Category Archives: Local News

PG&E Funds ‘Movies In The Park’ & Cooling Centers

PG&E Funds ‘Movies In The Park’ & Cooling Centers

FRESNO (KMJ) – PG&E handing over a check to the City of Fresno Parks Department. The 30,000 dollar grant will fund two programs including ‘Movies in the Park.’ “The City of Madera does a similar program with ‘Movies in the Park’ where they offer free movies, sometimes they will have snacks, for families to go…MORE

Fresno Fire Seizes $5000 Worth Of Illegal Fireworks

Fresno Fire Seizes $5000 Worth Of Illegal Fireworks

FRESNO (KMJ) – Fresno Fire makes its first illegal fireworks bust of the season. 500 pounds of illegal fireworks were confiscated around noon on Thursday, June 30th, by the Fresno Fire Department’s investigation team. The illegal fireworks were bought in Nevada with the intention of selling here in the Valley, but can be a fire…MORE

Fresno Police Chief Makes Plea For Information In Toddler Death

Fresno Police Chief Makes Plea For Information In Toddler Death

FRESNO (KMJ) — The Chief of Fresno Police has made an impassioned request directed towards those who know who’s responsible for the death of a Fresno toddler – to come forward. 20 month old Rashad Halford Jr. was shot the evening of Tuesday 21st June, and pronounced dead the next morning. The motive for the…MORE

Effectiveness of Program Aiming to Keep Drugs Out of CA Prisons in Question

Effectiveness of Program Aiming to Keep Drugs Out of CA Prisons in Question

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — A multimillion-dollar program aiming to prevent illicit drugs from reaching California prisons, appears to be having the opposite effect. It includes airport-style scanners and drug-sniffing dogs. However, a newly-released legislative analysis finds that positive drug test results have actually increased, since the program was implemented in 2014. That’s prompted state lawmakers to…MORE

Study: ‘Drunkorexia’ More Common in Colleges Than Previously Estimated

Study: ‘Drunkorexia’ More Common in Colleges Than Previously Estimated

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — The practice of skipping meals or exercising heavily before drinking alcohol, known as “drunkorexia,” isn’t exactly new among college students. But, according to the latest figures released at the Research Society on Alcoholism, “drunkorexia” may be far more common than previously estimated. 80 percent of participants in this study say they have…MORE

H. Spees Endorses Candidate Lee Brand For Fresno Mayor

H. Spees Endorses Candidate Lee Brand For Fresno Mayor

FRESNO (KMJ) – A new endorsement comes for a Fresno mayoral candidate. Former Mayor candidate H. Spees offered his support for Republican Lee Brand, on June 28, at a press conference in downtown Fresno. Spees says Brand will carrying on the same vision that he had for the City of Fresno. “My commitment to our city hasn’t changed…MORE

Revealing Study About Low Cut Tops On Resume Photos

Revealing Study About Low Cut Tops On Resume Photos

  Could showing skin get you a job interview as a woman? Call it a revealing study,,, and it’s done by the French. It finds that women who wear low-cut tops in resume photos have better chance at interview. Dr. Sevag Kertechian, a researcher at Paris-Sorbonne University, executed the study over three years. He used…MORE

Investigation: Nearly 1k Law Enforcement Guns Lost, Stolen

Investigation: Nearly 1k Law Enforcement Guns Lost, Stolen

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — 944 guns that once belonged to law enforcement officers throughout the Golden State, have been lost, stolen, or can’t be accounted for, since 2010.   A new Bay Area News Group investigation, which looked into more than 240 local, state, and federal agencies. The weapons include Glocks, Sig Sauers, Remingtons, and sniper…MORE

Calif. Bill Restricting Where Tobacco is Sold Dies

Calif. Bill Restricting Where Tobacco is Sold Dies

    FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — A bill that called for limiting the sales of tobacco products to specified tobacco stores in California has died. Back in May, sweeping tobacco regulations took effect in the Golden State, which raise the legal smoking age to 21 and treat vaping products like their traditional counterparts. Proponents argued that…MORE

Victims Shot, Pistol Whipped In Possible “Wrong House” Home Invasion

Victims Shot, Pistol Whipped In Possible “Wrong House” Home Invasion

FRESNO (KMJ) — Police believe the wrong address could be a factor in an armed home invasion in Fresno Tuesday night. The incident took place close to the intersection of Ashlan and Augusta, at around 11.45pm. Officers state that there were three people home: a 21 year old man, a 42 year old woman and…MORE