WASHINGTON (AP) — Angry, frustrated and unable to lead a fractured and unruly Republican majority, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday told the colleagues threatening to oust him: Do it.

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The Bakersfield Community Concert Association returns Sunday for its latest concert season with an award-winning world champion fiddler.

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Enjoy your coffee drinks with an extra shot of compassion on Friday courtesy of Dutch Bros.

The coffee chain will again partner with CASA of Kern County for its 'Buck for Kids Day' fundraiser.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal firearms charges, the latest and weightiest step yet in a long-running investigation into the president’s son.

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Two major traffic calming projects are moving along following a 6-1 approval by the Bakersfield City Council Wednesday night to pay for designs of what some of the city’s historically underserved communities could look like someday soon.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lawyers for impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton began calling witnesses Thursday and Donald Trump came to his defense on social media as a verdict in the historic trial draws closer.

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Towards the end of Wednesday's city council meeting, councilman Ken Weir asked city staff to draft a resolution that dictates the city will not enforce any nat'l or state COVID mandate, including masks, vaccines, lockdowns and social distancing.

Civil rights advocates are up in arms amid an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak at Golden State Annex, an immigrant detention center in McFarland.

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NEW YORK (AP) — As Americans fend off a late summer COVID-19 spike and prepare for a fresh vaccine rollout, Republicans are raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are next.

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A bill requiring all state football championship games to be played at a 'neutral location' passed through the California Legislature.

The bill was created after Shafter High’s football team became mired in mud playing for a state title last year.

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Close to 100 high school students from across Bakersfield, many dressed in heavy firefighting gear, gathered early Wednesday morning at the football stadium at Independence High.

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New: Senator Shannon Grove's bill seeking harsher penalties for child sex traffickers cleared the last legislative hurdle and is on the governor's desk. Senate Bill 14, seeking to classify child sex trafficker as a serious strike, passed out of the CA's Senate on concurrence today.

A man who sexually assaulted a teenager nine years ago was sentenced Wednesday to 107 years to life, plus six years and eight months, in prison.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olivia Rodrigo is going on tour, and she's bringing the next generation of pop talent — as well as a beloved '90s alt-rock band — with her.

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The Bakersfield Fire Department is looking for a man accused of starting a fire at SecurCare Self Storage that ultimately caused major damage to several storage units and their contents, a news release issued Tuesday said.

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An ex-top state oil regulator filed a lawsuit alleging he was effectively fired by the Newsom administration for objecting to orders in January that he implement a law that was about to be placed on hold because of an industry-funded voter referendum.

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A Kern County Superior Court judge granted a request to postpone a sentencing hearing for a couple convicted of killing their adopted toddler, Orrin West, because defense attorneys need more time to file 'additional information' for the judge to consider

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Good morning! I am sitting outside the courtroom where Trezell and Jacqueline West will be appearing at about 8:30 a.m. They were scheduled to be sentenced, but that hearing may be pushed to another day.

The Wests were convicted of killing their adoptive son, Orrin West, 4.

Deacon Francis Moore of St. Vincent de Paul Homeless Center led a memorial and prayer service for a regular guest of the center, Preston A. Musquez, 41, who died across the street from the center late last month, the result of an apparent drug overdose.

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A Bakersfield man was among eight people arrested in the Visalia area over the weekend on suspicion of soliciting prostitution during a sex trafficking operation.

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