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• CHP Plane Hit By Laser Pointer Over Citrus Heights, Man Arrested

  26-04-2017 20:55
  
  CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) – A man has been arrested after he allegedly pointed a laser at a law enforcement plane.
  The incident happened just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday. California Highway Patrol says one of their fixed-wing planes was flying on a mission when it was hit by the light of a green laser pointer.
  Officers were able to pinpoint the exact place in Citrus Heights the laser came from and soon arrested a 36-year-old man.
  No officers were hurt in the incident and the plane landed safely
  
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• Ann Coulter Backs Out of Speech At Berkeley Amid Safety Concerns

  26-04-2017 20:24
  
  BERKELEY (CBS) — Well, it’s off again. The on-again, off-again Berkeley speech by conservative pundit Ann Coulter is once again on hold.
  According to the New York Times, Coulter believes she is putting her safety in jeopardy by going ahead with the speech tentatively scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday on Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza.
  Coulter then told the Fox News Channel that she is backing out due to safety concerns.BREAKING: @AnnCoulter tells Fox News 'there will be no speech' at UC B
  
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• Woman In Her 80s Killed In Attack On Highlands High School Track

  26-04-2017 17:12
  
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – Detectives are investigating after an elderly woman was killed in an attack at the Highlands High School field early Wednesday morning.
  The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department says deputies were called to the area around 6 a.m. to investigate a reported assault on the track at the school.
  At the scene, deputies found that two women had been attacked. One of the victims – a woman in her 80s – suffered fatal injuries, the other woman was tr
  
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• African Americans Lead Both Houses of the Nevada State Legislature

  26-04-2017 15:43
  Rep. Jason Frierson
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – Rep. Jason Frierson made history Monday by becoming Nevada’s first Black Assembly Speaker as the state’s 63 lawmakers opened their legislative session focusing on issues ranging from the state budget to the future of an unimplemented law that would give parents state funding to help pay for private school.
  Frierson, D-Las Vegas, was elected to lead the Legislature’s lower chamber as lawmakers started work in the session that la
  
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• Power Restored After Vehicle Crashes Into Pole

  26-04-2017 13:53
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – More than 18,000 were without power for over an hour after a juvenile driver crashed into a pole on Gerber Road near Wilbur Way just before 3 a.m. Wednesday.
  The vehicle overturned but neither the driver nor her passengers were injured.
  California Highway Patrol officers at the scene said drugs and alcohol were not factors in the incident.
  SMUD was able to restore power after 4:30 a.m.
  Eastbound Gerber is still closed as officers investigate the scene.
  
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• Vacaville Residents Disturbed By Arson And Possible Hate Crime

  26-04-2017 10:07
  
  VACAVILLE- Just after 9 p.m. Monday night a car parked on Williams street near Merchant went up in flames in front of a Vacaville gas station.
  “I’m ashamed of whoever did this,” said resident Claire Neely.
  “It’s sad, it’s disappointing, that someone would do something like this, in this day and age,” said  Robert Holguin
   
  Investigators soon realized the vandals had left a disturbing message.   “It’s indicative of a hate crime
  
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• Sacramento City Leaders Postpone Vote On Controversial Homeless Plan

  26-04-2017 09:31
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS 13) – Sacramento city leaders decided to postpone their vote on a controversial plan to create a tent city for the homeless. The proposed complex would be built at Carl Johnston Community Park in Del Paso Heights.  But Tuesday night, the mayor called the site a safety hazard.   “After consulting with Councilmember Warren, we are not going to take a vote tonight,” said Mayor Darrell Steinberg.
   
  It was a roadblock for Councilmember Allen Wa
  
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• Investigators Link Two Bodies Found In Arden-Arcade Area

  26-04-2017 09:21
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Heartbroken neighbors could be seen in an emotional embrace, stung bya tragic loss at their Arden apartment complex.  Apartment manager Linda Zachmeyer was found stabbed to death in her own unit.
  “She’s the last one in the world that deserved this to happen to her,” neighbor Dave Seymore said. “She never did anything to hurt anybody.”
  As Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies began meticulously combing through her apartment-turned
  
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• Driverless Car Testing Getting Green Light On California Roads

  26-04-2017 08:25
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) —  California is opening the door for testing on the streets of truly driverless cars without a backup driver.  The California Department of Motor Vehicles is in charge of regulating the technology, but before wheeling it out, the agency heard from the biggest carmakers in Silicon Valley are all racing to be number one.
  The state is paving the way for drivers to let go of the wheel, but before selling the self-driving cars – the industry has to sell the i
  
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• PG&E Issued Citations And Fined $8.3M For Violations Related To Butte Fire

  26-04-2017 06:28
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (CBS13) — The California Public Utilities Commission issued two staff citations totaling $8.3 million to Pacific Gas & Electric for violations that were discovered by the CPUC’s investigation into the Butte fire.
  The commission cited the utility for “failing to maintain its 12 kV overhead conductors safely and properly.”  According to the CPUC, the violation stretches back to January 2015, when it says PG&E and it’s contractors failed
  
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• Water Chief: Oroville Emergency Spillway Worked

  26-04-2017 01:36
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The head of California’s water agency on Tuesday repeated his assertion that an emergency spillway at the Oroville Dam worked, drawing an incredulous response from a state lawmaker who represents tens of thousands of people ordered to evacuate when it was feared erosion at the spillway could lead to catastrophic flooding.
  Bill Croyle, acting director of the Department of Water Resources, faced lawmakers for the first time since the evacuations in February. A
  
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• Students Petition Cal State Stanislaus To Take Stronger Stand Against White Nationalist

  26-04-2017 00:49
  
  TURLOCK (CBS13) – An online petition is growing, calling on California State University Stanislaus to take a stronger stand against a white nationalist on campus.
  The petition has 150 supporters and was created after Stan State student Nathan Damigo, a known alt-right, pro-white supporter, participated in a violent demonstration in Berkeley. Damigo was seen on video punching a woman in the face.
  Damigo found himself in hot water in October when he launched a campai
  
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• Cal State Stanislaus Students Petition For University To Take Stronger Stand Against White Nationalist Seen Punching Woman

  26-04-2017 00:49
  
  TURLOCK (CBS13) – An online petition is growing, calling on California State University Stanislaus to take a stronger stand against a white nationalist on campus.
  The petition has 150 supporters and was created after Stan State student Nathan Damigo, a known alt-right, pro-white supporter, participated in a violent demonstration in Berkeley. Damigo was seen on video punching a woman in the face.
  Damigo found himself in hot water in October when he launched a campai
  
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