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• 'First Look': Unique caricature brings historical figures to life

  04-03-2015 23:13
  
  Another historic treasure was brought to Californian columnist Lois Henry and this time it was a large pen and ink original drawing by famous Sacramento Bee cartoonist Arthur Buel.
  
  Local risk management consultant John Pryor brought in the artifact for Henry and Kern County Museum Curator Lori Wear to check out.
  
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• 'First Look': 'Eat a sub, make a difference' with Jersey Mike's Subs

  04-03-2015 23:10
  
  Eat a sub and make a difference.
  
  That's the slogan behind Jersey Mike's Subs fifth annual collaboration with the Children's Miracle Network.
  
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• 'First Look': LightWave Education fundraiser to benefit literacy summer program

  04-03-2015 23:10
  
  LightWave Education will be hosting its third-annual benefit concert featuring Nuhjume, the trio from the S.T.A.R.S., Friday at the Stockdale Country Club.
  
  Money raised will support the Freedom School, a summer literacy and leadership program for children age 6 to 13 years old held at the Central Church.
  
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• Summer jobs available for local youth

  04-03-2015 22:52
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Employment opportunities are available for local teens this summer through the PG&E Summer Jobs program.
  
  Building on the success of summer jobs program last year which trained over 300 teens and put 55 youth to work, Pacific Gas and Electric will partner with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County to provide job readiness training and summer employment opportunities to local teens. Employment opportunities will be provided by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County,
  
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• Caught on camera: bus plows through traffic

  04-03-2015 21:20
  
  (WDIV) Newly released video shows a Detroit area SMART bus slam into several vehicles during an October, 2014 crash.
  
  West Bloomfield police say the bus was traveling westbound on Maple Road when it struck several vehicles in the westbound lane. At least one vehicle was vaulted into oncoming traffic.
  
  Two people were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  
  The bus driver is a 65-year-old man who, police say, told officers he had fallen asleep right before th
  
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• Senate fails to override Obama's veto of pipeline bill

  04-03-2015 20:58
  
  The Republican-controlled Senate has failed to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
  
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• Bakersfield police seek last suspect from robberies, shooting

  04-03-2015 20:55
  
  Police are looking for an outstanding suspect from a series of robberies and a shooting.
  
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• No nation would take foreigner shot dead by LA cops

  04-03-2015 20:27
  
  U.S. immigration authorities said Wednesday they were forced by Supreme Court precedent to release a foreigner later shot to death by police on Los Angeles' Skid Row after he served prison time for bank robbery because no country would take him.
  
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• Former Kern County inmate accused in prison death

  04-03-2015 19:53
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- A Corcoran prison inmate who served time in Kern County is suspected in the killing of his cell mate last month.
  
  The California Department of Corrections says 54-year-old David Pina is suspected of assaulting his 59-year-old cell mate February 9th.
  
  The victim's name has not yet been released.
  
  The man was hospitalized in critical condition until he died February 28th.
  
  He was serving a life sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and making criminal thr
  
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• Toddler thrown from car in crash; 4 kids not restrained

  04-03-2015 19:51
  
  A toddler was thrown from a car during a crash Tuesday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.
  
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• 6 kids not restrained as 1 and 2 yr. olds seriously hurt

  04-03-2015 19:51
  
  A 1-year-old boy and a 2-year-old boy suffered major injuries, the CHP said.
  
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• Hit-and-run suspect surrenders to police

  04-03-2015 19:16
  
  A suspected hit-and-run driver turned himself in to police Tuesday night.
  
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• State water conservation slips

  04-03-2015 19:02
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Water conservation slipped in January according to California officials.
  
  The state is entering the fourth year of the drought and Californians recently met Governor Jerry Brown's call to slash water use by 20 percent.
  
  The State Water Board says water conservation efforts declined statewide from 22 percent last December to 8.8 percent in January.
  
  On March 17, the State Water Board will discuss renewing an emergency regulation originally adopted last July, wh
  
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• Trial starts: Lawyer admits suspect carried out Boston bombing

  04-03-2015 18:54
  
  His life on the line, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing, with prosecutors saying he used a backpack to plant a bomb specifically designed to "tear people apart and create a bloody spectacle."
  
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• Crash leaves child with critical injuries

  04-03-2015 18:43
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- A crash on Alfred Harrell highway Tuesday night injured 8 people.
  
  The California Highway Patrol says a Ford Mustang spun out of control just before 6 p.m.
  
  CHP officers at the scene say the two women and six children were speeding, just west of Hart Park, when the driver lost control of the vehicle.
  
  The car rolled up an embankment and overturned several times ejecting one of the children, who was rushed to Kern Medical Center with critical injuries.
  
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• Final suspect in crime spree identified

  04-03-2015 18:08
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Bakersfield police have released the identity of  a man they say was part of an overnight crime spree last week.
  
  Bryan Johnson, 21, is wanted in connection to a string of armed robberies that occurred in about a 5 hour period last Wednesday.
  
  Police say a group of four people robbed a restaurant, a convenience store and a home in addition to a drive-by shooting.
  
  The other three suspects have already been arrested.
  
  Anyone with information regarding Johnso
  
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• Hit and run suspect turns himself in

  04-03-2015 17:53
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Bakersfield Police say the suspect in a fatal hit and run has turned himself in.
  
  Arthur Lee Hayes, 66, was hit and killed on Brundage Lane Monday evening.
  
  Police say the driver left the scene.
  
  Tuesday night about 10:30 p.m. they say Tereso Filberto Felix, 35, went to the Bakersfield Police Department and turned himself in.
  
  Felix was booked into jail on multiple counts including Vehicular Manslaughter. 
  
