http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local RSS Feed for KBAK - News - Local & Regional en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:52:43 GMT http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69432487.html A class action lawsuit has been filed against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over its SmartMeter program. Many customers claim that the SmartMeters don't work properly and are responsible for their sky-high energy bills. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69433757.html 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. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69417952.html 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." http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69417717.html A San Diego County man has been sentenced to consecutive life prison terms for strangling his infant son and the baby's mother because she pressured him to take a paternity test. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69417217.html A man and woman are accused of murdering their baby daughter in a Southern California trailer park, then putting her in a trash bag and driving her body around the country. Jason Hann was also convicted of killing the couple's other child in 1999. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69412222.html Two 16-year-old boys have been charged as adults for the death of a 16-year-old girl who was shot after a homecoming football game in Long Beach. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69410647.html A man was arrested early Friday on suspicion of killing his son. Robert Lee Beard, 63, reportedly told officers from the California City Police Department that he shot his son, 36-year-old Terry Lee Dillon, during an argument. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69407842.html An 87-year-old man has been found at a restaurant in Oregon after Bakersfield police reported him missing. Osborne "Ozzy" Louis Johnson boarded a Greyhound bus in Bakersfield on Wednesday and headed to Salem, Ore. He had stopped in Bakersfield to visit his sister. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69398752.html A prominent Kern County official died Thursday, making him the county's 11th death related to the H1N1 virus. Darrel Hildebrand, 56, was the longtime assistant director of the Kern Council of Governments and one of the county's top planning officials. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/69395462.html Homeowners in a little community near Lamont are reeling after getting a $1,000 fee with their water bill. The small Athal Mutual Water Co. wants residents to chip in, and help replace one of the system's two wells.