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• Brown to propose ballot measure on criminal sentences

  27-01-2016 22:38
  
  Gov. Jerry Brown is announcing a ballot initiative Wednesday that would change how long felons serve in prison and how many juveniles are tried as adults, according to people familiar with his plans.
  
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• Governor Brown To Propose Ballot Measure Limiting Length Of Criminal Sentences

  27-01-2016 22:21
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Jerry Brown is announcing a ballot initiative Wednesday that would change how long felons serve in prison and how many juveniles are tried as adults, according to people familiar with his plans.
  Brown scheduled an announcement Wednesday afternoon with law enforcement and faith leaders to make what his office termed a major announcement on public safety reform.
  It would give prison officials broad authority to grant sentence credits for inmates who complete re
  
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• Pair accused of killing 2 children plead not guilty

  27-01-2016 20:46
  
  A Northern California couple has pleaded not guilty to killing two young children, whose bodies were found in a Redding storage unit, and abusing a third in the woman's care.
  
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• Kickoff for local Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program

  27-01-2016 19:49
  DEL PASO HEIGHTS – Sacramento-area dignitaries will be on hand at Grant Union High School on Saturday, January 30 to celebrate the kickoff of the local Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program that provides free tax help for qualifying residents. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the school’s auditorium, 1400 Grand Avenue, speakers will address the important savings to the local community, as well as the first ever state Earned Income Tax Credit.
  Speakers include Stephanie Bray, Presi
  
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• 2 men break into Stockton home with children inside

  27-01-2016 19:29
  
  Two men were arrested after breaking into a Stockton home with two children inside and then led police on a short chase before they were captured, officers said Wednesday.
  
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• Toyota Wins Big at 1st Annual Diversity Volume Leadership Awards

  27-01-2016 19:28
  Alva Adams-Mason, the director of African American Business Strategy and Corporate Communications of Toyota North America (center) accepts a Diversity Volume Leadership Award for the Toyota team from Marc Bland, the vice president of diversity and inclusion for IHS Automotive (left) and Damon Lester, the president of NAMAD at the Diversity Volume Leadership Awards in Detroit, Mich. (Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA News Wire Service)
  (NNPA) – Toyota demonstrated their commitment to reach minority co
  
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• ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Microcosm, Macro-Aggression & the Offended Generation

  27-01-2016 19:24
  Armstrong Williams says that the belief in an engineered “equality” to the exclusion of freedom of thought and speech leads inevitably down the road towards fascism.
  OPINION (NNPA) – Scores of dead White men glared back at them from the walls of the college dorm. The thought that some of these esteemed alumni could have actually owned their ancestors have apparently haunted the dreams of some of the privileged, elite students at Yale so much that they took to the yard in p
  
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• ROGER CALDWELL: U.S. Black Chamber Expands its Reach, Influence, and Voice in 2015

  27-01-2016 19:20
  Roger Caldwell called USBC CEO Ron Busby who believes that Black people can be successful in business.
  OPINION (NNPA) – Black business is growing and the Black community is not aware of its influence nationally and globally. Group economics and Black business is not discussed very often together in the Black community and this is the reason the Black community is suffering. According to 2015 Urban Institute report, Whites have 12 times the wealth of Blacks, but that does not mean that ther
  
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• Gaps in Teacher Effectiveness Hurt Young, Minority Students

  27-01-2016 19:15
  According to the CAP report 70 percent of Black children are enrolled in such prekindergarten or childcare centers that receive food subsidies compared to 28 percent of White children. (Stock Photo)
  WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Minority and low-income students are less likely to have consistent access to effective teachers between preschool and the third grade than students from high-income households, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington, D.C-based
  
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• 8-Year-Old Stockton Girl Helps Domestic Assault Victim Escape

  27-01-2016 18:33
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – A man is facing attempted homicide charges after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend in Stockton.
  The incident happened at a home along the 8000 block of Mariners Drive. Stockton Police say they showed up at the scene just before 10 p.m. and found an injured 54-year-old woman.
  Police say the woman had red marks on her neck, a cut on her forearm and was also missing a tooth.
  Detectives believe her boyfriend, 49-year-old Sammie Flonnery, had held a knife to her throat dur
  
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• Sacramento city officials consider water rate increase

  27-01-2016 18:31
  
  A public hearing scheduled Wednesday will allow Sacramento residents to hear plans to raise utility rates across the city.
  
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• Stockton girl, 8, stops dad during attack on girlfriend

  27-01-2016 18:03
  
  An 8-year-old girl is credited with stopping her father during an attack on his girlfriend at her home in Stockton, police said.
  
