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• Health Officials Investigating Case Of Tuberculosis At UOP’s McGeorge School Of Law

  22-02-2016 23:15
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – County health officials are investigating a case of tuberculosis at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento. More than 100 people may be affected.
  Those health experts say they were notified about one active case back on February 9 at the university’s McGeorge School of Law”
  While they immediately isolated that person, there are about 125 people who may have been exposed. They all now need to be tested.
  
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• Suspect charged in fatal Valentine's Day crash

  22-02-2016 23:01
  
  A man arrested in connection to a fatal hit-and-run crash on Valentine’s Day was charged with vehicular manslaughter, according to the Sacramento County Superior Court.
  
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• SF Giants To Play River Cats In March 30 Exhibition Game

  22-02-2016 22:20
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The San Francisco Giants are coming to Raley Field.
  The eight-time World Series champs will play the River Cats in an exhibition game on March 30 at 6 p.m. It will be the first time the Giants and the River Cats have ever played each other. It’s rare just to see big league players in Sacramento.
  “There’s no guarantee that we’ll have the major league guys come and play with us during the season, it’s usually only on a rehab assignment or so
  
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• California Legislature to advance health-plan tax

  22-02-2016 22:19
  
  California lawmakers are preparing to advance Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to restructure taxes for health insurance plans.
  
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• Blue Angels Make Stop At Mather Airfield

  22-02-2016 21:48
  
  RANCHO CORDOVA (CBS13) – If you’ve noticed the sound of high-speed jets flying near Mather Airfield today, don’t worry, it’s just the Blue Angels.
  For the first time in nearly a decade, the Navy’s acrobatic flying group will be a part of the California Capital Airshow.
  A couple of the team’s members are here flying in their signature blue and gold F/A-18 Hornets.
  The annual air show takes place in October. Organizers will release ticket information in the next
  
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• Napa Valley wine pioneer Peter Mondavi has died at 101

  22-02-2016 20:37
  
  Peter Mondavi, a Napa Valley wine country innovator who led his family's Charles Krug Winery through more than a half-century of change, has died. He was 101.
  
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• More damage found in Bay Bridge tunnel concrete wall

  22-02-2016 18:14
  
  Corrosion in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge's Yerba Buena Island tunnel that caused a concrete chunk to break loose last month and narrowly miss a motorist is more widespread than the state first believed.
  
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• Winning Powerball Ticket Sold In Natomas Area

  22-02-2016 18:13
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – If you bought a Powerball ticket recently, double-check your numbers. Someone just won big in the Natomas area.According to a statement from the California Lottery, somebody bought a winning ticket at the Circle K near Northgate Boulevard and San Juan Road. That winner matched five numbers, missing only the Powerball, for a prize of more than $400,000!
  The winning numbers are 11, 12, 15, 16 and 54.
  The lottery says no one matched the Powerball. So the jackpot rolls to
  
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• Suspect In Grant High Teen’s Killing To Appear In Court Monday

  22-02-2016 16:48
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The teen accused of killing Grant High School football player Jaulon “JJ” Clavo will be facing a judge on Monday.Sacramento police announced the arrest of 16-year-old Keymontae Lindsey last week and identified him as the prime suspect in Clavo’s murder.
  RELATED: Arrest Made In Murder Of Grant High School Student JJ Clavo
  Lindsey was first arrested the day after Clavo was killed after a loaded gun was allegedly found in the car he was riding in. Police
  
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• Ride-sharing users concerned after Michigan shooting

  22-02-2016 16:26
  
  After an Uber driver was named as a suspect in the Kalamazoo, Michigan mass shootings, some Uber users are sharing concerns over experiences with ride-sharing services.
  
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• “Black Minds Matter” Movement: California Is Failing Black Students

  22-02-2016 16:21
  (CBM) – The California Legislative Black Caucus is preparing strategies for accountability after a new report revealed Black students are disproportionately suffering from disparities and inequalities in access, opportunity, and achievement in education.
  State lawmakers held a briefing to examine findings of “Black Minds Matter: Supporting the Educational Success of Black Children in California,” which studied the plight of California’s Black school children.
  “Our g
  
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• Residents Displaced After Fire Damages Apartment Building In Citrus Heights

  22-02-2016 15:58
  
  CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) – At least four people were forced from their apartments ovrnight following a fire in Citrus Heights.
  Just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday, fire crews arrived at an apartment complex on the 6000 Block of Shadow Lane after the woman living in the apartment reported flames coming from her patio, according to a statement from the Sacramento Metro Fire Department.
  She says her boyfriend was smoking on the patio when she says she saw smoke coming through the slats of the water h
  
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• Student at UOP's Sacramento campus tests positive for TB

  22-02-2016 15:46
  
  Health officials will be testing University of the Pacific students on the Sacramento campus after a student tested positive for active tuberculosis, University of the Pacific officials said.
  
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• 2 men injured in drive-by shooting in Sacramento

  22-02-2016 15:00
  
  Two men were injured in a drive-by shooting in Sacramento, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said.
  
