NEW YORK (AP) — Farmers Insurance said Monday it will lay off 11% of its workforce — about 2,400 employees — as part of a corporate restructuring aimed at increasing its efficiency and long-term profitability. The California-based insurer said the job cuts will impact all lines of its business. Monday was the last working day…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the California Senate said Monday she will step down from her leadership post, ending an historic run as the first woman and first openly gay person to lead the upper legislative chamber of the nation’s most populous state. Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego, said she will…… MORE
KERMAN, Calif. (KMJ) — The City of Kerman announced the appointment of Steve Wilkins as the city’s new chief of police. Chief Wilkins most recently served as Undersheriff for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office after 32 years in Fresno County law enforcement. He began as a deputy and went on to manage several divisions during…… MORE
VISALIA, Calif. (KMJ) — Crews are currently tackling a grass fire along the St. John’s River in Visalia. According to officials, the fire broke out around 6:20 p.m. near McAuliff Street, just along the south side of the river. Both CAL FIRE and the Tulare County Fire Department are on scene working the fire and…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A proposed ordinance to regulate new laboratories dealing with infectious diseases wins initial approval at Fresno City Council. Fresno City Councilmembers Garry Bredefeld, Miguel Arias and Nelson Esparza authored the “Infectious Disease Lab Accountability and Transparency Ordinance.” The proposal comes after the discovery of a Covid-19 lab operating illegally in Reedley…… MORE
PORTERVILLE, CA (KMJ) – A missing teenage girl from Porterville is found in Las Vegas with a man from Florida, who’s now facing serious charges. On August 18, 2023, a 17-year-old girl’s parents contacted Porterville Police, telling officers that she’d run away. Police say the girl met a 20-year-old from Florida on social media. They…… MORE
CLOVIS, CA (KMJ) – Clovis Police Detectives arrest a man from Fresno suspected of multiple vehicle burglaries. Police served a search warrant at the home of 37-year-old Nicholas Browning on Thursday, August 24, 2023. Clovis Police say in just 31 days, Brown allegedly broke into 11 cars near Clovis and Shaw in a gym parking…… MORE
(AP) — A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it. When the camera shutter blinked inside an Atlanta jail on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people seeking or already granted asylum. The complaint, filed in an administrative court within the department, asserts that SpaceX wrongly claimed that federal export control laws barred…… MORE
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ) — A plane crashed Thursday just west of Goshen in Tulare County. According to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened in a cornfield west of Road 60 and south of Avenue 304. Officials say the pilot was flying a twin-engine plane. The sheriff’s office says the pilot was able…… MORE
