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<title>Wasco tree trimmer gets stuck up tree</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Wasco tree trimmer gets a pretty good scare as he winds up stuck sideways up a tree some 30 feet from the ground. It takes Kern County firefighters to bring him safely back to earth.]]></description>
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<title>State boosts sex offender tracking after high-profile lapses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:22:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Sober living center: missing woman at risk</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Staff from a sober living center in east Bakersfield is asking for help to find a woman who likely ran away from the center near Kern Medical Center Friday afternoon. Kimberly Cecelones suffers from dementia according to a staff member. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the sheriff's office at 861-3110. ]]></description>
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<title>Police ID 9 women, all alive, in killer's photos </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Police have identified nine women who appear in more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker and they are all alive.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:17:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>580 pounds of marijuana seized at Calif.-AZ border </title>
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<title>L.A. thief steals truck as 5-year-old sleeps inside </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Authorities say a thief in the Hollywood Hills stole a truck with a 5-year-old boy sleeping inside, but the boy was found safely soon after.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:11:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Calif. trucker sentenced in NJ marijuana bust </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A California truck driver has been sentenced to four years in state prison for transporting a large stash of marijuana to New Jersey.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:04:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Field Poll: Californians' support for Obama slides </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new Field Poll shows President Barack Obama continues to lose favor among Californians.]]></description>
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<title>Independent researchers say Calif. water limits justified</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Independent researchers said Friday that restrictions on water deliveries to California's farm belt meant to protect threatened fish can be scientifically justified, a finding sure to temporarily relieve the state's salmon industry and displease many farmers.]]></description>
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<title>Man shot by Long Beach cops loses lawsuit </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A man who claimed Long Beach police used excessive force when they shot him because they thought his cell phone was a gun has lost his lawsuit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:43:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Wildflower puts L.A. nature path in jeopardy </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A garden of nearly extinct wildflowers has sprouted in the Ballona Wetlands and may halt half-completed construction of a $400,000 nature walk project.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:40:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Family grieves boys who drowned</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The family of two small boys who drowned in a back yard pool can't understand how the children wound up in the water. Two adults were supposed to be caring for them, and the family is trying to find answers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:22:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Investigation starts on crash of WWII plane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The search has started for answers to what caused the plane crash that killed two veteran pilots. A federal investigator was on the scene Thursday morning where the World War II-era plane went down.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:26:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bikers eyed in police building booby traps </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Authorities are investigating whether a motorcycle gang rigged a Southern California police building with booby traps after becoming angry when police monitored the funeral of a member.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:35:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Head of Caltrans leaving agency for new job </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The head of the California Department of Transportation is leaving his post for a new job in Contra Costa County.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:30:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Prosecutor: Serial killer linked to more cases </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala may be linked to the unsolved cases of at least six people who disappeared or were killed, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Thursday.]]></description>
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<title>Fuller swaps allegiance to Whitman</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Meg Whitman's campaign for governor announced Thursday that it has the backing of local Assemblywoman Jean Fuller. "It's time for California Republicans to get behind Meg," Fuller said in a news release from Whitman's camp.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:06:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Kids help mother with baby delivery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Alana Sanders gave birth to her fourth child, the people on hand to towel off the baby and tie its umbilical cord weren't the usual team of doctors or nurses. They were her 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son.]]></description>
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<title>UAW OKs severance pact in Calif. plant shutdown </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The union that represents workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., known as Nummi, have voted in favor of a proposed severance package for the 4,600 workers about to lose their jobs when the plant closes, according to a United Auto Workers official.]]></description>
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<title>Caretaker accused of molesting disabled women </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors allege a Northern California man molested two women in his care at a center for the developmentally disabled.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:11:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jury deliberates wife-torture case in California </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jurors were deliberating Thursday in the attempted murder trial of a Hawthorne man charged with torturing his estranged wife to force her to sign divorce papers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:09:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Hooters in Bakersfield named in employee lawsuit</title>
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<title>Supreme Court asked to dump Kern's poop ban </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles and the sanitation districts of Orange County have petitioned the high court to rule on a 2006 ban approved by Kern County voters that would bar them from sending processed human waste there.]]></description>
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<title>Kidnapped girl: 'I screamed for my sisters'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Bakersfield girl had one of the scariest moments of her life Tuesday night. Samayia Clark, 10, had gone to Kern Medical Center to get some ice for her family when neighbor Cassandra Knox allegedly tried to kidnap her.]]></description>
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<title>Dozens arrested in crackdown on biker gang </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Authorities say they've arrested several dozen people in a statewide crackdown on an outlaw motorcycle club.]]></description>
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