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• Suspected DUI driver crashes into Oildale home

  04-12-2014 22:56
  
  A suspected drunken driver crashed Thursday morning into an Oildale house.
  
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• Bakersfield Christmas Parade is Thursday night

  04-12-2014 22:37
  
  "Here Comes Christmas" is the theme for this year's parade, which organizers say will feature about 100 entries.
  
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• 'Null and void': House rebukes Obama on immigration

  04-12-2014 22:14
  
  Emboldened House Republicans issued a stern rebuke to President Barack Obama over immigration Thursday, passing a bill declaring his executive actions to curb deportations "null and void and without legal effect."
  
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• 'First Look': First News for Dec. 4

  04-12-2014 21:48
  
  Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Top Stories:
  
  ODD-EVEN WATERING DAYS ARE ON THE WAY: Bakersfield residents will be asked -- and could be told -- to water their landscaping every other day starting next year. The city water board, which advises Bakersfield's Water Resources Department, directed city staff to begin planning the city-wide roll-out of a voluntary odd-even wa
  
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• 'First Look': Chamber of Commerce hosts 'Next 5 Years'

  04-12-2014 21:43
  
  Do you want to know the future of Bakersfield? The Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce is putting on a luncheon that will focus on how air quality, hydraulic fracturing and Common Core standards could impact Bakersfield in the next five years.
  
  Thursday on "First Look with Scott Cox," Chamber president and CEO Cindy Pollard said "The Next 5 Years" event will benefit anyone who owns
  
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• Storify: Updates from the Brian Oliver school shooting trial

  04-12-2014 21:42
  
  [View the story "Oliver trial: Day 2 of defense psychologist's testimony" on Storify]
  
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• 'First Look': Catch the holiday spirit with Bakersfield Christmas Parade tonight

  04-12-2014 21:40
  
  Spend your evening with Santa Claus and staff from The Californian tonight as they guide you through the 32nd annual Bakersfield Christmas Parade.
  
  Thursday on "First Look with Scott Cox," assistant lifestyles editor Stefani Dias talked about some of the details spectators can expect during the parade.
  
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• 'First Look': McCarthy talks about toy drive, water legislation push

  04-12-2014 21:39
  
  U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy won't be in town for Bakersfield's Holiday Toy Drive next week but he said his wife, Judy, will be accepting all those unwrapped holiday gifts that will brighten Christmas for many children this year.
  
  Thursday on 'First Look with Scott Cox," McCarthy shared the importance of the toy drive organized by American General Media via phone from Washington, D.C.
  
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• 'First Look': Donate a blanket, help spread warmth this holiday season

  04-12-2014 21:36
  
  Can you imagine not having a blanket to keep warm this winter?
  
  Many local disadvantaged people have to face cold winters year after year in Bakersfield without blankets and gloves.
  
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• Doctor testifies Oliver has PTSD, bipolar as trial continues

  04-12-2014 21:21
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA. - After a nearly two week break, testimony resumed today in the trial of accused Taft High School shooter Bryan Oliver.     Dr. Thomas Middleton, an expert witness for the defense took the stand.     Middleton testified he concluded accused shooter Oliver is bi-polar and suffers from PTSD.     Middleton said Oliver's condition caused a dissociative episode the day of the shooting -- supporting Oliver's claim that he blacked out the d
  
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• Fleetwood Mac coming to Bakersfield this spring

  04-12-2014 21:15
  
  Fleetwood Mac will perform at Rabobank Arena on April 6. Tickets go on sale Dec. 15.
  
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• Man arrested in Tehachapi for vehicle theft

  04-12-2014 21:07
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA. - Tehachapi deputies with the Kern County Sheriff's Office arrested a suspect for vehicle theft on Dec. 3.
  The incident happened around 1 p.m. when a Tehachapi deputy attempted a traffic stop on a green Honda Accord, at which point the suspect fled on foot. 
  Through an investigation, deputies identified the subject as Raul Gonzales Jr., 19, of Tehachapi, who fled the vehicle on foot into a nearby area.
  Deputies conducted a search of the area, assisted by California H
  
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• Navy revokes honorary title given to Bill Cosby

  04-12-2014 20:48
  
  The Navy is revoking Bill Cosby's title of honorary chief petty officer, saying allegations of sexual abuse made against the comedian are serious and conflict with the Navy's core values.
  
