Genesis Mata was set to start second grade at Pauly Elementary next week. She loved to dance, her grandmother said at a vigil ...

An 8-year-old girl was found dead in a locked bathroom at the La Quinta Hotel on Riverside Drive over the weekend, according ...

Police have arrested two people after finding an 8-year-old girl with “substantial trauma” dead and abandoned in a bathtub at ...

A Bakersfield man and a Delano woman were arrested Saturday on suspicion of torturing and murdering an 8-year-old girl and leaving her body in a hotel bathtub. Police Department reported receiving a ...

Although Bakersfield police said they had no prior reports of abuse involving Genesis, some family members alleged that ...

A death investigation is underway after a child's body was discovered inside the La Quinta Inn in central Bakersfield.

This is an ongoing investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact BPD at (661) 327-7111. Suspect arrested for DUI after fatal crash on Fairfax Road in east Bakersfield ...