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• Court Docs: Teacher Planned To Take 15-Year-Old Girl To Mexico

  24-04-2017 22:56
  
  SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Tennessee teacher charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old student and driving her to California had planned to take the girl to Mexico and took a boat from San Diego on a test run, according to federal court documents filed Monday.
  Authorities credit the caretaker of a remote northern California property for helping police find the girl Thursday and arrest her alleged abductor, fired teacher Tad Cummins. She has returned home and is being treated by a team of therapists.
  
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• Man Punched Repeatedly By Sacramento Police Officer Files Lawsuit

  24-04-2017 20:32
  
  SACRAMENTO (AP) – A Sacramento man hurled to the ground and punched repeatedly in the face by a police officer has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and county of Sacramento that alleges he was also abused in jail after his arrest, the man’s lawyer said in a statement Monday.
  The lawsuit asking for unspecified monetary damages also targets the officer and identified him as Anthony Figueroa, said the lawyer, John Burris.
  Police who had criticized the officer’
  
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• 2 Dead In Suspected Sacramento Home Invasion At Grow House, Arrest Made

  24-04-2017 19:15
  
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – An arrest has been made in the suspected home invasion robbery that left two people dead.
  Shots rang out about 4 a.m. Sunday in an apparent robbery at a home on 68th Street near 38th Avenue. Two people were found dead, Sacramento police say.
  Investigators could be seen coming and going from the house reported to be completely converted into a pot grow. Detectives were seen using metal detectors searching other areas.
  “That’s scary that someone g
  
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• Gas Pipe Ruptures In Rocklin, Crews Responding

  24-04-2017 19:03
  
  ROCKLIN (CBS13) – Crews are working to cap a ruptured gas pipe in Rocklin Monday morning.
  The scene is along Whitney Ranch Parkway.
  Rocklin firefighters responded to the scene a little before 9:30 a.m..@kcranews @FOX40 @CBSSacramento A shelter in place has been issued for Vicara and Montessa apartments in the Whitney Ranch University area.
  — Rocklin Firefighters (@RocklinFire) April 24, 2017
  A shelter in place is in effect for the Vicara and Montessa apartment complexes in the Whitne
  
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• 2 Dead In Suspected Sacramento Home Invasion At Grow House

  24-04-2017 16:52
  
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – The investigation continues into a deadly home invasion at a south Sacramento home growing marijuana.
  Shots rang out about 4 a.m. Sunday in an apparent robbery at a home on 68th Street near 38th Avenue. Two people were found dead, Sacramento police say.
  Investigators could be seen coming and going from the house reported to be completely converted into a pot grow. Detectives were seen using metal detectors searching other areas.
  “That’s scary th
  
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• Fresno Shooting Rampage Suspect, A Sacramento Native, Explains His Motives

  24-04-2017 15:52
  
  FRESNO (CBS13) – When asked if he killed four white men because of race, Kori Ali Muhammad responded: “Um, yeah!”
  Muhammad is now behind bars in for killing four white men in Fresno in two separate incidents over the past two weeks. Three men were killed in last week’s racially motivated shooting rampage in downtown Fresno last Tuesday. Another man, an unarmed white security guard Motel 6 in Fresno, was killed two weeks ago.
  But before the Fresno rampage, the 39-year-old
  
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• Reward For Info In Yuba College Student’s Disappearance Increases To $50K

  24-04-2017 15:44
  
  YUBA CITY (CBS13) –The reward for information on Alycia Yeoman’s whereabouts has increased, her family announced over the weekend.
  It’s been nearly a month since the 20-year-old Yuba College student went missing.  The Gridley resident was last seen leaving a home on Romero Street in Yuba City on March 30.
  Her truck and cell phone were found in an orchard in live oak several days after.
  On Sunday, her family announced via a Facebook post that the reward for information on f
  
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• Hit-And-Run Driver Leaves Behind Pinned Passenger

  24-04-2017 15:38
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The California Highway Patrol is investigating a hit-and-run crash in south Sacramento Monday morning.
  Officers responded to a report of a car crashing into a pole on Bradshaw and Florin roads on Monday morning at 4:23 a.m.
  The driver fled the scene left a passenger pinned inside of the vehicle, according to the CHP.Firefighters began using the Jaws of Life and other tools to extricate the passenger who was subsequently taken to a hospital with non-life threatenin
  
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• Senate Confirms Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

  24-04-2017 15:05
  In this photo, President Donald Trump announces his nomination for U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch (second from right). (Official White House Photo)
  (NNPA) – With the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court, Senate Republicans won another victory in their partisan war of obstruction against the nation’s first Black president.
  Shortly after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died on February 13, 2016, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell announc
  
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• Black teens most active on social media apps

  24-04-2017 14:56
  (AP) – Teenagers and their technology are inseparable, but a new poll shows black teens are the most likely to have access to smartphones — which could explain why they’re the biggest and most frequent users of mobile-friendly social media apps Snapchat and Instagram.
  A survey released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research explored teens’ social media use and its relationship to race and class. The poll found that nearly 9 in 10 black te
  
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• Fearing A Worker Shortage, Farmers Push Back On Immigration

  24-04-2017 06:34
  
  JUNCTION CITY, Ore. (AP) – The head of Bethel Heights Vineyard looked out over the 100 acres of vines her crew of 20 Mexicans had just finished pruning, worried about what will happen if the Trump administration presses ahead with its crackdown on immigrants.
  From tending the plants to harvesting the grapes, it takes skill and a strong work ethic to produce the winery’s pinot noir and chardonnay, and native-born Americans just aren’t willing to work that hard, Patricia Dudley
  
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• Search For Missing Plane Continues In The Sierra

  24-04-2017 02:59
  
  TRUCKEE Calif. (CBS13) — Concerns are growing in the Sierra for a couple that took off in a plane from the Truckee airport Monday but never arrived at its intended destination in the Bay Area. Tonight a search party is in the area hoping to find more information on the incident and locate the couple.
  
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• Ailing Kerr Won’t Coach Warriors In Game Four

  24-04-2017 00:24
  
  ANNE M. PETERSON, AP Sports Writer
   
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Ailing Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr says he won’t be on the sidelines for Game 4 on Monday against the Portland Trail Blazers.
  Kerr stayed behind at the team hotel for Saturday night’s Game 3 at Portland’s Moda Center. Assistant Mike Brown took over and the Warriors overcame a 17-point first-half deficit to win 119-113 and go up 3-0 in the first-round series.
  Golden State can sweep with a victory M
  
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