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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A local landscaper is left without work after his equipment was stolen from his own house. Carlos Felix has been a landscaper around Fresno for over 20 years running his family business, Charlie’s Tree Service. Now, he’s left without his livelihood. Around 4 am Wednesday morning, a thief stole his work truck-a white 2006 Chevy Silverado and attached black trailer with equipment from his house in Central Fresno. “This is how I make my money,” Felix explained. “My truck and my trailer. I’ve invested a lot of money in it cause that’s what I got.” Felix is the sole provider for his wife and their 8 children. His neighbor caught the theft on surveillance video from across the street. “It was just a normal morning,” Felix recalled. “We were laying in bed sleeping and my wife said like, ‘There goes your truck.’ So I jumped up and heard the vroom just like last year and I went out after it and tried to catch it.” This is too familiar for him. Last March, his same work truck and trailer were stolen

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Occasionally peering over his attorney’s notes and appearing to listen intently to witnesses, Andrew Leon sat in court Thursday as he learned he will be tried on murder charges. The 20-year-old is charged in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend’s mother just days after Thanksgiving last year. 37-year-old April Diaz was found shot several times in the street outside her apartment on Mouren Drive and P Street– near Huron Elementary School. Leon allegedly confessed to the crime, turning himself into police in Monterey County the next day. “And what are you turning yourself in for,” asked the 911 operator. “For murder,” said Leon. “Who did you kill?” “I killed a female.” “Where did this happen?” “Fresno.” The shooting happened just hours after Leon’s girlfriend, Naveah, said she had broken up with him. Action news was not allowed to show witnesses’ faces in court. Naveah testified that Leon had harassed her, her mother, and friends by phone for hours before the shooting. “He started blowing up my phone with text messages and calls threatening me that he was going to come over

NEW YORK CITY — In the follow up to her Oscar nomination, actress Lily Gladstone is back on screen starring in Hulu’s “Under The Bridge”. Gladstone and her co-stars — Riley Keough, Archie Panjabi and Ezra Faroque — take on roles in a series based on a true story of real-life murder that rocked a Canadian town. The series also explores themes of longing, otherness and race. When asked by Eyewitness News entertainment reporter Joelle Gargulio about what’s under the surface of the show, Gladstone said there are layers to it and not just one thing. “I think, you know, having come off of another project that is telling a true history, and took very big measure measures that really felt revolutionary, this series was doing a lot of the same, and bringing compassion and humanity and centering the victims, talking about why this happened to them,” she said. A show that’s based on truth can be hard to work around, which Panjabi and Faroque dealt with first hand. “Well, first of all, it shocked me,” Panjabi. “But it does change the way you approach

Friday, April 19, 2024 12:31AM A man was indicted Thursday for possessing over 200,000 fentanyl pills during a traffic stop in Fresno County. FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — A man was indicted Thursday for possessing over 200,000 fentanyl pills during a traffic stop in Fresno County. 25-year-old Miguel Romero Reyes is from Sinaloa, Mexico. Reyes faces federal charges of possessing more than 400 grams of fentanyl with intent to distribute. Fresno County Sheriff’s deputies stopped him as he was driving north on Interstate 5. They seized a large duffel bag containing 48 pounds of blue counterfeit M30 pills in more than a dozen 1-gallon Ziploc bags. According to court documents, Reyes conspired with another person to distribute the drugs. If convicted, he faces a minimum of 10 years in prison. WATCH: Killer High: The Silent Crisis Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — Leaders across the state are working to reduce crime and homelessness. Thursday, The Californians for Safer Communities Coalition, submitted over 900,000 signatures to get a new measure on the November ballot, that makes changes to Prop 47. Supporters say the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act would create harsher penalties for repeat offenders and will help protect small businesses and families impacted by the ongoing fentanyl crisis. Carlos Mendoza, owner of “Bird Dog Cards & Comix” says he was forced to get a gate to keep people from robbing his store. “It was about $10,000 on this one alone,” said Mendoza. He showed Action News surveillance video from 6 months ago, when someone stole dozens of master cards from him. “I’m just tying to like build a community here, have a spot so that people can come play cards with their families and friends and stuff, and when people do this, it makes it kind of hard,” said Mendoza. That’s where the “Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act” comes in. The measure would hold people accountable who repeatedly

Taylor Swift’s successes and failures, including the battle to regain control of her master recordings, are part of the syllabus at the University of California, Berkeley.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is bundling the bill that could lead to a ban on TikTok into his four-part foreign aid plan. The legislation would require TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the popular social media network or face a ban in the U.S. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has more.

