HANFORD (KMJ) — One suspect has been taken into custody and one Hanford Police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after an officer involved shooting in the city. It comes after a call on Thursday, when officers were sent to an apartment close to Highway 198 and 11th Avenue. Lieutenant Greg Freiner said…… MORE
GMO Labeling Law Still Expected This Year
The GMO Labeling law mandated by Congress will be established by the end of this year, according to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Perdue told Organic Insider last week that despite delays, USDA will finalize the law yet this year. Congress passed a bill in 2016 that mandated the Department of Agriculture to create and implement…… MORE
Space X Rocket Launch Lights Calif. Sky
[van id=”van/batchfeed/2018/10/08/viralhog_27ee0f90-cb08-11e8-8c28-dbea5fa2483e”] (CNN) – Rocket launches are always guaranteed to make people look up to the sky in awe, but the latest SpaceX liftoff might have just raised the bar for a long time. Elon Musk’s company on Sunday successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into the evening California sky, prompting locals to post pictures…… MORE
Tropical Storm Michael heading to US
[van id=”weather/2018/10/08/tropical-storm-hurricane-michael-monday-update-vpx.cnn”] (CNN) – Tropical Storm Michael formed near the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday, and it’s on track to wallop the United States. “The current forecast indicates the storm entering the Gulf of Mexico by Monday morning, strengthening to a hurricane by early Wednesday and likely targeting the Florida panhandle by late Wednesday,” CNN meteorologist…… MORE
Kavanaugh Confirmed, Sworn in to SCOTUS
[van id=”politics/2018/10/06/brett-kavanaugh-senate-vote-nr-vpx.cnn”] WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Senate voted to send Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, ushering in a generational conservative majority and delivering a huge victory to President Donald Trump after a vicious confirmation battle inflamed by allegations of sexual assault against the nominee. As shrieks of “shame, shame, shame” echoed from…… MORE
“Westside Shooter” Found Guilty By A Fresno Jury, Faces Life Sentence
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The man considered the “Westside Shooter” is found guilty by a Fresno jury. 42 year-old Jorge Javier Gracia of Kerman (above) was convicted on Friday, October 5, 2018 for 19 felonies for the string of shootings in November and December of last year. In a news conference in December of…… MORE
California Dept. Of Education Receives Million Dollar Grant To Help Prevent School Violence
[Photo: AP News] FRESNO,CA (KMJ) – The California Department of Education received a million dollar violence prevention and mental health training grant. State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson (below) says the funding is under the federal STOP School Violence Act to provide violence prevention and mental health training to students and staff in school districts…… MORE
Gladding Hit And Run Suspect Alvarez Maravilla Enters Plea
FRESNO (KMJ) — The teenager alleged to have caused the hit and run death of a Clovis Unified vice principal has entered his plea. Rogelio Alvarez Maravilla was already out on bail when he appeared in Fresno County Superior Court. He appeared in front of a judge amidst a crowd of family and friends of…… MORE
Ag Committee Members Advancing Farm Bill Talks
The “big four” farm bill leaders met in an effort to advance negotiations of the conference committee. Senators Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow, along with Representatives Mike Conaway and Collin Peterson, met Thursday in Washington to advance the farm bill talks, even though the House of Representatives is on recess until after the midterm elections.…… MORE
Poverello Sued For Protecting Transgender Individual In Women’s Shelter
FRESNO (KMJ) — Downtown Fresno’s Poverello House is being sued in federal court by nine women who say they were subject to sexual harassment by a transgender individual, and that staff failed to take action to stop it. The suit filed in April alleges that the nine women were using Naomi’s House women’s shelter along…… MORE