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• Police: Man, 53, Shot And Killed In Stockton During Robbery

  27-01-2016 17:59
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Police say a man was shot and killed during a robbery in Stockton.
  The incident happened just before 6 p.m. Tuesday along the 300 block of E. Sonora Street. Stockton Police say officers showed up at the scene and found that a 53-year-old man had been shot.
  Medics soon pronounced the man dead.
  Police found that another victim at the scene had been pistol whipped.
  Detectives believe three to four suspects were involved in the incident. Few details about the suspects have b
  
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• Mink Makes Its Home At Natomas Basin Nature Preserve

  27-01-2016 16:11
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Who knew that the Natomas area was to incredibly cute wild animals?
  The Natomas Basin Conservancy says one of their field workers spotted a mink the other day – and managed to capture the creature on film.
  Apparently, the mink has set up shop in one of the nature preserves in the area.
  “Yes, there are many other species as well. But can you top this for the blue-ribbon ‘cute’ prize?” the Conservancy wrote in a post on their website.
  Accord
  
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• Bikram yoga founder ordered to pay $7M for sex harassment

  27-01-2016 15:37
  
  A man who made an empire out of his high-heat brand of yoga has been ordered to pay well over $7 million to a former legal adviser who said he sexually harassed her.
  
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• New dam at Folsom Lake faces big test

  27-01-2016 15:27
  
  The $900 million project designed to make the Sacramento area safer from flooding faced a major test Tuesday when engineers began filling water behind the new dam at Folsom Lake.
  
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• California Lawmakers To Scrutinize High-Speed Rail Plan

  27-01-2016 15:25
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A legislative committee is looking for answers on the status of California’s $68 billion high-speed rail project.
  The rail project’s CEO, the chairman of its board and the leader of an oversight commission are expected to testify to a panel of Assembly lawmakers on Wednesday.
  Construction of the bullet train has been beset by delays in acquiring needed land in the Central Valley. Lawmakers also question whether its cost projections are still accurate.
  
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• 2 men wanted for installing ATM skimmer at Manteca bank

  27-01-2016 09:26
  
  Manteca police are asking for the community's help to find two men suspected of installing a skimming device in a bank's drive-thru ATM.
  
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• Debate grows over banning fantasy sports gambling sites

  27-01-2016 08:58
  
  The debate over online fantasy sports gambling is growing in California, and supporters are taking aim at a California lawmaker who wants voters to decide on banning the websites.
  
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• Sacramento Police: Randomly firing guns should be a crime

  27-01-2016 08:57
  
  Sacramento police want to silence the sound of random gunfire in neighborhoods by making it a crime.
  
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• Neighborhood Blames Bridge For Increase In Crime, Deadly Stabbing

  27-01-2016 08:35
  
  By Abbott Dutton
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) — Residents blame an increase in crime and the death of one of their neighbors on a pedestrian bridge they say is bringing criminals right to their doorsteps.
  The entrance to the pedestrian bridge in the old Foothill Farms area of Sacramento County is actually tucked between two houses. The neighbors call it the catwalk and say it’s out of date and needs to go.
  Flowers still hang from the entrance to the pedestrian bridge where 41-year-old C
  
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• Caltrans Considers Mileage Tax To Help Pay For Needed Highway Repairs

  27-01-2016 08:28
  
  By Kelly Ryan
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Caltrans is studying a different way to tax drivers to help pay for much-needed repairs on state highways.
  The plan calls for taxing Californians based on the miles they drive to help make up for a $5.7 billion shortfall as drivers go farther on a tank of gas in more fuel-efficient cars.
  We’re looking at options right now one one side of it is do you charge a set rate per mile traveled or do you do do you do it based on weight and miles traveled,&rd
  
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• Auburn Mayor Defends Helping VA Patient Smoke Marijuana To Help With Chemotherapy

  27-01-2016 08:21
  
  AUBURN (CBS13) — The mayor of Auburn says he helped a patient smoke marijuana inside a Northern California Veterans Affairs hospital.
  Dr. William Kirby is a practicing urologist, and he revealed during a discussion on medical marijuana at the City Council meeting he sent someone to find marijuana on the streets for a patient.
  The mayor is defending his decision, saying he made it not as a politician, but as a doctor.
  “I treated a patient appropriately, and he survived. There’s
  
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• California Wine Industry Excited Storms Are Putting Dent In Drought

  27-01-2016 08:04
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — California vintners are still feeling the effects of California’s drought as thousands of vendors met at the Sacramento Convention Center.
  Ken Freeze of the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium says about 14,000 of the top wine and grape industry professionals are at the center, selling and checking out the latest and greatest technologies and equipment in the industry.
  “The exhibitors are trying to sell to the winemakers, the grape growers, everybody that&rsqu
  
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• Billboards call for 'Justice for JJ,' leads in homicide case

  27-01-2016 07:13
  
  After more than two months without answers, the family of a murdered Sacramento high school student is trying a new strategy to catch his killer.
  
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• Elderly Rocklin man found safe

  27-01-2016 06:42
  
  An elderly Rocklin man was found safe after he was missing for nearly four hours, police said.
  
