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• Plane That Took Off From Truckee Long Overdue

  19-04-2017 22:55
  
  TRUCKEE (CBS13/AP) — Air rescue crews are searching Northern California mountains for a single-engine plane reported missing after it failed to land as scheduled.
  The Socata TB-20 with two people aboard left the Truckee-Tahoe Airport near the Nevada border Monday afternoon.
  It was expected to land about 180 miles away at the Petaluma Municipal Airport north of San Francisco.
  Family members reported the four-seat plane missing and a search was started by the Civil Air Patrol, the all-volunt
  
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• Pilot Error Blamed For Fatal 2016 U2 Spy Plane Crash

  19-04-2017 22:19
  
  YUBA CITY (AP) – The U.S. Air Force says pilot error forced two airmen to eject from a U2 spy plane while on a training mission from a Northern California base in September, killing one of them.
  The Air Force released findings of its probe of the crash near Sutter, California on Wednesday. Air Force Major A.J. Schrag said investigators found that a pilot who was learning to fly the aircraft either pulled back too fast or too quickly on his stick while learning to recover from a stall. That
  
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• Davis Woman Suspected Of Vandalizing Mosque Pleads Guilty To All Charges

  19-04-2017 19:45
  
  WOODLAND (CBS13) – The woman suspected of vandalizing a Davis mosque has pleaded guilty to all charges in the case, the district attorney’s office says.
  Lauren Kirk-Coehlo, 30, is on trial for the vandalism of the Davis Islamic Center. Back on Jan. 23, a woman was seen at the mosque putting bacon on a door handle and smashing windows. The incident was caught on surveillance video.
  Police called the incident a hate crime incident as pork is a forbidden food for Muslims.
  Kirk-Coehlo wa
  
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• Police: Driver Hits Boy, 5, Riding Bike In South Sacramento And Takes Off

  19-04-2017 16:36
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A five-year-old boy is in the hospital after he was hit by a driver in south Sacramento Tuesday evening.
  The scene was near Kim Avenue and 24th Street.
  Sacramento police say the boy was riding a bicycle when the driver struck him. The boy was left with significant injuries.
  The driver took off before authorities got to the scene, police say. He was later taken into custody a short distance away from the crash.
  Police say the driver, only identified as a 38-year-ol
  
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• AP Exclusive: Oroville Dam Managers Made Missteps In Handling Crisis

  19-04-2017 15:36
  
  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) – Late in the afternoon of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory Honea was at the emergency operations center for the tallest dam in America when he overheard someone say something that stopped him in his tracks:
  “This is not good.”
  Over six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had been saying there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete chute. But now suddenly they realized
  
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• Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez dead after hanging self in cell

  19-04-2017 14:57
  BOSTON (AP) — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell early Wednesday while serving a life sentence for murder, authorities said.
  Hernandez, 27, was found by guards at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley just after 3 a.m., Department of Correction spokesman Christopher Fallon said in a statement. The former New England Patriots tight end was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour later.
  His death comes just days after he was acquitted of a dou
  
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• Substitute Teacher Says She Was Taken Off Job After Reporting Rat

  19-04-2017 09:07
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A substitute teacher claims she was taken off the job because she reported video of a rat in a Sacramento high school.
  Veronica Luther says the Sacramento City Unified School District told them not to return to the school after bringing health concerns to the attention of administrators.
  “I heard this scratching noise, and I looked over my shoulder and there was a rat running down the wall,” she said.
  This happened as she was setting up for her math cl
  
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• Audit Finds Disabled Placards For Centenarians Triple Actual Population

  19-04-2017 09:00
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Thousands of people across California are misusing the disabled parking placards, according to a new report released by the state auditor’s office on Tuesday.
  Curtis Walker has been using a handicap parking pass for years.
  “It’s a vital service,” he said. “It prevents you from having to deal with hassles.”
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  He was issued a placard from the DMV after getting a written note from his d
  
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• Air Force Pilot Defies Odds, Returns To The Skies After Fight With Cancer

  19-04-2017 08:49
  
  TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE (CBS13) — A Travis Air Force Base pilot takes his first flight after beating the odds.
  It’s been a long journey for Major Matthew Bartomeo. But for the first time in 26 months, Bartemeo got to fly his C-5 plane– the Air Force’s largest aircraft, and he was all smiles
  “It feels great. This is what was normal, this was what my life was before cancer,” he said.
  With ten years in the Air Force, Major Bartomeo has flown all around the world. H
  
