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Police: 10-Year-Old Driving For Drinker Man Faces DUI, Contributing To Delinquency And Child Endangerment Charges POSTED: 3:46 p.m. PST March 8, 2004 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A man who allegedly had a few too many drinks decided he shouldn't drive drunk -- and so handed off his car keys to his underage companions, police said. Lionel Cerda told officers that he had been nodding off, so he first let a 14-year-old drive. B>But when police pulled the car over after midnight on Saturday, they found Cerda in the front seat, with empty bottles at his feet, the 14-year-old in the...

This morning at 9:10 am, George W. Bush landed in Air Force One at Meadows Field here in Bakersfield CA to attend a townhall meeting at a local business. The business is "Rain for Rent", which is a family owned national pipe, tank and pump rental company providing services to the oil, ag and industrial community.Rain for Rent is a good choice because they are based here, but have facilities throughout the US. The owners, the Lake family, I suspect are politically active and supportive of GWB. This meeting will have a tentacle effect in that, company pics and memo's...

Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. - Ladies Handgun Seminar This Saturday, January 31, 2004, Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) will hold a Ladies Handgun Seminar at Second Amendment Sports, 2523 Mohawk St., in Bakersfield, starting at 9 a.m. Forty women will learn the basics of gun safety and self-defense. Most of the women are novice shooters. The event is free and includes lunch. The morning session will consist of classroom instruction on safety and self-defense theory. After lunch, the women will head to the range to shoot, some for the very first time. Instructor will be Don Busse of "Martial Arms" (tactical...

<p>The morning host on KERN-AM (1410), Cox began plugging the actor's candidacy the morning after Schwarzenegger announced his campaign on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."</p> <p>The payback has been handsome. Cox, who looks like a lot of 39-year-old guys around here — tall, husky and with a tricked-out truck — now is easily recognized around town, a rarity for a voice on the radio. His show has soared in popularity, beaten in the morning commute hours only by KUZZ-AM (550), a country radio station owned by Buck Owens.</p>

. It all surrounds a patrol car, which carried a message some found offensive. The car decal said, "We'll Kick Your Ass".It is the kind of stunt that could have quickly been put to rest.Instead it has prompted a flood of editorial letters to the Bakersfield Californian with mixed reviews on what the sticker said.There is still plenty of controversy over how the sheriff handled it.It is not the act that gets you in trouble, but whether or not it is a cover-up.There may or may not be a cover-up in this case, but there are a lot of different...

<p>A skinny rapist met his match in an angry, 275-pound prostitute, police said.</p> <p>Adrian Castillo Ramirez, 140 pounds, allegedly tried to sexually assault a 24-year-old Bakersfield prostitute who was nearly twice his weight.</p> <p>But she took his knife, stripped him naked and paraded him in front of other prostitutes, after asking how many of them had ever been forced into sex at knifepoint. Then she tried to take him -- still naked -- to the police station, reports said.</p>

TESTING THE FAITHYMCA fliers banned from schoolAd promoting basketball camp mentions 'Christian principles' Posted: December 11, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Not known as an overtly Christian organization, the YMCA has come under fire in Bakersfield, Calif., where a school district banned the organization's promotional fliers from its campuses. The local Y can no longer send fliers home with children because a recent one happened to mention the organization puts "Christian principles into practice," reports the Bakersfield Californian. YMCA officials are fuming, the paper reports, and the brouhaha could possibly affect other area school districts. The offending flier, which a district...

Employees evacuated from building when mysterious white powder spills from envelope...

SACRAMENTO -- In an unprecedented honor for a first-termer, Assemblyman Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield was chosen Monday as leader-elect of the Republicans in the state Assembly. He will replace the current leader, Dave Cox of Sacramento, when the Legislature returns from its winter recess in early January. It will be an unusually smooth leadership transition for Assembly Republicans, who are best known for tossing out their leaders in sudden coups. The Assembly Republican leader spearheads GOP strategy on major policy issues in the Legislature. He or she also oversees recruitment of Republican candidates, fund raising and campaign strategy in key...

<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Bakersfield, Calif., police were searching Tuesday for an elementary-school vice principal in connection with the massacre of an entire family inside their home.</p> <p>The five homicide victims — a grandmother, mother, two young children and an infant — were found dead by a family friend early Tuesday morning. Police said they seemed to have been shot multiple times.</p>

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — When Thomas Anton and his friends throw a barbecue, they tend to go a little overboard. In the past 14 months, they've spent more than $100,000 of their own money and flown across two oceans to grill steaks for 10,000 strangers — all of them sailors aboard U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. That's 7 tons of beef so far, but the barbecuers, who call themselves the Cooks from the Valley, say it's been worth every ounce. It's their way of showing their support for those in harm's way in the war on terrorism.

For years, legend had it that there was a group of powerful men in Bakersfield secretly living gay lives, sometimes with deadly consequences. When the county's No. 2 prosecutor was stabbed to death in his home last year, the "Lords of Bakersfield" legend broke out into the open and the city's daily newspaper decided to confront it head-on.In a series of stories that ran in January, The Bakersfield Californian found evidence of a ring of closeted gay men who had sex with teenage boys and used their influence to keep from being prosecuted. Four of the men ended up slain...

Rally for our troops and for Freedom. FRIDAY 4-6PM Bakersfield, California . We will be on the corner of California and Stockdale in front of Krispy creme. We will be there from 4-6 and usually later, we have spare signs . our group is about as big as the hippies(anti-war) across the street but I think we can get huge compared to them.

Powerful gay men. Vulnerable teen-age boys. Murder. For years, some prominent local men who led secret lives were rumored to be protected. Whispers surrounding another important man's death prompt the question: Is there really a conspiracy? Why we wrote these stories A conspiracy theory born in the late 1970s and early '80s had become a long-forgotten legend until last September, when the slaying of Assistant District Attorney Stephen M. Tauzer gave new life to speculation about "The Lords of Bakersfield." We felt this legend and the crimes that spawned it warranted a closer look. We believed readers would find these...

Bakersfield,CA Pro-troop, Anti-saddam Rally at Krispy Creme on Stockdale and California from Feb.14 4-6pm. hope to see some freepers there.

From: CHP ENTAC URGENT ALERT - PARENTAL ABDUCTION On 08/29/02 at 410 p.m., Cierra Walden was abducted from 100 E. California Bakersfield, CA. Cierra Walden is a 9 year old white female, 4'-6' tall, weighing 60 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Cierra Walden was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and purple shorts. Suspect Pamela Walden is a white, female, 5'-02' tall, 110 pounds, with brown hair, green eyes, wearing white tank top and blue jeans. Suspect vehicle is a dark blue, Hyundai, 2 door, CA License plate 4SHV526. If seen contact: Bakersfield Police Department at (661)327-7111. For...