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Riddhi Patel at a recent Bakersfield City Council meeting. (City of Bakersfield) A Kern County activist is facing years in jail after authorities charged her with 18 felony counts for allegedly ...
2 killed, 9 injured in pileup that closed fog-shrouded I-5 in California. Minyvonne Burke and Dennis Romero. January 6, 2024 at 8:26 PM. Two people were killed and nine others were injured ...
Vincent Edward Brothers (born May 31, 1962) is an American mass murderer convicted of killing his wife, their three children and his mother-in-law. Brothers previously was the former vice principal of John C. Fremont Elementary School in Bakersfield, California and holds a master's degree in education from California State University Bakersfield and a bachelor's degree from Norfolk State ...
Karen Goh. Karen K. Goh (born 1955) is an American politician and non-profit organization executive serving as the 26th and current mayor of Bakersfield, California. Before becoming mayor of Bakersfield, Goh was a non-profit executive at Garden Pathways. Goh is Bakersfield's first mayor of Asian descent.
The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the city of Bakersfield, California, in the United States. It has over 590 officers and professional staff, covering an area of 151.2 square miles (392 km 2) serving an urban population of more than 400,000. The current chief of the department, since ...
The Bakersfield sound is a sub- genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. [1] Bakersfield is defined by its influences of rock and roll and honky-tonk style country, and its heavy use of electric instrumentation and backbeats. [2] It was also a reaction against the slickly produced ...
1652668, 2409774. Website. www .bakersfieldcity .us. Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km 2) [9] [10] near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which is located in the Central Valley region.
The Bakersfield Californian is the direct descendant of Kern County 's first newspaper, The Weekly Courier, which was first published on Aug. 18, 1866, in Havilah, California. At that time, Havilah, a small mining town about 50 miles northeast of the present site of Bakersfield, was the center of the 1864 gold rush, which brought the first ...