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• KCSO: Man used fraudulent credit card

  04-12-2014 19:59
  
  The Kern County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man they say used a fraudulent credit card to buy a guitar at the Rosedale Music store.
  
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• KCSO looking for suspect wanted for theft

  04-12-2014 19:59
  
  BAKERSFIELD,CA. - The Kern County Sheriff's Office is asking for the community's assistance in locating a suspect wanted for theft.
  The suspect is wannted for purchasing a guitar with a stolen credit card. 
  The incident happened on Oct. 12 at 2 p.m. at the Rosedale Music Store on Rosedale Highway where the guitar was purchased.
  The guitar is described as a blue/ green Joe Perry signature model Gibson Les Paul.
  According to KCSO, the suspect is believed to frequent music stores.&nbs
  
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• Bike Bakersfield to give out free bike lights

  04-12-2014 19:30
  
  Bike Bakersfield will hand out free bike lights in hopes of preventing injuries to riders, Thursday. 
  
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• Victim of fatal hit-and-run called 911 himself, pleading for help

  04-12-2014 19:13
  
  Jose Roberto Miranda was on his way to work on his bicycle early Tuesday morning, but he never made it.
  
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• Loved ones lost remembered at last night's vigil

  04-12-2014 18:02
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA. - Anyone who's lost a loved one knows how hard it is to fully embrace the holidays when the pain of that loss is still with you.
  Last night, several hundred people welcomed the opportunity to heal and gain strength with others during Optimal Hospice's annual "Light Up a Life" event at the Kern County Museum.     Candles were lit in rememberance of loved ones who've passed on..Their names read one by one in a somber celebration of the lives they lived
  
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• LIVE: TUHS shooting trial enters 9th day

  04-12-2014 17:58
  
  The case against Bryan Oliver, the teen accused in the Taft Union High School shooting entered its 9th day of trial Thursday.
  
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• Fleetwood Mac coming to Bakersfield

  04-12-2014 17:32
  
  Fleetwood Mac will be coming to the Rabobank Arena on April 6, 2015.
  
  Fleetwood Mac, who have been performing to sold-out shows throughout North America, have confirmed they will be adding 11 more dates to their critically-acclaimed ON WITH THE SHOW tour, which includes a stop in Bakersfield.
  
  From the release:
  
  American Express card members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 10:00 a.m. through Sunday, Dec. 14 at 10:00 p.m. Tic
  
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• S.C. cop charged with murder in unarmed man shooting

  04-12-2014 17:26
  
  A white man who was the police chief in a small South Carolina town was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man nearly four years ago.
  
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• Health officials: Flu vaccine may be less effective this winter

  04-12-2014 17:23
  
  The flu vaccine may not be very effective this winter, according to U.S. health officials who worry this may lead to more serious illnesses and deaths.
  
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• NASA scrubs Orion launch; will try again Friday

  04-12-2014 17:12
  
  Wind gusts and sticky fuel valves conspired to keep NASA's new Orion spacecraft on the launch pad Thursday, delaying a crucial test flight meant to revitalize human exploration.
  
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• Parade Route for the Annual Bakersfield Christmas Parade

  04-12-2014 15:41
  BAKERSFIELD, CA.-Here is a look at this year's parade route for the Annual Bakersfield Christmas Parade.
  
  The parade will start at 22nd and L St. right outside our KGET studios. It heads south on L to 21st St., then takes a right to G St. Then, it heads south to 20th St., takes a left and wraps up at O St. 
  
