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The turkeys outnumbered the families for a while Tuesday — but the families kept coming.

Police working with municipal employees reported making five arrests, seizing three dogs and clearing six encampments Monday in the 800 and 900 blocks of Union Avenue.

For a shopper approaching the start of the holiday season, Taylor Casas was looking a little more relaxed Tuesday than might have been expected.

In September, the city of Bakersfield set up a task force with the goal of finding additional jail beds.

Bakersfield police are looking for a woman who it says was part of an effort Aug. 29 to burglarize a home in the 9400 block of Red Creek Way.

The Bakersfield Police Department requested the public’s help Tuesday in finding a 15-year-old who it called at-risk because she has no history of running away.

The Bakersfield Police Department asked for the public’s help Tuesday in identifying a man suspected of stealing a vehicle at 10 p.m. Sunday in central Bakersfield.

The man found dead Saturday from an apparent homicide in southeast has been identified as 43-year-old Luis Valenzuela Jr.

“To give one’s very self — to think only of others and to bring the greatest happiness to others is the true meaning of Christmas.” So wrote author Millie W. Carpenter in her story “The Little Tear Gatherer” published in…

About 30 ranchers and residents sat quietly in the Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center recently, hanging on every word from Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William Highberger as he succinctly laid out the history, the status and the substantial…