[Photo: FPC] FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Taking a knee in a different way… during National Week of Prayer for Youth in the United States. Spiritual leaders are calling people of faith to pray specifically for kids. [Photo: FPC] Jeremy Vaccaro, the Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Downtown Fresno, (seen above) says it’s very important…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Dozens of sharks ashore on Pismo Beach? Two words — fake news. If you, too, saw that photo on Facebook about dead sharks washing up on a Pismo Beach – you have been duped by fake news. A website called React365 posted the story with attribution and a photo. By Thursday, September…… MORE
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
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
[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
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – California Governor Jerry Brown is in New York City for the World Economic Forum. Leaders from government and business are just some of participants at the two day World Economic Forum being held during the UN General Assembly. Governor Brown is among the different stakeholders all working to reduce the world’s…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ ) -The back and forth continues with the Fresno Unified School District and the Teachers Association over contracts. FTA Associate Director Mo Kashmiri spoke previously with KMJ saying they are frustrated, and the union’s membership decided to hold a strike vote on October third. On Friday, September 15th, Fresno Unifed’s Superintendent Bob…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A fundraising dinner Friday night benefits an organization with a mission to help one woman. Fresno’s chapter of the non-profit organization H.O.W. – Helping One Woman – was founded by two women, Charlotte Bavaro and Brenda Critzer back in 2008. Now there are over 12 chapters around the United States. Attendees pay…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno Police are searching for the two men who robbed ATMS in Central Fresno. Both incidents took place back on Wednesday, August 23rd. At around 4:30 that afternoon, police say a white male approached a woman at the Noble Credit Union Kiosk at Shields and Millbrook. He pushed her out of…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno State announced the opening of its new Transportation Institute. The reception was held Tuesday in the Henry Madden Library on Sept. 12th, exactly one year after the Fresno Council of Governments Policy Board approved the use of nearly $3 million of Measure C New Technology Reserve funds. Over the next…… MORE