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• Family donating money from home sale to Magdalene Hope

  04-03-2015 16:43
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA.-A home on Colgate Avenue in East Bakersfield is for sale, but this is no ordinary listing. Money from that home sale will help save women who are sold for sex.       
  Magdalene Hope is a local non-profit that helps victims of sex trafficking. Dedicated volunteer Susie Tors would walk up and down Union Avenue reaching out to potential victims. She also worked at the Magdalene Hope safe house.      "She just had a heart for the ladi
  
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• 'First Look': First News for March 4

  04-03-2015 16:32
  
  Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Top Stories:
  
  BOMB THREAT LEADS TO EVACUATION OF DOWNTOWN BUILDING: A bomb threat closed down several streets and led to the evacuation of a building in downtown Bakersfield Tuesday morning but no explosive device was found. Bakersfield police Sgt. Joe Grubbs said the threat was called in at 9:13 a.m. to the law office of Campbell Whitten at 1
  
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• Snowpack survey approaches record low

  04-03-2015 07:58
  
  It's important to remember that 30% of the water Californians use every year comes from snow in the mountains that melts during the summertime and fills our rivers and reservoirs. So, it's easy to understand the grim faces Tuesday as hydrologists took their latest survey at Echo Summit and elsewhere in the Sierra. They say water content for the Sierra snowpack is just 5% of normal for this time of year. Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program said, "we hav
  
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• City Council to consider developing new website

  04-03-2015 06:51
  
  The city’s 15-year-old website, which predates tablets, most smartphones, and both Facebook and Twitter, could get a redesign if the Bakersfield City Council approves the move at its meeting Wednesday.
  
  Here’s a primer on what not to miss:
  
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• LOIS HENRY: ‘Dusty closet’ find brings more historical figures to life

  04-03-2015 06:18
  
  My call for cool, old Bakersfield artifacts a few weeks ago hit pay dirt recently in more ways than one.
  
  Local risk management consultant John Pryor read my story on an old map owned by Dan Araujo that showed Bakersfield most likely sometime between 1877 and 1889.
  
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• Clinica Sierra Vista opens site in northeast Bakersfield

  04-03-2015 06:07
  
  Clinica Sierra Vista has opened a new clinic in northeast Bakersfield and will hold a grand opening event Friday to celebrate.
  
  The 14,000-square-foot East Niles Community Health Center has been up and running since Feb. 2, when there was a soft opening. A grand opening ­celebration is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at the clinic, 7800 Niles St. in northeast Bakersfield. Light refreshments will be provided.
  
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• Hit-and-run victim's family: 'a person that does that has no heart'

  04-03-2015 03:36
  
  The coroner's office has identified the man who died in a hit-and-run crash Monday night on Brundage Lane as 66-year-old Arthur Lee Hayes.
  
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• Hit-and-run vic's family: 'a person that does that has no heart'

  04-03-2015 03:36
  
  The coroner's office has identified the man who died in a hit-and-run crash Monday night on Brundage Lane as 66-year-old Arthur Lee Hayes.
  
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• Urgent need for bi-racial blood marrow donors

  04-03-2015 03:26
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA - There is an urgent need for bone marrow donors to help cure multi-racial patients diagnosed with blood cancers. According to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, approximately every 10 minutes, someone in the US dies from a form of blood cancer. The National Bone Marrow Registry shows minorities are having a harder time finding a match. In Bakersfield, Dr. Ravi Patel with the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center (CBCC) said the chances of finding a match in your family is
  
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• 72 passengers reach settlements in Asiana Boeing 777 crash

  04-03-2015 03:22
  
  More than 70 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed in San Francisco two years ago have reached a settlement in their lawsuits against the airline.
  
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• California survey finds Sierra snowpack far below normal

  04-03-2015 03:14
  
  California received a double dose of bad drought news on Tuesday, with state officials saying the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is far below normal and that residents again aren't coming close to meeting Gov. Jerry Brown's call for a 20 percent cut in water use.
  
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• Environmental groups look to stop Kern County hydrogen power plant

  04-03-2015 03:07
  
  The Sierra Club and local groups are trying to stop the construction of a power plant near Buttonwillow.
  
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• Farmworkers recognized with resource fair

  04-03-2015 03:01
  
  More than 200 people gathered on Tuesday at the Kern Agriculture Pavilion for the second annual Farm Worker Appreciation Day and Resource Fair.
  
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• State orders oil field waste-water wells shut down

  04-03-2015 02:50
  
  The state on Tuesday ordered a dozen Kern County waste-water injection wells to be shut down.
  
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• State shuts in a dozen more injection wells

  04-03-2015 02:20
  
  Twelve more Kern County wastewater injection wells are being closed to safeguard federally protected groundwater, doubling the number of local disposal facilities shut in since early July, state regulators announced Tuesday.
  Some of the wells have been active since the late 1970s, while the newest dates to July 2002. Together the dozen have injected nearly 9 billion gallons of "produced water," the salty solution that comes up along with oil dur
  
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• State shuts down 12 more injection wells

  04-03-2015 01:33
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- State regulators announced Tuesday they will force the shutdown of 12 waste water injection wells operated by oil companies in Kern County.
  
  Regulators have been under pressure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to do more to protect California's groundwater.
  
  All the wells are reportedly within one mile of usable or potable groundwater.
  
  According to the Department of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, in ten of the cases, operators have voluntarily
  
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• Talbots takes donations for Dress for Success

  04-03-2015 00:23
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- A Bakersfield charity is hoping your Spring cleaning can help low income people who are looking for work.
  
  Dress for success gives professional clothes to disadvantaged women who are trying to re-enter the workforce.
  
  Now they are teaming up with Talbots clothing store to help collect nearly new wear-to-work items to Dress for Success.
  
  On March 7th people can make their donations of professional attire at the Talbots store at The Marketplace.
  
  Until Marc
  
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