Taft News

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Every time the question comes up, didn't the mother know who she was inviting into her life and the life of her kids.

FEBRUARY 6, 2012 -- A pickup truck smashed into two children in Taft, Calif. on Sunday.

Two groups affiliated with Taft Elementary School are holding a fundraiser this weekend to benefit a fourth-grade student and her family who lost nearly everything they owned when a two-alarm fire destroyed their home in the LeMar Mobile Home Park last month.

There is a growing community uproar against the mother of a 3-year-old Taft girl beaten to death last week, allegedly by the mother's boyfriend.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012 -- Nothing criminal, that's the word from Kern County Sheriff's officials after the death of a young boy early Sunday morning in the 300 block of Crawford Street.

The memory of a 3-year-old girl killed in a case of abuse, lives on in Taft. The community came together Monday night for a candlelight vigil to remember Trinity Hanna and take a stand against child abuse.

JANUARY 27, 2012 -- The Kern County Coroner determined a three-year-old Taft, Calif.

The coronerA has released the name of a 3-year-old Taft girl, investigators believe, was killed by her mother's live-in boyfriend.

Deputies said Eric Edward Foster of Taft, Calif. was booked into jail on charges of torture, willful cruelty to a child, and inflicting injury upon a child.

Kern County Sheriff's Office homicide investogators are looking into the death of a 3-year-old Taft, Calif.

A German shepherd puppy rescued from the Kern County Animal Shelter two years ago soon disappeared from his Taft, Calif.

Federal authorities say they'll seek to deport a Bulgarian man who assumed the identity of a murdered Ohio boy and became an Oregon liquor enforcement agent.

A fire at a vacant home in Taft, Calif. on Sunday is still under investigation. According to the Kern County Fire Department, on Sunday at approximately 7:13 a.m., a call was received by the for a structure fire in the 100 blocks of Lucard and First streets in Taft.