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When Kernville Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tricia La Belle woke up Thursday of last week, she learned that a grinch — or a small army of grinches — had stolen Christmas in Kernville.

Firefighters worked for hours Thanksgiving Day to put out a residential fire and minimize water damage to the Ridgecrest home, according to a Kern County Fire Department news release.

It was definitely busy at Bakersfield’s shopping centers the day after Thanksgiving, but “Black” Friday it was not.

Juanita Francisco’s son Eddie recalls that when he was 13 years old, the antibiotics he was given for an infection caused an allergic reaction in the form of severe asthma attacks.

Hours after the Trump administration sued California last week, threatening to end key benefits for students without legal status, Michelle was scrolling social media when she saw a video that made her panic.

Two Bear Valley Volunteers In Police Service members found a missing 80-year-old man with dementia on Thanksgiving morning, with Stallion Springs officers ultimately returning him home.

A woman was shot and killed at a home in northwest Bakersfield Wednesday night, and a suspect in her death was arrested a short time later following a vehicle collision, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.

A driver was killed shortly before 1 p.m. Thanksgiving Day in a collision at the intersection of Elmo Highway and Kendrea Street, according to the McFarland Police Department.

President Donald Trump has held his coalition together throughout much of the first year of his second term in office like few other figures could — albeit at times with bailing twine and a red MAGA cap — but cracks are starting to show, according to the latest results from The POLITICO Poll. And it’s…

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best…