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• Stockton Mayor Praised For Growth, But He Faces Tough Challenges

  19-04-2017 08:33
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs has been named one of the country’s top leaders when it comes to growth in US cities. He joins 13 other local leaders around the US who have also been recognized.
  “It gives me a lot of hope for the amount of work that we have to do and I understand that we’re not going to do It by ourselves but we have a team of people who are going to push the city forward,” Tubbs said, who took office earlier this year.
  It’s be
  
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• Parents Outraged District Didn’t Announce Child Porn Arrest In Elk Grove

  19-04-2017 07:33
  
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) – Some parents are outraged at the Elk Grove Unified School District from not announcing an arrest of a former volunteer for alleged child pornography.
  “Last year with Mr. Eric and now this one. We didn’t even know about this one. They didn’t tell us about this one,” said one parent Marcy Lozano.
  Parents said the news circulated amongst parents, but never a word from the district.
  “It’s pretty disturbing to hear that they didn’t t
  
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• Elk Grove Parents Outraged District Didn’t Announce Child Porn Arrest

  19-04-2017 07:33
  
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) – Some parents are outraged at the Elk Grove Unified School District from not announcing an arrest of a former volunteer for alleged child pornography.
  “Last year with Mr. Eric and now this one. We didn’t even know about this one. They didn’t tell us about this one,” said one parent Marcy Lozano.
  Parents said the news circulated amongst parents, but never a word from the district.
  “It’s pretty disturbing to hear that they didn’t t
  
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• Police: Fresno Shootings Race-Related, But Not Tied To Terrorist Groups

  19-04-2017 07:21
  
  FRESNO (CBS13) — The man accused of killing four people in Fresno has ties to Sacramento.
  Police say Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, shot and killed the victims in unprovoked attacks. CBS13 has learned he attended high school and college in the Sacramento area.
  Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said Muhammad was on a violent mission on Tuesday morning. Dyer said Muhammad’s motivation was race related and did not appear to have connections to any terrorist group. He did call the shootings a
  
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• No Bail For Former Tahoe Children’s Ski Instructor Facing Child Porn Charges

  19-04-2017 07:10
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) – A U.S. magistrate ordered a former children’s ski instructor at a Lake Tahoe resort held without bail indefinitely on Tuesday pending his federal trial on child pornography charges.
  Judge William Cobb refused to set any bail conditions during a hearing in federal court in Reno for the 26-year-old northern Nevada man accused of photographing children as young as 3 in a bathroom at a rural daycare center his mother manages inside a church.
  Cobb said he feared Stephan
  
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• Former Stockton Mayor Loses Bid To Seal Grand Jury Transcripts

  19-04-2017 06:43
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — Former Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva lost a bid to seal thousands of pages of grand jury transcripts in court on Tuesday.
  A judge denied Silva’s motion to keep about 6,000 pages of grand jury transcripts private. That means days after his attorneys receive them, the documents would be made available to the public.
  Lawyers representing the former mail argued sealing them would allow Silva have a fair trial, fearing they could be one-sided and hurt the case. They also
  
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• Police: Fresno Shootings Race-Related, But No Ties To Terrorist Groups

  19-04-2017 03:21
  
  FRESNO (CBS13) — The man accused of killing four people in Fresno has ties to Sacramento.
  Police say Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, shot and killed the victims in unprovoked attacks. CBS13 has learned he attended high school and college in the Sacramento area.
  Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said Muhammad was on a violent mission on Tuesday morning. Dyer said Muhammad’s motivation was race related and did not appear to have connections to any terrorist group. He did call the shootings a
  
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• Police: Fresno Gunman Shot 16 Rounds In A Minute, Killing 3 White Men

  19-04-2017 01:00
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – A man who shot and killed three people at random on the streets of downtown Fresno shouted “God is great!” in Arabic during his arrest Tuesday and had posted on social media that he disliked white people, authorities said.
  Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, was arrested shortly after the morning rampage that left three white men dead, police said. Muhammad, who is black, fired 16 rounds in one minute at four places within a block.
  He walked up to a utility truck and s
  
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