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For Immediate Release Friday, August 01, 2008
White Lane Shooting
On 8/01/08, at 1:14 a.m. Bakersfield Police responded to the 4500 block of White
Lane for a report of shots...
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To a teenager, "When I was your age" usually signals that an adult is about to hold forth on just how different — and awful — the world is these days. But the latest version of an annual study, out today, suggests that since the mid-1970s a few key features of teens' lives...
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Age seems to be in the news a lot right now.
Teen and young adult women were "rescued" from a polygamist group in Texas, only to be returned because they were deemed old enough to be able to make their own choices.
Now teen girls in Massachussetts — who may have participated in...
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I want to share a story very few people know about me.
Ever since puberty I knew I was gay. However, it wasn’t until several years later before I came to terms with my sexual preference.
When I was in the ninth grade, I was a total outsider at my school. My family had moved to a...
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BAKERSFIELD POLICE
DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE
William Rector, Chief of Police
________________________________________________________________________
Contact: Sergeant Greg Terry
Public Information Officer
For Immediate...
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Here's a snapshot of what reporter Courtenay Edelhart writes in her story today:
“It’s pretty bleak for those looking for a summer job,” said Cathy McCarthy, senior vice president of marketing for SnagAJob.com, a Web site that specializes in hourly employment.
The Web site...
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A federal advisory panel voted today to recommend flu shots for all school-aged kids.
This change, which is being called the largest expansion of flu vaccine coverage in U.S. history, broadens the scope from children under 5, people over 50 and people with chronic conditions, according to the...
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Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, or about 438,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It is also the leading preventable cause of death.
The county released the findings today of their...
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The Californian gave Brooke Stanley, one of the teens featured in the Weighed Down series, an audio recorder to use between interviews.
We used one of the audio entries in her photo slideshow.
Attached are some more of her thoughts, including her opinions on surgery, gym class and going to the...
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This song is a story about a father helplessly witnessing his daughter's first broken heart. It is something many fathers and mothers fear, and go out of their way to protect their daughter's from, but somethings are inevitable. Eventually children have to experience personal...
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The number of vendors selling cigarettes to teens is on its way down.
The county Department of Public Health sent 24 underage high school students to 114 tobacco vendors across the county and found that 26 percent of the vendors sold them cigarettes. (Read "More teens smoking" in...
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Back home in Visalia, teens partied on Friday and Saturday nights at a little place called Cutfoot. It was out in an orchard and a creek ran through the area. (This is all second-hand info, of course, from my brother, who was the life of the party in high school. I'm already having visions of...
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Update. More and continued thanks for your concern and sound advice. I have actually been checking into a personal counselor for my daughter. The one we decided upon took forever to get back to us and then could only fit her in during school hours. We went back and forth trying to make an...
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Ok, here we are with some fun stuff. Show us your teens in their halloween costume and you can win a 4 pack of movie tickets if we at Bakersfield.com choose your teen as our favorite! There will be one winner and the winner will be announced 11/1/2006. Entries will be accepted until...
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