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• Sex Offender Move To Yuba County Delayed By Oroville Dam Emergency To Move Forward

  28-04-2017 23:15
  
  YUBA COUNTY (CBS13) – A judge has approved the plan for a convicted sexually violent predator to be placed in Yuba County.
  Eldridge Lindsey Chaney, Jr. had originally been allowed to be placed in Yuba County, but the Oroville Dam spillway emergency put those plans on hold. Now that evacuations have been lifted, the judge has ruled that the area is the best option available for Chaney.
  The relocation plan had been met with backlash in Yuba County. However, the DA’s office notes that a
  
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• California Gas Prices To Rise Under Bill Signed By Gov. Brown

  28-04-2017 21:53
  
  SACRAMENTO (AP) – California drivers will see their gas prices rise in November and will pay more to register their vehicles come January, but they’ll have to wait months longer before crews begin repaving neglected roads with the fruits of their higher taxes.
  Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a tax hike of $5 billion per year on Friday, promising to fix crumbling highways. But state transportation officials have not begun the engineering work, environmental assessments and other prep
  
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• Mother’s Quest For Answers In Daughter’s Murder Continues More Than A Decade Later

  28-04-2017 20:35
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The mother of a murdered Sacramento woman has made it her mission to keep her daughter’s memory alive.
  Christie Wilson disappeared after a night of gambling at Thunder Valley Casino in October of 2005. She was last seen on surveillance video leaving the casino with a man she had met while gambling.
  Mario Garcia would later be arrested, charged, and convicted of murdering the 27-year-old.
  It was a case that made history. Never before in Placer County had prosecuto
  
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• 18-Year-Old Arrested For Deadly Attack At Highlands High Track

  28-04-2017 19:52
  
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – Detectives have arrested the man suspected in the fatal attack of an 86-year-old woman along the Highlands High School track.
  Neven Glen Butler, an 18-year-old North Highlands resident, was already in custody for an alleged unprovoked attack of another elderly woman on Wednesday.
  He was identified as a person of interest in the earlier incident at Highlands High School as detectives continued their investigation.
  Early Wednesday morning, the 86-year-old woman and
  
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• Dozens Of Dogs Rescued From Hoarder Home In Stockton

  28-04-2017 19:44
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Dozens of dogs have been rescued from a hoarder home in Stockton, police say.
  The scene is along the 9000 block of Ledgewood Avenue. Stockton police say medics were called to the home Friday morning after an elderly woman had some sort of medical issue.
  At the scene, medics found that the home was full of animals in an apparent hoarding situation.
  The woman was taken to the hospital, but she later passed away. A man who was also living at the home was also transport
  
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• Man Faces Hate Crime Charge After Fires Lit Around Fairfield

  28-04-2017 18:30
  
  FAIRFIELD (CBS13) – A man is suspected of starting three small fires in Fairfield, including one right in front of the police department.
  The incidents started late Thursday night. Fairfield police say a small propane canister was lit on fire and exploded in front of the police department’s windows.
  Investigators believe the man also tried to do the same thing at an apartment complex along North Texas Street. He’s also suspected of trying to light a car on fire, police say.
  Pol
  
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• Body Found During Fire At Pollock Pines Home

  28-04-2017 17:51
  
  POLLOCK PINES (CBS13) – Authorities are investigating after a body was found during a fire at a home in El Dorado County.
  The scene is along the 9000 block of North Street in the Pollock Pines area.
  Crews from the El Dorado County Fire District responded to the scene around 5:30 a.m. and found a home quickly going up in smoke. Firefighters went to work, but while battling the flames they discovered a person’s body.
  The fire has been put out and investigators are now at the scene.
  No
  
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• Police Investigating Deadly Shooting At Fairfield Bar

  28-04-2017 17:20
  
  FAIRFIELD (CBS13) – One person is dead after a shooting at a bar in Fairfield late Thursday night.
  The scene was at Ding’s Cocktail Lounge along West Texas Street.
  Fairfield police say the shooting happened at 10:30 p.m. The shooting victim was taken to the hospital, but later died from their injuries.
  Police have not released the victim’s identity.
  Investigators are interviewing multiple people to try and get a fuller picture of what led up to the shooting. No arrests hav
  
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• Fire Lit Outside Fairfield Police Department, Man Arrested

  28-04-2017 16:28
  
  FAIRFIELD (CBS13) – A man is suspected of starting three small fires in Fairfield, including one right in front of the police department.
  The incidents started late Thursday night. Fairfield police say a small propane canister was lit on fire and exploded in front of the police department’s windows.
  Investigators believe the man also tried to do the same thing at an apartment complex along North Texas Street. He’s also suspected of trying to light a car on fire, police say.Fair
  
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• Fight Against Human Trafficking Extends To Hospitals

