Your opportunity to get tickets for a chance to win this year’s St. Jude Dream Home is quickly fading away — the winning ticket will be drawn Sunday on KERO ABC 23 during a telethon that starts at 9:30 a.m. Tickets are $100, and offer a...
Steve Murray of Murray Family Farms said he's seeing a paradigm shift to staycations. But why, not, he suggested Friday on "First Look with Scott Cox," go for a "hay-cation" instead? "We encourage people to come out and do a hay-cation,"...
Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Big 6: FIRE: New details are emerging about a fire that killed a toddler in Oildale. Twenty-one-month-old Aiden McDonald died Wednesday at a home in the 300 block of Washington Avenue....
Marley's Mutts is working to rescue dogs -- and people. Non-profit founder Zach Skow came on "First Look with Scott Cox" Thursday with a pit bull named Hercules to talk about how he rescues dogs from Kern County Animal Control,...
Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Big 6: JAMES GANDOLFINI: James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" helped create one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the...
There's nobody in his circle of friends and family who hasn't been touched by cancer. That's the sentiment of Steve Flores of Thee Majestics, who's working with musicians in the local media to put on the Media Music Jam, which benefits the...
Maybe you thought you'd finally get a glimpse of restaurant critic Pete Tittl. You'd be wrong. The Californian's contributing columnist appeared on "First Look with Scott Cox" on Wednesday -- wearing a nice big hat and sunglasses and...
Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Big 6: IN-CUSTODY DEATH: The suspect who died in the custody of Kern County Sheriff's deputies apparently swallowed his own stash. Deputies were in the area of J and Mint streets Monday...
The Bakersfield residential real estate market continues to change, the founders of Majestic Properties said Tuesday on "First Look with Scott Cox." Bart Tipton offered these numbers: Two years ago, active for-sale listings were comprised...
Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Big 6: METH: A Bakersfield man is arrested after deputies say they found about two pounds of meth in his car and home. Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a car for Vehicle Code violations...
The crowd at the inaugural Kern County Nut Festival cracked expectations. "It just blew us away. It was 12:30 and we ran out of tickets," co-chairwoman Sheryl Barbich said Monday on "First Look with Scott Cox." She said she always...
What do Leadership Bakersfield, Chamber Palooza and Good Morning Bakersfield have to do with each other? They're all programs of the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce. President and CEO Cindy Pollard talked about them Monday on...
Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Big 6: WOMAN IDENTIFIED: We now know the name of the person found dead inside a garage in east Bakersfield. The victim has been identified as 18-year old Mia Ramirez of Bakersfield....

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