The Bakersfield Californian

An app that could save your life

A mobile phone application is available free of charge to help people learn the warning signs of a stroke.

A Shafter man was sentenced Monday to 17 years and six months in prison for possession with the intent to distribute four pounds of methamphetamine.
Santos Acevedo Gutierrez, 41, was on federal supervised release after serving a prison sentence for a previous drug felony conviction at the time law enforcement officers found the meth at his home, a U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A Bakersfield woman was killed Monday when her vehicle collided with a big rig at the intersection of Highway 223 and Edison Road.
Blanca Guadalupe Lopez Lomeli, 51, died at the scene of the 5:32 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

EveryLibrary, a nonprofit group dedicated to running library tax campaigns, visited Bakersfield Wednesday to talk about the future of libraries in Kern County.
They left library officials and library supporters with the clear understanding that a quality, impartial survey of the Kern County Library system's needs is the first step to figuring out how to meet those needs.

Jay Tamsi, CEO/president of the Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is unusually extra busy at this time as puts in the final touches of the 17th annual Latino Food Festival and Menudo Cook-Off.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

I grew up in New England and frankly never thought I would end up so far from home. Like many of my generation, the idea of working for one company over the course of several decades was not as attractive as job hopping and seeing the world.

Dignity Health and Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona are partnering to launch a new medical residency program in Bakersfield.
Slated to begin next year, the program will start out with three family medicine residents and five internal medicine residents per year, each receiving three years of training.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Three-hundred and forty-one.
As of Friday afternoon, that's how many people have filed papers to run for president in 2016, according to readily available, and humorously fascinating, public data from the Federal Election Commission.

Reader: One story -- 13 headlines. (Referencing John Cox's May 8 story about the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club suing California's Department of Conservation and its Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to nullify a state plan giving oil field operators as long as 22 months to stop injections into federally protected aquifers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A Bakersfield woman has been arrested on suspicion of grand theft and identify theft for allegedly impersonating her dead mother to withdraw a $41,691 annuity.
Victoria Coffee, 46, was arrested Wednesday and is scheduled to be arraigned May 22, according to a news release from the California Department of Insurance.