Latest Kern County, California and US and world news from 23ABC in Bakersfield, Calif. Samson Nacua accidentally took ...

When a struggling teen mother is cast out by her own parents, she clings to hope while secretly raising her baby in a motel ...

A grassroots Chicago group is calling for a forensic audit of the city’s entire public school system after a scathing report ...

Two weeks before Ruby Franke pleaded guilty to four counts of child abuse in December 2023, she shared her shifted ...

A large portion of CPS' annual Inspector General report was devoted to what they call "pervasive" allegations of sexual ...

Representative Susan Witten has filed House Bill 246, known as “Kyan’s Law,” with six co-sponsors during the 2026 legislative ...

Research from the University of Chicago finds Chicago Public Schools students are more likely to go to class when they have ...

South Side resident Linda Brown was supposed to go to an acupuncture appointment on the North Side, but never made it.

FORMER West Wing star Timothy Busfield’s child sex abuse case has been building for over a year. The two kids at the center ...

Horrendous abuses of children occur. Relatives and mandated reporters, such as teachers, complain they tried unsuccessfully to report abuses to Kern County officials. Child Protective Services is ...

The stabbing stemmed from a family dispute in which Mustafa believed his brother-in-law was responsible for his children ...