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• California Sunshine Yields Ample Daytime Power, Some Wasted

  19-03-2017 23:25
  
  RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — California is producing so much solar-powered electricity during daytime hours that some plants are shutting down until demand picks up later in the day.The Press-Enterprise reports Sunday (http://bit.ly/2mewM4x ) that more than 300,000 megawatt hours of solar and wind power were curtailed last year due to plummeting electricity prices during these times.
  The California Independent System Operator says the energy could have powered about 45,000 California homes for
  
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• Stockton Police Shut Down Sideshow Before It Ever Started

  19-03-2017 22:26
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Stockton police and CHP officers shut down a sideshow before it began Saturday night.  Stockton Police say there were more than 200 participants who showed up for what they believed was going to be a sideshow only to be ticketed and some towed away from the scene.
  Police say there were more than 200 participants who showed up for what they believed was going to be a sideshow — an impromptu car show typically involving dangerous driving — only to be ticke
  
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• Stockton PD Shut Down Sideshow Before It Ever Started

  19-03-2017 22:26
  
  STOCKTON, CA (CBS 13)- Stockton Police as well as CHP shut down a side show before it began Saturday night.  Stockton Police say there were more than 200 participants who showed up for what they believed was going to be a “sideshow” only to be ticketed and some towed away from the scene.
  A total of 49 cars were cited for breaking the law while 15 cars were warned and 4 cars towed from the scene all for infractions.
  Stockton police warned participants in a news release put out th
  
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• Intel documents Offer No Evidence Of Spying On Trump Tower

  19-03-2017 21:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top two lawmakers on the House intelligence committee say documents the Justice Department and FBI delivered late last week offered no evidence that the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower.But the panel’s ranking Democrat says the material offers circumstantial evidence that American citizens colluded with Russians in Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the presidential election.
  Rep. Adam Schiff of California says there’s certainly enough f
  
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• SpaceX Capsule Returns Space Station Science To Earth

  19-03-2017 20:25
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples.The Dragon cargo ship parachuted into the Pacific on Sunday off the Southern California coast. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station 5½ hours earlier.
  The Dragon flew to the space station a month ago from the same Florida launch pad used for NASA’s Apollo moon shots. It took up more than 5,000 pounds of supplies and brought back just as much in completed
  
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• Police Accuse Woman Of Pouring Bleach On Dog During Argument

  19-03-2017 19:20
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been accused of dumping bleach on her boyfriend’s dog and his clothing during an argument.Sacramento police Officer Matthew McPhail says authorities arrested 34-year-old Gakazia Jackson on suspicion of animal cruelty Saturday after her boyfriend called to report she had poured bleach on his dog.
  McPhail says the 1-year-old French and English bulldog mix named “Princess” was being taken to a veterinarian for eye and fac
  
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• UC Davis Men’s Basketball Team Returns Home

  19-03-2017 06:57
  
  DAVIS (CBS13) – The big boys may be home early from the “Big Dance,” but the UC Davis men’s basketball team still got a big welcome from a roaring crowd as they returned home Saturday afternoon.
  The kings of the court got off the team bus greeted by more March Madness as a pumped-up crowd of cheering fans, alumni, and students joined the marching band in celebrating the team’s historic season.
  They made school history by becoming the first UC Davis men’s
  
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• Officials: Attacker Snatched Assault Gun From Soldier, Aiming To Shoot People

  19-03-2017 06:30
  
  PARIS (AP) — Yelling that he wanted to kill and die for Allah, a suspected Islamic extremist attacked a French soldier Saturday morning at Paris’ Orly Airport and wrested away her assault rifle
  That’s according to a French prosecutor who says two colleagues on her patrol shot and killed the man before he could fire the military-grade weapon in the busy airport terminal.
  The suspect is identified as French-born Ziyed Ben Belgacem.
  The attack further rattled France, which re
  
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• Appeals Court Refuses To Stop Oil In Dakota Access Pipeline

  19-03-2017 05:30
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An appeals court has refused to stop the imminent flow of oil through the Dakota Access pipeline.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Saturday denied a request from the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes for an emergency order. That means the pipeline to move North Dakota oil to Illinois could be operating as early as Monday.
  The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes have been trying to stop that from happening while the
  
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• Suspect In Hit-And-Run Crash That Killed Cyclist Surrenders To Police

  19-03-2017 03:30
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The man wanted in connection with a hit-and-run crash involving a truck and a cyclist has turned himself in to the police.
  The crash happened in the area of Marysville Boulevard and Los Robles Boulevard Wednesday night.
  Forty-seven-year-old Wilfredo Cortes was booked into jail on charges of hit-and-run causing death after he allegedly hit the cyclist with his truck and just kept driving, say police.
  Officers released two photos showing the truck leaving the scene
  
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• Man Turns Himself In for Hit and Run Accident

  19-03-2017 03:30
  
  SACRAMENTO, CA (CBS13)-   Sacramento Police tell CBS 13 that the man wanted in connection with the hit and run truck versus bicyclist accident which occurred on Marysville blvd and Los Robles Boulevard Wednesday night has turned himself in.
  47 year old Wilfredo Cortes was booked into jail on charges of hit and run causing death after the vehicle he was allegedly driving failed to stop after hitting a bicyclist .
  Police released two photos showing the truck leaving the scene on Thursday. &nb
  
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• Immigration Judges To Be Sent To Border Detention Centers

  19-03-2017 02:28
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Justice Department says it will temporarily transfer immigration judges to six detention centers near the border with Mexico in an effort to put President Donald Trump’s immigration directives into effect.
  The department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review said the transfers to four locations in Texas and one each in Louisiana and New Mexico will occur Monday. Judges were previously shifted to two immigration detention centers in California.
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• Airline pilot, Wife Died From Apparent Fentanyl Overdose

  19-03-2017 01:26
  
  CENTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Family members say a woman found dead along with her airline pilot husband from apparent fentanyl overdoses had long batted drug problems.Police say the children of 36-year-old Brian Halye (hah-LEE’) and 34-year-old Courtney Halye found their bodies Thursday at their home in Centerville near Dayton.
  Brian Halye was a pilot for Spirit Airlines, which said he last flew March 10.
  The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/2mV3DrZ ) reports that police records show tha
  
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• Report: Trump Adviser’s Husband Picked For Justice Post

  19-03-2017 00:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has chosen the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway to head the civil division of the Justice Department.The Wall Street Journal reports that George Conway was chosen to head the office that has responsibility for defending the administration’s proposed travel ban and defending lawsuits filed against the administration.
  Conway is a partner at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The law firm’s website
  
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