Foster Farms suspends 5 employees after undercover video by animal rights group Mercy For Animals shows abuse. Undercover video showing birds being slammed upside-down into shackles, scalded alive, punched and having their feathers pulled out while still alive, and chicks being tossed onto the ground. Foster Farms – based in California – said the employees…… MORE
20 year old Gustavo Hernandez is arraigned on two counts of attempted murder in Fresno County Superior Court. Hernandez is pleading not guilty to the attack on a woman and her husband in their home. It was June 14th, when Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home near Cedar and Malaga. A neighbor…… MORE
MOSQUITOES, CARRYING WEST NILE VIRUS, HAVE BEEN FOUND IN KINGS COUNTY … THE KINGS MOSQUITO ABATEMENT DISTRICT SAID FOUR MOSQUITO SAMPLES COLLECTED NEAR HANFORD, ARMONA AND LEMOORE TESTED POSITIVE … Mike Cavanaugh, the district manager of the Kings County Mosquito Abatement Ditrict says THEse ARE THE FIRST viral FINDS SINCE SEASONAL TESTING BEGAN LAST MONTH…… MORE
(KMJ) The nickname “Redskins” is closer to extinction in California public schools. Assembly Bill 30, The “California Racial Mascots Act”, passed through the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday. The lone “no” vote came from Hanford Republican Sen. Andy Vidak. The legislation, which has sparked a lively debate in the Golden State, is authored by Assemblyman…… MORE
(AP) — Police are investigating poultry producer Foster Farms after an animal-rights group shot undercover video showing some chickens being slammed upside-down into metal shackles, punched and having their feathers pulled out while they were still alive. The video, obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its release Wednesday, was shot by the Los…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A budget deal between Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders would make California the first in the nation to offer state-subsidized health care to children who are in the country illegally. The $115.4 billion agreement announced Tuesday is expected to win easy approval from the Senate and Assembly before the fiscal…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A measure approved by legislative Democrats this week cuts the reporting requirements for the agency that oversees California’s $68 billion high-speed rail program, requiring spending reports to the Legislature every two years instead twice per year, prompting critics to charge that oversight is being scaled back. The changes were included in…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A group of public water agencies that serves millions of Californians asked the state on Tuesday to order farmers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to stop irrigating their crops amid the relentless drought. The State Water Contractors, which has 27 members that include the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California,…… MORE
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who built Las Vegas’ biggest hotels, tried to take over Chrysler and bought and sold MGM at a profit three times, has died. He was 98. MGM Resorts International says Kerkorian, a native of Fresno, died Monday. He built the 30-story, 1,568-room International Hotel, the…… MORE
BERKELEY (KMJ) — As many as six students have been killed – and seven others injured – after a balcony collapse near the campus of UC Berkeley. The call came in before 1am Tuesday morning. Officers arrived to find that the balcony on the fourth floor of the building had disintegrated. The building on the…… MORE
