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• Did You Buy A Snuggie? You Might Be Entitled To Cash Back

  14-03-2018 20:23
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – If you’ve ever been wrapped in the warmth of a Snuggie-brand blanket with sleeves over the last 20 years, you could feel the warmth of something else: cash back. And it’s all because of deceptive business practices used by the company that marketed them, the FTC claims.
  The direct marketing company behind the Snuggie, Allstar Marketing Group, LLC, deceptively sold the Snuggie and other as seen on TV-type products, including the Magic Mesh Door, as “b
  
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• ‘Protect Kids, Not Guns’: California Students Participate In National School Walkout

  14-03-2018 19:30
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) – The latest on National Walkout Day:
  10:30 a.m.
  Students in Sacramento joined in on the National School Walkout on Wednesday morning.
  At McClatchy High School, students set up empty desks in front of campus, each one in memory of the people killed in the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
  Students at McClatchy High participating in #NationalWalkoutDay: pic.twitter.com/5r1uvVE5nj
  — CBS Sacramento CBS13 (@CBSSacramento) March 14, 2018The teens then stood in
  
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• Fish And Wildlife: Lassen County Raptor Poaching Case ‘Largest’ In State History

  14-03-2018 19:18
  STANDISH (CBS13) – Authorities say they’re investigating what they believe is the largest raptor poaching case in California history.
  According to a release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, officers recently got an anonymous tip from someone who said they saw a man killing a hawk near the Lassen County town of Standish.
  A wildlife officer investigated and soon found nine dead raptors.
  Working on a search warrant, more officers descended on the 80-acre private prop
  
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• Grass Valley Man Arrested In Suspected DUI Crash That Killed 2-Year-Old Boy

  14-03-2018 17:07
  NEVADA CITY (CBS13) – A 38-year-old Grass Valley man is facing multiple felony charges after a suspected DUI crash that killed a young boy.
  The crash happened Monday night along Highway 20, near Harmony Ridge Road.
  According to California Highway Patrol, a driver lost control of his car and overturned several times that night. A passenger, the two-year-old boy, was ejected in the crash.
  Albert Silva’s booking photo. (Credit: Grass Valley CHP)
  The boy was later pronounced dead at Sier
  
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• Thousands Of Students Expected To Participate In National School Walkout

  14-03-2018 14:55
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Thousands of students will walk out of school Wednesday morning to protest gun violence.
  At exactly 10 a.m. in each time zone, students from across the U.S. and the world will walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes.
  That’s one minute for each victim of the school massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
  Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is expected to be at Hiram Johnson High School, along with other city and school officials.
  The nati
  
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• New Bill Cosby Trial on Old Allegations Begins April 2

  14-03-2018 14:11
  Bill Cosby’s new criminal trial on the 2004 sexual assault allegations begins April 2, 2018. Photo taken of Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt (left) leading the comedian into court during his trial last summer at the Montgomery County Courthouse on June 5, 2017 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. (POOL PHOTO)
  NORRISTOWN (NNPA) —Bill Cosby’s criminal retrial on sexual assault charges set to begin with jury selection on March 29 after Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Judge Steven O’Neil
  
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• Teenager Has Promposal For Sacramento Kings Rookie De’Aaron Fox

  14-03-2018 08:10
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A local teenager has a big proposal for a Sacramento Kings player.
  Fabiola Figueroa, 16, shot a video asking De’Aaron Fox to be her prom date and posted it on Twitter.
  “I finally got the ball, so I’m shooting my shot and asking you to prom,” Figueroa said in the video.
  The El Camino High School junior shot the video back in January in the school gymnasium. Since posting it on March 7, it’s been viewed more than 23,000 times.
  “I had t
  
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• Granite Bay Band Has Touching Tribute For Parkland High Victims

  14-03-2018 08:03
  GRANITE BAY (CBS13) —Besides the planned school walkout protests across the country Wednesday, one local high school will remember the lives lost in Florida in a different way.
  The Granite Bay High School band will honor victims with a touching tribute of its own, a performance of “Amazing Grace.”
  “This beautiful song ‘Amazing Grace,’ it just makes you kind of sit for a bit,” Granite Bay freshman Maggie Delaney said.
  Delaney asked her band mates to perfo
  
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• Homeless Influx May Force Lodi Park Closure

  14-03-2018 07:59
  LODI (CBS13) — It’s a city known for its fine wines, but the drive in from Highway 99 may seem a bit bitter.
  “It should be a gateway thoroughfare, it doesn’t look like it when you got tents and bikes and shopping carts,” Mike Bennett said, commander of the American Legion.
  The hall backs up to Lawrence Park as you enter the city.
  “This building should be sacred ground, and it’s not; it’s abused,” Bennett said.
  Instead, vagrants have run resid
  
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• Report Of Man With Weapon On Campus Was Student With Umbrella

  14-03-2018 07:01
  MARINA (CBS13) — A combination of rain and panic over recent gun violence had a campus on alert over an umbrella.
  Campus police received a report of a person with a possible weapon at his side before 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The campus tweeted out a description of the person, who was wearing dark clothing and had a backpack.
  1/3 The @CSUMB_PD is currently responding to a report of a suspicious person on campus with a possible weapon at his side. This person has not yet been located. UPD is acti
  
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• How Will Social Media Influence The 2018 Elections?

  14-03-2018 06:35
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — President Donald Trump has said Facebook and Twitter may have helped him win the presidency, but with the spread of fake news online, how effective will social media be in this upcoming election?
  “Many of my students get their news now from social media from Facebook and Twitter,” said Andy Jones.
  UC Davis Journalism Professor Andy Jones says social media’s spread of fake news may be endangering democracy. But studies show 98 percent of teens are on i
  
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• Heavy Rain Floods Modesto Streets

  14-03-2018 03:16
  MODESTO (CBS13) — Heavy rain throughout the region created a big mess for many motorists as several streets were submerged by water.
  Roadways near Mellis Park in Modesto are now clear after city crews spent hours clearing debris from storm drains.
  Reverend James Andersen of the Christian Love Baptist Church was attending a meeting at the community center at Mellis Park when it started to storm.
  “We knew it was raining, but we didn’t know it was this bad,” he said.
  The hea
  
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• Murder Suspect’s Mom Wants Custody Of Victim’s Toddler

  14-03-2018 02:57
  WILLIAMS (CBS13) — A custody battle is brewing between the family of a murdered Williams woman and the family of her ex-boyfriend, who is also the main suspect in her killing.
  Karen Garcia was a young mother found dead inside her car in January. Her ex-boyfriend Salvador Garcia Jr. hasn’t been seen since.
  Now his mother is asking for custody of the child they shared. Both grandmothers came to the courthouse today, one asking for custody, the other supported by a group of friends and
  
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• CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Corrections Officer Strikes Shackled Man In Spit Hood

  14-03-2018 01:10
  SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY (CBS13) — Video of a corrections officer striking a restrained man in a spit hood has the district attorney’s office on the lookout for other instances of assaults by police officers.
  The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s office released video it says shows office Matthew Mettler striking a shackled man in a spit hood that covered the man’s entire head. The man was seated against a wall and toppled to his side, slumping to the floor.
  The man was in
  
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