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DELANO, Calif. (KABC) -- A Kern County man is in custody after he was allegedly caught on video throwing a Molotov cocktail at some parked cars. Delano police say the video helped them find the suspected arsonist they believe is responsible for setting multiple fires in the downtown Delano area last month. In the most recent incident, on the afternoon of April 26 video captured a man on a bicycle lighting and throwing an incendiary device at two parked cars, setting a fire in the outdoor parking lot. Firefighters put out the flames and police were able to obtain video...

Two girls attending a birthday pool party in California were fatally shot and three others were wounded, according to reports.

A California couple died in a car crash Tuesday after fleeing from immigration officials, police said. Santo Garcia, 35, and Marcelina Profecto, 33, died at the scene in rural Kern County after their speeding SUV crashed into a power pole and overturned , Delano police said. Police determined the couple was fleeing from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, who tried to stop their vehicle. The driver pulled over, but then began speeding after the agents flashed their emergency lights and got out of their vehicle, police said. The couple, who has six children, was out looking for work when they...

'Factor' producer surveying the folks about presidential politics and leadership. Most of them have a hard time even identifying past U.S. presidents, let alone remembering their policies and accomplishments.

On 3/27/08, the Delano Police Department Gang Unit received information that a California Criminal Street Gang is going to be holding gang initiations in the Cities of Delano and McFarland. Prospective members are to collide their vehicles into random vehicles from behind. As the driver of the victim vehicle exits, the prospective members will open fire. This information has not been substantiated nor do we know if it is credible. As always, the Delano Police Department is concerened with the safety of all Delano residents and therefore, we are strongly suggesting that everyone use extreme caution if they are involved...

As amazing as it might seem in the midst of the current Social Security debate, the first reforms to our national retirement program were actually initiated by its founder, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, less than three years after he signed it into law, and, oddly, before it paid out any benefits. In fact, an April 28, 1938 letter from FDR to then Social Security Board Chairman Arthur Altmeyer suggests that Roosevelt’s original proposal in 1935 was largely what marketing and sales organizations today would refer to as a “bait and switch”: “I am very anxious that in the press of administrative...

Forensics tests are being done to determine the identity of a dead woman found early this afternoon. Her body was found at around 1:30 Friday afternoon in an orchard off of Bradford and Hart Raods about 5 miles east of Delano. Delano Police are investigating, along with the Sheriff's Department to determine if the body may be that of a missing 21 year old Delano woman. Maggie Bermudez has been missing since Monday.

THE UN IS COMMUNIST By: Alan Stang For weeks, we have been looking at the major American wars of the Twentieth Century, in order to provide a context of understanding for the present war on Iraq. We have seen that, in behalf of their perennial goal of world government, our own leaders tricked us into both world wars by arranging for the murders of thousands of our own people. The next war we need to look at is the war in Korea, and to understand the war in Korea we need to look first at the United Nations. The war...