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• Suspected marijuana grower fatally shot at wildlife refuge

  29-04-2015 23:53
  
  A game warden shot and killed a suspected marijuana grower Wednesday at afederal wildlife refuge near Sacramento, authorities said.
  
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• CHP: trailer carrying cows, sheep overturns on freeway

  29-04-2015 23:47
  
  Authorities have rescued three sheep and two pregnant cows from trailer that overturned on a Los Angeles freeway, seriously injuring the driver.
  
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• Police arrest three after search near school

  29-04-2015 23:43
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Three people were arrested after a yard to yard search in southwest Bakersfield Wednesday.Bakersfield police say they got a call of suspicious people in a neighborhood near Harris Road and Gosford Road.When they responded they say the suspects took off jumping over fences through back yards.Nearby Suburu Elementary was put on lockdown while police looked for the suspects.Police conducted a yard to yard search and were able to arrest three suspects.A gun and a magazine were reco
  
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• Judge to decide if mom of Taft shooter can sue school district

  29-04-2015 23:39
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- A judge has agreed to consider whether the mother of a school shooter can sue Taft Union High School District over claims her son was bullied and sexually assaulted.The district says Sheri Oliver didn't file her claim within the legal time frame.The initial lawsuit was filed on behalf of the shooting victim, Bowe Cleveland who was shot and wounded by Bryan Oliver while taking a science quiz in January 2013.
  Oliver took a deal earlier this year, pleading no contest to two c
  
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• Los Angeles sues hospital over alleged patient dumping

  29-04-2015 23:28
  
  The city of Los Angeles is suing a hospital accused of dumping a mentally ill homeless patient on Skid Row last year.
  
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• San Francisco police recover stolen car with baby inside

  29-04-2015 23:27
  
  Police say a 4-month old baby has been found inside a car that was stolen in San Francisco.
  
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• Solar jobs offered in 3 upcoming events

  29-04-2015 23:07
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- A series of job fairs will be held in Kern county for those interested in a job in the solar industry.Supervisor Leticia Perez and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 428 is co-hosting three job recruitment events looking for solar panel installers.There is no experience is needed.
  Solar panel installation includes uncrating, lifting, and carrying solar panels, as well as securing panels into place at job sites.The first job fair is tomorrow from 9 a.
  
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• PG&E completes spring cleaning for summer heat

  29-04-2015 22:52
  
  Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) inspects and activates equipment called capacitor banks each spring prior to the onset of summer heat. It's part of PG&E's own version of spring cleaning to ensure the electric system is functioning properly when customers begin turning on their air conditioners and ceiling fans. Increased usage during the summer months can impact the voltage that electrical systems deliver. Adequate voltage ensures major electrical appliances work properly which is the pr
  
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• Coroner: Baby died of blunt-force trauma

  29-04-2015 22:11
  
  Stepfon Devon Jones, 4 months old, died of blunt-force trauma, according to the coroner's office. The boy's death was ruled a homicide.
  
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• Deputies recover $75k in stolen property

  29-04-2015 21:52
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- The Kern County Sheriff's Office has recovered $75,000 worth of stolen property.According to deputies Ryan Yorba, 32, from Bakersfield was arrested for possession of stolen property.Deputies searched two locations and they say they recovered stolen property at both.A stolen truck, an industrial welder and a trailer were all recovered.In addition to stolen property charges, Yorba, a felon, was arrested for possession of ammunition.
  
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• US Attorney's Office opens Bakersfield branch

  29-04-2015 20:53
  
  A branch has opened in Bakersfield for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California.
  
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• Suburu Elementary School on lockdown

  29-04-2015 20:49
  
  Donald E. Suburu Elementary School has been put on lockdown as police are searching for a suspect.
  
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• KCSO: Photos show person of interest in home robbery

  29-04-2015 20:42
  
  Surveillance photos were released Wednesday that show a person of interest in a home-invasion robbery.
  
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• Mercy Southwest opens respite garden for patients and families

  29-04-2015 20:30
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Patients and families at Mercy Southwest now have a place to walk off the stress of a hospital visit.The Friends of Mercy Walking Path is a one-of-its kind hospital based Xeriscape Walking Garden. Located near the emergency department.The walking garden features natural granite benches, plants resistant to drought conditions, shade trees conducive to our natural habitat, walking paths and succulent gardens.The walking garden has been designed in a way that uses water-wise
  
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• Arvin High educator named Teacher of the Year

  29-04-2015 20:26
  
  Arvin High School's Stephen Granucci was honored Tuesday night by the Jim Burke Education Foundation as Teacher of the Year.
  
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• US Attorney's Office opens branch in Bakersfield

  29-04-2015 20:25
  
  United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced the opening of a branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Bakersfield. The office will be staffed with two experienced federal prosecutors.
  