Twelve jurors have been selected in former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal case. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa explains what happens next.

Dickey Betts, a guitarist and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, has died at the age of 80 following a battle with cancer. Betts wrote some of the bands biggest hits, including “Ramblin’ Man.”

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A full jury of seven men and five women have been seated for former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial, in which he is accused of falsifying business records to hide an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 election. Robert Costa has more.

Police in riot gear detained pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University in Manhattan Thursday, loading them into multiple busses. Several participating students were suspended, including the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, who was suspended by Barnard College. Lilia Luciano has more.

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Despite his many flaws — two suspensions this season, punching teammate Jordan Poole last season — Warriors star Draymond Green will go into the summer knowing that his longtime coach still has his back. In his season-ending news conference Thursday, coach Steve Kerr called the team’s relationship with the volatile Green “complex” but added that he’s one of the most loyal, smartest and competitive players he has been around. Kerr was asked if Green will be a changed person moving forward or if the team accepts that the veteran’s unpredictable behavior could lead to another suspension – like the ones he served this season for grabbing the neck of Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert and striking Phoenix’s Jusuf Nurkić. What followed was a 738-word response from Kerr. Here are the highlights: “I have so much faith in Draymond because I know him so well as a human being,” Kerr said. “He’s flawed. We’re all flawed. But he would be the first to tell you he’s probably more flawed than the rest of us, right. I mean, he’s the one who has had these transgressions, not the other guys

SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors have an aging roster that just finished a middling season. They just paid a ludicrously large luxury tax bill with a team icon hitting free agency. They have a responsibility to compete for titles as long as Steph Curry remains great and a moral obligation to keep their dynastic core intact — possibly contradicting needs. That sounds like a summer of migraines for Mike Dunleavy Jr. The Warriors’ general manager was disappointed to be sitting at a podium on April 18 rather than, say, June 18 for his end-of-season debrief. After a quick opening statement, Dunleavy reiterated Steve Kerr, Curry and Draymond Green’s public desire to bring Klay Thompson back. He said he didn’t have any regrets from a quiet trade deadline. He said he believes the Warriors were closer to the top of the Western Conference than the bottom — even though they actually finished 10th. The anticlimactic end to Golden State’s season is still fresh. But the real work for Dunleavy will begin soon. The twilight of a dynasty is in his hands. “I think I probably operate

By DAVID BAUDER and LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press Writers) NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president. Judge Juan Merchan acted after one juror was dismissed when she expressed concerns about being “outed” for her role in the case after details about her became publicly known. The actions pointed to the difficulties involved in trying to maintain anonymity for jurors in a case that has sparked wide interest and heated opinions, while lawyers need to sift through as much information as possible in a public courtroom to determine who to choose. Despite the setback, 12 jurors were seated by the end of Thursday for the historic trial over a $130,000 hush money payment shortly before the 2016 election to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her from making public her claims of a sexual meeting with Trump years earlier. Trump has denied the encounter. The dismissed juror told Merchan

By EDITH M. LEDERER (Associated Press) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine, a goal the Palestinians have long sought. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution. The resolution would have recommended that the 193-member General Assembly, where there are no vetoes, approve Palestine becoming the 194th member of the United Nations. Some 140 countries have already recognized Palestine, so its admission would have been approved, likely by a much higher number of countries. U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood told the council the U.S. veto “does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood, but instead is an acknowledgment that it will only come from direct negotiations between the parties.” Before the vote, U.S. deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said the United States has “been very clear consistently that premature actions in New York — even with the

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Police started making arrests Thursday afternoon at a makeshift encampment that pro-Palestinian protesters set up on Columbia’s quad.

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The full jury and one alternate have been selected for former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa reports.