One local family is breathing a collective sigh of relief after their loved one was spared in Thursday's tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas. Sgt. Christopher Collins, a 2006 Bakersfield High School graduate, was just one building over from where a gunman killed 13 people.
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Shell Oil Co. has been ordered to pay $19.5 million to the state for environmental violations at gas stations around California. The findings come after the Attorney General's Office launched an investigation in 2006 of 1,000 gas stations that found "numerous violations."
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