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• Homewood Mountain Resort In Tahoe Temporarily Closed Due To Fire

  28-12-2016 22:27
  
  TAHOE CITY (CBS13) – The latest on a fire at a ski resort on the west shore of Lake Tahoe:
  1:27 p.m.
  Officials at Homewood Mountain Resort say they plan on resuming operations on Thursday.
  The South Lodge building at the resort was destroyed in the fire. Officials say the building housed administration offices and a restaurant.UPDATE: Homewood spokesperson says they plan to open operations tomorrow. Admin offices and restaurant destroyed by fire. pic.twitter.com/HYy1pwEjVy
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• Stockton Pastor Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Girl, 12

  28-12-2016 20:43
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – The pastor of a Stockton church has been arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl, police say.
  Stockton police say 51-year-old Oscar Rodriguez was arrested back on Dec. 23 on multiple felony charges for the alleged assault. Few other details about the investigation into Rodriguez have been released, but police do confirm he’s a pastor at a local church.
  Detectives believe there are more alleged victims of Rodriguez and are continuing to investig
  
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• Roseville Business Owner Accused Of Credit Card Fraud Scheme

  28-12-2016 20:22
  
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – The owner of a Roseville marketing and consulting business is facing charges she defrauded the clients of her clients.
  Roseville police say they’ve been investigating 41-year-old Heather Lynn Lemere, owner and marketing director of Salon Success Strategies, since late September when they got a tip that she was allegedly making fraudulent credit card charges.
  Investigators believe Lemere accessed the customer databases of some of her clients, obtaining some credit
  
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• 2 Juveniles Arrested For Breaking Window, Ransacking Patterson Classroom

  28-12-2016 17:35
  
  PATTERSON (CBS13) – Two minors are under arrest after allegedly breaking into a middle school in Patterson.
  People living near Creekside Middle School called deputies late Tuesday night after reportedly seeing three minors breaking windows at the school on American Eagle Avenue. The juveniles were reportedly shooting a pellet gun at classroom windows to break them.
  The juveniles under arrest. (Credit: Patterson Police Services)
  When deputies arrived, three minors were found running away. T
  
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• Crews Working To Contain, Clean Up Diesel Spill Into Dry Creek

  28-12-2016 17:02
  
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – Environmental crews are woking to contain a diesel fuel spill into Dry Creek.
  Union Pacific Railroad says they received reports Tuesday afternoon of a diesel fuel release off of their property next to J.R. Davis Yard. Environmental teams with Union Pacific and the Roseville Fire Department responded.
  An absorption boom is being used on the affected waterways, Union Pacific says. A containment boom is working at the source of the spill.
  Union Pacific says county health o
  
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• Homewood Mountain Resort In Tahoe Closed Due To Fire

  28-12-2016 16:01
  
  TAHOE CITY (CBS13) – Homewood Mountain Resort is closed until further notice due to a fire that tore through a building early Wednesday morning.
  North Tahoe Fire crews responded to the resort just after 3 a.m. and found that a south lodge structure was going up in smoke. Crews from Truckee Fire and Squaw Valley Fire were called in to help.
  No one was injured in the fire, North Tahoe Fire says.Scene of the fire at Homewood Mountain Resort (: @NTFPD_) pic.twitter.com/WZYo898FBa
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• Two Moderate Earthquakes Strike Near California-Nevada Border

  28-12-2016 09:46
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A moderate earthquake has struck in Nevada, sending shakes all the way to Sacramento.
  Two earthquakes were reported within minutes of each other at the California-Nevada border near Hawthorne, Nevada.The USGS reports the first quake was a magnitude-5.8 that hit at 12:18 a.m. on Wednesday. The second quake came four minutes later, measuring at a magnitude of 5.7.
  The impact of the earthquakes were felt in Sacramento.
  
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• Study: Pot Legalization Changes Teens’ Perspective On Marijuana

  28-12-2016 08:21
  
  DAVIS (CBS13) — There is a change in how Americans views pot and that change is impacting teenagers, which may result in more teens using marijuana. That according to a new study co-authored by Dr. Magdalena Cerda, associate professor in emergency medicine at UC Davis and professor Deborah Hasin of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The study was published on Tuesday in the JAMA Pediatrics publication.
  The groundbreaking study is the first-of-its-kind in the natio
  
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• Sacramento’s Ice Blocks Project Ready To Restart After Devastating Fire

  28-12-2016 07:44
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Construction at the site of a historic ice blocks factory is underway in Midtown after a fire destroyed it last year.
  The historic Crystal Ice and Cold Storage Building was a well-known staple to the R Street corridor. Arson Investigators could never pin point a cause of the fire, but many remain skeptical.
  “I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody set fire to it because it was just abandon and people were just hanging out there, but I think it’s good to s
  
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• Sacramento Wooing Self-Driving Car Testing To City Streets

  28-12-2016 07:29
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s a futuristic idea that’s fast approaching. Self-driving autonomous cars are an early focus of the Darrell Steinberg administration. Sacramento city leaders have applied for a first ever permit to allow testing of driverless vehicles on city streets.
  The application with the U.S. Department of Transportation will designate approved cities as “proving grounds” for autonomous vehicle companies to experiment.
  “They’re inevitable. Th
  
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• Uber Driver Helps Rescue Runaway Teen From Suspected Pimps In Elk Grove

  28-12-2016 07:26
  
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) — A teenage girl is safe after an observant Uber driver helped rescue her from a suspected sex trafficking ring.
  While he didn’t know it at the time, he was taking a young girl, her pimp and another person to a job. But when they started openly discussing their plans in the car, the driver knew he had to do something.
  It started out as a regular call for Kevin Avila, but when he picked up three female passengers on at around 6:30 p.m. on Monday, he immediately knew
  
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• Fire Closes Popular Sacramento Bakery Shortly After Land Park Move

  28-12-2016 03:36
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A popular bakery is shut down, following a fire right before Christmas.
  The fire damaged part of Spinner’s Cinnamon Rolls in Sacramento on Thursday — just over a month after the bakery reopened.The business doors have been shut for Larry and Sandy Taing since then.
  “This makes me sick,” said Larry Taing, looking at the damage from Thursday’s fire.
  It was the last thing Taing would ever expect to have happened to his bakery, just six weeks
  
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• Motorcycle Lane-Splitting Becoming A Reality In California With CHP Guidelines

  28-12-2016 03:04
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – New guidelines for motorcyclists are headed to California in 2017. The California Highway Patrol now has the power to provide suggestions on the best way for motorcycles to share the road with other drivers.
  “It makes me concerned because, you know, a lot of times, if you even look two times, they’ll come on the side of you!,” said driver Maurice Lavender.
  “My husband actually drives a motorcycle so I don’t have a problem with it,” s
  
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• Woman Shot While Driving In Sacramento Dies

  28-12-2016 00:40
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A woman who was shot while driving a vehicle in a Sacramento neighborhood on Friday has died.
  Shafiyyah Sade Roberts, 24, of Yuba City, was pronounced dead by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office on Monday.
  Police investigators say evidence shows Roberts was driving in the 1200 block of Isabel Street just before 3 p.m. when her vehicle was struck by gunfire, veered to the south side of the road where it hit a metal pole then drifted to the north side of the roa
  
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