Bakersfield News

Jenn Ireland / The Californian Dr. Sue Poh stands in a children's exam room next to a wall full of photos of her patients in the downtown office that she has shared with two other doctors for many years.

Bakersfield police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in east Bakersfield Tuesday as possibly gang-related. Officers received a call about the shooting near Virginia Avenue and South Robinson Street around 9 p.m. When they arrived, officers found the Samuelle D. Waddell, 18 of Bakersfield, on the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds.

A tradition in one Bakersfield community brought out the red white and blue. The Fourth of July Westchester Parade is a tradition that includes peple of all ages, music and and even a Civil War cannon.

Bakersfield Police are looking for as many as three suspects in a fatal shooting in central Bakersfield.

Bicycle deaths in traffic accidents in Kern County: 2003: 6 2004: 4 2005: 4 2006: 5 2007: 3 2008: 3 2009: 1 Images: Casey Christie Casey Christie / The Californian Hand written notes are written on the ghost bike memorial on South Union Avenue where cyclist Alton Saceaux was killed while riding his bicycle by a drunken driver.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A Bakersfield man who was shot with a stun gun by deputies and bit by a sheriff's dog during his arrest has died.

Editor's Note: At nearly 80, United Farmworkers Union co-founder Dolores Huerta personifies the phrase she coined, 'Si se puede!' which President Obama borrowed and translated as 'Yes, we can!' New America Media editor Khalil Abdullah interviewed Huerta, who was honored as an extraordinary older woman at the AARP Diversity Conference in Chicago.

Righteousness has a neg. connotation. being good, fair and just isn't the same. Righteousness implies you have the best or only way.

As President Barack Obama discussed the heated topic of health care reform in Virginia today, government and health care leaders in Bakersfield came together for their own town hall meeting.

As lawmakers worked to beat the Midnight deadline to dig California out of a $24 billion hole, their own salaries ended up on the chopping block early Tuesday morning by another government body.

While 900 downtown residents were left in the dark this morning, Bakersfield High summer school students didn't let that ruin their day.

A Brampton man who's considered a modern-day Robin Hood has been convicted in the U.S. of leading a drug smuggling ring that trucked at least 36,000 kilos of cocaine from California to Toronto.

A gadget containing a small amount of radioactive material was stolen from a car sometime Thursday night or early Friday morning, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.

Felix Adamo / The Californian Leah Hernandez is as beautiful as an angel as she tries on her wedding dress in preparation for her July 10 wedding in Lake Tahoe.

Joshua Soto loved the army. And he died doing what he loved the most. The army sergeant, an infantryman by choice, was killed by a roadside bomb june 16th outside the iraqi town of Tallil.

When Josh Preston asked us to take him to the Kern County Sheriff's Department for questioning he seemed to know that he wouldn't be coming home.

Visitation services will be held Friday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 428 E. Kern St., Avenal.

There may be more information Wednesday on the death of a 2-year-old East Bakersfield boy whose safety had been a concern to neighbors long before his lifeless body was removed by coroner's investigators.

It's being described as Hollywood's most exclusive prostitution ring, a $50,000-a-night call girl service providing Playboy Playmates and porn stars to actors, athletes and moguls.

Virginia Fort 757-622-7382 Bakersfield, Calif. -- Wearing a stethoscope and a sexy nurse outfit , carrying a notepad to write 'prescriptions' for a vegetarian diet, and holding a sign that reads, " Bypass Heart Surgery--Go Vegan," a PETA beauty will greet patients and passersby outside Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield on Wednesday.