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Housing Female Transgender Inmates Based on Their Gender Identity

Housing Female Transgender Inmates Based on Their Gender Identity

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) — The San Francisco jail will begin training staff members and inmates, in preparation for transgender inmates to participate with other women in drug…MORE

Animal Disaster Team Responds to Rough Fire

Animal Disaster Team Responds to Rough Fire

(KMJ) – The Central California Animal Disaster Team (CCADT) has been deployed by the Fresno County Office Of Emergency Services to assist with displaced small and large animals due to the Rough Fire The small animal evacuation shelter will be open for pets of families under mandatory evacuation orders: CCADT has activated an emergency animal…MORE

Fire Evacuations Ordered For Residents of Dunlap

Fire Evacuations Ordered For Residents of Dunlap

Friday, Fresno County Sheriff’s deputies are going door to door to distribute mandatory evacuation notices to certain residents in Dunlap. The starting point will be on Millwood Road, 1 ½ miles east of where Dunlap Road and Millwood Road intersect. The notices will be handed out along Todd Eymann Road and up along Highway 245…MORE

Medical Marijuana Regulation Deal Reached

Medical Marijuana Regulation Deal Reached

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers were expected to vote Friday on a proposal to create the first regulatory framework for the state’s thriving but unruly medical marijuana industry after lawmakers reached an 11th-hour compromise on a trio of marijuana bills. The authors of legislation that had been stalled in the Senate and Assembly in…MORE

Mystery Ice Crashes into Modesto Home

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — A loud crash startled a California family at home Wednesday morning when a chunk of ice the size of a basketball hurdled from the sky and smashed through the roof, likely the result of frozen moisture breaking loose from an airplane flying high overhead. Monica Savath said she and her family…MORE

HSR Authority Meeting Locals Affected By The Mega-Project

HSR Authority Meeting Locals Affected By The Mega-Project

FRESNO (KMJ) — The High Speed Rail authority is meeting the people whose homes and businesses lie in the $68 billion project’s pathway and others set to be affected by the new line. It’s the public’s chance to speak directly to those making the decisions. Looking on a map, the mega-project’s construction effort is now…MORE

How Strong will El Niño Be?

How Strong will El Niño Be?

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) — There’s about a 95% chance that El Nino will continue through Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-16, with a peak in the late fall or…MORE

Gov. Brown Vetoes Drone Regulations

Gov. Brown Vetoes Drone Regulations

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) — Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation, which called for prohibiting flying a drone less than 350 feet above private property, without the owner’s…MORE

Laton Football Theft Suspects Caught

Laton Football Theft Suspects Caught

(KMJ)  Three teenagers are facing charges related to a recent theft at the Laton Youth Football Program. On Wednesday, Fresno Co. Sheriffs deputies arrested a 15 year old boy and 18 year old’s David Padilla and Alexis Barajas (Pictured). Padilla remains in custody while Barajas has posted bond and bailed out of jail. Investigators say…MORE

Derek Carr Named Raiders Captain

Derek Carr Named Raiders Captain

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Derek Carr’s mindset for his second NFL season opener is quite a bit different than what it was a year ago as a rookie. After being picked as the starter just days before last year’s opener, Carr is now firmly entrenched in the starting role and as one of the faces…MORE