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• Deputies: Oakdale High Teacher Accused Of Hosting Party That Saw Underage Drinking

  30-01-2017 23:44
  
  ESCALON (CBS13) – A teacher at Oakdale High School is facing charges after she allegedly hosted a party that saw underage drinking, deputies say.
  The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department confirms they responded to a house party along the 2800 block of Lemon Avenue in Escalon Saturday night. Authorities had received reports of underage drinking going on at the party.
  Deputies discovered that a teen had been taken to the hospital in a private car. He had become unresponsive fro
  
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• North Sacramento Community to Protest Clearing of Officers in Mann Shooting

  30-01-2017 22:25
  Robert Mann talks to the local media about a federal lawsuit filed in the wrongful death of his brother Joseph Curtis Mann by two Sacramento police officers on July 11. Robert Mann is accompanied by his sisters Vern Murphy-Mann, on his right, and Deborah Mann, on his left. The family attorneys are John L. Burris, on Deborah’s left, and Melissa Nold, standing between Robert and Vern.
  (OBSERVER photo by Antonio R. Harvey)
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• Riot Quelled At Folsom State Prison

  30-01-2017 21:39
  
  FOLSOM (CBS13) – Correctional officers had a quell a riot at Folsom State Prison Sunday afternoon, prison officials say.
  According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the riot happened in the main visiting room at Folsom State Prison. A total of 91 visitors had just left the room when the riot broke out.
  Prison officials say the visitors were behind a locked security door and did not witness the riot. No visitors were left in the room when the riot started.
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• Body Found In Burning Car In Turlock

  30-01-2017 17:54
  
  TURLOCK (CBS13) – Authorities say a body was found in a car that went up in flames Sunday night.
  The scene was on the 5600 block of Griffin Road, in between Taylor and Keyes roads, just north of CSU Stanislaus. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department says firefighters responded to the scene around 9 p.m. and found a car on fire.
  After putting out the flames, a body was found in the car. Detectives were then called to the scene to investigate.
  The person has not been identified and
  
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• Highway 99 Slow Through Galt Due To Big Rig Fire

  30-01-2017 16:21
  
  GALT (CBS13) – An overnight big rig fire is still slowing traffic through Galt Monday morning.
  The Twin Cities Road offramp was closed early Monday morning due to a big rig that caught fire. It was full of paper goods.The twin cities off ramp on southbound highway99 closed after a trailer loaded w/ paper goods goes up in flames @CBSSacramento @GoodDaySac pic.twitter.com/sHfcWMZX4w
  — Wendy Aguilar (@WendyAguilarTV) January 30, 2017
  Highway 99 approaching Twin Cities Road from the sout
  
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• State Regulators To Answer Questions On Monitoring Recreational Marijuana

  30-01-2017 15:48
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – State lawmakers will meet on Monday to discuss marijuana regulations.
  Several state senators are set to question state regulators on their readiness to regulate recreational and medicinal pot by Jan. 1, 2018
  California voters legalized recreational marijuana by passing Proposition 64 in November.
  Members of the committee holding the hearing expect to learn the progress regulators have made regarding new taxes, growing, and distribution requirements.
  The hearing will ta
  
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• California looks to build $7 billion legal pot economy

  30-01-2017 14:51
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The future of California’s legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack advertising “USA Home Grown” dangles from a wall.
  Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By next year, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state’s emerging legal
  
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• Trump Protests At Sacramento International Airport

  30-01-2017 09:01
  
  “Say it loud, say it clear! Refugees are welcomed here!” was one of the chants heard Sunday afternoon at the Sacramento International Airport.No travelers were detained in Sacramento by Customs and Border Patrol, as the airport only has flights to and from Mexico, which is not on the list of banned countries. But that didn’t stop the several hundred who gathered to peacefully to protest President Trump’s immigration ban.
  President Trump signed an executive order that bans
  
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• 49ers Make Surprise Hire Of John Lynch As General Manager

  30-01-2017 04:56
  
  By JOSH DUBOW, AP Sports Writer
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers made a surprise hire to fill their general manager void Sunday, hiring former NFL safety and Fox television analyst John Lynch to replace Trent Baalke.
  Lynch comes into the job with no front-office experience, having gone straight from the playing field to the broadcast booth. But after a lengthy search that included interviews with nine other publicly identified candidates, team CEO Jed York settled on Lyn
  
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