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An Arizona Sheriff's Office is renewing a call for information to help solve a decades-old cold case about a Bakersfield woman who died from multiple stab wounds.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Bakersfield Police Department is remembering one of its own who died in the line of duty in 1980. Sergeant Patrick D. Vegas was responding to a crash when a ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — This summer marked the 40-year anniversary of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as many will remember the year the United States boycotted the Summer Games.
A Bakersfield man was ordered Monday to stand trial in the slayings of two young women in the 1980s, including a Reseda resident whose body was found in the trunk of her car in a Burbank parking lot.
Decades after the slayings of two women, a Bakersfield man will face a jury in Los Angeles County's first investigative genetic genealogy case, the LA District Attorney's Office announced.
Initially launched in the mid-1980s by Bakersfield’s first female mayor, Mary K. Shell, the Beautiful Bakersfield Awards became a signature gala under the stewardship of the chamber beginning in ...
Bakersfield Man Gets Two Life Sentences for 1980s Serial Killings. ... himself as a "swinger," claiming to have cheating on wives and girlfriends with dozens or even hundreds of women in the 1980s.
Cedric Struggs, 60, was convicted in 1981 of first-degree murder, assault and robbery in the shooting death of Alfred Joe Dishman at a gas station in 1980. Ronald Robinson, Struggs and ...