FRESNO, CA (KM) – A Fresno jury on Thursday returned a not-guilty verdict in the trial Assemblyman Dr. Joaquin Arambula. The Fresno democrat was facing one count of Misdemeanor charge of child abuse. If he had been found guilty, Arambula could have faced as much as six months in jail Developing… …… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Six Roman Catholic dioceses in California are creating a program to compensate people who were sexually abused by priests as children, in return for promising not to sue. The program announced Tuesday includes the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the dioceses of Fresno, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego. They…… MORE
(AP) – A popular road at Yosemite National Park will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning Wednesday evening ahead of a series of storms expected to dump at least a foot of snow on the highest peaks. Park spokeswoman Scott Gediman says Glacier Point Road will close at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The 16-mile road offers…… MORE
(KMJ) – Fresno Police continue to search for a pair of female suspects who pushed a security guard while allegedly stealing from a 99 Cents Only Store in Southeast Fresno. Officers say the two women placed various items in bags and then tried to walk out of the store, located at Kings Canyon and Willow…… MORE
(KMJ) – Fresno Police have now identified a pair of suspects and the vehicles believed used in the May 8th burglary of Granville’s Home of Hope. Investigators say two suspects entered the home between Midnight and 6 a.m. and stole most of its furnishings including the refrigerator and stove. Fresno Police have now released the…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KM) – Defense brings Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula to testify Tuesday at his own misdemeanor child abuse trial. Defense had the final two witnesses, Dr. Joaquin Arambula on the stand along with his brother Diego. Stanford-educated Diego Arambula said he was working as a teacher and a principal in the Bay area and…… MORE
(KMJ) – The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office says it will continue to use a helicopter, drone and dive teams to locate the body of a teen who slipped and fell into the Tule River Sunday Night. But crews now say, due to the severity of the river’s flow and the water’s frigid temperature, the operation…… MORE
(KMJ) – The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office is working to recover the body of an adult man found in the water of a Valley canal. Deputies were called to an area near Shaw and Goldenrod near Biola around 4 a.m. Tuesday. There, investigators say the body of a man was found stuck in the gates…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KM) – Defense brings Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula’s wife, mother and doctors to testify Monday at the misdemeanor child abuse trial. The defense continued its case from last week calling the family’s therapist and a child psychologist to the stand. The child psychologist, Dr. Susan Napolitano testified that said fear of a…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A jury ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.05 billion to a couple who claimed the company’s popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers. The Oakland jury on Monday delivered Monsanto’s third such loss in California since August. Alva and Alberta Pilliod claimed they used Roundup for more…… MORE
