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CA Treasurer Often Shared Hotel Rooms With Employees

CA Treasurer Often Shared Hotel Rooms With Employees

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California state Treasurer Fiona Ma repeatedly shared hotel rooms with employees and that’s a practice business experts say is problematic. The hotel room sharing was revealed in expense reports obtained by the Sacramento Bee and reported Tuesday. The news follows a lawsuit by a former employee who shared a hotel room…MORE

Four Sentenced for Igniting 2017 Tulare County Wildfire

Four Sentenced for Igniting 2017 Tulare County Wildfire

(KMJ) – Four Visalia residents learn their sentences for their role in sparking the 2017 Pier Fire near Springville in Tulare County. Here is the official statement from the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office: On August 19, 2021, the defendants pleaded to the following felonies: Isiac Renteria, age 23 – arson of a structure or…MORE

Information Now Sought in Southeast Fresno Homicide

Information Now Sought in Southeast Fresno Homicide

(KMJ) – The Fresno Police Department is now asking for information on a deadly September 24th shooting in the Southeastern part of the city that left one man dead. Here are the details, as released by Investigators over the weekend: On Friday, September 24, 2021, at 5:30 pm, Officers from the Southeast Policing District responded…MORE

Sheriff Orders New Evacuations For Windy Fire in Tulare County

Sheriff Orders New Evacuations For Windy Fire in Tulare County

Tulare County, CA (KMJ) – Tulare County’s Sheriff issues New EVACUATION ORDER Due to Windy Fire. Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has issued an EVACUATION ORDER for the communities of Sugar Loaf, Sugarloaf Mountain Park, Sugarloaf Saw Mill, White River, Idlewild, Posey, Panorama Heights, Poso, Balance Rock, Spear Creek, from the existing Hot Spring Evacuation Order west…MORE

Suspect Identified in Fresno’s 56th Murder of 2021

Suspect Identified in Fresno’s 56th Murder of 2021

(KMJ) – Fresno Police detectives release the name of the suspect accused of fatally stabbing a man in a wheelchair earlier this month. The Fresno County District Attorney’s Office has now charged 19-year-old Nickolas Irving with murder. He’s accused of stabbing 41-year-old Charles Kerns (pictured below) to death at Belmont and Roosevelt in Fresno around…MORE

Homicide Investigation Follows Shooting in Tranquility

Homicide Investigation Follows Shooting in Tranquility

(Photo courtesy: Fresno County Sheriff’s Office) (KMJ) – The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office has yet to make any arrests following a fatal shooting Wednesday afternoon in the town of Tranquility. Here are the details shared in a news release from the Sheriff’s Office: At 1:40 pm on Wednesday, dispatchers with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office…MORE

Judge Plans to Re-Sentence Scott Peterson to Life This Fall

Judge Plans to Re-Sentence Scott Peterson to Life This Fall

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) – A California judge says she plans to re-sentence Scott Peterson to life in prison this fall in the 2002 murders of his wife and unborn son. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said Wednesday that she wants to sentence Peterson in November before deciding whether he deserves a…MORE

Tulare County Fire Says “No Thanks” to Unsolicited Donations

Tulare County Fire Says “No Thanks” to Unsolicited Donations

(Photo courtesy: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks)   (KMJ) – South Valley Fire Officials are asking you to be selective if you wish to assist in the battle against a pair of wildfires. Although donations are appreciated, the Tulare County Fire Department says unsolicited donations to firefighters battling the KNP Complex Fire and Windy…MORE

Crews Struggle to Contain 10 Big Calif. Wildfires

Crews Struggle to Contain 10 Big Calif. Wildfires

[ns-video id=”h_345d2cab5f17066081e9f78eed19e059″ publisher=”22180″] Northern California is bracing for critical fire weather conditions as firefighters struggle to contain at least 10 large wildfires burning across the state. A level two of three critical risk for fire weather is in effect through Monday night for a large portion of California, stretching from Redding to the region just north of Sacramento, the…MORE