{"id":273252,"date":"2026-04-17T22:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273252\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:21:34","slug":"man-found-dead-near-avenue-56-and-highway-99-in-earlimart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273252\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead near Avenue 56 and Highway 99 in Earlimart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An investigation is underway in Earlimart after a man was found dead Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Tulare County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at around 7:30 p.m., deputies were called to the area of Avenue 56 and Highway 99 in Earlimart for a \u201cman down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, they found a body of a man.<\/p>\n<p>TCSO said his cause of death has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Tulare County Sheriff\u2019s Office at (559)733-7218.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An investigation is underway in Earlimart after a man was found dead Thursday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-273252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}