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• District Attorney Rips Prosecutor Who Called Escaped California Inmate ‘Hannibal Lecter’

  27-01-2016 05:38
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – Orange County’s district attorney on Tuesday rebuked one of the prosecutors in his office for referring to one of three escaped Southern California inmates as “Hannibal Lecter.”
  Deputy District Attorney Heather Brown made the remarks to the Orange County Register, comparing escaped inmate Hossein Nayeri to the famed cannibal villain from “Silence of the Lambs” and other movies, books and TV shows.
  “My first reaction was: Oh, my G
  
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• Stockton police investigate fatal shooting

  27-01-2016 05:33
  
  A man was shot and killed Tuesday night, Stockton police said.
  
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• New Folsom dam faces big test

  27-01-2016 05:28
  
  The $900 million project designed to make the Sacramento area safer from flooding faced a major test Tuesday when engineers began filling water behind the new dam at Folsom Lake.
  
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• Sac airport reports increase in passengers, flight options

  27-01-2016 05:18
  
  The Sacramento International Airport is starting to see real signs of an improving economy eight years after the country spun into a recession and many Americans reduced - or all together stopped - flying.
  
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• Man accused of pimping, prostitution in Lake Tahoe area

  27-01-2016 04:29
  
  A man was arrested in connection to a prostitution and sex trafficking ring in the Lake Tahoe basin, the South Lake El Dorado Narcotics Enforcement Team (SLEDNET) said Tuesday.
  
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• Stockton Airport Aims To Go International, Attract Los Angeles Flight Traffic

  27-01-2016 04:17
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — The Stockton Metropolitan Airport is seeing more flights and has big plans to expand after a nearly $10 million bond from the county.
  Starting in April, flights will be offered between Stockton and San Diego. The airport is also expecting private planes coming in for Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7.
  San Joaquin County has set its sights high for the airport, granting it a $9.7 million bond.
  The main project is building a federal inspection station for customs, allowing the airpo
  
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• Man Accused Of Stealing Car From Driveway Shot By Elk Grove Police

  27-01-2016 04:02
  
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) — A suspect in a car theft was shot by police on Tuesday.
  Police say the suspect had taken a car that was warming up in an Elk Grove driveway at around 7 a.m. The owner of the car saw the suspect and gave chase in another car. He backed off when an Elk Grove police officer cornered the suspect on a dead-end street in south Sacramento County.
  Witness RJ Swafford heard the sound that cracked through the morning fog—no screeching, no crash, just the officer’s gun
  
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• Man, teen arrested in connection to fatal Lodi shooting

  27-01-2016 02:21
  
  A Sacramento man and a Lodi teen were arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in Lodi, police said Tuesday.
  
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• 2 Arrested In Early-Morning Lodi Homicide

  27-01-2016 02:07
  
  LODI (CBS13) — Two suspects have been arrested in a shooting that left one man dead in his truck on Monday morning.
  Stockton Police pulled over a vehicle, and one of the occupants fled the vehicle. After the arrests, Lodi detectives arrested Edgar Corrales, 20, of Sacramento and a 16-year-old boy from Lodi on murder with gang enhancements.
  Police found a firearm in the vehicle, as well as a firearm discarded by one of the occupants.
  Both suspects have been identified as
  
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• NBA: Referees Missed Traveling Call On Game-Winning Shot In Sacramento Kings Loss

  27-01-2016 01:24
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The NBA has acknowledged that referees erred in not calling traveling on a Charlotte Hornets player on a game-winning shot against the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday.
  Troy Daniels hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 11.5 seconds remaining to give the Hornets a 129-128 lead in the second overtime.
  According to the league’s report on all calls made during the last two minutes of a game and overtimes, officials missed a traveling call on Daniels. The report st
  
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• California Senate Bills Target Transparency Of Public Utilities Commission

  27-01-2016 01:09
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The state Senate has approved two bills aimed at reigning in the California Public Utilities Commission following allegations that the powerful agency is too cozy with the utilities it regulates.
  The Senate’s unanimous approval on Tuesday follows Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of similar legislation in October.
  Democratic senators who wrote the bills say they’re negotiating with Brown’s office in hopes of finding a compromise.
  The bills would requ
  
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• Indictment: Anti-Abortion Activists Used Fake Driver’s Licenses In Fraud Scheme

  27-01-2016 01:06
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos about Planned Parenthood are accused of using fake driver’s licenses to infiltrate the group, indictments made public Tuesday show.
  David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt allegedly used California driver’s licenses they knew were false “with the intent to defraud and harm another,” the documents indicate.
  The videos that surfaced last year accused Planned Parenthood of illegally selling fetal tis
  
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• After Setting iPhone Record, Apple Warns Investors Sales Drop Could Be Coming

  27-01-2016 01:03
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Apple is bracing for its first sales decline in 13 years, despite selling a record 74.8 million iPhones in the final three months of 2015.
  The giant tech company says revenue could fall at least 8.6 percent during the January-March quarter, compared with a year earlier. Analysts say the latest iPhone models are selling reasonably well, but they’re not providing the boost Apple needs to match the massive sales growth it enjoyed last year.
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