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• Brothers Killed In Brazen Shooting In Broad Daylight Along Fruitridge Road

  11-05-2017 23:15
  6 p.m. UPDATE: — The two teenagers shot to death in broad daylight were brothers.
  The shooting happened around noon on Thursday on Fruitridge Road near Stockton Boulevard in South Sacramento in front of a furniture store.
  Rosie Vaughn described what she heard.
  “These were like multiple shots, like pow, pow, pow, then it’s like a little break, and then pow, pow,” she said.
  SWAT officers are inspecting a home in South Sacramento that could be connected to the shooting. A sh
  
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• 2 People Dead In Shooting Along Fruitridge Road

  11-05-2017 23:15
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – Deputies are investigating after two people were shot and killed in south Sacramento early Thursday afternoon.
  The scene is along the 5200 block of Fruitridge Road.
  The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department says they first got a call just after 12 p.m. that a person was shot. Once deputies responded to the scene, two shooting victims were found.Double Homicide shooting victims teens SSac Fruitridge & Stockton @CBSSacramento pic.twitter.com/jy5tVY7fCe
  
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• Water Pump Fails, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Salmon Die At Butte County Hatchery

  11-05-2017 22:37
  THERMALITO (CBS13) – Hundreds of thousands of Chinook salmon were killed after a pump failed at the Feather River Fish Hatchery in Thermalito.
  The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says the primary pump that supplies water into the facility failed on Wednesday, cutting off the water supply to the hatchery. It appears a faulty wire is to blame, officials say.
  Staff didn’t learn about the problem until Thursday morning.
  ALSO READ: California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Ove
  
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• Police: Modesto Child Molestation Suspect Dies After Crashing Vehicle In Arizona

  11-05-2017 21:14
  KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a Modesto man sought on a child molestation warrant died when his vehicle crashed into a sign post after police spotted him in Kingman in northwestern Arizona.
  Kingman Police Capt. Rusty Cooper it’s not known whether 37-year-old Kevin Marcus Robertson crashed intentionally Wednesday night when his vehicle crashed after reaching speeds topping 95 mph.However, Cooper says Robertson was reported to be despondent, suicidal and armed.
  Cooper says King
  
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• Gov. Brown Wants More Spending For Schools

  11-05-2017 19:40
  SACRAMENTO (AP) – Gov. Jerry Brown sought more spending on schools and child care Thursday as he revised his spending plan for the fiscal year that starts in July.
  He cited a “modestly improved fiscal outlook” since January for allowing $1.5 billion more in general fund spending in his $124 billion proposal, despite uncertainty about future federal spending on health care because of Trump administration efforts to overhaul the federal health care plan.
  “We’re trying
  
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• Trader Joe’s Recalls Single Lot Of Mochi Ice Cream

  11-05-2017 15:41
  MONROVIA, Calif. (AP) – Trader Joe’s is recalling a single lot of its Mikawaya Chocolate Mochi Ice Cream because the product contains peanuts, which are not listed as an ingredient on the box.
  The California-based company said Wednesday that no allergic reactions or illnesses have been reported.
  The lot number affected by the recall. (Credit: Trader Joe’s)
  Customers may return any mochi ice cream with the code “LOT 090-17” for a full refund.
  Trader Joe’s says
  
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• Man In Wheelchair Struck, Killed By Car On Watt Avenue

  11-05-2017 14:07
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – A man in a wheelchair has died after he was struck by a car early Thursday morning.
  The scene is near the intersection of Watt Avenue and Roseville Road.
  According to California Highway Patrol, the victim was crossing the street illegally a little before 4 a.m. when the driver collided with him.The driver says the man’s dark clothing made him difficult to see.
  The man in the wheelchair was pronounced dead at the scene, CHP says.
  Officers say the driver was t
  
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• Regional Transit Ridership Drops After Rate Hikes, But Revenue Up

