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• Lost Lamb Rescued By Caltrans Worker During Storm Reunited With Owner

  13-01-2017 20:02
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Animal control has reunited a little lamb with its owner after it somehow got lost during this week’s storm.
  Sacramento County Animal Care said it took in the lamb on Wednesday after it was rescued by Caltrans worker Tai. According to animal control, Tai spotted the lamb trapped in waist-deep water.
  Tai was able to wade through the water, untangle the branches and free the lamb.
  The lamb was rushed to the shelter where he was dried, warmed up and bathed. Workers
  
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• Tahoe Queen Scrapped Due To Fire Damage; Replacement To Come

  13-01-2017 19:32
  
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Owners have decided that a popular paddle-wheel boat that carried Lake Tahoe sightseers for more than three decades will be scrapped due to damage from a fire last August.
  Aramark Lake Tahoe Cruises official David Freireich tells the Nevada Appeal the Tahoe Queen can’t be repaired.Tahoe Queen sadly abdicates her crown the lady of Lake Tahoe is being removed for scrap Zephyr Cove Nevada pic.twitter.com/OgywmAnMzC
  — Tahoe Douglas Fire (@tahoefire) Ja
  
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• Water Rescues Continue In Flooded Area South Of Elk Grove

  13-01-2017 16:25
  
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – Cosumnes Fire crews are continuing to rescue people stuck in flooded roadways south of Elk Grove Friday morning.
  The scene is on Twin Cities Road, just off of Franklin Boulevard.Cosumnes Fire is on scene car into a flooded roadway Twin Cities and Franklin area. One person in car. Non-injury. pic.twitter.com/8BEfk3Jx9K
  — Cosumnes Fire Dept. (@CosumnesFire) January 13, 2017
  Boat crews from the Cosumnes Fire Department launched to rescue the person whose car
  
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• Milo Yiannopoulos, Martin Shkreli Set To Speak At UC Davis

  13-01-2017 16:00
  
  DAVIS (CBS13) – A conservative political personality who was banned from Twitter for posting offensive comments is set to speak at UC Davis Friday night.
  The campus is preparing for protests.
  Milo Yiannopoulos is an openly gay conservative editor for Breitbart News who has criticized feminism, transgender rights, Islam, and the Black Lives Matters movement.
  Hundreds of students petitioned to have the event canceled.
  The interim UC Davis chancellor said he would not ban Yiannopoulos from sp
  
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• Vacaville Man Accused Of Assisting Mother’s Suicide Not Covered Under End-Of-Life Law

  13-01-2017 09:08
  
  VACAVILLE, Calif. (CBS 13) – A Vacaville man has been arrested for helping his mother die last year.Her body was found in a storage unit with a single gunshot wound to the head on Dec. 7.
  “I was devastated,” said Walter Edmonson.“[My wife and I] both cried because we knew the people!”
  Eric Capitanich, 43, was arrested on Thursday and is accused of helping his 69-year-old mother Diane Capitanich commit suicide. The two rented a Vacaville house together until homeowne
  
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• Sacramento County Levee Breach Patched For Now

  13-01-2017 08:50
  SOUTH SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) — It was a race against the rising water and failing levees for homeowners to try and save decades of belongings.
  “It could get anywhere from 5 to 7 feet high in this house,” said Jack Mello who lives on a pear far off Twin Cities Road.
  High water on Lost Slough inched up to the top of the levee threatening more than a dozen homes and acres of farmlands. Officials urged homeowners to evacuate.
  Emergency crews worked to repair the breach just east
  
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• Elk Grove Neighborhood Hit By Flooding After Levee Breaks

  13-01-2017 08:43
  
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) — Another broken levee along the Cosumnes River leads to major flooding and water rescues in Elk Grove.
  The Point Pleasant neighborhood was placed under a voluntary evacuation order Thursday, although fire crews had to extricate some homeowners whose homes flooded.
  Neighbors helped protect each other’s homes using sandbags, but one family wasn’t as lucky.
  “There’s two houses, one of them is flooded and the other isn’t.”
  It’s the f
  
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• Vacaville Man Charged With Helping Mother Commit Suicide In Storage Locker

  13-01-2017 03:26
  
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) — Diane Capitanich was living in pain. So she and her son Eric devised a plan to end her life, explained Vacaville police on Thursday.
  Eric Capitanich, 43, of Fairfield was arrested and charged with assisting in his mothers suicide.
  According to Lt. Matt Lydon with the Vacaville Police Department, Eric Capitanich called the police on Dec. 7 to report his 69-year-old mother was dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. She had been inside of a storage unit at Peabody S
  
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• Possible Sacramento County Levee Failure Prompts Call For Evacuation Preparation

  13-01-2017 01:04
  
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) —  A possible levee breach has officials warning residents of the need to potentially evacuate.
  The area of concern is in the Glanville area south of Lambert Road and west of Franklin Boulevard.#Glanville this is a hypothetical map of affected area #caflood pic.twitter.com/NC3WIhQe1x
  — SacramentoOES (@SacramentoOES) January 12, 2017
  Here’s a wider look at the area showing where it is in Sacramento County.Forgive my terrible drawing skill
  
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• Broken Pipe At Center Of Possible Sacramento County Levee Failure

  13-01-2017 01:04
  
  5:25 p.m. UPDATE: CBS13’s Jenn McGraw has viewer video of the cause of the levee problems—an old, busted pipeViewer shared this, Crews working to repair pipe break along levee. Voluntary Evacuations in South Sac County #CAflood #CBS13 pic.twitter.com/JybT7L5Ugk
  — JENN MCGRAW CBS13 (@NewsMcGraw) January 13, 2017
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  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) —  A possible levee breach has officials warning residents of the need to potentially evacuate.
  The area of conce
  
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