Six weeks since the quadruple homicide in Mojave, and still no arrests. Kern County Sheriff’s officials have issued an update saying that they have sent items of evidence to a crime lab for D-N-A analysis, to see if results are linked to a nearby shooting scene earlier that same day. A request has also been…… Read More
Two Bakersfield men have been arrested after allegedly breaking into a car at Meadows Field, and then ramming an officer with it. Lori Meza with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office says around 6 o’clock last night, an airport officer was struck. The severity of the injury has not been disclosed, but he was taken to…… Read More
With the Kern County Fair now 15 weeks away, the concert lineup has been finalized… Rodney Atkins will be on the Budweiser Pavilion Stage Opening Night September 20… Facility Marketing Representative Chelsey Roberts says R-and-B artist Brian McKnight will be there the following night, and then some rock with Blue Oyster Cult the first Friday…… Read More
Highway Patrol investigators have not identified a woman who was killed in a solo vehicle crash in southwest Bakersfield. The woman, described as in her early to mid twenties, died after her car drifted off of Gosford Road near Carlock Road, overturned, and struck a brick wall. She was not wearing a seat belt. C-H-P…… Read More
A Kern County Sheriff’s deputy has been arrested after his patrol car was found stopped in the middle of the road. Bakersfield Police Sergeant Robert Pair says the vehicle was found in the middle of White Lane near Liverpool Way in southwest Bakersfield around 6 o’clock Wednesday morning… 34 year-old Joseph Garcia was off-duty and…… Read More
This is far more serious than just a case of ‘boys will be boys’ Sunday morning… Bakersfield Police Sergeant Robert Pair says a 14 year-old boy was driving. Two other 14 year-olds and a 16 year-old were in the car. The pursuit ended when the driver tried to turn on westbound Highway 58 and crashed,…… Read More
The verdict is in in the trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West… Both were found guilty on five of seven counts in the deaths of four year-old Orrin and three-year old Orson West, the adopted California City boys whose bodies have never been found… That’s family friend Keisha Stevenson. The jury deadlocked on two charges…… Read More
Kern County Sheriff’s investigators continue to search for the suspect who killed four people in Mojave Sunday night. Few details have been released for a variety of reasons. Lori Meza says there’s no security video available, several persons of interest haven’t been as helpful as deputies had hoped, and leads keep changing. Meza also says…… Read More
Four people have been shot to death in Mojave, and the shooter or shooters are still at large. Lori Meza with the Kern County Sheriff’s says deputies responded around 11:20 last [Sunday] night to a property on H Street near Cerro Gordo Road… The victims were inside what Meza described as an RV parked on…… Read More
A piece of local music history. A CD is being released today by singer Victoria Hallman, 41 years after it was originally made, and the executive producer is the late Buck Owens. Our own Jim Shaw is the leader of the Buckaroos and the handler of the Buck Owens private foundation. He wrote four songs…… Read More
