(KMJ) – California regulators have unanimously ordered an investigation into a dozen deliberate power outages that plunged millions of people into the dark last month. The California Public Utilities Commission voted Wednesday at a short meeting in San Francisco after testimony from people pleading for regulation, planning and leadership. Pacific Gas & Electric’s multiple rounds…… MORE
TULARE COUNTY, CA (KMJ) – An elderly repeat sex offender is sentenced today to 400 years-to-life in prison. 66-year-old Steven Wing was sentenced in Tulare County Superior Court on Thursday. Wing was convicted by a Tulare County Jury of molesting a girl from the time she was 4 — to the time she turned…… MORE
PG&E is now agreeing to credit customers affected by its’ power safety shutoffs. It follows calls by Governor Gavin Newsom for the company to rebate the millions of people left without power, as part of the embattled utility’s efforts to prevent wildfires. PG&E’s so-called safety shutoffs have been blamed on decades of mismanagement.… MORE
Los Angeles County health officials are issuing a warning about possible exposure to measles. To anyone who may have been at Disneyland earlier this month. The city’s department of public health says a person with the viral infection visited the Anaheim theme park on October 16th, between 9:00 A.M. and 8:30 PM. The warning reminds…… MORE
A Madera man who is accused of causing a crash that resulted in the death of three people Nebraska was taken into custody Friday. He’ll be extradited to Kearney, Nebraska, where he will face three counts of felony manslaughter. Investigators say Kratt’s semitrailer ran into the rear of a line of vehicles that had…… MORE
(Photo courtesy: Madera County Sheriff’s Office) (KMJ) – The Madera County Sheriff’s Office and Cal Fire crews are working to recover a vehicle found submerged in the waters of Bass Lake. Sheriff’s Deputies have closed Road 222 between The Way of Mono Trail and The Forks Resort. And they ask the public to avoid the…… MORE
CLOVIS, CA (KMJ) – Two gang members are arrested for auto theft after running from officers, and hiding in a Clovis hotel. Just before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, Clovis Police Officers located a stolen vehicle in the parking lot of the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel near Sylmar and Shaw in Clovis. Two men were…… MORE
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Fresno Police have arrested one man for a robbery outside the Buy Buy Baby store in Riverpark. Police said the suspects were carrying guns when they robbed two women and an infant at the Northeast Fresno shopping center Lieutenant Stephen Viveros says it happened in broad daylight at around 1:00pm…… MORE
GILROY, Calif. (AP) – The Santa Clara County coroner’s office says the gunman in the deadly Northern California festival shooting killed himself, a finding that contradicts earlier police accounts that officers fired the fatal shot. Santino William Legan, 19, shot and killed three people – including two children – Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.…… MORE
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – The trial against two men arrested after a deadly warehouse fire in the San Francisco Bay Area is wrapping up. Closing arguments are set to begin Monday in the trial against Derick Almena and Max Harris. They’re charged with involuntary manslaughter after the December 2016 fire at the so-called Ghost Ship…… MORE
