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• Suspicious fire scorches MLK youth facility
  Just a day after the nation celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, local firefighters battled what officials called a suspicious fire that scorched King’s Dream Youth Facility in east Bakersf [...]
• Bakersfield police report big drop in killings; many other crimes also decline
  The city of Bakersfield experienced a steep drop in homicides in 2011, and the overall crime rate fell for the sixth straight year, Bakersfield police reported Friday. There were 18 homicides in th [...]
• Three arrested, charged in July church arson
  Almost six months to the day after a northeast Bakersfield church was burglarized and burnt, three people were arrested Friday in connection with the crime. The Kern County Fire Department Arson In [...]
• School thievery a constant battle
  You can understand why someone would steal computers, cellphones and other electronics from school campuses. But a golf cart, a washer and dryer, a lawn mower? A koi fish? “What someone wo [...]
• Two men die in separate shootings
  Officials are investigating the separate shooting deaths of two men this weekend. In the first, a man was shot multiple times at 10:14 p.m. Saturday in the 800 block of Smith Street near Belle Terr [...]