Arvin News

She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, cut her teeth at Procter & Gamble and Walt Disney Co., and for 10 years ran the online auction site eBay.

Loved ones call it an unthinkable crime. They say 24-year-old Jose Luis Ramirez was a loving father, and devout family man.

Arvin Police are looking for your help finding a suspect or suspects in the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man.

California grower-shippers are marking the arrival of the 2009 table grape crop from the San Joaquin Valley the first week of July.

Jenn Ireland / The Californian Dan Ela, a math teacher at Arvin High School, helps Arvin senior Alejandro Penaloza with a math problem Friday afternoon during the school's online learning summer school program at the computer lab on campus.

Here are the best wedding photographers around or near Arvin, California: 1) 7 Bates Studios .

The marijuana season is underway and the Kern County Sheriff's Department says the battle against illegal pot growers is on.

The Highway Patrol says a 19-year-old Arvin woman died after her car collided with a tractor south of Bakersfield.

The Kern Community Foundation has chosen five recipients of the Kern Community Weingart Funds, totaling more than $63,000. The recipients are: * Arvin Family Resource Center, $8,500 to support children's dental examinations.

The coroner's office has identified the Arvin man killed in a traffic collision east of Bakersfield.

Kern County's unemployment rate was 14.8 percent in April, much worse than state and national rates, but not as bad as it was in March, according to statistics released Friday morning.

Hoping to make specialized classes and resources available to all students, the Education Department has decided to close the J. Antonio Jarvis Elementary Annex after school gets out for summer.

Jenn Ireland / The Californian Kern County Superintendent of Schools Larry Reider poses for a portrait in his downtown office Thursday afternoon.

Super polluted, super expensive. Who pays? According to the Center of Public Integrity, it's a common problem .

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court said Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered chemicals to the site.

The Supreme Court said Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered chemicals to the site.

Arvin High School: $35 each, includes appetizers and drinks, at the Arvin Women's Club.

Swine flu has been confirmed in over 100 cases in the United States, but that number is small compared to the number of people who contract other kinds of flu each year.

Health officials say they sent a few specimens to the state health department as a precaution.

* California Secretary of State's site, www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov , for proposition summaries and arguments for and against the measures.