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Junior softball sweeps games versus Bishop
Kern Valley’s Junior Little League softball team started strong as they swept a pair of games from Bishop. The offense proved to be up to the task as they scored a total of 30 runs in the double header. The long trip to get top the games in Bishop did not deter the Broncs from grabbing both games. In game one Kern Valley was a 13-7 winner. They came back and used the broom to win 17-1.
Man pleads no contest to stealing leg from train crash
A man pleaded no contest Thursday in Kern County Superior Court in Shafter to charges related to stealing a severed leg from a crime scene at a Wasco train station. Rosendo Tellez, 27, was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading no contest to one count of removing human remains from a place other than a cemetery, one count of disposing of human remains in a place other than a cemetery, one count of destroying evidence and one count of resisting a peace officer, all misdemeanors.
TGIF Kern County, today is the last day of this brief warming trend followed by a wet weekend ahead
BAKERSFIELD, Calif (KERO) — TGIF Kern County, we have an offshore ridge that will continue to keep dry conditions across our area today with a northwest flow aloft. The warming trend which began yesterday will continue today with daytime highs expected to be 4 to 7 degrees above daily normals across our area.
Little League swings into action
Kenzie, Jennifer, Finnley, Jax, Owen, Waylon of the Lucky Charms have fun at the end of their T-Ball game played at the First Baptist Field in Lake Isabella. Submitted Photo. Only three games of lower division Little League action were submitted for this week. Minor Softball and two Major Softball games.
LOIS HENRY: Date is set for hearing prompted by dead fish in the long meandering Kern River case
Kern River combatants are headed back to court where a local advocacy group hopes to force the city of Bakersfield to goose up flows, which were cut to a trickle, leaving piles of dead fish west of Bakersfield. The hearing is set for 8:30 a.m. May 9 in Division J...
Two brothers died in train crash in Wasco
Two brothers died in a car crash with a train around 2:20 a.m. April 21 at the Wasco train station, according to the Kern County coroner’s office. Eric Tellez, 27, was the driver of the vehicle and Sebastian Tellez, 17, was the passenger; both died at the scene, according to the coroner. A GoFundMe page was started by their cousin Breanna to help raise funds for their funerals.
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