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Top stories- Bakersfield's own Cutter Coffey was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the second round of the MLB Draft last night.- Manpreet Kaur.. A local community organizer.. has announced her campaign for the Bakersfield City Council Ward 7 seat in November's general election. - Progress is being made in the Washburn fire burning near Yosemite National Park.

Top Stories: - CAL CITY BOYS: Jacqueline and Trezell West have their trial pushed back to October.- A Bakersfield man was also in court and sentenced for killing his daughter-in-law.- Three cases on Monkeypox are now in Kern County.

Top stories- Kern County Fire Department is mourning the loss of another firefighter this morning, after veteran fire captain Brian Falk died while on duty.- A 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck about 8 miles northeast of Ridgecrest last night. - Bakersfield congressman and house minority leader Kevin McCarthy is set to speak this morning at 7 A.M. local time about a bill to protect the Giant Sequoias.

Top Stories:- Kern County Fire Captain Brian Falk, 47, dies on the line of duty. - Bakersfield City Council moves forward with catalytic converter ordinance. - Washburn fire update: No large Sequoias have been damaged. The fire is 23 percent contained.

Top stories- Dozens are unaccounted for after *severe* storms ripped through parts of Virginia.. causing massive flooding.- The Food and Drug Administration authorized Novavax's Covid vaccine for adults on Wednesday.- A new government report confirms what many Americans already know - we are paying more for just about everything.

Top stories: - Newly released court documents show the husband of a DUI victim watched it all happen. - Maintenance may have saved a grove of Sequoias in the Washburn Fire.- The Kern County Coroner's Office released the number of fentanyl deaths.

Top stories- Crews in Yosemite National Park are continuing their battle with the Washburn fire.- Congress will hear today from some of the key players in the U.S. Supreme Court case that ultimately overturned Roe v Wade. - We are currently in a heat wave.. which brings heat illness along with it.

- The Kern County Fire Department confirmed that a seasonal firefighter that was involved in a wreck died - KCSO named their suspect for the assault with a deadly weapon in Mojave - Officials named the suspect of a fatal DUI crash on South H Street and Belle Terrace

Top stories- Authorities in Los Angeles are searching for a shooter who went on a deadly crime spree across three southern California counties.. All at 7-eleven stores...on 7-11.- As a wildfire burns in Yosemite National Park... hundreds of historic Sequoias are still being threatened.- A Bakersfield Police cruiser was involved in a crash on California and Chester avenues near Bakersfield High School.

Top Stories- The Stay Focused Ministries building on California Avenue is damaged after a car crashed into it.- Firefighters are still battling a blaze that is threatening Yosemite's famed grove of sequoia trees.- The first case of the Monkeypox virus was reported in Kern County this weekend.

Top Stories: - Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot- 17's FOLLOW UP FILE: Two people were injured in the explosion that tore through a central Bakersfield apartment last week, one of them is speaking out- An arrest has been made in the Gravity Tobacco armed robbery

Top Stories:-Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated at a campaign speech on Friday-President Joe Biden will sign an executive order today to protect access to abortion, as part of his administration’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling last month overturning Roe v. Wade-The two men’s bodies who were swept away by the Kern river on the fourth of July were found yesterday

Top Stories: -BREAKING NEWS: KCSO made an arrest regarding a deadly armed robbery at Gravity Tobacco -COURT WATCH: New information about last month's double homicide on Decatur Street-17's FOLLOW UP FILE: A vigil was held outside Sam's Market in Lamont, to remember the victims of a shooting four years ago

Top Stories:-British prime minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign following more than 40 members of Parliament stepping down-The search continues for two men who disappeared in the Kern River on the 4th of July-The Electra fire continues to spread southeast of Sacramento and it is now 40 percent contained

Top Stories: - Update on the Fourth of July illegal firework crackdown -The search continues for Samuel Raymondo, 19, and Diego Cabo, 27 in the Kern River-Qualifications for California tax refund

Top Stories:-A home and an RV were destroyed in a fire in east Bakersfield last night-The search continues for two men who went missing while swimming in the Kern River on the fourth of July

Top Stories-Information about a fatal late night Fourth of July shooting in southeast Bakersfield -Search and rescue crew searching for missing swimmers in the Kern River near Remington hot springs -Be ware of pet scammers claiming to have your lost pet

Top stories:- At least six people are dead and 38 people wounded after a shooting at a fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb- Bakersfield police say multiple people were wounded in a shooting late last night in southeast Bakersfield.- Search and rescue crew members were combing the Kern river yesterday near Remington Hot Springs.

Top Stories: At least six people confirmed dead after a mass shooting in a Chicago suburbKCSO looking for armed robbery suspectMan facing felony charges following a suspected DUI crash in east Bakersfield