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• Suspected Golden State Killer In Court For First Time

  27-04-2018 22:45
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) – For the first time since his arrest earlier this week, Joseph James DeAngelo, the man accused of terrorizing Californians in the 1970s and 1980s as Golden State Killer and the East Area Rapist, is appearing in a Sacramento Courtroom.
  DeAngelo came into the courtroom in a wheelchair pushed by a bailiff and answered a few questions from the judge. The entire hearing lasted less than three minutes.
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• Sheriff: Golden State Killer Suspect On Suicide Watch

  27-04-2018 21:25
  SACRAMENTO (AP) – The Sacramento County sheriff says a man suspected of being one of California’s most elusive serial killers is on suicide watch and talking to himself.
  Sheriff Scott Jones said Friday that Joseph James DeAngelo was in a psychiatric ward of the county jail and has said little. Jones says there’s been “quiet reflection” and mumbling.
  Jones says investigators are sifting through every item, receipt and piece of paper from DeAngelo’s home. They&r
  
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• 98 People Now Sick From Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak

  27-04-2018 19:58
  ATLANTA (CBS13) – The E. Coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce has now made 98 people sick in 22 states, including California.14 more E. Coli cases reported
  8 more states added to outbreak
  46 people hospitalized
  16 people in California have gotten sick
  Consumers warned to not eat romaine lettuce from Yuma, AZ growing regionThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the outbreak statistics on Friday morning. It added 14 more cases in 8 states. The number of people sickene
  
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• 4 Arrested After 23-Year-Old Shot And Killed In Olivehurst

  27-04-2018 19:13
  OLIVEHURST (CBS13) – Four people have been arrested in Yuba County after a bicyclist was shot and killed in Olivehurst.
  According to deputies, the shooting happened just before seven o’clock last night on 6th Avenue, near Olivehurst Avenue.
  The bicyclist, a 23-year-old Olivehurst man, later died from his injuries.
  A short time later, officers in Marysville arrested 23-year-old Christopher Garcia of Yuba County, 18-year-old Alex Ruiz of Marysville, and two juveniles in connection to t
  
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• Police: Jogger Robbed At Lagoon Valley Park In Vacaville

  27-04-2018 18:11
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) – A search is on for the man who robbed a jogger at Vacaville’s Lagoon Valley Park on Thursday.
  Vacaville police say the incident happened around 7:30 p.m. The jogger says she was running up the tower trail near Butcher Road when someone went up behind her and pressed a blunt object to her back.
  The man then told her to give up her stuff and she did. He then told her to stay put as he ran off.
  The jogger was not hurt in the incident, police say.
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• Woman, 28, Accused Of Fatally Stabbing Family Member In Newman

  27-04-2018 17:42
  NEWMAN (CBS13) – A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a family member to death in Newman.
  The incident happened Thursday afternoon at a home along the 600 block of Orestimba Peak Drive.
  According to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department, Newman police officers responded to investigate a reported stabbing. Officers found that a woman, 37-year-old Maegan Christine Murray, had been stabbed. She was pronounced dead at the scene, deputies say.
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• East Area Rapist Suspect Joseph DeAngelo To Appear In Court On Friday

  27-04-2018 16:06
  (CNN) — A man who police believe is the Golden State Killer will be arraigned Friday as police continue looking for more clues that connect him to the decades-old crimes.
  Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested Tuesday and charged with capital murder in the 1978 killing of Katie and Brian Maggiore in Sacramento County.
  On Thursday, FBI agents and police searched DeAngelo’s home in Citrus Heights, a town about 16 miles northeast of the California capital.
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• DUI Suspect Nearly Hits Someone, Overturns Car In Fair Oaks

  27-04-2018 15:41
  FAIR OAKS (CBS13) – A suspected drunk driver nearly hit someone before overturning his car in Fair Oaks early Friday morning.
  It happened around 2 a.m. near the intersection of Fair Oaks Boulevard and New York Avenue.
  California Highway Patrol officers say the 35-year-old driver was leaving a parking lot when he almost hit a bystander.
  The driver proceeded down Fair Oaks Boulevard where he overturned several times and crashed into a fence.
  CHP says alcohol was a factor in the crash, but th
  
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• When Thieves Hit Teen’s Grave, A Nevada County Deputy Went Above And Beyond

  27-04-2018 09:05
  GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — After his tragic death by a drunk driver, a high-school student’s gravesite in Grass Valley was targeted by thieves.
  Several special items were taken, but thanks to a deputy who went above and beyond, some of them have now been replaced.
  “I never thought I would have to visit my child here,” said Franca Nielsen.
  As if burying her 18-year-old son wasn’t devastating enough, Nielsen never thought she’d also find his gravesite stripped of se
  
