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- Recapping our top stories on this Friday morning, and today is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the year
- The parents of two kids killed by an alleged impaired driver are suing the Greenfield Union School District
- Disgraced Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer can play baseball next season after he was suspended for alleged sexual assault

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• The parents of a man and girl killed by an alleged impaired driver are suing Greenfield Union School District, alleging the area where the two were standing when hit was used as a bus stop despite being located “on a high-speed, heavily-traveled roadway.”
• The California Living Museum announced an expansion of its animal care facilities, including the addition of what’s being called the Wonderful Wildlife Care Clinic.

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• A toddler strapped in his car seat was ejected from a vehicle after a head-on crash on Highway 65 late Tuesday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
• The California Highway Patrol released an update Tuesday about a dead woman found on the Highway 99 off-ramp on Dec. 17.
• Two years have passed since the community was rocked by the disappearance of two young boys in California City.

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- We're learning more about that powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake up north that is now blamed for at least two deaths
- It has been two years since a pair of brothers were reported missing in California City in what has now become a murder mystery
- Eight Bakersfield Police officers are on administrative leave after an officer involved shooting that left a man dead in southeast Bakersfield

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• A Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputy was responding to a call for a failure to yield when the patrol cruiser collided with a truck in east Bakersfield, according to KCSO.
• Two suspected drunken drivers were arrested during a California Highway Patrol checkpoint held Friday in northwest Bakersfield.
• The Kern County Sheriff’s Office arrested nine suspects on suspicion of human trafficking for labor purposes, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy on Dec. 16. The victims ranged from ages 8 to 66, according to the sheriff’s office.

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- The January 6th committee held its final public meeting yesterday, and in an historic move the bi-partisan panel voted unanimously to recommend to the department of justice criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and others
- Bakersfield Police are asking for help identifying a man who allegedly forced a woman into his car at gunpoint then sexually assaulted her
- A Kern County Sheriff's deputy collided with a truck last night in east Bakersfield, on his way to a call

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• An investigation is underway after a body was discovered on a Highway 99 offramp early Saturday morning.
• One woman has died after being struck by a vehicle Friday afternoon near Weldon, Calif.

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- NBC News has learned exclusively that the Jan. 6 committee plans to issue at least three criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump today
- Officials in Texas are declaring a state of emergency as they brace for the number of migrant crossings to more than double, if a controversial Trump-era policy is lifted this week

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• Faculty and community members came together at a college board meeting this week, claiming students of color are being targeted at Bakersfield College by an on-campus group.
• Heidi Jeremiah arrived at court Friday morning prepared to plead no contest to a manslaughter charge and receive a two-year prison term for an alleged drunken driving crash that killed a 17-year-old Wofford Heights girl.
• The California Highway Patrol said officers will conduct a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint in an unincorporated area of Bakersfield on Friday.