Selected recent California newspaper editorials

3 July 2008, 6:54 pm

Bakersfield Californian: "Embrace clean air" Valley ozone fighters have launched a new offensive against bad air, and the struggle could be coming to your doorstep.... read more

Prosecutors uncertain on death penalty for market killing suspect

3 July 2008, 10:50 am

Prosecutors haven't decided whether the man who allegedly shot and killed the owner of a southeast Bakersfield market will face the death penalty.... read more

Remembering two killed in a drunk driving wreck

3 July 2008, 2:42 am

Diane Bell said her daughter never hesitated to call home for a sober ride. That made it all the more painful when her daughter, Rianna Diane Zamarripa, died more than two weeks ago in a car driven by a ...... read more

Cocaine bust brings child endangerment charges

2 July 2008, 6:30 pm

An east Bakersfield couple was arrested Wednesday morning and children taken into protective custody after Kern County Sheriff's Department officials found cocaine in their home suspected to be for sale.... read more

Arrest made in convenience store killing

2 July 2008, 10:08 am

Bakersfield Police have made an arrest in connection with last Friday's shooting death of a convenience store owner.... read more

Wildfire burns 8,200 acres south of Lake Isabella

2 July 2008, 1:44 am

A forest fire in the mountains of Kern County south of Lake Isabella has scorched 8,200 acres and is only 6 percent contained.... read more