News about Bob Smith

The once-flowing Kern River in Bakersfield - located 100 miles northeast of Santa Barbara - has run dry after the city's water allotment was used up in August. 'This place had actually started to become beautiful again, and now it's turning into the desert. It's horrible,' one resident said.

Aaron Pelletier, Trooper First Class, was killed last week while conducting a traffic stop on a state highway. A car hit Pelletier, his squad car, and the car he'd pulled over. The officer died from his injuries at the scene. Thousands of people have subsequently paid tribute to the 34-year-old father of two young boys, but Democrats on the Wethersfield town council voted on Monday not to fly the Thin Blue Line flag in his honor, which had been suggested by councilmember Rich Bailey.