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• Dozens of American Airlines flights delayed by map glitch

  29-04-2015 19:57
  
  More than 50 American Airlines flights have been delayed in the past two days by a glitch in navigation-map software loaded on pilots' iPads.
  
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• California touts aggressive plan to reduce greenhouse gases

  29-04-2015 19:48
  
  California would aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under a plan announced Wednesday that steps up the state's previously established target, which has cut emissions partly by forcing companies to pay for their carbon pollution.
  
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• Drop in child abuse referrals during the summer

  29-04-2015 19:39
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA.-With less than a month until school is out, summer is right around the corner. And local agencies say that means people need to take an even more active role in reporting child abuse as calls tend to drop during the summer. According to the 2014 Kern County CPS statistical report, there were more than 4,300 child emergency response referrals for investigation from March until May. That number dropped during the summer months, with more than 3,600 referrals from June to Aug
  
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• Disaster drill happening in Taft

  29-04-2015 19:24
  
  Don't be alarmed if you see lots of emergency equipment and first responders in Taft.
  
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• Bakersfield air improves slightly in new report

  29-04-2015 18:26
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Bakersfield's air quality improved slightly in the newest State of the Air report, according to the American Lung Association.
  Bakersfield saw the lowest ever reported number of unhealthy ozone days since the release of the first State of the Air report.The report states Bakersfield is still number two in annual particle pollution.All eight counties in the San Joaquin Valley air basin (Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare) received an F f
  
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• KCSO: Robber caught on camera using stolen card

  29-04-2015 18:10
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Kern County Sheriff's Deputies are looking for a man they think could be connected to a home invasion robbery that left an elderly victim with head injuries.It happened March 30 while two elderly people were asleep in their east Bakersfield home near Oswell Street and College Avenue.About 4 in the morning a suspect broke into the home. The victims woke up and confronted the suspect. Deputies say the suspect then assaulted one of the elderly victims who suffered moderate he
  
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• Authorities searching for robbery suspect

  29-04-2015 17:49
  
  On March 30, 2015 at about 4 a.m. Kern County Sheriff's deputies were sent to a home in the 2100 block of Camino Primavera in east Bakersfield regarding a home invasion robbery that had just occurred.
  
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• 100+ employers at BC's Career Day

  29-04-2015 17:38
  
  103 employers will be at the 2015 Bakersfield College Career Day, on Wednesday, April 29th, 2015.
  
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• Schools reopen in Baltimore, streets quiet after curfew

  29-04-2015 16:05
  
  Schools reopened and tensions seemed to ease Wednesday after Baltimore made it through the first night of its curfew without the widespread violence many had feared.
  
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• Nik Wallenda completes walk of 400-foot wheel in Orlando

  29-04-2015 14:45
  
  Daredevil performer Nik Wallenda successfully completed a walk acrossthe rim of the 400-foot Orlando Eye observation wheel in Florida.
  
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• Kern County failing on 'state of the air' report

  29-04-2015 14:26
  
  The American Lung Association's "State of the Air 2015" report was released today.
  
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• Drought friendly way to clean your pool

  29-04-2015 10:06
  
  Doug Kerber has come up with a way to save thousands of gallons of water. He's been in the pool business for more than 35 years and now is focused on conserving as much water as he can.
  
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• Jim Burke Teacher of the Year winners announced

  29-04-2015 04:30
  
  Chipman Junior High and Arvin High educators took home celebrated Teacher of the Year honors Tuesday at the 20th annual Jim Burke Teacher of the Year Awards.The winners -- Derek Kendall, a counselor at Chipman and Stephen Granucci, a business teacher at Arvin High -- were among 27 educators honored during the event, held at the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office.
  
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• Kern County’s Sexual Assault Response Team celebrates anniversary

  29-04-2015 03:56
  
  It's been one year since Kern County’s Sexual Assault Response Team, or SART, opened its doors at San Joaquin Community Hospital.
  
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• Citrus pest found in central Bakersfield neighborhood

  29-04-2015 03:52
  
  For the first time in about six months, Kern County has found a little bug that could create big problems for our citrus industry - the Asian citrus psyllid.
  
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• STUDY: Bakersfield has fewest small businesses

  29-04-2015 03:49
  
  Bakersfield was ranked as the 8th fastest-growing city in the U.S. in 2014 but when it comes to small businesses, a new study proves differently.
  
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• California water reduction plan mostly unchanged before vote

  29-04-2015 03:47
  
  State Water Resources Control Board officials say the latest revision, being released Tuesday evening, still demands cutting water use by as much as 36 percent compared with 2013.
  
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• Kern County urban search-and-rescue unit 'like a big toolbox'

  29-04-2015 03:43
  
  There are currently two grant-funded urban search-and-rescue units in Kern County.
  
