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Gang member threatens victim’s family after sentencing for 2016 homicide
If there was any remaining doubt Wendell Scott felt no remorse for gunning down a man in front of his children in 2016, his actions in court on Tuesday laid the matter to rest.
Read the full story on KGET - TV 17 Bakersfield.
Effort to name park after Sikh civil rights leader indefinitely tabled
The City Council had been on the verge of naming a planned park along Akers Road in South Bakersfield after Jaswant Singh Khalra, a Sikh banker in Punjab, India, who was killed by Indian police after launching investigations into thousands of disappearances carried out by the state in the late 1980s and early '90s.
Read the full story on The Bakersfield Californian.
Ruptured fire hydrant floods portion of Buck Owens Boulevard
Police said a runaway truck sheared a fire hydrant in Central Bakersfield flooding a portion of the road Monday night.
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Kern County on PG&E's list of public safety power outages
Kern County is in phase nine and has the potential to impact 839 residents in Lebec, Arvin and Bakersfield.
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