Category Archives: Liz Kern News Articles

Fresno Unified Enhancing Support For LGBTQ Students

Fresno Unified Enhancing Support For LGBTQ Students

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno Unified wants to support LGBTQ students by improving the district’s programs and interactions. Fresno Gay Straight Alliance Network, My LGPT Plus, Trans-E-Motion and Community Link among the groups giving their input Wednesday, at the Fresno Unified Education Center. “Some the key issues we talked about was just comprehensive and knowledgeable…MORE

Dialysis Patients Will Rally In Fresno

Dialysis Patients Will Rally In Fresno

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Dialysis patients are rallying in Fresno. Around 40 dialysis patients and allies will be at the San Joaquin Valley Dialysis Center at 11:00a.m. Thursday morning to support the Dialysis Patient Safety Act. “Patients in Fresno are very concerned about care they are receiving at dialysis clinics, and feel that legislation in…MORE

500 Club Casino’s Restaurant-Bar To Reopen As Lawyers Fights Closure

500 Club Casino’s Restaurant-Bar To Reopen As Lawyers Fights Closure

  FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The 500 Club Casino in Clovis is still fighting its closure will be reopening its bar and restaurant portion, early Tuesday morning. Agents from the State of California’s Bureau of Gambling Control came in August 16th with an emergency order to temporarily shut down the business for inadequate financing on their…MORE

Fresno Family’s Eclipse Journey To Oregon

Fresno Family’s Eclipse Journey To Oregon

[PHOTO: Courtesy- Steve Skibbie] FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A Fresno family makes the trip to Oregon to see the solar eclipse. Local photographer Steve Skibbie drove up with his wife, Shiela and two kids, Katie and Weston and watched in Molalla, Oregon. “We found a spot, tons of people, lots of people around. We were…MORE

50 Year Old Central Fresno Man Is County’s First 2017 West Nile Case

50 Year Old Central Fresno Man Is County’s First 2017 West Nile Case

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno County has its first case of West Nile virus, this year. A 50 year old man from Central Fresno is out of the hospital now, after being treated as Fresno County’s first positive West Nile virus case. In 2016, a total of 442 cases with 19 deaths were reported in…MORE

Fresno Native Shooting Holocaust Film “Dirty Bomb” In Clovis

Fresno Native Shooting Holocaust Film “Dirty Bomb” In Clovis

[Photo: McCaffrey] FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A film is shooting in the Central Valley… Fresno native Valerie McCaffrey wrote, and is producing and directing a project called Dirty Bomb, a story about holocaust heroes, who took a stand and saved thousands of lives by sabotaging bombs. It is important to not only forget Mankind’s capacity for evil,…MORE

Search & Rescue Teams Double Their Recovery Effort In Kings River

Search & Rescue Teams Double Their Recovery Effort In Kings River

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) A double recovery effort to pull possibly two cars from the Kings River, is planned this week. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office believes the first car contains the bodies of two missing Thai exchange students, who were in the vehicle that plummeted 500 feet before landing on a rock in the river. There’s now evidence that another vehicle could…MORE

Sanger PD Says Seatbelts Likely Saved Two People In Fiery Crash

Sanger PD Says Seatbelts Likely Saved Two People In Fiery Crash

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Two people survive a fiery crash in Sanger It happened just after midnight, Thursday night. Police say the 17 year-old driver of a pick-up truck fell asleep and struck a tree on Newmark at North streets. Sanger Police say the driver had been traveling at approximately 60 mph when it hit…MORE

Fresno Sheriff’s Office Asks For Prior Whereabouts Of Man Struck By Train

Fresno Sheriff’s Office Asks For Prior Whereabouts Of Man Struck By Train

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A man struck by a train in Laton has been identified. The Fresno County Sheriff – Coroner’s Office says 24 year old Frank Rocha Vaz of Riverdale was hit around 11:45, Wednesday night. An engineer from Burlington Northern Santa Fe saw a person laying across the tracks as they approached Fowler…MORE

Parents Need To Know About “The Hot Water Challenge”

Parents Need To Know About “The Hot Water Challenge”

FRESNO, CA (KMJ ) – A warning for parents about something called “The Hot Water Challenge.” It’s gaining exposure on social media, the “The Hot Water Challenge” a game when someone either willingly on by surprise is hit with a bucket of scalding water thrown on their body. a 12-year-old girl in New York now…MORE