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• Drivers: Temporary lanes on Hwy 58 unsafe

  29-04-2015 03:41
  
  Drivers on Bakersfield’s newly widened Highway 58 aren’t happy. Yes, the highway is finally three lanes wide, but traffic, they say, still doesn’t flow as it should.
  
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• Father in court, charged with baby's murder

  29-04-2015 03:36
  
  A father accused of murdering his baby boy was in Kern County court Tuesday.
  
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• Report: Kern County graduation rates on the rise

  29-04-2015 03:29
  
  Kern County's high school graduation rate sits close to the state rate, at 79.8 percent, an increase of 3.4 percent as opposed to last year.
  
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• CASA report says nonprofit saved county $222,000 last year

  29-04-2015 02:53
  
  Helping an abused child transition from a group home to a permanent family setting can be priceless. But as a new report suggests, there's also a measurable financial impact on taxpayers.
  In an effort to quantify that benefit, CASA of Kern County recently released an annual report concluding its volunteers last year saved county government at least $222,000 in housing costs.
  
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• New businesses coming to California Avenue

  29-04-2015 02:43
  
  Construction has started on five new businesses off California Avenue and Easton Drive, just east of Highway 99 in Bakersfield.
  
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• CSUB misunderstands city water ordinance, continues to water

  29-04-2015 02:40
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA - Cal State Bakersfield is the city's largest water user and despite an emergency ordinance passed last week -- the university has continued to water hundreds of acres every day.
  A CSUB spokesperson said Tuesday afternoon he wasn't aware the ordinance included the campus.The university is calling the situation a misunderstanding.At CSUB, more than 9,000 sprinklers help keep the grass green."We have almost 400 acres at this location, so there are different patches of the loc
  
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• Bakersfield non profit sends help to Nepal

  29-04-2015 02:37
  
  While the dust starts to settle after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that demolished Nepal's capital, a local organization is starting to get answers.
  
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• CHP: Other driver arrested after Oildale motorcycle crash

  29-04-2015 02:29
  
  A motorcycle rider was injured Monday in Oildale after he hit the back of a vehicle. The California Highway Patrol said the other driver left the scene, but that driver has been arrested.
  
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• CHP: Other driver arrested after motorcycle crash

  29-04-2015 02:29
  
  A motorcycle rider was injured Monday in Oildale after he hit the back of a vehicle. The California Highway Patrol said the other driver left the scene, but that driver has been arrested.
  
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• Bakersfield Police investigate suspicious death

  29-04-2015 02:19
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- Bakersfield Police are investigating what they are calling a suspicious death.Police say they were called to a report of a man down behind the Autozone store on Brundage Lane and H Street about 9:30 Tuesday morning.The first officers on scene say they found a male dead behind the store.The male subject was in a condition that was suspicious to the officers so they notified detectives who responded to the scene.
  The victim's name has not been released.
  Anyone with informati
  
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• Coroner's office: Teen's death a homicide

  29-04-2015 02:08
  
  A teen girl whose body was found in November in a creek near Highway 43 was the victim of a homicide, the coroner's office said Tuesday.
  The cause of death of 17-year-old Yoselin Calderon remains unknown, a news release said.
  
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• Missing teen's death ruled a homicide

  29-04-2015 02:07
  
  BAKERSFIELD, CA- A Wasco teen's death has been ruled a homicide.Yoselin Calderon's decomposing body was found November 5.
  Calderon, 17, went missing in July 2014, but months of searching turned up nothing until workers found her in Poso Creek in a remote area four months later.The Kern County Sheriff's says they gathered information throughout the course of the investigation to determine that it was a homicide.The coroner has ruled the death a homicide but its still not clear how Calderon
  
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• Supervisors close a library, revise pot cultivation ordinance

  29-04-2015 02:02
  
  Kernville's library will close permanently, Kern County supervisors decided Tuesday.
  Kern County Library Director Nancy Kerr said the branch is not needed.
  
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• KHSD outperforms state average on grad and dropout rates

  29-04-2015 01:59
  
  The Kern High School District is seeing more graduates and fewer dropouts, and the state can only say the former, according to 2013-2014 state data released Tuesday.
  Technically, both of those state rates are averages of district numbers throughout California, including those from KHSD schools. Still, the statewide average has been the measuring stick many districts use to gauge their progress.
  
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• Body found behind auto shop

  29-04-2015 01:50
  
  A body was found behind an auto shop in central Bakersfield Tuesday morning.
  Police said officers were dispatched to the Auto Zone in the 1600 block of Brundage Lane at 9:34 a.m. for a report of a man down. The reporting party told police it didn't appear the man was breathing.
  
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• Coroner's office declares teen's death a homicide

  29-04-2015 01:37
  
  The Kern County coroner's office on Tuesday declared the death of a 17-year-old Wasco girl a homicide.
  
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