Lamont News

Deputies said that a woman was taken to the hospital after her husband stabbed her in the buttocks.

Lamont residents have a beef with the Public Utilities District and they're taking it to the streets this week.

For some current students at Bakersfield College, they're convinced that bringing a college center to the Arvin/Lamont area would meet what's currently an unknown demand for higher education.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry arrested five wanted fugitives between 6:00 a.m. Sunday and 6:00 a.m. Monday, November 23.

The Centers for Disease Control drastically increased their estimate of how many people have died from swine flu across the country.

Four more Kern County residents died of complications of the H1N1 Flu in the last week, bringing the local death toll to 14, the Kern County Health Department reported Tuesday.

A 16-year-old was arrested late Thursday night after deputies found an unidentified 18-year-old not breathing.

During the Dust Bowl migration more than one million people left their homes and set out for California.

Susan Shumaker, a representative of filmmaker Ken Burns' production company, will be stationed at a table at the Dust Bowl Festival on Saturday.

The Kern County Public Health Department has used up its initial supply of H1N1 Flu Nasal Mist vaccine that was available at the 1800 Mount Vernon Ave.

In a press release issued yesterday, October 7, the Riverside County, California, District Attorney's Office stated it will be filing charges against a Riverside County Department of Child Protective Services employee for the false imprisonment and sexual assault of a teenage boy he supervised.

Nine men arrested after a shopping center shootout last Friday are connected to rival gangs based in Richmond, police said, and most are now out on bail while investigators sort out what happened.

A new program open to those who want to finish their education, had its first student graduate Thursday.

Lamont parents have been calling the Vineland School District and Kern County Animal Control, concerned about dogs chasing children near a bus stop.

A man is dead and Kern County Sheriff deputies are looking for a suspect. On Wednesday around 2:15 a.m., deputies were dispatched to the 5800 block of Panama Road near Lamont regarding a report of shots fired.

Steinbeck based his story of the Joadsa experiences on the real accounts of those at the Weedpatch camp, built by the federal government as a place of shelter and protection for the desperate migrants who were often unwelcome in California and frequently exploited and abused.

For families that fled to California during the Great Depression, today's economy is an uneasy dA©jA vu.

A big rig traveling eastbound on Highway 58 dragging a broken drive shaft sent sparks flying that ignited vegetation on the side of the road and resulted in a nine-acre Hart Flat fire July 15.

The names of three people killed in a head-on collision early Saturday on Highway 65 south of Ducor were released Monday by the Tulare County Coroner's office.

Three people are dead and three more are injured after a car crash Saturday on Highway 65.