Bakersfield News

Jazz continues this weekend in Bakersfield for those of you looking for an alternative to DJs, classic rock, and C&W - not that there's anything wrong with those! The music starts off at one of the Northwest's newest venues, King Tut Mediteranean Restaurant and Hookah Bar .

The Neashams will challenge the Wilsons from Bakersfield, Calif., for a chance to take home prizes of up to $100,000 or a new car.

Workbench Guy Wire Milestones Roots of Radio Day in the Life Wired for Sound RF Safety Road Warrior Green Radio Certification Corner The Last Word KUZZ of Bakersfield, Calif.

On Jan. 23, 2012, at about 4:30 p.m., Christian Chavez, a troubled 18-year-old, was shot and killed by the California Kern County Sheriff's Department , near Buttonwillow Park, in Kern County, CA.

More information is being released by the Kern County Sheriff's Department regarding the east Bakersfield shooting that left one man dead.

Martha Ruth Tillman Rhonemus, December 24, 1925 to February 7, 2012, was born in Shelby, Montana to Walter Tillman and Alice Covell Tillman.

The Mayor's Freeway Cleanup is 8-11 a.m. Saturday. Volunteers help clean up the freeway on/off ramps, making our city a more beautiful place to drive.

Dollar General and the California National Guard are co-sponsoring a job fair for Bakersfield-area Guardsmen, service members and veterans from 2 to 6 p.m. today at the Bakersfield National Guard Armory, 2800 Gateway Blvd.

Brian Hislop says it is tough for veterans looking for work in this economy. "It's just frustrating, you're looking for work, you put in applications, you show up the next week, and there's just nothing there," said Hislop, who is an Army veteran.

The Kern County Health Department suspects norovirus may be to blame for a flu-like outbreak at a senior living home in Bakersfield.

"It's just frustrating, you're looking for work, you put in applications, you show up the next week, and there's just nothing there," said Hislop, who is an Army veteran.

Greg A. Chamberlain is president of Bakersfield College, which serves 15,000 students on the 153-acre main campus in northeast Bakersfield, at the Weill Institute in downtown Bakersfield, and at the Delano Center 35 miles north of Bakersfield.

FEBRUARY 9 -- Bakersfield police said a woman with diminished mental capacity is missing.

FEBRUARY 9, 2012 -- A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a man killed in his home in 2010.

Take a drive around Bakersfield and you'll see many trash-strewn streets. On April 14, the Great American Cleanup is coming.

FEBRUARY 9, 2012 -- A good samaritan was burned trying to save his animals from a Bakersfield fire.

FEBRUARY 9, 2012 -- Bakersfield police are on the lookout for speeders. BPD's Traffic Enforcement Detail held a patrol in town Wednesday looking for speeders and red light runners.

If the question were asked, "Who forged the genre known today as modern country music," only a tiny group of country immortals could step forward to share the spotlight.

Time flies, windows steam and love blooms. That's the G-rated version anyway. In honor of Valentine's Day, Vroomgirls found some legendary spots and dreamed up the perfect cars from which to enjoy the view - though you may never even notice it.

I apparently live in a bizzaro world of some sort. Or else I've come to stark realization about how much I actually like certain wrestlers.