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• Black Youth Leadership Project to Host 18th Legislative Open House

  02-02-2017 22:35
  The Black Youth Leadership Project (BYLP) will host its 18th Legislative Open House at the State Capitol on March 17, giving students an opportunity to learn how government works.
  Applications are being accepted through Tuesday, February 7. Applications can be found online at https://goo.gl/forms/CvQNAGXcJOaZT2cE2. BYLP has done away with paper applications. Students must have a google email account to complete application. Notifications of acceptance for the 2017 Class of BYLP Legislators will
  
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• Stockton Pastor Accused Of Delivering Hateful Sermon About Islam

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
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  STOCKTON (CBS13) – A Stockton pastor is being accused of using hate speech against Islam. Part of the pastor’s recent sermon was captured on video and his words are raising concern within the Muslim community.
  The sermon in question took place at Christian Life Center in Stockton as part of a series of talks during a weeklong conference last Thursday. It was the head Pastor Nathaniel Haney’s message ab
  
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• Sierra Snowpack Measures Heaviest In 22 Years

  02-02-2017 20:54
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  PHILLIPS STATION, Calif. (AP) — Clambering through a snowy meadow with drifts up to the tree branches, California’s water managers measured the state’s vital Sierra Nevada snowpack Thursday at a drought-busting and welcome 173 percent of average.
  Runoff from the overall Sierra snowpack, which provides arid California with a third of its water in a good year, stood at the highest level since 1995 for th
  
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• Sierra Snowpack Measures At 173 Percent Of Average

  02-02-2017 20:54
  
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  EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS/AP) – The state’s snowpack measured Thursday at a drought-busting 173 percent of average in the Sierra Nevada — the highest measurement of its kind since 1995.
  Storms that brought California almost a year’s worth of snow and rain in a single month are helping the state retreat from its more than 5-year-drought, water experts say.
  Typically, snowfall in the Sierra N
  
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• Trump Hints At Pulling Federal Funding For UC Berkeley After Protest

  02-02-2017 18:14
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A crowd protesting a far-right commentator’s appearance at the University of California at Berkeley hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and sparked a massive bonfire, prompting officials to call off the event.The decision came two hours before Wednesday’s talk by Milo Yiannopoulos, a polarizing editor of Breitbart News, after some 1,500 people had gathered outside the venue.But officials said it was a smaller group of protesters dressed in black and in ho
  
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• Man Injured When Van Crashes Into Apartment Building In Carmichael

  02-02-2017 17:49
  
  CARMICHAEL (CBS13/CW31) – A Carmichael man was injured Thursday morning after a minivan apparently lost control and drove through the wall of his apartment unit, coming to rest halfway inside of his living room.
  The crash happened in the 8 a.m. hour along Winding Way near Manzanita Avenue.
  A man was reportedly sitting in his recliner in the living room of the apartment when the van jumped the curb, hit some water pipes and drove through the wall of the apartment, hitting the man.
  He was ta
  
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• Snowpack Survey Expected To Show Dramatic Change

  02-02-2017 17:24
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Roaring storms that brought California almost a year’s worth of snow and rain in a single month should make state water managers’ Sierra snowpack survey Thursday a celebration, marking this winter’s dramatic retreat of the state’s more than 5-year-drought, water experts say.
  Typically, snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains during winter storms provide a third of the state’s water through the year, as the drifts melt. In January, back-to-
  
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• Kindergartner Escapes School, And Nobody Noticed

  02-02-2017 09:05
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A 6-year-old left school in the middle of the day and no one noticed.
  It happened on Monday and the child’s mother said he was outside in the playground for 45 minutes alone before he wandered off.
  “The scariest thing for me is if he had not made it home,” said Tanderine Clark, whose 6-year-old son James McCray Jr, is a kindergartner at Earl Warren Elementary School. “No one was with him, he was unaccounted for, I didn’t know how long!&rdq
  
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• Vandals Target Roseville Islamic Center

  02-02-2017 08:46
  
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — A hate crime targeting an Islamic center in Roseville left much of the building defaced on Wednesday.
  Roseville police say someone tagged the Tarbiya Institute with hateful comments overnight. Members of the institute are speaking out, saying they’re now concerned for their safety.
  “This is not what you want to wake up to in the morning,” said Kamran Islam, a member of the Tarbiya Institute.
  Hateful and vulgar comments were tagged all over the Tarbiya
  
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• Mayor Wants To Meet With Both Sides Of Sacramento Republic Divide

  02-02-2017 08:13
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s an ugly dispute that the mayor of Sacramento is now publicly getting involved with. The internal business dealings behind Sacramento’s Major League Soccer bid have fallen apart.
  Now fans of the hometown team are left in the middle wondering what’s next?
  “That’s my game-day scarf,” said Don Gibson pointing to his Sacramento Republic FC swag.
  He’s better known as Rave Bear at the games. Gibson has been a season ticket holder
  
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• Many Factors Can Cause Higher Heating Bills, Including PG&E Billing System

  02-02-2017 07:17
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Dozens of PG&E Customers say they’re seeing higher prices on their gas bills. Some bills more than double than what they were just months ago. But many customers don’t always know how to read the bill.
  “You have to factor in, not how much you’re actually paying but the usage,” said Ana Montes, a consumer advocate with Turn.org, a utility watchdog group.
  In order to do that, consumers need to look at the total number of therms they used
  
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• Higher Than Normal Winter Heating Bills Have PG&E Customers Concerned

  02-02-2017 03:47
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There is outrage across northern California as PG&E customers say their bills have gone way up, even when their usage has not.
  Erin Lamb’s winter bill usually doubles, to about $500, because it gets cold in the foothills where she lives. But this winter her PG&E bill quadrupled to $1100.
  “That’s a mortgage for a lot of people,” she said.
  Lamb wants to know why.
  PG&E says rates jump to a higher tier after a certain amount of usag
  
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