FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno City Councilmember Esmeralda Soria announces she’s running for the California State Assembly, Councilmember Soria currently represents Fresno’s District 1. She says she’s running for the state’s newly drawn 27th Assembly District, which encompasses Madera and Merced counties and parts of Fresno. As the 2018 Fresno City Council President, Soria was…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The reward has been increased for the arrest of a man suspected of killing his mother and grandfather in Southeast Fresno. Investigators believe on January 6, 2022, 25-year-old Rahmad Parke killed his 58-year-old motherMelba Abdelaziz and 90-year-old grandfather Mel Abdelaziz at a home on Tulare by Peach. Speaking during a news…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Legislation is introduced Tuesday in the California State Capitol to counter a wave of petty crime. Proposition 47 is titled the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,” and reduced many drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It also made the crime of shoplifting a misdemeanor as long as the amount…… MORE
TULARE, CA (KMJ) – A woman says she was robbed and pistol whipped at the Tulare Outlet Mall. At approximately 8:50 AM, on December 29, 2021, Tulare Police Dispatchers received a report of an armed robbery that had just occurred. Tulare Police officers responded and contacted two elderly females who advised that they had just…… MORE
TULARE, COUNTY CA (KMJ) – Detectives are investigating a body found Monday morning in Tulare. Just after 10:00 a.m., the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said their Deputies were called to the area of Ave 244, west of road 68, in Tulare for a man down in a field. When they arrived, Deputies found a man…… MORE
(KMJ) – California joins Arizona and Nevada, signing an agreement Wednesday to significantly reduce the amount of water pulled from the Colorado River. The Colorado River provides a source of water for around 40 million residents and farmers from Wyoming to the U.S-Mexico Border. Lake Mead is seeing dangerously low water levels due to rising…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The 92nd Annual Downtown Fresno Christmas Parade will begin at 1:00pm on December 11th. This years Christmas Parade is set to begin this weekend on Fulton Street from Inyo St. to Calaveras St. The parade’s theme this year is Christmas movies. Participants are encouraged to create their floats inspired by their…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) — KMJ host Ray Appleton breaks the news that Congressman Devin Nunes is retiring after from his term in congress in 2022. The news was announced Monday during the Ray Appleton show, after Ray was in communication with Nunes. Congressman Nunes telling KMJ’s Ray Appleton that he’ll be gone by the first…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A Fresno Amazon worker considered “a hero” for rescuing a baby in the roadway has died of his injuries after being hit in his vehicle in Southeast Fresno The Fresno County Coroner’s Office said on Wednesday that 24-year-old Aurelio Fuentes Jr. died in the hospital on November 29. He was driving…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Carole Goldsmith has been named chancellor of the State Center Community College District. She will oversee Fresno City College, Clovis, Madera, and Reedley community colleges Carole was awarded the Mariann Loniello Award from the California Community College Association of Community and Continuing Education in recognition for her work in education and…… MORE
