Bakersfield news

• Read Across Bakersfield celebration begins

  22-02-2015 19:05
  
  The birthday of famous children's book author Dr. Seuss is fast approaching, and Kern County's teachers are getting into the spirit by celebrating Read Across America.
  
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• Pilot car drivers hold memorial for their leader

  22-02-2015 08:25
  
  You've no doubt seen them on the highway. Oversized loads being escorted by trucks in front and back. They're pilot cars, and their goal is to keep the roads safe.
  
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• Hockey game benefits local charities

  22-02-2015 03:20
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA - Local law enforcment took to the ice today to battle it out with local firefighters. 
  The 10th Annual Guns and Hoses hockey game at Rabobank Arena saw its share of bumps and bruises but this hockey match was for much more than bragging rights.     Organizers donated $3 from each ticket to benefit the Kern County Burn Survivors Trust, as well as support a young boy who was injured when he was thrown more than 40 feet from his skateboard.     
  
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• Team Firestopper come to Wasco

  22-02-2015 03:20
  
  WASCO, CA - The American Red Cross and PG&E teamed up to put on a Firestopper event in Wasco. Team Firestopper helps families with fire safety knowledge and supplies.
  
  Organizers say they want to empower the community to be prepared for any emergency. People of all ages participated in the Firestopper seminar at the Wasco Veterans Hall. Event coordinator Amy Mayer said 41 families attended the event. "We wanted to reach out to this community because they are in need of the educati
  
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• 'McFarland, USA' owns weekend box office in Bakersfield

  22-02-2015 03:16
  
  While "McFarland, USA" might not have been the No. 1 movie nationwide this weekend, it was definitely the top seller in Bakersfield.
  
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• McFarland, USA is top seller in Bakersfield

  22-02-2015 03:16
  
  Locals head to movie theater to watch McFarland, USA.
  
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• Hit and run victim dies of injuries

  22-02-2015 02:58
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA - The bicyclist involved in a hit and run crash on Feb. 7 on Taft Highway has died, according to the coroner's office.      The man is identified as 60-year-old Oscar Thomas Stonebarger died as a result of his injuries on Feb. 17 at Kern Medical Center.      Stonebarger was struck by a teen driver on Taft Highway just west of Highway 99    The driver left the scene, but was later located, according to CHP officials. 
  
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• Man found dead in orchard now identified

  22-02-2015 02:47
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA - The identity of a man found dead in an orchard in southeast Bakersfield has been identified by the coroner's office.
  The man was identified as 32-year-old Jaime Puente of Bakersfield. He was found in an orange orchard near the intersection of Muller and Vineland roads, just north of Lamont.
  According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, a farm worker discovered Puente's body just before 11 a.m. on Feb. 19 while working in the area.    Deputies added that the
  
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• Body near Lamont identified as Bakersfield man

  22-02-2015 02:32
  
  A man whose body was found Friday morning in an orange grove north of Lamont has been identified as 32-year-old Jaime Puente of Bakersfield, according to a news release from the Kern County Coroner's Office.
  Puente's body was found shortly before 11 a.m. by a farm worker, near the intersection of Muller Road and Vineland Road.
  
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• LOIS HENRY: More overdraft doesn't seem like best plan for desert aquifer

  22-02-2015 02:00
  
  A plan that knowingly allows the Indian Wells Valley -- Ridgecrest -- groundwater basin to tip further into overdraft doesn't seem like excellent water management to me.
  
  But that's exactly what zoning changes being proposed by the Kern County Planning Department would do, though arguably the changes would leave the valley slightly less over drafted than if the county did nothing.
  
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• The counselor: Local attorney a firebrand in the courtroom, author outside

  22-02-2015 01:00
  
  Hunkered down in a river that doubled as the local sewage dump, Arturo Revelo, already shot twice, clutched a grenade to his chest and considered his options.
  
  Should he face capture by enemy soldiers or simply pull the grenade's pin then and there?
  
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• Website to offer neighborhood-level air data

  22-02-2015 00:00
  
  Many residents of the San Joaquin Valley are pretty savvy about the quality of the air they breathe.
  
  They know when summer ozone levels are spiking in Arvin or wintertime particulate pollution is off the charts in Bakersfield.
  
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