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Rebekah Kearn
Rebekah Kearn is the Bakersfield-based editor of the Central Valley and Central Coast nightly reports for California. She also covers several courts within both regions, including Kern, Fresno, and Ventura counties, as well as USDC Fresno.
Latest Articles by Rebekah Kearn
It’s all fun and games at Bakersfield Collector-Con
This Bakersfield convention may not be as famous as the nearby San Diego Comic-Con, but it nonetheless draws a dedicated contingent of fans, cosplayers and artists.
A frightful visit to Bakersfield’s most ghoulish museum
Haunted dolls and voodoo hands — but how much of it is real? To quote the late sideshow manager Ward Hall: “Some of it is real real. Some of it is real fake. But it’s all real interesting.”
Back in plaid at the Kern County Scottish Games and Gathering
Alba gu bràth!, or “Scotland forever!”, as contestants at Kern County’s Scottish Highland Games are known to cheer.
Close encounters of the Kern County kind
In 1957, a future astronaut claimed to see a UFO land in a dry lakebed in sparsely populated Kern County, California. Was it an alien or just a secret government project?
Stay out, stay alive: A story of Kern County's killer river
"Well it's not deep nor wide, but it's a mean piece of water, my friend." — Merle Haggard, "Kern River."
On his 86th birthday, we salute the Hag
When country music legend Merle Haggard died on his 79th birthday on April 6, 2016, he left behind chart-topping singles like "Okie from Muskogee" and the hugely influential Bakersfield Sound.
The haunting tale of Bakersfield's Padre Hotel
The seventh floor, scene of a fire that killed a family with small children, is a hotbed of paranormal activity according to hotel staff.
