay lawmakers are promoting a bill that would make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to intentionally expose someone to HIV. The change…… MORE
CLOVIS (KMJ) — Health officials in the Central Valley say tobacco and alcohol advertisements are responsible for the poor lifestyles in local children. It comes after a statewide survey which shows that flavored tobacco products are easier to find than fruits and vegetables in Fresno County stores. “The flavored tobacco products, the alcohol beverage signs…… MORE
(KMJ) – Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer used his weekly KMJ Valley Crime Stoppers update to applaud the arrest of one of the City’s most active thieves. Jaime Murray (pictured) was sought for ripping off high-end items from numerous business across Fresno including Sportsman’s Warehouse. But, thanks to a tip phoned in to Crime Stoppers,…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – An 18-year veteran of the Fresno Police Department is the target of gunfire. Fresno police have been targeting gangs in violent areas over the past week and on Sunday night, one of their officers was the target himself of gunfire. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says the veteran officer was in…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — An effort to clear a homeless camp in Fresno Monday morning, temporarily forced local residents out of their homes too after a gas line was ruptured. “The line that this excavator hit was above the ground,” explains Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims. “So they were removing debris, they weren’t digging underneath the…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Two men and a woman are in the hospital after a single-vehicle accident in northwest Fresno. The car – a blue El Camino with moving boxes on the back – veered off the roadway, up onto the embankment and then crashed into the wall of the railroad overpass on eastbound Shaw…… MORE
YOSEMITE, CA (KMJ) – A 20-year-old Ceres woman was killed by a falling tree at Half Dome Village inside Yosemite National Park on Sunday morning. The National Park says Destiny Rose Texeira Borges was working for a concessioner service, contracted by the park, when she was struck and killed around 10am. The area was closed…… MORE
(KMJ) A17-year old has been arrested and charged with killing his great grandmother. Fresno County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the 2000 block of North Polk just before eight Sunday night. There, they found 74-year old Lupe Suarez who had been stabbed and was unconscious. Suarez was rushed to CRMC where she was pronounced dead.…… MORE
FRESNO (KMJ) — The vast amounts of rain we’ve all experienced in the Central Valley this winter, could be perfect for a boom in the number of mosquitoes. Standing water is all the tiny bugs need to breed, and the recent storms of late means there could be a lot of it remaining out of…… MORE
(AP) After years of prep work, Gov. Jerry Brown’s finance department decided Friday that California’s $64 billion high-speed rail project is ready to lay some track. The administration approved the rail authority’s request to spend $2.6 billion on work in the Central Valley. The decision lets the authority ask the state treasurer’s office to sell…… MORE
