Top Bakersfield Area Local News Stories
Source: TurnTo23.com - Local News
Police are searching for a man who was recently released from jail and kidnapped his girlfriend.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:27:19 PST
The unofficial final results were posted by Kern County Elections just after midnight on Wednesday. After a year long effort by Friends of the Recall to recall school board trustees Mary Graham, Patty Snyder and Holly Hart, the voters of Tehachapi showed up to the polls and voted not to recall any of the three board members.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:44:59 PST
What started out as a traffic accident in East Bakersfield ended with a foot chase through two homes and a suspect shot by deputies, with two to four other suspects still on the loose.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:54:09 PST
Schools in several of Kern County's smaller school districts have been identified as some of the lowest-performing schools in California.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:41 PST
Get your daily dose of the cute and unusual right here.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:45:03 PST
Are some of today's biggest stars too sexy for their hair? We'll let you be the judge by exposing the scalps of some famous bald stars.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:28:31 PST
Authorities say five of the six people killed in last week's bus crash in Arizona were California residents. The Pinal County Medical Examiner on Wednesday announced that two lived in Bakersfield: 56-year-old Hermalinda Roman De Hernandez and Margarita Roman DeHaro, age unknown.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:56:03 PST
Police said they found a total of 1,161 marijuana plants, with a street value of $4,644,000, 54.8 pounds of marijuana, with a street value of $219,200 and 15 gallons of hashish oil, with a street value of $96,000, were located at 1601 South Union Ave.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:52:20 PST
Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. filed a lawsuit Wednesday against an Imperial Valley farm labor contractor Juan Munoz for failing to pay minumum wage and overtime, as well as committing "potentially deadly" worker safety violations by neglecting to provide rest breaks, potable drinking water or shade to field workers. Juan Munoz supplied field workers to onion farms in Kern County and in the Coachella Valley and Mojave Desert.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:42 PST
The Board of Supervisors grilled a top PG&E official and moved forward with a November vote on whether to seek alternatives to PG&E service.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:02:37 PST
Four new exhibitions open March 11 at the Bakersfield Museum of Art, including an elegant Japanese depiction in art focusing on animals and their hidden, special meaning in the Japanese culture.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:31:00 PST
Employment scams are one of the most popular scams on the Internet. The BBB warns consumers to never give out any personal information unless you can trust the company.
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:59:03 PST
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