3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (265+ words) Meathead Movers employee Carson Serpa leaps from the ramp to the sidewalk so as not to slow down his co-worker as the two load some 3, 000 pairs of donated shoes Thursday on the final day of Guarantee Shoe Center's annual shoe…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (623+ words) Soccer is a sport Sunny Kapoor has loved for much of his life. He played soccer as a youth in his native New Delhi, India, in school and, as an adult, indoor soccer alongside his wife, Julie. He's coached his…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago  (266+ words) The Tulare County District Attorney's Office has agreed to decide whether to file criminal charges against former Kern County DA Edward R. "Ed" Jagels following his June 1 arrest on suspicion of DUI. Kern County DA Cynthia Zimmer referred the case to…...

2+ hour, 40+ min ago  (124+ words) Dish Tiki-Ko 2 The Bakersfield Californian Tiki-Ko will donate $2 from the sale of each Abominable Snowball in June to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Featuring a cone of ice from Oleander Ice Co. , the drink is made with silver Puerto Rican…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago  (119+ words) Shoe donations The Bakersfield Californian Guarantee Shoe Center President and fifth-generation owner Rosco Rolnick was unable to attend the closeout Thursday of the 34th Shoes for our Homeless Shoe Drive. But an estimated 3, 000 pair have been donated and more are expected…...

6+ hour, 32+ min ago  (84+ words) The Bakersfield Californian Short-term rentals in Bakersfield will need an annual permit soon, after the City Council approved a new ordinance Wednesday evening." Under the new rules, operators of short-term rentals, or STRs, will have to obtain a permit from…...

5+ hour, 52+ min ago  (256+ words) The Bakersfield Californian A group of cycling advocates gathered in downtown Bakersfield in August to give comment before the Bakersfield City Council in support of bike lanes and in response to a Kern County grand jury report raising concerns about…...

7+ hour, 25+ min ago  (158+ words) The California Board of Parole Hearings granted release last week to a man who pled guilty in 2004 to shooting and killing a man six years earlier at Rexland Park, the Kern County District Attorney's Office reported Thursday. An agency news…...

5+ hour, 51+ min ago  (84+ words) The Bakersfield Californian Part of H Street is getting a makeover." At the end of a long meeting Wednesday night, the Bakersfield City Council approved a nearly $14. 4 million contract with Griffith Co. for road improvements along H Street from Golden…...

8+ hour, 6+ min ago  (17+ words) The Bakersfield Californian...