
Pipe Bombs Draw out Bakersfield Bomb Squad
Reports of a pipe bomb in downtown Bakersfield, California on Monday sparked a quick response from authorities, including the bomb squad.

Reports of a pipe bomb in downtown Bakersfield, California on Monday sparked a quick response from authorities, including the bomb squad.

On Wednesday, Bakersfield NAACP President Patrick Wayne Jackson was charged with a felony for inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, according to ABC 23.

An expectant couple’s little bundle of joy was unable to wait until his parents reached the hospital, so he entered the world in the parking lot of a Taco Bell drive-thru in Bakersfield, California on Tuesday.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority is battling new obstacles in its quest to build the track for the bullet train, including the removal of eight miles of track originally planned to end near Bakersfield, and strong opposition from San Fernando communities determined to prevent the train from traveling above ground in or near their communities.

A water plant in northeast Bakersfield in California’s Central Valley may shut down by the fall due to lack of available water for filtration, according to local ABC News affiliate KERO-23. The Kern River, which flows from the Sierra Nevada

Thanks to their granddaughter, Belinda Bannister, Richard and Mary Arambula’s 70th wedding anniversary in Bakersfield was celebrated by roughly 150 celebrities, presidents and even the Pope. Bannister, who lives in Germany, decided to contact the star-studded group after her grandmother

Kelly Castruita from Bakersfield headed out to take her recycling to the trash bin when she witnessed a UFO bobbing in the heavens, “I thought, that’s kinda bright to be a star, I’ve never seen a blue star be that bright.”

As a result of declining U.S. oil prices, companies continue to cut jobs, challenging families across the nation to overcome the loss of employment and income.