A federal grand jury has indicted an Atwater prison inmate accused of threatening to kill the family of a federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced on Friday. Stanislav Yelizarov, 35, who is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Atwater, was charged with threatening the family of a federal official....
Multiple Passengers Are Killed After Bus Crashes in Western New York
A tour bus traveling from Niagara Falls to New York City crashed on a highway outside Buffalo on Friday, killing multiple passengers, including at least one child, and leaving some people trapped beneath the vehicle, officials said. The crash occurred on the New York State Thruway about 30 miles east...
Fresno Firefighters Contain Cambridge Avenue Blaze, No Injuries Reported
Fresno firefighters contained a house fire Friday morning on the 1600 block of East Cambridge Avenue, preventing major damage, officials said. Crews were dispatched shortly after 10 a.m. for reports of smoke coming from a home. When firefighters arrived, they saw smoke coming from a second-story window and requested additional...
With Major Heat Risk Forecast, This Is a Good Weekend to Stay Indoors in Fresno
Fresnans usually say when they're talking about hot summer weather that "at least it's a dry heat." This weekend, not so much. Humidity levels will be higher than usual thanks to monsoonal storms pushing into the Central Valley from the Desert Southwest and Four Corners region, and that will not...
Trump Says Intel Has Agreed to Deal for US to Take 10% Equity Stake
President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America. An official announcement on the arrangement is expected later in the...
Epstein Associate Maxwell Says She Never Saw Trump Behave Inappropriately
Ghislane Maxwell, an associate of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, told a top Justice Department official last month that she never saw President Donald Trump in an "inappropriate setting," according to a transcript of an interview released on Friday. "I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate...
Wrongly Deported Migrant Abrego to Be Released Soon, Lawyer Says
Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation in March to his native El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, is expected to be released from criminal custody in Tennessee soon, his lawyer said on Friday. A Fox affiliate in Nashville had earlier reported that Abrego had been released...
Remembering Ron McCary, Who Did It All for KMJ
Longtime KMJ radio personality Ron McCary died Aug. 16 at the age of 80. A radio lifer — he started his career in 1969 at KFIG — McCary joined KMJ in 2007 as a utility man, filling any role required. He handled anchoring news on Saturdays or whenever a regular...
I Was Preyed On for My VA Benefits. California Can Stop It
I served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1975 to 1977, and was proud to do my part. Like every veteran, I believed the benefits I earned would be there when I needed them. What I didn’t expect was to be targeted by a company that twisted the system designed...
Texas Senate Debates Redistricting Bill, Is Expected to Pass It Easily
The Texas Senate on Friday began debating a bill that redraws the state's congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five seats held by Democrats to Republicans. After the state House passed it on Wednesday, the Senate was anticipated to approve it on Friday....