17 News @ Noon 01/05/2023

Top stories: A male subject was found in a field with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after firing at passing vehicles on Stockdale Highway on Thursday, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office.Eight weeks after Election Day and the highly contested race of the 16th State Senate District is taking another turn. The Incumbent, Melissa Hurtado, is requesting a recount of Kern ballots.A man who has served more than 40 years in prison for a Bakersfield gas station robbery in which someone was fatally shot could soon be free after a judge on Thursday granted a petition filed under changes to the state’s felony-murder rule.