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TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KABC) -- Hundreds of vehicles spanning approximately 10 miles are stuck Friday on State Route 58 near the 14 Freeway in Tehachapi due to flood road closures in the area. The California Highway Patrol said there are a total of 192 vehicles stuck, including 115 passenger cars, 75 semi-trucks and two tour buses.

Thousands attend tea party protest in ABQ A vocal crowd of over a thousand people gathered near Montgomery and Louisiana Boulevard in Albuquerque Wednesday to protest the federal government's spending habits. Retired teacher Yvonne Estrada gave up her bowling night to join thousands of other New Mexicans Wednesday who turned out to voice their concerns about the economy and the federal government's spending habits. Estrada says she's worried about where America is headed. She joined a march of several hundred people along a busy Albuquerque street during rush hour. Her sign read, "I am not your ATM." Estrada says she...

St. Malachy’s church in Tehachapi is indicative of what's going on around this country and throughout the church, says one not-so-pleased writer Christopher Zehnder in the California Catholic Daily. The sanctuary of St. Malachy's with its plain, white-marblish, free-standing altar is separated from the nave by an altar rail, and behind the altar sits the tabernacle, unmoved from where it was placed over 40 years ago. Christ in the Blessed Sacrament commands the attention of those who enter the church. He is the focal point, drawing the eyes of worshippers, as is His right, to Himself. Sounds nice, right? Wait....

GORMAN, Calif. — A coalition of environmental groups says it will withdraw its opposition to development of the sprawling Tejon Ranch if the builder agrees to set aside about 380 square miles in the Tehachapi Mountains as wilderness. The coalition hopes its offer persuades developers to scale back their plans on the 270,000-acre site and to more than double the amount of land to be preserved. The coalition now wants to save 245,000 acres — a swath of land bigger than Chicago and Philadelphia combined. Tejon Ranch officials dismissed the new proposal as unreasonable but left open the possibility for...

The debate over America's presence in Iraq has raged since the first Marine set foot on the sand, but it's never been a question for Pfc. Jimmy Gentile. He's been there, done that and would do it again. So would Joe Hayes, the Tehachapi boy who fought side by side with Gentile in one of the fiercest battles of the war to date. The two men met after boot camp in 2001 when fate and the U.S. Marine Corps assigned both to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. They became fast friends, training together, deploying together and ultimately almost dying...

Carjacking suspect leads officers on a chase - right to state prison Speeds of 100 mph reached on Highway 202 News Staff Report The high-speed pursuit of a carjacking suspect ended Wednesday night in Tehachapi when the fleeing Little Rock man found that Highway 202 ends unexpectedly-at the gates of CCI in Cummings Valley. A suspect who is evading arrest seldom leads a procession of law enforcement vehicles right to a state prison, but then not many highways dead-end at a correctional facility. Tehachapi is an unusual place. The incident began about 11:30 p.m. when a Kern County sheriff's...

We here in Tehachapi,CA are having another rally on Sunday, April 6th at 221 W. Tehachapi Bl. from 12:30 to 3pm. Every 2 weeks we will have a rally until our men and women return home. Our last weeks rally had more than 300 people and the news channel 17 from Bakersfield was there. I will be posting pics soon. GOD BLESS US AND OUR TROOPS!!!!

Support Our Troops Rally March 23rd 12:30 -4pm VFW 221 W. Tehachapi Bl in Tehachapi,CA 45 min. from Bakersfield/food and music event is free. e-mail me for more info patriotsareus@juno.com bring a gift or letter to be sent to our troops. They need chap stick, toilet paper, baby wipes,cigarettes snacks or a letter of support.