Top stories:
- Kern County Animal Services seized 18 dogs from a trash-filled home in Taft this month, according to a search warrant. Officers also found three dead dogs and two cats.
- A Wasco Union Elementary School District employee was arrested Monday on suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old girl in May, according to sheriff’s officials.
- By mid-February, injured oil well worker Leonardo Andrade is expected to be released from a rehabilitation center.
