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• Attention! Burlingame has first town crier in 100 years

  20-02-2016 23:52
  
  The Northern California city of Burlingame hadn't had a town crier in more than a century but that changed this year after actor and property manager Richard Aptekar volunteered for the job.
  
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• Protests planned across US to back Apple in battle with FBI

  20-02-2016 23:01
  
  Protesters are preparing to assemble in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass murders in California.
  
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• Roseville community gifts homeless couple a wedding

  20-02-2016 17:07
  
  A Roseville church volunteer worked with area businesses to throw a homeless couple a beautiful wedding.
  
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• Roseville community gifts newly-wed couple a wedding

  20-02-2016 12:57
  
  A Roseville church volunteer worked with area businesses to throw a homeless couple a beautiful wedding.
  
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• Getting Answers Road Tour: Old Town Auburn

  20-02-2016 09:36
  
  The Post Office
  A beloved building in a local historic old town may be going away.
  There are few things older in Old Town Auburn than its post office right smack on the corner through the main drag along Lincoln Way
  It was built in 1855 after “the great fire” tore through town. It’s still the place locals get their mail.
  And tourists drop-in to buy stamps, mail letters, or just look around.
  But this slice of history could be going away. More than a few people want to know: what
  
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• Report: Number Of Hate Groups On The Rise In California

  20-02-2016 09:03
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The number of hate groups in the United States is on the rise, and some of them are right here in Northern California. What’s behind this increase, and where can those hate groups be found in our area?
  Eight of those groups are right here in the Sacramento area and the statistics come from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The spike in the number of hate groups in just the last year may surprise you.
  “Our country is polarized right now. You want to blame som
  
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• Call Kurtis Helps Viewer Get Hat Made Of Her Dead Dog’s Fur

  20-02-2016 08:32
  
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – A year before her German Shepherd Romeo passed away, Me’Shell Miller started collecting his fur.
  “He was the nicest dog I ever had,” she recalls.
  When he quit eating, she was forced to put him down. She knew one day, she’d turn all that fur she collected into something.
  “I want a hat now,” she said. “I don’t even care how much it costs now.”
  She shipped the fur to Chiengora Fibers in Canada. Online, the company
  
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• Drivers Calling Latest Barrier Change On Across The Top Project Dangerous

  20-02-2016 07:50
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – It’s meant to direct drivers where to go, but some drivers are calling the newest barrier in the across-the-top project along Interstate 80 dangerous.
  We’ve shown you many of the fixes along that stretch of 80 through Sacramento, but you might not have seen it. Caltrans says this is going to take some getting used to and motorists should travel with caution. But your commute may get really messy, and travelers we spoke to say it’s a traffic nightmare.
  
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• Proposed Bill Would Help Servers To Set Limits On Customers’ Alcohol Consumption

  20-02-2016 06:35
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – New legislation is being served up at bars statewide that would make it mandatory for anyone who serves alcohol to take a course to help identify customers who may be drinking too much and intervene.
  The bill is known as the Responsible Intervention for Beverage Servers Training Act. Right now, most server training courses are voluntary. But is a law really necessary?
  Eighteen states already require servers to complete alcohol training courses.
  RELATED: Ditching A
  
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• 1 hurt during confrontation with CHP officers in Sacramento

  20-02-2016 05:00
  
  A man was hit with a Taser after throwing a knife at California Highway Patrol officers, who were helping clear a homeless camp in south Sacramento, the CHP said.
  
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• Stockton mayor: Hyacinth can be used to make money

  20-02-2016 04:30
  
  Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva says the city can put the pesky weed hyacinth to good use -- and make money.
  
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• California bullet train boss defends new route

  20-02-2016 04:26
  
  The top executive in charge of California's high-speed rail project said a newly released plan will guarantee the state can build a viable line with funds it currently has lined up.
  
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• Pot-Growing Ban In Nevada County Blamed For Child Not Getting Seizure Treatment

  20-02-2016 04:11
  
  By Kelly Ryan
  NEVADA COUNTY (CBS13) – Authorities in Nevada County are cracking down on outdoor marijuana growers with a new ordinance, but one father is speaking out, saying that crackdown is jeopardizing his son’s life and other children’s lives.
  It’s a compelling argument; a father is trying to save his son, but the county sees it as an issue of cracking down on a growing problem.
  Forrest Hurd showed us a video he recorded of his son, Silas Hurd, having seizures. Forre
  
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• 1 killed, 3 injured in Vallejo shooting

  20-02-2016 03:08
  
  One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting Friday afternoon, Vallejo police said.
  
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• Yosemite Illusion Looks Like Waterfall Of Fire

  20-02-2016 03:07
  
  A rare phenomenon has people snapping pictures in Yosemite National Park.
  It’s called a firefall. The optical illusion looks like fire flowing off a cliff.
  #Yosemite #firefall has hikers transfixed. https://t.co/5zvBp5w30c #BBCinbrief @BBCWorld pic.twitter.com/JLZa79FqmW
  — BBC Travel (@BBC_Travel) February 20, 2016Park rangers say it’s the sun glowing through a waterfall.
  The angle of the sun has to be just right, and it happens only for a couple of weeks in February.
  
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• Did Lodi Senior’s Killer Also Kill Stockton Senior Years Ago?

  20-02-2016 02:22
  
  LODI (CBS13) – Two separate, local unsolved murder cases have similar details. Could they be connected?
  Last week’s murder of a 74-year-old Lodi woman has her family offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Police still don’t have a suspect in that case, and it has another family in an unsolved murder in Stockton questioning whether the cases are related.
  Last weekend, Dorothy Wiederrich was found inside her home. Police have released few details into her
  
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• PG&E Crew Rescues Baby Owl That Fell From Nest

  20-02-2016 01:49
  
  SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY (CBS13) – A PG&E crew came to the rescue recently of a cute baby owl that had fallen from its nest.
  On February 2, a crew working on a PG&E gas compressor station on McDonald Island in San Joaquin County noticed a bird on the ground and contacted the company for help. Lindsey Koos, a PG&E biologist, came to the worksite and identified the owl as a great horned owlet, about 3 months old, according to a statement from the company.
  An adult owl could be seen nes
  
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• CHP investigates Sacramento officer-involved shooting

  20-02-2016 01:42
  
  The California Highway Patrol said one person was hurt after a CHP officer opened fire as authorities were clearing a homeless camp in south Sacramento.
  
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• Proposed Bill Would Require Videotaping Sales Of Firearms In California

  20-02-2016 01:21
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – All California gun sales would have to be videotaped under a proposal introduced in the state Legislature.
  The requirement mirrors an ordinance adopted by San Francisco in November that prompted that city’s last gun store to close.
  Democratic Assemblyman Kevin McCarty of Sacramento says his AB2459 would help keep firearms out of the wrong hands.
  It would also ban sales by licensed dealers who sell gun out of their homes, a practice already prohibited by many
  
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• 4 People, Including Child, Shot In Vallejo; 1 Killed

  20-02-2016 01:14
  
  VALLEJO (CBS) – Four people have been shot, including a 9-year-old child, in Vallejo.
  The incident happened just before 4 p.m. in a residential neighborhood in the area of Porter and McLane streets, according to KPIX-TV. One of the people who was taken to the hospital is a child, who had a head wound.
  Police tell the station the victims were sitting in a sedan when they were shot by suspects who reportedly drove by in a maroon sedan.
  An adult was pronounced dead at the scene. The other peo
  
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• Motorcyclist hurt in Sacramento crash

  20-02-2016 00:10
  
  A motorcyclist was injured Friday afternoon in a south Sacramento crash, the Sacramento Police Department said.
  
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