Officer receives outstanding investigator award
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- US Attorney Benjamin Wagner has announced the 2013 winners of the Eastern District of California Law Enforcement awards. One of those was handed out Wednesday to a Bakersfield...
View ArticleToddler found dead in desert
CALIFORNIA CITY, CA - Witnesses call it a tragedy in California City. According to Kern County Sheriff's deputies, a two-year-old boy was found dead on the side of a road in the arms of his mother's...
View ArticleYoung male shot while driving in Lamont
A juvenile male was shot in the head on Buena Vista Blvd in Lamont early Thursday, the Kern Sheriff's Department reported.The male was driving westbound on Buena Vista Blvd. near Weedpatch Hwy....
View ArticleProposed HECA power plant hearing
BAKERSFIELD, CA- For the first time this year, members of the California Energy Commission came to Kern County for a day full of questions and answers in Buttonwillow on the proposed HECA power plant...
View ArticleBicycle Transportation Plan approved by City Council
BAKERSFIELD, CA- Bakersfield's first Bicycle Transportation Plan was approved by the city council Wednesday night. City officials say with the bike plan on track, it can qualify for certain...
View ArticleCoroner: Man's death is an accident
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- The autopsy results are in from an 83-year-old man's death. His body was found in a burning car in southwest Bakersfield last month.The coroner's office has ruled Ramiro Mendez's...
View ArticleDow closes above 16,000 for first time
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- From CNBC.com U.S. stocks climbed on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its first finish above 16,000, as the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits...
View ArticleDeputies arrest man in toddler's death
CALIFORNIA CITY, CA -- Deputies have made an arrest in a toddler's death in California City Wednesday and the cororner's office now calls it a homicide.The coroner's office says Pharaoh Vanvactor died...
View ArticleDetention deputy under arrest
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- A Kern County sheriff's detention deputy is under arrest. According to the sheriff's department 50-year-old Leroy Martin Romero was bringing contraband into Lerdo Jail for criminal...
View ArticleDeputies arrest Bakersfield man for auto theft in Riverside County
WILDOMAR, CA -- A Bakersfield man has been arrested for auto theft in Riverside County. Riverside County Sheriff's officials say on Saturday afternoon an officer on patrol was driving through a...
View ArticleFamily sues Fruitvale School District for teen's assault
BAKERSFIELD, CA--The parents of a Fruitvale Junior High School student are suing the Fruitvale School District, because they said it didn't keep their daughter safe after she claimed bullies...
View ArticleMother: District did not do enough to protect daughter
BAKERSFIELD, CA - The parents of a Fruitvale Junior High student are suing the district, saying it didn't keep their daughter safe after she claimed she was bullied and sexually assaulted for 17...
View ArticleMeningitis cases at Princeton concern parents in Kern County
BAKERSFIELD, CA-- Several cases of students coming down with meningitis on the campus of Princeton University have some parents and students in Kern County concerned. The university is moving forward...
View ArticleLocal father battling Huntington's disease documenting memories
BAKERSFIELD, CA- A local father battling the same life-threatening disease that killed his mother, wants to give his son something he didn't have, more memories. Dan Boyle is doing more of what he...
View ArticlePublic Health: First West Nile Virus death in Kern County
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- County health officials say the first West Nile Virus associated death of a Kern County is a 76 year old man who passed away after progressing through three months of recovery from...
View ArticleSheriff's Department warning people of possible phone scam
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- The sheriff's department says there's possible phone scam involving the California State Sheriff's Association Foundation. Sheriff's officials say the California State Sheriff’s...
View ArticleLife sentence for third man convicted of murder, robbery
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- The third defendant convicted in the murder of a 71-year-old woman during a robbery for her necklace, was sentenced Tuesday morning to life without parole plus four years. Last...
View ArticleThird defendant sentenced for murder of elderly woman
BAKERSFIELD, CA - The third defendant convicted in the murder of a 71-year-old woman during the robbery of her necklace, was sentenced Tuesday morning to life in prison without the possibility of...
View ArticleBail denied for man accused of killing his mother's friend
BAKERSFIELD, CA - No bail for the man charged with killing a woman whose body was found in her burning southwest Bakersfield home.37-year-old Patrick Terrel did not enter a plea during Tuesday's court...
View ArticleMan arrested for stabbing a Lancaster woman five years ago
BAKERSFIELD, CA-- A major break in a high-profile murder case. The man wanted for the hacking death of a Lancaster woman more than five years ago has been arrested. One of the woman's best friends, who...
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