[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield Californian A Bakersfield area farmer resigned from his position as a school board member of Lakeside Union School District after being arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct involving a minor. Travis Fugitt, 36, was arrested on suspicion of arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purposes, according...

[aggregation-styles] Visalia Times Delta The suspect in a Friday shootout with law enforcement in a Tulare County orchard remains in critical condition and has undergone at least three surgeries, said Ashley Ritchie, spokesperson for the sheriff. Marvin Chang, 32, reportedly opened fire several times in a series of incidents that...

[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield Californian Nearly three dozen criminal prosecutions have resulted from street protests last year in Bakersfield over racial injustice and later from clashes between Black Lives Matter activists and Trump supporters leading up to the presidential election. While about 50 cases were referred by law enforcement to the Kern...

[aggregation-styles] Smoky Mountain News A previously convicted Bakersfield man who went on North Carolina school property in violation of his sex offender registration requirements will serve the maximum possible prison sentence in that state after pleading to multiple charges. Jack Echols, 39, was sentenced as a habitual felon and will...

[aggregation-styles] Visalia Times Delta Growing up in Visalia, it seems, might be good preparation for being in a Superman show. At least, that’s how Inde Navarrette sees it. She plays Lana Lang’s daughter in “Superman & Lois,” which debuts at 8 p.m. Tuesday on CW. The story transports Clark Kent...

[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times A 65-mile section of California’s bullet train through the San Joaquin Valley that a contractor assured could be constructed much more cheaply — with radical design changes — has become another troubling and costly chapter in the high-speed rail project, a Times investigation found. The segment...

[aggregation-styles] Stanford News Children exposed to air pollution, such as wildfire smoke and car exhaust, for as little as one day may be doomed to higher rates of heart disease and other ailments in adulthood, according to a new Stanford-led study. The analysis, published in Nature Scientific Reports, is the...

[aggregation-styles] Wasll Street Journal Covid-19 survivors who have gotten a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine are generating immune responses that might render a second shot unnecessary, potentially freeing up limited vaccine supply for more people, several new research papers suggest. The research, while preliminary, found that the previously infected people...