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Kettleman City, California is located in Kings County. Zip codes in Kettleman City, CA include 93239. More Kettleman City information.

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Tuesday | KMPH-TV Fresno

Vote Expected On Kettleman Plant Expansion

Kings County Supervisors are expected to vote Tuesday morning on the expansion of a controversial hazardous waste landfill.

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Mon Dec 21, 2009

Kansas City Star

Farming town demands answers on birth defects

Maricela Mares-Alatorre was well aware of the industrial and agricultural pollutants that surrounded her as she grew up in this tiny farm town just three miles from the largest toxic waste dump in the West.Her parents had founded People for Clean Air and Water two decades ago to successfully fight a proposed incinerator at the dump.

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Thu Dec 17, 2009

KMPH-TV Fresno

State gets Request to Investigate Birth Defects in Kettleman City

A group of mothers in Kettleman City are asking why so many birth defects. Now, the state of California could be launching an investigation to answer that very question.

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Fri Dec 11, 2009

Fresno Bee

Tainted dirt to Kettleman City in dispute

The Department of Energy said Thursday it won't halt the shipment of nearly 15,000 drums of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina for disposal in Utah.

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My58.com

Dispute Erupts Over Radioactive Dirt 20min

Activists are protesting a decision by the California Department of Public Health that would allow the Boeing Co.

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Thu Dec 10, 2009

CBS 47

Landfill Growth Meeting in Hanford

The public is welcome at a meeting in Hanford on Monday where the Kings County Board of Supervisors will discuss the controversial Waste Management permit.Waste Management wants to double the size of its landfill near Kettleman City.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Kettleman City asks: Why so many birth defects?

Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif. - When environmental activists began a survey of birth defects in this small migrant farming town halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the results were alarming.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

Fresno Bee

Local: Kettleman City parents want inquiry into birth defects

Five babies with cleft palates or other grave disabilities were born over a 15-month span in this small farming community off Interstate 5. Three died.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Fresno Bee

Minn. man allegedly assaults worker with backhoe

Three men are in custody after a man was badly beaten and robbed late Monday in central Fresno, police said.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

CBS 47

Kings County toxic waste dump gets okay to expand

HANFORD, Calif. a " Kings County planners have approved the expansion of a hazardous waste facility in Kettleman City, even as state health officials continue weighing the project's possible impacts.The facility is one of the largest hazardous waste dumps in the country, and a large employer in the county's rural reaches near Interstate 5.Monday, ...

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Fresno Bee

Kings Co. planners approve landfill expansion

Kings County staff will research questions and concerns raised by opponents of the proposed expansion of a hazardous waste landfill and try to provide answers for planning commissioners before their next meeting Oct.

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Wed Oct 07, 2009

Fresno Bee

EDITORIAL: Let Waste Management expand Kettleman site

The Kings County Planning Commission listened Monday night to both sides of a controversial proposal to expand the Waste Management hazardous waste landfill near Kettleman City.

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Tue Oct 06, 2009

ABC30.com

Hazardous Waste Dump Expansion Controversy

The protestors came because they fear toxic substances from the dump could be responsible for what they believe is a cluster of babies born with cleft palates in the small town of Kettleman City, a few miles from the site.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

New America Media

Family Divided Over Landfill

Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part series about Kettleman City's environmental justice movement.

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Thu Oct 01, 2009

Fresno Bee

Man accused of using horse to assault officer

A 53-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon -- a horse.

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Sun Sep 27, 2009

News.ncmonline.com

Three Generations Fight Landfill

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. -- This small, dusty community, commonly known as little more than the halfway point on Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles -- and a great place to grab an In-N-Out Burger -- is an unlikely place to give birth to the grassroots environmental justice movement.

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Wed Sep 23, 2009

KMJ-AM Fresno

Kettleman City Man Arrested for Sex Assault

The Kings County Sheriff's Office announced on Monday the arrest of a Kettleman City man on nearly three-dozen counts of sexual assaults on children.

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Tue Sep 22, 2009

KMPH-TV Fresno

Kettleman City Man Arrested; Faces 23 Sex Crime Charges

Kings County Sheriff's Detectives arrested 40 year old Salvador Garcia of Kettleman City.

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Fresno Bee

Kettleman City man charged in child assaults

Tulare County sheriff's detectives are investigating the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl in Orosi.

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Mon Sep 21, 2009

Fresno Bee

Updates: Kings Co. man charged in child assaults

A Kettleman City man was arrested Sunday and charged with sexual assaults on multiple children dating back about a decade, the Kings County Sheriff's Office reported today.

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