EASTON, CA (KMJ) – A record-breaking $400,000 check was presented to the Central California Food Bank by GAR Tootelian, Inc. Central California Food Bank and Gar Tootelian, Inc., in partnership with KMJ Radio, Fresno Madera Farm Credit and CoBank held a highly successful Funds Drive on Friday, September 13, 2019 at The Market.…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Pacific Gas & Electric is reporting substantial losses for the third quarter driven by catastrophic wildfires. The company anticipates those costs could escalate to as much as $6.3 billion. California’s largest utility swung to a loss of $1.62 billion, after a profit of $564 million in the same period last year.…… MORE
FRESNO,CA (KMJ) – The search continues for the driver who lost control of their car left the road and crashed through two apartment patios in Northeast Fresno. City police say this all happened around 3 AM at a complex on Gettysburg near Sharon. No apartments were hit when the car left the road. But it’s driver and…… MORE
TULARE COUNTY, CA (KMJ) – An elderly repeat sex offender is sentenced today to 400 years-to-life in prison. 66-year-old Steven Wing was sentenced in Tulare County Superior Court on Thursday. Wing was convicted by a Tulare County Jury of molesting a girl from the time she was 4 — to the time she turned…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A state agency says it has ordered a California judge removed from office for multiple acts of misconduct including denial of due process to a defendant, improper conversations with attorneys and comments that constituted sex harassment. The Commission on Judicial Performance said Wednesday the removal of Contra Costa County Superior Court…… MORE
FRESNO,CA (KMJ) – A day after allegedly causing a fatal crash that killed a sophomore at central high east campus, 54 year old Albert Fimbrez was arrested. The accident happened in central Fresno. 16 year old Dayvon McCoy was with a friend walking northbound on valentine when he was struck by Fimbrez car. He died…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (KMJ) – California’s Attorney General is taking legal action against Facebook. “We had to file this petition because we weren’t getting the responses that we believe we were due, lawfully,” said Attorney General Xavier Becerra. AG Becerra speaking Wednesday at a press conference in San Francisco said he’s asking a court…… MORE
HANFORD, CA (KMJ) – A crowdfunding page has been set up to help raise money for the family of fallen Lemoore Police Officer Jonathan Diaz. On November 2, 32-year-old Ramiro Trevino Jr., a Kings County welfare fraud investigator, was at a house party on Eddy Street near Lacey Blvd for his father’s birthday. The Kings…… MORE
(KMJ) – The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office confirms the two inmates who escaped from its jail over the weekend have been found and captured. 20-year old John Salazar and 21-year old Santos Fonseca were both being held on murder charges. The pair reportedly cut a hole in a bathroom ceiling and escaped the Monterey County…… MORE
(KMJ) – Hanford Police say a tip has lead to the arrest of a South Valley woman sought for the alleged murder of her newborn son. 25-year old Chelsea Becker was located around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning at a home on the 1000 block of Lark Street in Visalia. There, she was arrested, taken to…… MORE
