Taft News

If you are a Jack London fan, you need to meet Carol Brookman. She is the dedicated woman who has been keeping the home fires burning at the landmark Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon - the author's favorite hangout - since 1984.

It's a place where the iPod Touch is used as a learning tool. Where students use portable touch screen computers to solve problems.

Wal-Mart has opened a temporary hiring center to recruit about 600 associates to work at a new store opening in the southwest next year.

The year-to-date number of homicides in Los Angeles County is about 704. This number does not include a few cases in which the cause of death has been deferred.

Also, carry emergency supplies such as food, water and blankets. And be patient with the traffic.

The Kern County death toll from the H1N1 virus grew by two in the last weekly reporting period to a total of 19, the county Department of Public Health reported Tuesday.

TAFT, Calif. a " Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from a Central Valley prison.State Corrections Department spokeswoman Terry Thornton says 37-year-old Rogelio Pedraza Sosa went missing from the Taft Community Correctional Facility around 9 p.m. Wednesday.Sosa began serving his four-year, eight-month sentence for transporting and ...

U.S. Postal Inspectors say a gunman jumped into a Postal Service truck and forced the driver to a remote area of Taft in October.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects responsible for robbing the driver of a U.S. Postal Service truck at the intersection of Taft Highway and East Kern Street in Taft, Calif., on Oct.

L.A. County Sheriff's Posse Volunteer Gary Leeder of San Dimas walks with eight-year-old Robert Taft and Tagalong.

A 14-year-old Taft girl was hit and killed by a car as she crossed Kern St. near 2nd St.

VILLA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL There's still time to donate items to the VPE Food Drive for Second Harvest.

A Tea Party rally in Bakersfield Monday drew about 150 people charged up by opposition to socialism, taxes, government-run health care and Democrats Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer.

The first Swine Flu shots have arrived in Kern County, and the Health Department is scheduling clinics to get the inoculations to the public as soon as possible, according to Kern County Health Officer Dr.

Two San Luis Obispo County residents were among four killed in a traffic accident Friday on Highway 46 in Kern County, according to a report by the Taft Midway Driller newspaper Web site.

If you were hoping to get a seasonal flu shot this year, you may have to wait a while.

A police chief in western Kern County has surrendered his guns after local family got a restraining order against him.

Taft, CA is a oil town that is situated in the foothills of the San Joaquin Valley.

Aasanti Drake takes part in the grand opening of the Point Fermin Marine Science Magnet School Friday.

It was, like the letters that started it all, hard to believe. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stood in the courtyard of a Monrovia apartment complex Friday and spoke to the developmentally and physically disabled residents who had worried that they were going to lose their homes: "Your eviction notice is being terminated." He was addressing nearly two ...