17 News @ Sunrise 08/29/2024

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17 News @ Sunrise 08/29/2024

Aug 29, 2024 · 26m 19s

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Some of today's top stories - This morning... an exclusive update on former Kern County supervisor Zack Scrivner. It has been 128 days since shocking allegations were made that he...

Some of today's top stories

This morning... an exclusive update on former Kern County supervisor Zack Scrivner.
It has been 128 days since shocking allegations were made that he sexually assaulted a child.
He hasn't been charged -- but has remained quiet and his whereabouts have largely been unknown.
We now know he's in town....he looks healthy....and he's back out in public.
But, as 17's Jenny Huh reports, he doesn't want to talk about the allegations against him or the health reasons that prompted him to resign from office.
This is still an ongoing investigation...
But we've compiled all this information on our website, KGET dot com.
Just scan the Q-R code on your screen for complete coverage of developments in the case, including the full press conference at the KCSO headquarters.
A Shafter Police officer who passed away yesterday morning at his Oildale home, is being remembered as a hero.
Sergeant Moises {Moses} Martinez was known as a man who served his department and community with "honor and distinction."
17's Mikhala Armstrong has more.
We are saddened to report the passing of former Bakersfield news anchor and weatherman The weatherman-turned-newsman died Tuesday at his home in Morro Bay at the age of 76 after a battle with cancer. Rusty Shoop. Shoop started his TV career in his hometown of Eureka in the late 1970s and moved to Bakersfield in 1984 to work for KERO.
Over the course of his career here, Shoop worked for all three Bakersfield stations that had daily newscasts, including the first morning show in the area, right here at KGET, from 1991 through the end of that decade.
In 2007, he suffered a brain aneurysm, put his television career on hold and finished his novel in progress, Blood Harvest, about a fictitious murder-solving news anchorman.
He and wife Diane eventually moved to the Central Coast, where he refined his guitar playing.
Rusty Shoop leaves behind his wife Diane, three daughters, one son, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be a private family affair.
Rest in Peace Rusty...you will be missed.
17 News is your local election headquarters...
With less than 70 days until Election Day, both the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance campaigns are on the road in full-force.
The Democratic ticket will have their first sit-down interview TONIGHT where they're expected to lay out their plan to voters.
Meantime, Republican Nominee former President Donald Trump will be in battlegrounds Michigan and Wisconsin.
NBC's Alice Barr is in washington this morning with the latest.