  28-04-2017 15:38
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The victims of human trafficking often pass right by us and no one knows and no one helps.
  In fact, a high percentage of sex trafficking victims go to a doctor or emergency room while they’re actively being tracked, and before doctors didn’t know what to look for.
  But now a pilot program through Dignity Health is training doctors and medical professionals to know the signs and act.
  Sacramento family physician Dr. Ron Chambers says this training will help gu
  
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• Suspect In Elderly Woman’s Assault May Have Ties To Murder On School Track

  28-04-2017 09:36
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – One day after the brutal murder of an 86-year-old woman at Highlands High School, investigators revealed they have a person of interest in custody. He was arrested Wednesday afternoon near Fair Oaks and Howe after physically assaulting an elderly woman.
  “It’s really kind of creepy that someone is like out there specifically targeting elderly people,” said Alex Jullig, who lives in the Arden area. “It’s kind of like out if this world really
  
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• Missing Yuba College Student’s Mom Breaks Silence

  28-04-2017 09:15
  
  GRIDLEY– The mother of the missing 20-year old Yuba College student, Alycia Yeoman, is breaking her silence.
  It’s been nearly a month since Aly went missing, and now in an exclusive interview with CBS 13’s Shirin Rajaee, her mother has a desperate plea to bring her daughter home.
  Paula Ede says it’s taken her weeks to have the courage to speak out and that the last few weeks have been a heart-wrenching experience for her and her family.
  “I wouldn’t put this on
  
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• Weed-Eating Goats, Fourth Of July Fireworks On Chopping Block In Roseville

  28-04-2017 08:59
  
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — The City of Roseville is facing a multimillion dollar budget deficit and city leaders are trying to figure out what to cut. For the first time in years, Roseville will have to make some unpopular decisions.
  Fourth of July fireworks may be eliminated.
  One Roseville resident said, “I don’t think we should let that happen”
  The weed-eating fire prevention goats may have to go.
  “I wouldn’t cut that, said another resident.
  Those are just two of t
  
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• High School Campus Clash Turns Into Real Clash In Modesto

  28-04-2017 08:51
  
  MODESTO (CBS13) — A Modesto high school event dubbed “Campus Clash 2017” got out of hand after students themselves started to clash as the event ended, forcing Modesto police officers and the Stanislaus County sheriff’s deputies to be called in.
  Now in its fifth year, organizers describe Campus Clash as a big prep rally, bringing together Modesto-area high school students for a series of friendly competitions, ranging from cheerleading to jeopardy and a pizza eating conte
  
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• United States Sets Drought Record

  28-04-2017 08:41
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s been three years since a snowless snow survey was a sign of how drastic California’s drought had become. Now, a record-breaking winter is turning that upside down, and not just in California.
  The wettest winter on record has filled our reservoirs to capacity and left snow as far as the eye can see in the Sierra. The winter has been good to California, but it’s not just the Golden State.
  Satellite images show how a bone-dry river system
  
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• Accused Pie-Thrower’s Defense Team Can’t Find Kevin Johnson

  28-04-2017 08:15
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It was a pie to the face that started it all.
  “Sean’s act was necessary to prevent a significant evil here in the city of Sacramento,” said Claire White, the attorney representing Sean Thompson.
  It was an act of political theater to get attention about homeless issues by Thompson that landed him in jail with a felony charge.
  “We have proposed a number of defenses that are creative, but appropriate and aggressive,” said White.
  Thompson is a
  
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• Call Kurtis Investigates: Postal Service Has No Fix To Flaw That Lets Scammers Redirect Your Mail

  28-04-2017 08:08
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — Six months after CBS13 exposed how easy it is for anyone to re-route your mail, the U.S. Postal Service has yet to announce a fix. Rep. Jerry McNerney is now calling for a federal oversight hearing, forcing the head of the Chief Postal Inspector to testify.
  Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton) is now calling for a federal oversight hearing, forcing the head of the Chief Postal Inspector to testify.
  After a scammer re-routed Frank and Rebecca Ronquillo’s mail witho
  
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• Stockton High School Student Awaiting Professional Boxing Debut

  28-04-2017 04:10
  
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — A Stockton High School student who signed a contract with the biggest name in boxing is just days away from making his professional debut in the ring.
  Gabriel Flores, Jr., 16, who lost his mother in a violent gang shooting says he’s doing it all for her. He can still remember his mother, Juanita Maldonado sitting in the stands, watching and cheering as he won fight after fight.
  “She always got to smile no matter how rough times where, she just knew
  
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• Elderly Woman Killed On High School Track Identified

  28-04-2017 02:50
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) —“She fought, she kicked, pulled her hair and she was trying to do something,” the surviving sister said.
  Through the safety of her screen door, she tells us her 61-year-old sister fought back like her life depended on it. And it did.
  “She said ‘Oh my God lord help me,’ because she had no more energy,” she said.
  Her sister was on her morning walk with her 86-year old neighbor Fusako Petrus on the running tracks they’ve walked cou
  
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