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• Bay Area man accused of trying to join terrorist group

  17-12-2015 23:58
  
  A Bay Area man is facing federal charges after prosecutors say he tried to join a terrorist group active in Syria.
  
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• Police Investigate Officer-Involved Shooting In Modesto

  17-12-2015 23:43
  
  MODESTO (CBS13) – Authorities are investigating after an officer-involved shooting in Modesto.
  The scene is along the 800 block of 10th Street.
  Modesto Police say the suspect has been taken to the hospital. No officers were hurt in the incident.
  More information to come. Stick with CBS13 for updates.
  
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• Man Shot By Modesto Police Officers Dies At Hospital

  17-12-2015 23:43
  
  MODESTO (CBS13) – Detectives are investigating the shooting death of a man at the hand of officers in downtown Modesto.
  The shooting happened around 2:10 p.m. Thursday in the 800 block of 10th Street. Officers attempted to stop a man who was riding a bicycle; he reportedly ignored the request and rode into a parking garage, and as officers approached, allegedly pulled out a gun and wouldn’t put it down, according to a Modesto Police Department statement.
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• Butte County woman possibly killed by her own dogs

  17-12-2015 22:48
  
  A woman in Butte County was possibly killed while trying to keep her two dogs from fighting, sheriff's deputies said.
  
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• 6.6-magnitude earthquake rattles southern Mexico

  17-12-2015 22:02
  
  Southern Mexico has been rattled by a magnitude-6.6 quake.
  
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• Disney ups security, stop selling toy guns at parks

  17-12-2015 21:24
  
  With the nation increasingly concerned about safety in public, three major theme parks announced Thursday that they are adding security measures including metal detectors ahead of the busy holiday season.
  
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• Deputy Helps Deliver Baby In Patterson

  17-12-2015 21:22
  
  PATTERSON (CBS13) – It was an eventful morning for one deputy in Patterson.
  Patterson Police Services says Deputy Kyle Briggs was pulling into the back parking lot Thursday morning when a man and woman in a car flagged him down.
  Deputy Briggs soon found out the woman was in labor.
  An ambulance was called to the scene, but the baby apparently didn’t feel like waiting. By the time emergency crews showed up, Deputy Briggs had already helped deliver the baby boy.
  Deputy Briggs. (Credit:
  
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• Year In Review: Top 10 News Stories January 2015 On CBS Sacramento

  17-12-2015 20:54
  
  Balloons to heaven, a robbery victim's lips and a possible Ebola case were part of the Top 10 stories at CBSSacramento.com in January.
  
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• Facebook adding 'Photo Magic' to Messenger application

  17-12-2015 20:14
  
  Facebook is trying to make it easier to send photos as the holiday season's picture-taking frenzy escalates with the arrival of Christmas and New Year's Eve.
  
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• Police: Children found in storage locker killed around Thanksgiving

  17-12-2015 19:50
  
  Investigators believe two young children whose bodies were found Sunday in a Redding storage locker had been killed around Thanksgiving more than 300 miles away in Salinas, police said Thursday.
  
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• Candles or wiring sparked deadly South Sac house fire

  17-12-2015 19:29
  
  Sacramento Fire investigators released new details Thursday about a house fire that killed two young children.
  
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• Investigators Release Report On Fire That Killed 2 Sacramento Children

  17-12-2015 19:08
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Investigators have released their report on the fire that took the lives of two children.
  The fire started in the early morning hours of Dec. 1 at a home on Babette Way. Five people were able to make it out of the home, but two children in an upstairs bedroom could not escape.
  According to initial reports, fire crews were slowed in their rescue efforts due to a collapsed stairwell. Further, a ladder couldn’t reach the bedroom in time.
  More details have been relea
  
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• N.W.A. joins quartet of 1970s hit-makers in rock hall

  17-12-2015 18:04
  NEW YORK (AP) — The groundbreaking Los Angeles rap act N.W.A. will join a quartet of 1970s era FM radio rockers — Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Steve Miller — as 2016 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  N.W.A., led by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, was elected after three unsuccessful nominations in a year when a movie about the group’s career, “Straight Outta Compton,” was a box-office hit. Their hard-core tales of life on the street on songs like &
  
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• Arrest made in case of body found in North Sac field

  17-12-2015 18:02
  
  Sacramento County sheriff's deputies made an arrest in the case of a body found in a North Sacramento field.
  
