Category Archives: Local News

Paroled Bank Robber Arrested Again In Fresno

Paroled Bank Robber Arrested Again In Fresno

(KMJ) – Fresno Police did not have a difficult search to nab the man accused of robbing a city bank on Monday. Officers say witnesses gave a very accurate description to the man who approached a teller at the Union Bank branch location on the 1400 block of Kern Street in Fresno’s Chinatown.  That man,…MORE

Clovis Stabbing Under Investigation By Police

Clovis Stabbing Under Investigation By Police

(KMJ) – Clovis Police shut down Sierra Avenue near Villa about 3:30 Monday afternoon, when a man in the road was found bleeding from his neck. City of Clovis workers saw the man lying on the ground and called police. American Ambulance took him to Community Regional Medical Center where is being evaluated. The cause of…MORE

Campbell Soup To Stop Using BPA In Canned Products

Campbell Soup To Stop Using BPA In Canned Products

(KMJ) Fresno – Campbell Soup will stop using the chemical Bisphenol A in its canned products. The world’s largest soup maker, said it would completely switch to cans that do not use the commonly-used chemical for their linings in North America by the middle of 2017. There are concerns that BPA raises the risk of cancer,…MORE

Idled Workers Re-entering American Job Force

Idled Workers Re-entering American Job Force

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are streaming back into an improving labor market as employers raise wages and hire less skilled job candidates to cope with an intensifying worker shortage. Labor Department figures show the portion of the U.S. population working or looking for jobs – known as the labor force participation rate – has…MORE

Wired & Tired – Smartphone Burnout

Wired & Tired – Smartphone Burnout

Wired & Tired: After hours work emails causing employee burnout These days, we are more connected than ever. You want to order a pizza? Just tweet about it. You want to buy movie tickets? Open up an app. Smartphones have made telecommuting easy, but it can be a bad idea to have your work email…MORE

$15 Per Hour Minimum Wage Will Be Law In California By 2023

$15 Per Hour Minimum Wage Will Be Law In California By 2023

SACRAMENTO (KMJ) — Governor Jerry Brown has officially announced plans to put California’s minimum wage up to $15 per hour for everybody by 2023. The announcement in Sacramento comes after rumors over the weekend. But now the deal is official, it’ll affect almost a third of the state’s workers. “What really cemented this deal was…MORE

Selling Company Passwords for Cash?

Selling Company Passwords for Cash?

Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More…       Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — 20 percent of employees would give up their credentials to a third party for some cash, according to a new SailPoint survey.…MORE

Study: Only Small Percentage of Americans Have a ‘Healthy Lifestyle’

Study: Only Small Percentage of Americans Have a ‘Healthy Lifestyle’

Aaron Abeytia Aaron Abeytia anchors afternoon newscasts on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ. Read More…       Listen to the report as aired on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — 150 minutes of exercise per week a body fat percentage under 20 percent for men or 30 percent for women, a diet…MORE

One Year Old Easter Sunday Driver Stopped By Fresno Police

One Year Old Easter Sunday Driver Stopped By Fresno Police

FRESNO (KMJ) — In the KMJ newsroom, we receive a number of police reports which we place both on the air and here on our website so our loyal listeners and website readers know everything that’s happening here in the valley. And this update sent to us Sunday evening, written exactly like the others, has a…MORE

Gang Member’s Attempt to Run from Police Comes to Crashing End

Gang Member’s Attempt to Run from Police Comes to Crashing End

(KMJ) – Fresno Police arrest an admitted paroled gang member following a pursuit that ends in a major collision. Just before 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Officers saw a white Lexus commit a traffic infraction near East Olive and North First.  As they tried to pull the vehicle over, the driver, 35-year old Albert Guerrero, instead sped…MORE