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• Battle over holiday shoppers

  04-12-2014 08:35
  
  Malls across the country are going to great lengths to compete against online retailers and Valley Plaza is no exception.
  
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• BPD: Man lunged at Fastrip security officer

  04-12-2014 04:39
  
  A man suspected of lunging himself at a security officer in a Fastrip store in South Bakersfield is on the loose and the Bakersfield Police Department is asking for your help to find him. 
  
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• Few leads reported in Tuesday's hit and run on White Ln.

  04-12-2014 04:33
  
  Police are still looking for the person behind a deadly hit and run from early Tuesday morning in southwest Bakersfield.
  
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• Few leads reported in Tuesday's hit-and-run on White Lane

  04-12-2014 04:33
  
  Police are still looking for the person behind a deadly hit-and-run crash from early Tuesday morning in southwest Bakersfield.
  
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• Man deals with aftermath of water-main break by PG&E crew

  04-12-2014 04:08
  
  An Eyewitness News viewer, Patrick Hayden, contacted our tip line, upset that the home he is renting completely flooded right before Thanksgiving.
  
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• A man deals with the aftermath of a water-main break by a PG&E crew

  04-12-2014 04:08
  
  “You do not think about the simple things like getting to spend Thanksgiving with your kids until you don't have the availability to do it,” said Patrick Hayden in describing his experience following a water-main break right before the holiday.
  
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• 'Tis the season for package stealing

  04-12-2014 04:06
  
  It's that time of the year again, time for buying and shipping packages.
  
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• Bakersfield NAACP hopes to nip Ferguson fallout

  04-12-2014 03:59
  
  The NAACP Bakersfield branch hopes that lessons can be learned from events in Ferguson, Missouri.
  
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• Taft shooting trial: Jury hears from doctor on Oliver’s mental state

  04-12-2014 03:39
  
  The jury in the Bryan Oliver trial only heard from one witness Wednesday. The defense called the psychologist they hired to evaluate Oliver’s mental state.
  
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• Jury hears from doctor on Bryan Oliver’s mental state

  04-12-2014 03:39
  
  The jury in the Bryan Oliver trial only heard from one witness today. The defense called the psychologist they hired to evaluate Oliver’s mental state.
  
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• Hot stuff from Bakersfield firefighters

  04-12-2014 03:39
  
  Bakersfield firefighters are used to helping people, but they almost always do it with their shirts on.
  
  Not this time.
  
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• Lawmakers introduce hit-and-run alert system

  04-12-2014 03:39
  
  Hit-and-run incidents happen all too often, according to CHP officer Robert Rodriguez.
  
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• Sentencing postponed for man convicted of murdering, dismembering woman

  04-12-2014 03:35
  
  The sentencing of a man convicted of murder in October in the stabbing and dismemberment of a woman was postponed Wednesday to Jan. 13.
  Alejandro Leon faces 55 years to life in prison for the murder of Evelynn Chuca on May 11 at a motor home in the 3600 block of Edison Highway.
  
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• Odd-even watering days are on the way

  04-12-2014 03:28
  
  Bakersfield residents will be asked -- and could be told -- to water their landscaping every other day starting next year, the city water board decided Wednesday.
  
  The board, which advises Bakersfield's Water Resources Department, directed city staff to begin planning the city-wide roll-out of a voluntary odd-even watering program, partnering with the California Water Service Company.
  
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• Bryan Oliver Trial: First expert witness takes the stand.

  04-12-2014 03:23
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA - The trial of Bryan Oliver, the teen charged with shooting and trying to kill classmate Bowe Cleveland at Taft Union High School nearly two years ago, resumed Wednesday. After the trial was put on hold Monday due to jury scheduling conflicts and had been in recess since Novemeber 20, after Bryan Oliver took the stand in his own defense. Oliver testified he was the subject of relentless bullying, and blacked out before and during the shooting.
  
