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Bakersfield hosts students from sister city, Wakayama, Japan

Posted: Aug 9, 2019 / 06:47 PM PDT / Updated: Aug 9, 2019 / 06:47 PM PDT

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Arvin High School football players work double duty on and off the field

by Omar Pérez / Aug 16, 2019

ARVIN, Calif. (KGET) -- For many high school students the summertime is a much-needed break from school and the many pressures a teenager encounters daily. But for the players on the Arvin High School football team there is no summer “break.”

Arvin has 16 players on its varsity football team who spend part of their summer working in the agricultural fields while tackling a three-hour football practice afterwards.

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League of Dreams receives $10,000 donation

You can say Bakersfield West Rotary hit one out of the park in making a $10,000 donation to non-profit League of Dreams.

League of Dreams was founded to give children with special needs a chance to pariticpate in organized sports.

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Hearings continue in efforts to seize guns of activist David Abbasi

by Eytan Wallace / Aug 16, 2019

BAKERSFIELD, Calif (KGET) — Activist David Abbasi and attorneys representing the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office appeared before a judge Friday, as BPD and KCSO continue their efforts to seize Abbasi’s firearms.

Lawyers representing BPD and KCSO, including attorney H.A. Sala, have filed gun violence restraining orders against Abbasi in hopes of convincing a judge that Abbasi’s five guns should be taken away for at least one year because Abbasi’s behavior characterizes that of a mass shooter.

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