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• Elk Grove Brothers Violently Robbed Of Their Hoverboards, Police Seek 3 Suspects

  17-12-2015 17:56
  
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) – Police are looking for the young men responsible for violently robbing two brothers of their hoverboards.
  Elk Grove police say the incident happened back on Dec. 3. The two brothers met up with some people near a park along the 6300 block of Castro Verde Way that day to sell the boards.
  However, once showing the boards to the three suspects, one of the brothers was hit in the head with a baseball bat. The suspects then snatched the hoverboards from the trunk of the brot
  
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• Garbage Truck Catches Fire In South Sacramento

  17-12-2015 17:15
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A garbage truck caught fire, blocking a south Sacramento street for some time Thursday morning.
  The scene was near 65th Street and Florin Road.
  Emergency crews were called to the scene just after 6 a.m. after a report of a vehicle on fire. At the scene, crews found that a garbage truck in flames.
  Engine 57, garbage truck fire, Florin & 65th Street early this morning. Fire contained to one vehicle, no injuries. pic.twitter.com/nQCCC4mMqB
  — SacFire PIO (@SacFir
  
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• Officer’s mistrial in Gray’s death a letdown for both sides

  17-12-2015 17:00
  A protester pauses at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and W. North Avenue in Baltimore, Md., on Friday night as a police officer looks on. (Freddie Allen/NNPA News Wire)
  BALTIMORE (AP) — As jurors deliberated the fate of one of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore braced for a possible repeat of the protests, destruction and dismay that engulfed the city in April, when Gray died of a broken neck in the back of a police van. But instead of a dramatic c
  
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• All lanes open on I-5 in Stockton after big rig crash

  17-12-2015 16:33
  
  All lanes of Interstate 5 in Stockton are back open after a big rig jackknifed during the Thursday morning commute, according to Caltrans.
  
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• 25 dogs killed in Central California house fire

  17-12-2015 16:29
  
  More than two dozen pet dogs died in a large house fire in Central California.
  
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• California To Start Producing Snoopy License Plates

  17-12-2015 15:48
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A smiling Snoopy will begin appearing on license plates across California next year, raising money for museums and related attractions.
  The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the state will begin making the plates now that it has received more than 7,500 prepaid orders from “Peanuts” comic strip fans and museum supporters.
  The plates initially cost $50 or $98 for personalized versions, with a lower price for renewing annually.
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• Stranded in Sierra: Call reaches CHP just in time for rescue

  17-12-2015 08:44
  
  Three friends stranded in the Sierra in the middle of a snow storm were rescued by the California Highway Patrol.
  
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• Court documents: Former U.S. Marshal stole pot from drug dealers

  17-12-2015 08:38
  
  A former deputy U.S. Marshal from Florida pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbing marijuana dealers at gunpoint in Yuba City.
  
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• Sister Of Children Feared Dead In Redding Storage Locker Questioned Their Safety

  17-12-2015 08:26
  
  REDDING (CBS13) — The older sibling of two children feared dead after a gruesome discovery in a Redding storage locker is speaking out.
  “What were you so angry at? What was your mentality? If you didn’t want the kids why didn’t you just give them to us? We were fighting for custody,” said Precious Aponte.She’s mourning 3-year-old Delylah and 6-year-old Shawn Tara. The children are officially listed as missing, but are believed to be the two children who were f
  
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• Rocklin Police Warn Residents That Car Thieves Are Watching For Warming Up Vehicles

  17-12-2015 08:09
  
  ROCKLIN (CBS13) — A number of car thefts in Rocklin are raising concerns in the city, and police are warning residents to be vigilant.
  In just the last two weeks, Rocklin families are getting hit by thieves taking advantage of cooler temperatures.
  “I came out here and by that time it had already squealed and left,” said Kathy French. “Came out here there was nothing here.”
  Just before 6 a.m. on Wednesday, she turned on her car to warm it up and ran inside to grab he
  
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• Wookiee Wanted: Sacramento Police Searching For Man Dressed As Chewbacca

  17-12-2015 07:27
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Police are on the lookout for a wookiee on the loose.
  Officers got a call that a man dressed as Chewbacca was related to a family disturbance in the 1500 block of Ortega Street.
  It’s unknown where the man posing as one of Kashyyyk’s most famous sons is, or if he is just early for the Thursday premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
  Wookieepedia describes wookiees as “tall, hairy humanoids that were native to t
  
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• Hit-and-run victim's family: How could somebody keep on driving?

