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Before Amazon, We Had Bookmobiles: 72 Rare Photos Of Libraries-On-Wheels

Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, bookmobiles were bringing literature to peoples' doorsteps. Their mission was to provide the written word to remote villages and city suburbs that had no libraries. We invite you to remember these forgotten four-wheelers of the past.

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Environmentalists sue after feds allow new drilling permits in one of the country’s most polluted areas

The San Joaquin Valley’s Kern County is home to some of the country’s most polluted cities

The Independent UK

Why you should avoid dust: The surge of Valley Fever and its link to climate change

California saw multiple Valley Fever cases after a music festival in Kern County earlier this year

The Independent UK

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Man Arrested For Removing Severed Leg From Train Accident Scene

Man arrested in Kern County for removing human remains from a train accident scene. Incident involved a pedestrian fatality and subsequent arrest of Resend...

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Carbon Causes Climate Change. Why Does a California County Want to Make More?

Kern County wants to use billions in federal tax credits to collect and bury carbon. To do so, it would build new facilities to produce more of the most abundant greenhouse gas.

Capital & Main

Investigators link Mojave mass killing to earlier shooting but release few other details

LOS ANGELES — A mass shooting that left four people dead in Mojave more than a month ago is connected to another shooting earlier in the day that sent one person to the hospital, Kern County sheriff’s officials announced.

Los Angeles Times

Mass shooting mystery in Mojave Desert: A pleading text, slaughter in an RV, many questions

LOS ANGELES — The last message John Denardo received from his daughter came from a phone number he didn't recognize.

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‘They’re only getting more essential.’ California home caregivers seek statewide bargaining power

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s in-home caregivers, a historically underpaid workforce that serves a rapidly aging population, could receive a significant boost in bargaining power under a new bill introduced Friday.

Tribune News Service

Oil wells guzzle precious California water. Next door, residents can’t use the tap

A town in the oil industry’s shadow grapples with health fears as the state fails to limit companies’ use of fresh water

The Guardian - US

2 boys allegedly killed by adoptive parents were illegally taken from mother, suit alleges

The biological family of two boys who authorities say were killed by their adoptive parents have filed a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations and wrongful death.

Los Angeles Times

In California’s dusty oil country, Ukraine war brings faint hope of keeping wells flowing

TAFT, Calif. — Here amid the dusty hills and deserted main streets of California’s oil country, the last three years have delivered “one kick in the gut after another,” some say.

Los Angeles Times

California prison inmate suspected of killing cellmate

LOS ANGELES —A California inmate is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Kern County prison this week, authorities said.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Domestic abusers still have access to guns. That has got to change

Seven months before a man shot and killed his three daughters and a family friend in a Sacramento church last week, a man in Kern County shot and killed his wife, two sons and a sheriff’s deputy responding to violence at their home. In July 2020, a Madera County man…

Los Angeles Times

Kern County sheriff’s recruitment video appeals to LA deputies opposed to vaccine mandate

LOS ANGELES — Kern County officials this week posted a recruitment video on social media urging Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who are opposed to vaccine mandates to apply for positions with their neighbor to the north.

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