Bakersfield News Archives

Just because our economy is not what it used to be, does not mean you have to be in a "Bah Humbug" mood around the holidays.

A viewer e-mailed us what she calls a disgusting picture of dead horses behind a business in south Bakersfield.

A 2-year-old PG&E program to help customers offset the size of their carbon footprint has drawn little interest and consumer advocates are arguing it should be allowed to expire at the end of the year.

The special Board of Supervisors meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Monday in the board chambers on the first floor of the County Administrative Center at 1115 Truxtun Ave., just west of Rabobank Arena.

Three people were killed in a head-on crash Wednesday afternoon on Highway 46 north of Bakersfield.

There is new information in the case of a missing Bakersfield girl. Alyssa Brandon, 13, hasn't been seen since October 21st.

Monday night's meeting didn't lock down a final draft of the Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan.

Two privately run prisons in Kern County are being shut down. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation made the announcement Monday afternoon.

Get ready folks, because the second edition of the Tea Party Express is coming to a grassroots, "Take My Country Back" town near you! The tour entitled "Countdown To Judgment Day" is scheduled to stop at 38 Cities/Towns across the United States starting yesterday, October 25, 2009 and November 12, 2009.

On 10/25/09, at 12:13 a.m. Bakersfield Police responded to a report of a stabbing in the 1400 block of Quincy Street.

In Betty Davenport's southwest Bakersfield living room, quilts have taken over. Tha's just fine, she said.

Bakersfield, California is not a hotbed for great strip clubs, but fret not if you're there and want to see some hot nude dancing.

October 21, 2009 US: An "explosion" of H1N1 in Bakersfield, California Thanks to the reader who sent the link to a blog called Bakersfield Observed: An explosion of swine flu cases locally .

No charges were filed against a Curran Middle School teacher who was arrested last month while being under the influences of drugs or alcohol, Kern prosecutors said Monday.

A convicted killer, who was linked to two murders in Kern County 29 years ago, will be prosecuted in Fresno County for the 1979 murder of an 8-year-old girl, officials said Tuesday.

Felix Adamo/ The Californian Both lanes of the drive thru tellers were busy at San Joaquin Bank on the corner of 17th and L Streets.

California State University of Bakersfield must cut $8 million from its budget next year.

Vowing to bring fiscal responsibility to local government, Bakersfield City Councilman and Vice-Mayor Zack Scrivner announced his candidacy for the Kern County 2nd District Supervisor seat Oct.

NEW YORK a " Regulators have shut down San Joaquin Bank in California, marking the 99th failure this year of a federally insured bank.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Kern County coroners have identified the Paso Robles couple killed in a fiery crash Tuesday near Bakersfield as Nicole and Timothy Bomicino, both age 31.

Green ooze spewing from downtown sewers is raising a lot of questions about the harmful materials flowing beneath Bakersfield city streets.

Michael Charles Brown Jr. not only threatened to kill one of four women he's accused of sexually assaulting, but he told her he has killed other women in the past, newly released investigation reports say.

An Atlanta woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and T-Mobile over last week's Microsoft server outage that caused thousands of Sidekick smartphone users to lose their personal data.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Strong winds kicked up dust Tuesday across Kern County as rain pounded parts of California.

In a jailhouse interview, Kyle Hoffman said he wishes that night never happened.

A person walks with an umbrella in San Francisco as the first major storm of the season hits the area on Tuesday, Oct.

Kern County fire officials say three people have died in a fiery crash involving eleven vehicles on southbound Interstate 5 near Bakersfield.

Bakersfield police have arrested one of their most wanted fugitives a ' a 20-year-old gang member wanted for a vicious kidnapping and rape and, in a separate crime, the murder of one man and the wounding of four others.

Alejandro Aguilar, 17, was arrested for murder and attempted murder. Pete Fimbres, 25, of Delano and Julio Angel Herrera, 18, was died and Michael Fimbres, 20, and Carlos Fimbres, 27, was injured.

The state Office of Real Estate Appraisers has placed Bakersfield appraiser Michael B. Wood of All Kern Appraisals on two years probation and fined him $2,000, plus $2,000 enforcement costs, and ordered him to take 30 hours of basic education.

Two men died and another person was critically injured in a car crash in east Bakersfield early Friday.

A Bakersfield man jumped from his tractor truck on Highway 58 and was run over and killed, the CHP reported Friday.

A Bakersfield man pled guilty in Fresno federal court Thursday to making counterfeit money and then passing it off as real at several local retailers.

Gage Opdenbrouw, La Muerta The Day of the Dead or El Dia De Los Muertos is one that is celebrated in many cultures.

Bakersfield will transform into a film set this weekend as Loyola Marymount University students shoot their short movie "Cowboys and Indians," the story of 9-year-old Billy Redfern, a child who wants nothing more than to be a cowboy.

Bakersfield Realtor Mark Ponder drowned in the Kern River while high on prescription drugs, the coroner has ruled.

A Fresno mom and her two young children were again safe at home Friday night after being kidnapped early that morning.

A man wanted for abducting his girlfriend and her children in Fresno shot himself during a high speed pursuit on Highway 99 near Bakersfield early Friday morning.

A 73-year-old Bakersfield man was found dead in his fire-gutted recreational vehicle early Saturday morning.

Meir Brown of Cafe Med and Sonny Crews of Mexicali have planned and prepared innumerable meals as longtime restaurateurs in Bakersfield.

A local congressman helped pen a bill that would prevent corporate recipients of federal bailout money from providing financial assistance to ACORN.

A double murder suspect shot and killed by Anaheim police Wednesday was once convicted as a teen in Bakersfield of murdering his cousin.

Michael Charles Brown, 34, faces 20 felony charges in the rape of four prostitutes and the murder of Ruby Meriweather Jackson in her east Bakersfield home in June, 2000.