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• Damning study finds a ‘whitewashed’ Hollywood

  22-02-2016 14:28
  NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are “whitewashed,” and that an “epidemic of invisibility” runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people.
  A study to be released Monday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Comm
  
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• Ride-sharing users raise concerns after Kalamazoo shooting

  22-02-2016 11:01
  
  After an Uber driver was named as a suspect in the Kalamazoo, Michigan mass shootings, some Uber users are sharing concerns over experiences with ride-sharing services.
  
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• Sacramento-Area Fijian Community Rallying After Cyclone Winston

  22-02-2016 07:28
  
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) – It’s news that you’re never ready to hear: Your home country devastated by a tropical cyclone. Then you learn that your friend is five thousand miles away, right in the middle of it.
  Three local men say the last 24 hours have been nothing short of shocking. Seventeen people are dead after Cyclone Winston’s wrath.
  From their Elk Grove living room, Sanjay Sharma and his friends survey the damage.
  “This is probably one of the worst th
  
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• Truck Driver Plunges 35 Feet Off Causeway, Survives With Minor Injuries

  22-02-2016 07:09
  
  WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A delivery driver’s close call on the Causeway sent him plunging off the highway, smashing his burning truck and surviving with minor injuries.
  The truck driver’s family is in a state of shock and relief. They spent the day in a hospital room and are counting their blessings.
  CBS13 video captured the mangled, smoky truck. The front of the cab was crushed – the driver, Mahendra Kumar, inside after dropping 35 feet from a freeway overpass to the gr
  
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• Sacramento Plays Host To Wheelchair Basketball Tournament

  22-02-2016 05:46
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – When people first hear of wheelchair basketball, they probably aren’t anticipating this level of intensity.
  “I think they hear wheelchair basketball and they think ‘wheelchair in a basketball’ and don’t really know the athleticism how quick how fast we are, the great athletes these players are ,” said two-time Paralympian Joseph Chambers.
  Chambers knows this better than anyone. Having represented the US in both Beijing and London, he
  
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• Missing San Jose woman found dead

  22-02-2016 03:20
  
  A San Jose woman who was reported missing a week ago has been found dead.
  
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• Boxing Academy Looks To Help Knock Out Effects Of Parkinson’s Disease

  22-02-2016 02:57
  
  By Nha Nguyen
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – Ken Larsen was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease two years ago.
  “Nights were awful. I’d go to sleep, wake back up. It was awful,” Larsen said.
  But ever since he started with the coaches at the Roseville Boxing Academy, he’s seen a change.
  “Since I’ve been doing this, I’ve been able to sleep through the night, most times,” Larsen said.
  Larsen trainer and gym owner, Abram Espinosa, says the whole thing k
  
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• Man Suspected Of Trying To Burglarize Arden Arcade School

  22-02-2016 02:25
  
  ARDEN ARCADE (CBS13) – Authorities say they stopped a man from burglarizing an Arden Arcade area school.
  The man, 30-year-old Christopher Hooten, was reportedly inside of General Davie Jr. Primary Center for almost two hours.
  This all began a little after 11:30 a.m. when the sheriff’s department got an alarm call. Officers arrived 15 minutes later and spotted Hooten in a classroom.
  Several announcements were made on a loudspeaker for the suspect to come out.
  As he tried to leave, dep
  
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• Common software would have let FBI unlock shooter's iPhone

  22-02-2016 02:22
  
  The county government that owned the iPhone in a high-profile legal battle between Apple Inc. and the Justice Department paid for but never installed a feature that would have allowed the FBI to easily and immediately unlock the phone as part of the terrorism investigation into the shootings that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
  
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• Man, 31, Being Booked At Sacramento County Jail Suffers Medical Emergency, Dies

  22-02-2016 01:46
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – An investigation is underway to determine how a man died while in custody of police.
  The Sacramento Police Department says 31-year-old Edward Currie died Saturday night.
  Investigators believe a medical emergency cost him his life.
  Currie had been arrested about an hour prior to his death. He was taken into custody along the 2200 block of Northgate Boulevard and drugs were allegedly found in his possession.
  Police say Currie suffered some sort of medical emergency while
  
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• Average US Gas Prices Drop 5 Cents Over Past 2 Weeks

  22-02-2016 01:21
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) – The average price of gasoline has dropped 5 cents over the past two weeks, to $1.77 a gallon.
  Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that the price is 56 cents per gallon cheaper than a year ago.
  Lundberg says it’s less likely that gas prices will continue to slide because crude oil prices are almost unchanged from a month ago.
  In the Lower 48 states, the highest average price of regular gasoline was $2.40 per gallon in San Diego. The lowest was $1.42 i
  
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• California voters could impact presidential race in primary

  22-02-2016 01:10
  
  Hillary Clinton's victory in Nevada was a must-win that energized her supporters - many of them Californians who came to the Silver State to campaign.
  
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• Driver rescued after crash on Yolo Causeway

  22-02-2016 01:01
  
  All eastbound lanes of the Yolo Causeway were reopened Sunday morning after the rescue of a truck driver following two previous crashes.
  
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• 2 men shot in drive-by shooting in Sacramento

  22-02-2016 01:00
  
  Two men were shot in a drive-by shooting in Sacramento, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said.
  
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• California votes in primary could impact presidential race

  22-02-2016 00:44
  
  Hillary Clinton's victory in Nevada was a must-win that energized her supporters - many of them Californians who came to the Silver State to campaign.
  
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