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Kern County was partitioned from Tulare, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties in 1866, [3] following a failed effort to establish Buena Vista County which started in 1855. [4] The initial county seat was set in Havilah, and the governor appointed Theron Reed as the county judge. At their first two meetings, held August 1–2, 1866, the ...
A Kern County jury on Friday reached a partial verdict in the trial of Jonathan Knight, charged with murder in the death of 5-year-old Kason Guyton.
Aug. 30—A Kern County jury convicted a Ridgecrest man of first-degree murder Wednesday in the ice-pick death of his girlfriend of one month. Daniel Gunnarsson, 23, was also found guilty of ...
Dec. 5—A Kern County jury convicted a man Monday of second-degree murder with the personal use of a deadly weapon, District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer announced Tuesday. James Jordan was accused of ...
On June 1, 1990, a Kern County jury returned a guilty verdict on the murder counts of Joyce and Martha Catlin. The jury agreed with the prosecution's allegations of special circumstances (murder for financial gain, murder by poison, and multiple murders). On June 6, 1990, the jury fixed Catlin's penalty as death.
In 2009, Starrh refiled the lawsuit in the Kern County Superior Court. [19] There were two subsequent jury trials, in 2009 and 2013. [20] Aera Energy was found liable and ordered to pay $9 million. [21] Aera Energy is also involved in a legal tussle with the state of California over its de facto ban on fracking, an oil field extraction ...
May 27—A Kern County grand jury is calling for change at the county's retirement pension fund. In a report released Wednesday, the grand jury said a $1.8 billion unfunded liability at the Kern ...
The Kern County Sheriff's Office is the agency responsible for law enforcement within Kern County, California, in the United States.The agency provides: law enforcement within the county, maintain the jails used by both the county and municipalities, and provides search and rescue.