  17-12-2015 06:34
  
  A man was found dead on the side of the road early Monday morning after a likely hit-and-run crash in Sacramento County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
  
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• Woman dies after being hit by vehicle in West Sacramento

  17-12-2015 04:52
  
  A woman died after being hit by vehicle Wednesday night at a West Sacramento intersection, police said.
  
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• Battle on sugar: Davis moves closer to soda tax

  17-12-2015 04:25
  
  The city of Davis is now one step closer to a new tax on sugary drinks, following a council vote Tuesday night, as the battle lines are shaping up in a fight over sugar that is anything but sweet.
  
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• Police: Autopsy Shows Children Found In Redding Storage Unit Died Outside Of Shasta County

  17-12-2015 03:44
  
  REDDING (CBS13) — An autopsy revealed two children who were found dead inside a Redding storage unit died outside of Shasta County, the Redding Police Department said on Wednesday.
  Tami Huntsman, 39, and Gonzalo Curiel, 17, have been arrested and charged with felony child abuse in a case involving a 9-year-old girl. They are being held on $1 million bail each.
  A 6-year-old and 3-year-old in their custody have been reported as missing, but are believed to be the children who were found in t
  
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• Bay Area man accused of choking woman on flight

  17-12-2015 03:42
  
  A Bay Area man who allegedly choked and punched a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight has been charged with assault on an aircraft causing serious injury.
  
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• Santa’s Military Elf In Need Of Donations To Help Children Of Troops

  17-12-2015 03:37
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Santa’s military elf is once again trying to collect toys for the children of families in the military.
  “We’ve gone rain, wind, cold, hot, it’s been everything, this has been as cold as I’ve ever had it,” said Rodney Stanhope.
  He’s been braving the freezing temperatures.
  “We keep doing it, ’cause it was a one-time thing we did in 2003, and I keep doing it over and over again every year.”
  Rodney created Toys Fo
  
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• Stockton Police Bring New Officer On Force As It Investigates City’s 46th Homicide Of 2015

  17-12-2015 03:24
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — Stockton Police began to investigate a new homicide on Wednesday as a new class of police recruits began training and a new officer joined the force.
  Stockton Police officers say their recruitment program is robust, but the problem is getting them to stay in Stockton after they’re sworn in as officers.
  Manteca native and San Joaquin Delta College student Jesika Villegas says she wanted to work for the department, since it recently hired several officers from her cl
  
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• Autopsy: Children found in storage unit killed outside of Shasta Co.

  17-12-2015 01:52
  
  An autopsy on the two children found inside of a Redding storage unit shows they were killed outside of Shasta County, the Redding Police Department said Wednesday.
  
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• Official: Social workers had visited home of Redding child abuse suspect

  17-12-2015 01:49
  
  A woman under investigation for the deaths of two children and arrested in connection to the abuse of a third child was visited by child welfare workers four times in a year amid allegations of child neglect, officials said Wednesday.
  
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• California Lawmakers Question Whether Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Is Gambling

  17-12-2015 01:01
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California lawmakers are examining the booming fantasy sports betting industry and how it might be regulated.
  Assemblyman Adam Gray is leading a hearing on Wednesday examining the growing industry. He has proposed legislation to require league operators such as DraftKings and FanDuel to be licensed by the state Department of Justice.
  RELATED: Daily Fantasy Sports Sites Weigh Leaving U.S. Market As Controversy Swirls Across States
  Griffin Finan, an attorney for Dra
  
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• Top 2015 Google Searches: Lamar Odom, ‘Jurassic World’ And ‘American Sniper’

  17-12-2015 00:57
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Lamar Odom’s bizarre downfall from a former Los Angeles Lakers star to a lost soul in a Nevada brothel had the world searching Google for answers more than any other topic this year.
  A four-day binge in October that culminated in Odom being found unconscious in the Nevada “Love Ranch” placed him atop Google’s list of hottest searches during 2015. The annual breakdown released Wednesday ranks the inquiries that triggered the biggest spikes in tra
  
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• Elk Grove Police Chief A Finalist For Corpus Christi Job

  17-12-2015 00:42
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – Six finalists have been named to lead the Corpus Christi Police Department and replace Chief Floyd Simpson who died in a May motorcycle wreck.
  Corpus Christi city officials Tuesday announced the candidates include interim Chief Mike Markle.
  The list includes one law enforcement officer from California. Robert Lehner is chief of the Elk Grove Police Department. In 2014, Lehner was in the running for the top cop job in Seattle
  The other four finalists are with Te
  
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