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DIED. ROBERT GRIMM, 54, vegetable king who helped popularize baby carrots; of a heart attack; in Bakersfield, Calif. Grimmway Farms marketed the 2-in. carrot--a full-size root that has been peeled and polished--as a healthy, easy snack. Carrot sales soared 33% in the 1990s, fueling Grimmway's growth into a $350 million company...
...Bakersfield P.D. (FOX) The little series that couldn't. This loopy comedy about a provincial police department provided more laughs than any other new show this season, yet its ratings have not budged beyond the Nielsen basement. After sticking with the show longer than expected, Fox is finally pulling it off the air. And so goes the saddest story...
COUNTRY EATS Nashville superstar Dwight Yoakam is expanding his popular Bakersfield Biscuits line to include shrimp, dips and some new twists on your basic chicken strip, left...
...longer be a joke. The killer bees, imported from Africa to Brazil for research, escaped in 1957, and their offspring began advancing slowly northward. Last week a killer colony was confirmed for the first time on American soil, in an oil field some 60 miles from Bakersfield, Calif. The bees are believed to have hitched a ride north on drilling equipment shipped from Latin America. The killers are no more venomous than domestic bees, but they are easily provoked and attack in great numbers. They were first reported in California by an oil-field worker who watched aghast...
...told him, "When they were passing out moderation, you were hiding behind the door." The son of a plumber, Thomas grew up in Orange County, Calif. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from San Francisco State University and then taught the subject at a Bakersfield, Calif., community college. In 1978 he won a congressional seat from Bakersfield and, on arriving in Washington, roomed with another college professor who had decided to enter politics, Newt Gingrich. Like Gingrich, he ached to be a House leader. After Republicans gained control of the House in 1994, Thomas took...