Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

Fresno State Flags At Half-Staff For Dee Jordan

Fresno State Flags At Half-Staff For Dee Jordan

Fresno State’s President Joseph Castro ordered the University’s national and state flags to be posted at half-staff Tuesday in memory of Mrs. Dee Jordan, whose family donated $29.5 million to Fresno State’s Ag One Foundation in 2009. “The impact of the Jordan family gift was transformational for Fresno State and continues to help us make…MORE

Code Strike Team Puts Slumlords On Notice

Code Strike Team Puts Slumlords On Notice

  The City of Fresno is adding officers to their Code Enforcement Strike Team, and will pursue criminal charges if needed — to force slumlords to fix their properties. Two code enforcement officers will be reassigned and report directly to City Manager Bruce Rudd, while Mayor Ashley Swearengin has set aside fiscal 2016 funds to…MORE

‘The Cat House On The Kings’ Needs Your Help To Win A Big Grant

‘The Cat House On The Kings’ Needs Your Help To Win A Big Grant

FRESNO (KMJ) — The Central Valley’s ‘Cat House on the Kings’ needs your help to win a grant of as much as $20,000. The cat sanctuary just north of Reedley houses felines who want to live in a no-cage and no kill shelter. It looks after abandoned and feral cats and kittens and it now…MORE

Search Continues for “At-Risk” Clovis Man

Search Continues for “At-Risk” Clovis Man

(KMJ) – Fresno County sheriff’s detectives are seeking the public’s help to locate a missing “at-risk” Clovis man. Kenneth Wesson, 65, left his home on the 3200 block of Bundy Avenue in Clovis on Dec. 3 around 11:15 a.m.  He was driving a 1989 white, single cab Chevy pickup truck with a rear slider window.…MORE

Clovis Woman Attacked Walking To Bus

Clovis Woman Attacked Walking To Bus

  (KMJ) December 7th, 2015 – Clovis Police are looking for tips are after woman was attacked near Peach and Gettysburg. It happened Monday, December 7th, just before 7:30a.m. Officers were dispatched to the area and found the victim being assisted by a passerby. The young woman had been walking in the north alleyway in…MORE

Weekend Shootings Have Police Targeting West Fresno Gangs

Weekend Shootings Have Police Targeting West Fresno Gangs

  There was ten shootings over a 10 hour period from December 5th through December 6th, and in three incidents, victims were hit. Now, Police Chief Jerry Dyer is placing a bulls-eye on West Fresno gangs. One incident took place overnight Saturday (12/5/2015), during an event at the Fresno Fairgrounds, and that incident spurred two more…MORE

Attack On Pearl Harbor Remembered In Clovis

Attack On Pearl Harbor Remembered In Clovis

CLOVIS (KMJ) — It was December 7th 1941 when the naval base at Pearl Harbor was subject to a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy. That was 74 years ago, and more than 2,400 Americans lost their lives in that attack. The event, and the damage sustained to the fleet stationed there, brought…MORE

Thieves Leave Merced Family of 10 With Very Little

Thieves Leave Merced Family of 10 With Very Little

(KMJ) – A family of ten is left with next to nothing after they say burglars cleaned out their home in Merced this week. Mai Zoua Vang and her husband came home last Tuesday night and they noticed their gate was open which was unusual, so they looked through the gate and that’s when they…MORE

Fresno’s Central Library’s New Citizenship Corner

Fresno’s Central Library’s New Citizenship Corner

(KMJ) December 4, 2015 – Downtown Fresno’s Central Library cut the ribbon on its new Citizenship Corner. Over 60,000 permanent residents in Fresno County are eligible to become U.S. citizens, and the library believes this Citizenship Corner will be a well used resource, by providing information on obtaining United States Citizenship and Naturalization The Fresno…MORE

First Photo of Female San Bernardino Shooter

First Photo of Female San Bernardino Shooter

First Photo of Female San Bernardino Shooter, 27 year-old Tashfeen Malik from her passport.   Syed Rizwan Farook, 28 years old (seen above). The married couple left their baby with grandma while they carried out the deadliest mass shooting in the US since Sandy Hook. Farook, a U.S. citizen, and his wife, a permanent resident, gunned down 14…MORE