Recent armed robbery attacks against Bakersfield letter carriers has the Postal Service asking people to watch out for suspicious people near mailboxes. Postal Inspector Matthew Norfleet says to report any mail theft directly to them, but call 9-1-1 in a life-threatening emergency… The knife-wielding robbers were trying to get mail keys from the carriers. The…… Read More
Highway 178 through the Kern River Canyon is closed again due to another rockslide. One last week damaged some of the pavement. This one, though, not only has one giant boulder in the center of the road, but Christian Lukens with CalTrans says there’s another one that could also fall, so it’s not clear yet…… Read More
A standoff with Bakersfield police and a suspect has ended after several hours overnight. 59 year-old Richard Firo of Bakersfield was taken into custody around 3:45 this morning on Cibola Drive, near White Lane and Gosford Road, after holding himself up in the home since around 9 o’clock last night. Police say at one-point, he…… Read More
The Tulare County Sheriff says detectives are working 24 hours a day to find the killers who gunned down six people Monday at a home in Goshen, and they’re getting a lot of help… Mike Boudreaux says they know of at least two suspects, but he’s being careful about what he says… Boudreaux says a…… Read More
Bakersfield has announced the guest speaker for the 43rd annual Bakersfield Prayer Breakfast next week… Mayor Karen Goh says Lawrence has local ties. He grew up in Bakersfield, went to Bakersfield High School, and then Cal State Bakersfield before starting a ministry. Lawrence was named Bishop in South Carolina in 2006. The prayer breakfast is…… Read More
A brand new monument in Panorama Park has been built to honor a Kern County pioneer that few people know about. Third District Supervisor Jeff Flores says that included him, before the public-private partnership with the Jedediah Smith Society… The granite monument near Loma Linda Drive describes how Smith led 18 men from the Rockies…… Read More
Six people have been killed in mass shooting in Goshen, and the victims include a 17-year-old girl and her six month old baby. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux says there were so many shots heard around 4am Monday at a house on Harvest Avenue, that deputies believed it was an active shooter situation… Bodies were…… Read More
The death of a teenage boy who was struck by a pickup in Derby Acres is being investigated as an accident. The victim has been identified as Dylan Dominguez of Fellows, and Highway Patrol Sergeant Francisco DeLeon says there was heavy rain at the time of the crash around 5:30pm Sunday on Highway 33 near…… Read More
The Bakersfield Police Department has a new Community Advisory Panel. Two dozen city residents with various backgrounds have signed up, and will meet once a month to discuss the way the department does business. Police Sergeant Robert Pair says they’ll look at things that are governed by the Department of Justice… Pair says the meetings…… Read More
“It’s time to call time.” Those are the words of NASCAR driver and Bakersfield native Kevin Harvick, who has announced he will be retiring at the end of the year. The 47 year-old father of two made his announcement on Twitter… Harvick burst upon the scene in 2001 immediately following the death of Dale Earnhardt.…… Read More
