SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Backers of a marijuana legalization initiative say they have collected enough signatures for the measure to qualify for the California ballot this November. A coalition that includes former Facebook President Sean Parker and backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the nation’s leading marijuana advocacy groups says it has collected 600,000 signatures, a…… MORE
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(CNN) – Nearly half a million California voters may be unable to participate in the state’s presidential primaries on June 7 as a result of confusion in the voter registration process, a Los Angeles Times investigation has discovered. Hundreds of thousands of Californians who intended to register as independents may have accidentally registered instead with…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (KMJ/AP) It was a Bay Area chase, that really went to the dogs. A Chihuahua is in animal custody after leading police on a chase across the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge. The CHP tweeted the small black dog “led us on quite a chase” on Sunday, and posted a video of it running…… MORE
(KMJ) – The California Highway Patrol says officers began chasing a car driving the wrong way on Highway 198 around midnight Thursday. That chase eventually found its way onto the base of Naval Air Station Lemoore. There, the Navy and CHP say the vehicle slammed into a parked F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet. That impact…… MORE
(KMJ) – Property crimes detectives with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office need your help to identify two young men involved in a recent theft. Cameras captured the crime inside the Easy Stop Market on the 11000 block of S. Fowler Ave. in Selma. Detectives say on February 29th at 4:15 pm, two Hispanic men in their…… MORE
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) — As the job market recovers, Americans appear to be more confident in their career prospects, giving them more time to focus…… MORE
(KMJ) – Wednesday, California’s Bureau of Private Post-secondary Education will send representatives to Fresno to meet with students of the now-closed Marinello School of Beauty. The Los Angeles-based company closed its schools in California, Nevada, Utah, Kansas and Connecticut last week after the U.S. Department of Education refused to re-certify it to participate in federal student…… MORE
(KMJ) – The Fresno County Board of Supervisors set the price for its old juvenile hall. Tuesday, Supervisors placed a minimum bid of $4.386 million for the nearly 12.6 acres of land near Ventura Avenue and Tenth Street. That juvenile hall was closed in 2006. The minimum bid for the old juvenile hall site was proposed…… MORE
At KMJ News, it is best if the news people stay out of the news … KMJ’s Michael Knight reports this story happened right in front of him … There was a big fire on my street last night, it went to three alarm and it was,…… MORE
