Local gymnast qualifies fational championships
Level 8 gymnast Aidan Myers, who trains at American Kids Sports Center, has qualified to compete at the USA Gymnastics Junior National Championships. Myers placed 5th in the 11-year-old division at the...
View ArticleFuneral services for April 12,2016
Services scheduled Betty Joan Pinheiro, 76, Bakersfield, April 8. Memorial service 11 a.m. April 15, Greenlawn Southwest Celebration of Life Center. Greenlawn Funeral Home Southwest.
View ArticleAttorney readies civil suit, alleges Delano counselor 'groomed' victims
An attorney representing a 17-year-old Delano girl who had sex with her high school counselor filed a government claim Monday — a precursor to a civil lawsuit — alleging that the district knew about...
View ArticleThe cycle of abuse can be broken
The cycle of abuse and neglect can be broken, and I am proof of that. I was placed in protective custody at age eight and spent 10 years in the foster care system.April is Child Abuse Prevention Month...
View ArticleWe badly need this change
The arguments posed in the large ad in The Californian on April 8, urging opposition to HR 3061, are at best disingenuous and obviously self-serving the sponsors, an apparent consortium of...
View ArticleThree wanted in southeast robbery
Three suspects are wanted in an armed robbery that took place at a southeast Bakersfield market.The suspects entered the Honey Market on Panama Lane at 8:40 a.m. April 1, police said. One of them...
View ArticleCSUB women golfers place 13th at Mont. St. tournament
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — CSUB placed 13th out of 17 women’s golf teams at the Montana State Bobcat Spring Invitational that concluded Tuesday.CSUB had four players shoot in the 70s for the second-best...
View ArticleCSUB men golfers place 9th at Santa Barbara tournament
SANTA BARBARA — Cal State Bakersfield placed ninth in the nine-team UC Santa Barbara intercollegiate men’s golf tournament that concluded Tuesday.CSUB finished with a 927 team score. Cal Poly was...
View ArticleUC Riverside scores two in 8th to down CSUB softball
UC Riverside scored twice in the top of the eighth inning and posted a 3-1 non-conference softball win over Cal State Bakersfield Tuesday at CSUB.CSUB (10-26) tied it in the bottom of the seventh on...
View ArticleClimate change rules to start hitting dairies
Kern County dairies will be asked to upgrade their manure management practices, if they haven’t already, as part of a strategy proposed this week for cutting California’s emissions of methane and other...
View ArticleNew Centennial Plaza fountain gushing
The new circular fountain is gushing and renovations at Centennial Plaza, the downtown Bakersfield public area outside the Rabobank Arena and Convention Center, are expected to be finished in four to...
View ArticleHome schedule ends with win over Stockton
And so it ends.The Bakersfield Condors played their final home game of the season Tuesday night, beating the Stockton Heat 6-3 before 6,204 at Rabobank Arena.
View ArticleModesto blows out Blaze, 13-3
The Blaze committed five errors, leading to all of Modesto’s runs in the Nuts’ 13-3 victory over Bakersfield on Tuesday at Sam Lynn Ballpark.A throwing error from shortstop Brock Hebert led to four...
View ArticleCSUB baseball rally falls short vs. UC Irvine
A big Cal State Bakersfield rally came up short in a 7-6 loss to UC Irvine on Tuesday at Hardt Field.The Roadrunners (7-24) trailed 7-1 before scoring three runs in the seventh inning and two more in...
View ArticleBarnes doesn't plan to leave CSUB despite inquiries
Rod Barnes is in the midst of contract talks with Cal State Bakersfield’s administration, and he’s also received some job inquiries from other programs.Thus far, he’s told other programs he isn’t...
View ArticleFIRST LOOK: Tracy Martin to advocate culture of peace, education in CSUB lecture
Nothing can quiet the hurt of a parent who has lost a child to gun violence, but redirecting their emotion can help.Tracy Martin, father of the late Trayvon Martin, is one such parent.
View ArticleTrayvon Martin's father on black lives: 'We're on the brink of extinction"
When 17-year old Trayvon Martin was shot to death in 2012 by Florida neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, he became a symbol of a burgeoning “Black Lives Matter” movement, a flashpoint in a...
View ArticleSoto’s homer in 9th lifts Angels to win
OAKLAND – Catcher Geovany Soto hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning off closer Sean Doolittle, lifting the Los Angeles Angels to a 5-4 comeback victory against the Oakland A's at the...
View ArticleCSUB notebook: Baseball gets needed WAC wins
What a difference one week makes. The latest example is Cal State Bakersfield’s baseball team.The Roadrunners were reeling entering last weekend’s Sacramento State series: 12 straight losses and a 0-6...
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