A Bakersfield man was convicted to life in prison with the possibility of parole for kidnapping a massage therapist for rape.

A Kern County man was convicted of kidnapping a massage therapist for rape/oral copulation.The DA’s office said Isaiah ...

A man was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping in an attempt to rape a woman at a massage business in downtown Bakersfield, ...

Jonathan Knight, the man on trial for the 2017 murder of 5-year-old Kason Guyton, appeared back in court Thursday morning.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif ... s officials said DeRosia contacted a detective posing as a 15-year-old online. District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Daniela Gonzaga on Monday emailed 17 news the ...

Prosecutors argued Jimenez, Dean and Marquez planned a home invasion robbery at the northeast Bakersfield home where Dean had been staying. The DA’s office said the three planned to take money ...

A murder for hire plot goes wrong for two men including one from Delano. KCSO says they tried to hire a Bakersfield "hitman" but instead were reported to police.

Bakersfield relies primarily on agriculture, petroleum extraction and refining, as well as manufacturing as its major economic staples. The city has a number of cultural assets including the Kern ...

Police confirmed a second person has died in an alleged drunken driving crash that happened last month on East Truxtun Avenue ...

A former Arvin High School security supervisor was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison for conspiring to make and deal explosives and mailing explosives with the alleged help of a high ...

A Bakersfield man pleaded guilty Tuesday to burglarizing a United States Postal Office in Caliente and stealing mail, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of California.

A Wasco man accused of driving drunk in a crash that killed a 1-year-old girl pleaded no contest to all charges Tuesday for a court-indicated sentence of eight years and four months in prison. Irving ...