News Alerts
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Locals cheer, dismiss same-sex marriage ruling
The threat of rain pushed the celebration indoors.
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Supervisor McQuiston running for Assembly
Retiring Kern County Supervisor Jon McQuiston has decided to look for more work in government, not less — by running for the state Assembly.
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Sheriff's review board: Fatal Buttonwillow shooting within policy
A Kern County Sheriff's Department incident review board announced Monday that two deputies acted within department policy in January when they fatally shot a man in a Buttonwillow park.
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Kern County Raceway Park back on track
An unfinished racetrack project southwest of Bakersfield appears to be back on track and gunning for a fall finish line.
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PG&E customers get first chance to opt out of SmartMeters
State regulators gave customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. a way Wednesday to opt out of the company's residential SmartMeters, the remote devices that have been met with strong skepticism in Bakersfield since their introduction here in 2006.
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Signing day goes according to script in Kern County
National Signing Day has become a merry-go-round of hat-picking ceremonies and recruiting rankings, typically long on drama and short on patience.
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Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
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1 million birth control packs recalled after mixup
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills due to a packaging error that could raise the risk of an accidental pregnancy by leaving women with an inadequate dose.
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New survey confirms meager Sierra snow; water allocations at 60 percent
ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. (AP) -- California water managers say the Sierra Nevada snowpack is just 37 percent of normal for this time of year.
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State OKs sweeping auto emission standards that mandate 1.4 million electric and hybrid vehicles by 2025
SAN FRANCISCO -- Seeking to influence other states and Washington, California air regulators passed sweeping auto emission standards Friday that include a mandate to have 1.4 million electric and hybrid vehicles on state roads by 2025.
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Fed unlikely to raise rates until at least 2014
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve went further than ever Wednesday to assure consumers and businesses that they'll be able to borrow cheaply well into the future.
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Details emerge of dramatic SEAL raid in Somalia to free hostages
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- U.S. Navy SEALs parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed.
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Obama: American dream in peril, fast action needed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama called Tuesday night for a flurry of help for a hurting middle class and higher taxes on millionaires, delivering a State of the Union address packed with re-election themes. Restoring a fair shot for all, Obama said, is "the defining issue of our time."
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Review board: Deputy's use of force not within policy
The use of force by a Kern County sheriff's deputy who fired at an SUV that rammed the deputy's vehicle was not within sheriff's department policy, a Sheriff's Department review board has determined.
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Power rerouted to thousands after man climbs transmission tower
Thousands of PG&E customers in Bakersfield were without power Sunday evening after a man climbed a 200-foot-high transmission tower and threatened to jump, forcing the utility to de-energize power lines for safety reasons.
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Paterno's death met with grief in State College
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Stunned by the rapid advance of his lung cancer and still reeling from the child-sex scandal that rocked the campus, Penn State students, professors and alumni mourned Joe Paterno on Sunday and expressed hope that he would be remembered more for the good he did than for his downfall.
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Rep. Giffords to resign from Congress this week
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona announced Sunday she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago that shook the country.
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Accident blocks traffic at White Lane and Akers
An accident with major injuries that happened at about 10:40 a.m. Sunday has closed the intersection at White Lane and Akers Road in southwest Bakersfield, the Bakersfield Police Department reported.
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Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno dead at age 85
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Other than family, football was everything to Joe Paterno. It was his lifeblood. It kept him pumped.
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GOP race reshuffled as Gingrich secures SC victory
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stormed to an upset victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, dealing a sharp setback to former front-runner Mitt Romney and suddenly scrambling the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