  11-05-2017 09:15
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Regional Transit is dealing with a dramatic drop in ridership.
  New numbers show a rider deficit of more than 2 million passengers riding buses and light rail in the last year. RT officials base their budget on the number of people who use public transit, but now those predictions are coming in low, and the district is trying to deal with this downward trend.
  RT had hoped the opening of the new downtown arena would be a big boost for public transit. It predic
  
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• California Cherry Growers Have Close Eye On Crops After Wet Spring

  11-05-2017 09:07
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) – Cherry farmers are gearing up for harvesting season this week. But with rain in the forecast next week, many are worried their California cherries won’t make it.
  “Every cherry grower is nervous,” said Ron Oneto, a farmer at KLM Ranches. “Everybody probably in their houses is probably quiet during the weather forecast time. Everybody’s watching their phones and updates on weather.”
  No season is quite the same at KLM Ranches in Elk Grov
  
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• Court Strikes Down Stricter Chromium-6 Limits In California Drinking Water

  11-05-2017 09:02
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) — It’s a court ruling about the water coming from your kitchen sink.
  “It’s a major win for the cities throughout California,” Solano County Taxpayers Association spokeswoman Ourania Riddle said.
  The group is one that fought strict new California public health regulations limiting the amount of Chromium-6 in water.
  The cancer-causing element is naturally occurring in some communities across California, including those in Solano County.
  Federal stand
  
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• Report Cuts Possibilities For Oroville Dam Spillway Failure To 24 Reasons

  11-05-2017 08:32
  MARYSVILLE (CBS13) — “It was chaos,” said Rikki Shaffer, the head of the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce.
  She was recalling the night of Feb. 12 when the Oroville Dam emergency spillway crumbled and more than 160,000 people south of the dam were evacuated.
  “We had a significant number of businesses with product loss, lost wages,” explained Shaffer.
  The Chamber of Commerce has more than 600 businesses that were affected when the spillway failed.
  “That wate
  
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• Tiny Apartments Could Help Ease Sacramento’s Affordable Housing Crisis

  11-05-2017 03:24
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With local rent prices through the roof, one local builder says he has a solution to Sacramento’s affordable housing crisis: offer tiny, inexpensive, apartments to Downtown’s working people.
  Apartments would go for $600 a month, but this downtown building isn’t catering to low-income earners.
  Tim Bourke is a local barista, making minimum wage plus tips—pretty much, working to pay rent, he says.
  “The increasing rent is getting tougher and t
  
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• New Lodi Recycling Program Rolls Out Fines For Using Wrong Bins

  11-05-2017 03:01
  LODI (CBS13) —A new recycling program in Lodi that was intended to educate residents and help keep the city green is not sitting well with everyone.
  It’s called Recycling Right, a program rolled out by Waste Management and designed to reduce cross-contamination.
  “Just recently, they have decided to start digging through everybody’s trash and saying you’re going to be fined if you are warned so many times,” said Cara Fink, Lodi resident.
  Under the program, resi
  
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• Coryn Rivera Heading Home For Tour Of California

  11-05-2017 02:05
  American cyclist Coryn Rivera long ago established her credentials on home soil, winning so many national championships in so many disciplines that she sometimes lost track of the total.
  It stands at more than 70, by the way.
  But when she switched to Team Sunweb this season, and embarked on a campaign that will have her racing largely in Europe, Rivera was back to being a relative underdog. And that lasted, oh, about two weeks, when she captured the first of her two Women’s WorldTour victo
  
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• Experts Investigating Dozens Of Possible Reasons Why Oroville Dam Spillway Failed

  11-05-2017 01:13
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Independent experts looking for the causes of the spillway failures at California’s Oroville Dam identify dozens of possible factors in a preliminary report released Wednesday.
  Experts say they will look at a range of possible flaws in the concrete and foundation of the half-century-old main spillway, including whether cracks in the spillway allowed water to tear away at the concrete spillway.
  Both spillways at Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest, gave
  
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