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- After a week off, the trial for the couple charged in the presumed deaths of their missing, adopted sons resumed yesterday
- A Bakersfield man is going spend some time behind bars, for what may have started out as a prank
- Another mass shooting, this time in Louisville, Kentucky

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- One man is in the hospital after a officer involved shooting over the weekend
- Two people are dead and four more are facing life-threatening injuies following a crash on the Grapevine
- Tensions are rising in Taiwan, as China began a second day of drills around the island it claims as its own territory

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- Fires in vacant and abandoned buildings remain a serious problem in Bakersfield
- A congressional delegation arrived in Taiwan yesterday
- Republican legislators in Tennessee expelled two of the three democratic lawmakers who protested gun violence earlier this week on the chamber floor

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• One person has died after a fire broke out in an abandoned residence in central Bakersfield Thursday morning, fire officials said.
• A two-alarm fire broke out in an abandoned commercial building in Arvin, prompting Kern County Firefighters to use air support to extinguish the blaze.

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- Bakersfield congressman and house speaker Kevin McCarthy met with the president of Taiwan yesterday, despite threats from China
- A teenage girl with the middle name "Evil" admitted to killing her mother
- Police in San Francisco are trying to solve the murder of a high-profile tech executive

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- Despite threats from China, Bakersfield Congressman and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is meeting with the President of Taiwan on US soil today
- A mother charged with two counts of child cruelty and misdemeanor drug possession after her 6-month-old son came into contact with fentanyl pleaded not guilty
- All eyes were on Donald Trump's arraignment yesterday

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• Firefighters were called to a fire at an abandoned building in Oildale on Tuesday.
• The Kern County Coroner’s Office has updated its 2022 numbers for fentanyl deaths.

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- A man killed while riding his bicycle became Bakersfield's second deadly hit-in-run victim of the day
- Bakersfield congressman and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is expected to meet with Taiwan's president tomorrow despite threats from China
- Anticipation and a huge show-of-force is growing right now outside the courthouse in lower Manhattan

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• A two-year-old child sustained major injuries in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of King and Niles streets at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the Bakersfield Police.
• No driver was found after a vehicle was pulled out of the Kern River Friday afternoon after it veered off Highway 178 according to the California Highway Patrol.

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- Southbound I-5 re-opened after repairments were done to the road near Castaic Road
- A boy in Bakersfield was arrested for making school-shooting threats
- It's expected to be a consequential week for Donald Trump and the country, as the former president prepares to turn himselfto stand before a judge