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• Public Safety Agencies Console Stanislaus Sheriffs Department After Losing 2 Employees.

  14-05-2017 07:30
  Modesto, CA (CBS 13)- After the loss of two valued members of the Stanislaus County Sheriffs Office  in a tragic car crash this morning, other public safety agencies have expressed their condolences.  Here are just some of the many that have come into the CBS 13 Newsroom.
  MODESTO POLICE DEPARTMENTWe offer our deepest condolences to the men and women of the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department during this time of tragic loss. We will stand right beside you during this difficult
  
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• California Could Spend $220M To Upgrade Driver’s Licenses

  14-05-2017 06:30
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With a deadline looming, California is planning to spend more than $220 million to bring driver’s licenses and state identification cards up to federal standards.Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget proposal includes money to help process an expected flood of applications for cards that comply with the U.S. Real ID Act.
  The act was enacted in 2005 to make IDs more secure in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001k, terrorist attacks. The original deadline was 2008
  
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• Governor Brown Asks For Trump’s Help with High Speed Train

  14-05-2017 04:25
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is seeking an unlikely ally in his bid to create a high-speed train line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.Brown sent a letter Friday to President Donald Trump, asking him to transfer oversight of environmental reviews of the $64 billion project to the state rail authority, the Los Angeles Times reported (http://lat.ms/2qeeRLK).
  Currently, the Federal Railroad Administration must approve reams of documents concerning rail routes, station locat
  
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• Meat and Poultry Burrito Products Pulled Due to Possible Listeria Contamination

  14-05-2017 03:25
  The Following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Safety Inspection Service.WASHINGTON, DC, – Green Chile Food Company, a Las Cruces, N.M. establishment, is recalling approximately 252,854 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry frozen burrito products because they may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
  The ready-to-eat meat and poultr
  
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• Carjacker Escapes From Federal Prison In California.

  14-05-2017 02:17
  ATWATER, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a carjacker has escaped from a federal prison in California’s San Joaquin Valley.Twenty-six-year-old Guaymar Cabrera-Hernandez was discovered missing Friday night from the Atwater penitentiary. He remains at large Saturday.
  Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke tells the Merced Sun-Star (http://bit.ly/2qeP1Hf ) that local authorities weren’t notified of the escape for at least four hours.
  Cabrera-Hernandez was housed in a maximum security are
  
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• Two Stanislaus Sheriffs Department Employees Killed In Morning Car Crash

  14-05-2017 01:35
  Modesto, CA (CBS 13)- Two Stanislaus Sheriffs Department Employees were killed this morning in a single vehicle car crash.  The crash happened at 8:20 this morning near the intersection of Crows Landing Drive and 7th street in Modesto.
  The sheriffs department has identified the two killed as Deputy Sheriff Jason Garner an employee for the past 9 years and Community Service Officer Raschel Johnson a 15 year veteran of the department.
  In a statement released by the department they t
  
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• South Korea claims North Korea Launched Ballistic Missile

  14-05-2017 00:40
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday launched a ballistic missile that flew about 700 kilometers (435 miles), South Korea’s military said. It comes just days after the election of a new South Korean president and as U.S., Japanese and European militaries gather for war games in the Pacific.
  South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the early morning launch but had few other details, including what type of ballistic missile was fired. A statement said that the mis
  
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