(KMJ) – Visalia Police say witnesses saw 40-year old Fernando Medrano use an electric hedge clipper to smash several windows at a city fire station. Officers were called to VFD Station 54 on Ferguson at Dinuba just after nine o’clock Monday night. There, they say Medrano used the yard tool to smash several windows at…… MORE
(KMJ) – Governor Gavin Newsom says he will add $15 million to his May budget revision to increase security for nonprofits across the state. The move comes in response to a deadly shooting at a synagogue in Poway over the weekend. Speaking in Sacramento Monday, the Governor said he will include that money in his…… MORE
VISALIA, CA – Tulare County Animal Services announces it has recently received a $28,687 grant from PetSmart Charities, the leading funder of animal welfare in North America, to help fuel its spay and neuter efforts in Tulare County. With the help of the grant, Tulare County Animal Services is offering spay and neuter assistance…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.’s top financial executives say they still haven’t determined when the utility can start compensating victims of recent wildfires started by the utility’s equipment. Victims’ lawyers questioned PG&E executives during a bankruptcy meeting Monday in San Francisco. They wanted to know when the utility would file its…… MORE
BAKERSFIELD, CA (KMJ) – Another person comes forward with accusations of sex crimes against a South Valley Monsignor. Three people have accused 59-year-old Monsignor Craig Harrison of inappropriate contact. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno found one accusation to be unsubstantiated. According to the Diocese, they received the first report on April 12,…… MORE
(KMJ) – Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says his department responded to four separate shootings late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. And three of those incidents happened less than 30 minutes apart. The most deadly of the shootings happened just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday near Ashlan and Fruit in Central Fresno. There, five people…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. – Fresno State head football coach Jeff Tedford announced on Friday that he has informed the team senior Jorge Reyna will be the starting quarterback for the Bulldogs in 2019. “It’s important going into the summer to have leadership at that position,” Tedford said. “Jorge had a really great spring. He has…… MORE
UPDATE: The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office saying Friday that the suspect had been considered armed and dangerous, and was wanted by their AG Task Force for vehicle theft in Riverdale and two commercial burglaries in Coalinga and Laton. FCSO FLYER: On Sunday, April 7, 2019, during the early morning hours, a theft of a 2003…… MORE
(KMJ) – The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office says DNA testing has confirmed the identity of a body found in a burned out vehicle in an orchard in Huron. Deputies say the body of 62-year old Enrique Duran of Avenal was discovered inside a charred car near Palmer and El Dorado back on February…… MORE
FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — California Inspector General’s Office says a flagship prison medical facility built to improve the state’s substandard care, is itself providing poor treatment. A newly-released report gives an “inadequate” rating to the correctional health care facility in Stockton. The state spent $820 million to build the 6-year-old facility, which holds nearly 3,000 inmates,…… MORE