  Wednesday's only testimony wa
  
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• THE GRADE: Blood donations badly needed during holiday school break

  04-12-2014 03:06
  
  THE GIFT OF BLOOD: Derrell Patton, 17, squeezed a red, heart-shaped stress ball as blood from his left arm flowed through a tube and into a pint-sized plastic bag Tuesday.
  
  Patton, one of dozens of students who similarly made fists and squeezed stress balls to get blood flowing, was sprawled out on a gurney in a Houchin Community Blood Bank bus parked outside of South High School's gym.
  
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• County cracks down on medical marijuana evaluation office

  04-12-2014 02:59
  
  Kern County Supervisors voted to fine a medical marijuana evaluation office, saying their signs violate local rules. The landlord is also facing this penalty. The office is across the street from an elementary school, and county officials say they've heard plenty of complaints about the operation and its advertising.
  
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• ASK EMILY: It's not easy to check out of Hotel Covered California

  04-12-2014 02:49
  
  In my previous column, I explained that you become ineligible for Covered California's tax credits when you turn 65 and enroll in Medicare. You will owe money to the government if you keep getting the credits after your Medicare begins.
  
  So I tried to offer a simple solution: Cancel your Covered California plan.
  
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• Police looking for man accused of lunging at security guard

  04-12-2014 02:22
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA - Police need your help identifying a man they say lunged at a security guard while armed at a Fastrip store on South Union Avenue last month.
  
  Police say on the night of November 15, a security officer at the Fastrip at 4901 So. Union Av. contacted the suspect who was loitering at the business and asked him to leave the property. The suspect brandished a small knife and metal pipe and lunged at the security officer.
  
  The security officer was able to push the suspect
  
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• Funeral services for Dec. 4

  04-12-2014 02:20
  
  Services scheduled
  
  Verlon Buster Robinson, 82, Kernville, Nov. 22 in Bakersfield. Graveside service 11 a.m. Dec. 5, Kern River Valley Cemetery, Wofford Heights. Sierra Valley Mortuary, Lake Isabella.
  
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• Erika Lango homicide investigation continues

  04-12-2014 02:19
  
  DELANO, CA - There are still no arrests in the death of a Delano mother whose body was found in the Friant-Kern Canal one year ago. Delano police say the estranged husband of Erika Padron Lango remains a person of interest in her death, but there isn't enough evidence to make an arrest. Delano police say Julio Lango was the last person to see Erika Lango alive.
  
  He was facing three misdemeanor charges of spousal battery when she disappeared. The charges were dismissed after Erika went
  
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• Superstar coming to McFarland -- to wave, not sing

  04-12-2014 02:16
  
  What do you do when word gets out that an international superstar plans to appear at your small-town Christmas parade? If you're McFarland Mayor Manuel Cantu -- and the entertainer is Grammy Award-winning artist Juanes -- you try your best to manage expectations:
  
  Yes, Juanes will be there. No, he will not sing. A wave to the crowd seems highly likely. There might be a polite "hola" or two.
  
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• Newspaper subscribers targeted by scammers

  04-12-2014 02:16
  
  Area residents including customers of The Californian say they've been targeted in recent months by a scam that has hit newspaper subscribers nationwide.
  
  A mailed notice warns subscribers their subscription is about to end and encourages them to mail in a payment to lock in a low rate.
  
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• Watch 2014 Bakersfield Christmas Parade Live

  04-12-2014 02:11
  
  23ABC will be live streaming the 32nd annual Bakersfield Christmas Parade live Thursday December 4 at 6 p.m. on our mobile and tablet apps.
  
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• No icy reception for 'Frozen' at parade

  04-12-2014 01:56
  
  No matter how cold it gets in Bakersfield, the temperature rarely ever dips low enough to keep Olaf the snowman from melting, so it's lucky for the "Frozen" sidekick -- and Christmas parade attraction -- that he'll be made not of the icy stuff but white hydrangeas.
  
  Along for the ride with Olaf at the annual Bakersfield event Thursday evening will be another sidekick from the Disney jugg
  
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