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Bakersfield athlete killed in bicycle race
A Bakersfield mother of two who took up competitive cycling nine months ago after an injury ended her marathoning career died Sunday while competing in a bicycle race outside Yosemite National Park.
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Armed man shot and killed by police in northwest Bakersfield apartment
A Bakersfield police officer shot and killed a man who was armed with a gun in a northwest Bakersfield apartment Monday morning.
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New controversy strikes Goh campaign
Since Karen Goh returned to Kern County from a publishing career in New York in 2004, she has helped foster a strong network of Christian leaders in government, politics, media, business and nonprofits.
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County to pay $1 million to family whose child was taken
Kern County has agreed to pay a Kern River Valley family $1 million for wrongfully taking their son in 2008 when the family was in a dispute with the South Fork Union School District over how school officials were dealing with the boy's food allergies.
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Young's Marketplace on Brundage to close this week
Monday, May 21 2012 05:27 PMYoung's Marketplace, an independent grocery store that's a Bakersfield institution, will close at the end of the week.
Owner Brent Cruz is shutting down the business and will lease the 37,500-square-foot building at 3030 Brundage Lane to Dollar General Corp., a Goodlettsville, Tenn., discount retailer.
Dollar General is in the midst of a growth spurt and will open its fourth Bakersfield store on the site, said...
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State regulators plan new rules after sinkhole death
Monday, May 21 2012 04:55 PMConditions that created a fatal sinkhole near Taft last summer "have the potential" to occur again, state oil regulators acknowledged Monday as they pointed to industry work on new rules to prevent a similar accident.
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Kern Economic Journal: Businesses, consumers optimistic
Monday, May 21 2012 06:00 AMThe Kern Economic Journal's latest quarterly report finds both businesses and consumers are feeling optimistic, but the feeling is tempered by continued uncertainty about the economy.
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Action Line: Who regulates the tanning industry?
Saturday, May 19 2012 12:00 PMEditor's note: Action Line is a weekly column from the Better Business Bureau answering consumers' questions and concerns about money and business issues.
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New controversy strikes Goh campaign (35)
Since Karen Goh returned to Kern County from a publishing career in New York in 2004, she has helped foster a strong network of Christian leaders in government, politics, media, business and nonprofits.
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No on G: Don't stymie access to medical pot (11)
California voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996, giving "seriously ill Californians ... the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes" as recommended by a physician.
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County to pay $1 million to family whose child was taken (8)
Kern County has agreed to pay a Kern River Valley family $1 million for wrongfully taking their son in 2008 when the family was in a dispute with the South Fork Union School District over how school officials were dealing with the boy's food allergies.
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Rubio spearheads deeper look at high expulsion rates (8)
Is Kern County, as has widely been reported, really the expulsion capital of California? That's the question posed Friday by state Sen. Michael Rubio, D-Shafter, to 50 or so Kern County educators, elementary and high school district administrators and community leaders.
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