Category Archives: Local News

Fresno’s 144th Fighter Wing Plans State Flyover Salute

Fresno’s 144th Fighter Wing Plans State Flyover Salute

(Photo courtesy:  144th Fighter Wing) (KMJ) –  The 144th Air National Guard Fighter Wing in Fresno announces its jets will make a flyover across the Golden State to salute health care workers and first responders. Here are the details shared in a news release put out Monday by the 144th: Four F-15C Eagle fighter jets…MORE

Fresno Unified Announces Virtual Senior Celebration Dates & Summer School Plans

Fresno Unified Announces Virtual Senior Celebration Dates & Summer School Plans

  FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The Fresno Unified School District has announced new details about celebrating the school’s seniors and plans for summer school and camps. The district made the announcement on Monday through a Facebook post. All senior celebrations will be held virtually and will be streamed live.   Summer camps and summer academies…MORE

Fresno Police Release Officer’s Bodycam Video of Waffle Shop Protest

Fresno Police Release Officer’s Bodycam Video of Waffle Shop Protest

      FRESNO, CA. (KMJ) – The Fresno Police Department has responded with its own video after a protest at a Fresno breakfast restaurant led to a man being detained. The incident happened on Sunday at the Waffle Shop on Figarden Dr. in Northwest Fresno. Police say Tom Miller Sr. was detained for interfering…MORE

Major Accident on Highway 99 Claims the Life of a Little Girl

Major Accident on Highway 99 Claims the Life of a Little Girl

(photo courtesy:  California Highway Patrol) (KMJ) – An 11-year old girl is dead and ten others injured after a big rig slams into several cars on Highway 99 near Selma. The California Highway Patrol says the crash happened in a construction zone on the 99 near the Mountain View exit around 1:15 p.m. Sunday. Officers…MORE

Off-Duty CHP Officer Helps Rescue Man From Willow Creek

Off-Duty CHP Officer Helps Rescue Man From Willow Creek

(KMJ) – The Madera County Sheriff’s Office says a Fresno man is lucky to be alive following a weekend hiking trip to Bass Lake. Around noon Saturday, a 24-year-old man hiking along Willow Creek above Bass lake tried to wade across Angel Falls. But, he misjudged just how fast the current was moving and was…MORE

Father of 5 Found Dead in Car in Central Fresno, Homicide Investigation Underway

Father of 5 Found Dead in Car in Central Fresno, Homicide Investigation Underway

  FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – A homicide investigation is underway after a Fresno father is found dead in his car. Neighbors alerted police to the body of a man in a car parked near Belmont and Blackstone. It was around 9:30 Thursday morning, when police discovered the body of 36-year-old Richard Molina Jr. inside the…MORE

COVID-19: Tulare County Passes the 1000 Mark, Fresno County Touts Tracer Program

COVID-19: Tulare County Passes the 1000 Mark, Fresno County Touts Tracer Program

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Tulare County has passed the 1000 mark in COVID-19 cases. Here in the San Joaquin Valley there are more than 2300 positive cases. Tulare County Health Dept. reported 1013, and another person died of COVID-19,  the death toll now 44, with 155 people recovering. The county’s health department is urging residents…MORE

South Valley Couple Busted for Numerous Cases of Identity Theft

South Valley Couple Busted for Numerous Cases of Identity Theft

(Photo courtesy:  Hanford Police Department) (KMJ) – Investigators bust a South Valley couple for allegedly using stolen identities to buy numerous vehicles. On May 6th, a victim called Hanford Police and told investigators someone used their stolen identity to buy a vehicle at a city auto dealership.   That lead detectives and members of crime teams…MORE

The Nation’s Unemployment Rate Reaches Historic Levels

The Nation’s Unemployment Rate Reaches Historic Levels

(KMJ0 – The nation’s unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April.  That is the highest rate seen in the United States since the Great Depression.  20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are evidence of the damage the coronavirus pandemic has done to the nation’s economy. The losses reflect what has…MORE

State Predicts Multi-Billion Dollar Budget Shortfall

State Predicts Multi-Billion Dollar Budget Shortfall

(KMJ) – New estimates from the Newsom administration predict a staggering California budget shortfall of $54.3 billion dollars because of the coronavirus. The projections, released Thursday, estimate a deficit nearly three-and-a-half times more than what the state had saved for an economic downturn. California has been under a mandatory stay-at-home order since March 19th. And that…MORE