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• Deputy Replaces Items Stolen From Teen’s Grave

  27-04-2018 09:05
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  GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — After his tragic death by a drunk driver, a high-school student’s gravesite in Grass Valley was targeted by thieves.
  Several special items were taken, but thanks to a deputy who went above and beyond, some of them have now been replaced.
  “I never thought I would have to visit my child here,” said Franca Nielsen.
  As if burying her 18-year-old son wasn’t devastating enough, Nielsen never thought s
  
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• Call Kurtis: Why Did A Clothing Store Charge A Living Wage Surcharge?

  27-04-2018 08:54
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — Walking out the door, Jeanette Dutton checked her receipt after buying clothes at Crossroads Trading Company in Roseville. She was stunned to find a living wage surcharge of two percent added to her purchase.
  “I was a little confused, and then I was a little angered,” she said.
  Dutton wondered if it was a new tax that she was not aware of, that rolled out with the first of the New Year.
  She was curious, “So I started looking into it, and I was like wow
  
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• Study Likens California Wildfire Smoke To Volcanic Eruption

  27-04-2018 08:28
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A new study released by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is giving scientists more information about wildfire weather.
  Dr. David Peterson is a meteorologist with the laboratory.
  His study says that the 2017 wildfire year put enough smoke and ash in the atmosphere to equal a volcanic eruption.
  Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are clouds that form above wildfires.
  The study showed four of those with wildfires in Canada.
  By having research like this it can help in the future be
  
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• Sacramento District Making Summer School Mandatory

  27-04-2018 08:22
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Thousands of students are about to attend mandatory summer school.
  Last year, the Sacramento City Unified School District fell below the state and even local academic standards.
  To many students, summer school may sound like a punishment, when really the district believes it’s a bonus.
  “Providing summer school is a great start,” said Liz Villanueva, a teacher at Luther Burbank High.
  Villanueva has been teaching Spanish for 14 years and said some of he
  
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• East Area Rapist’s Arrest Revives Trauma For Those Who Lived In Fear

  27-04-2018 08:17
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Many families spent years worried the East Area Rapist could attack at any time. It’s a fear that’s left some people with PTSD.
  “We see a lot of people for whom it was years and years ago and it’s just now affecting their life in some way and that’s perfectly natural and perfectly normal,” said Beth Hassett, the CEO of Women Escaping A Violent Environment.
  News of DeAngelo’s arrest is opening up old wounds for victims in the Sa
  
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• DNA Created Tie To East Area Rapist, But Where Did It Come From?

  27-04-2018 08:08
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Catching the East Area Rapist came down to diligent detective work through the use of DNA samples submitted to genealogical websites.
  “From there, as I say, a lot of very dogged work by law enforcement to build the trees,” said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert during a radio interview with KFBK.
  She says investigators were able to match the killer’s DNA through a family history website.
  “It’s the greatest tool ever g
  
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• Search Crews Combing Home Of Suspected East Area Rapist

  27-04-2018 08:02
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — For Sacramento County Sheriff’s Lt. Paul Belli, crossing into this crime scene and searching through the home of the suspected East Area Rapist is a crowning moment of his career.
  “Obviously, I’m happy we closed this case,” Belli said.
  He has spent a decade on this case. Now he’s searching through the alleged killer Joe DeAngelo’s house, inside his rooms, for items Belli spent years only seeing in criminal case archives.
  “We&rs
  
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• No Death With Dignity: Veterans Home Members Face Eviction Over End-Of-life Option

  27-04-2018 07:43
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — California veterans living in eight veterans homes could face eviction if they seek a medication that is legal for everyone in the state.
  The California Veterans Affairs Department is banning the so-called “death with dignity option” on their campuses because the homes receive federal funding and the option is not a federal law.In Yountville, a sprawling veteran’s home campus tucked in the Napa hills is home to some 1,000 residents, both disabled and
  
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• Dying Is Not An Option: Veterans Could Face Eviction Over Death With Dignity Medication

  27-04-2018 07:43
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — California veterans living in eight veterans homes could face eviction if they seek a medication that is legal for everyone in the state.
  The California Veterans Affairs Department is banning the so-called “death with dignity option” on their campuses because the homes receive federal funding and the option is not a federal law.In Yountville, a sprawling veteran’s home campus tucked in the Napa hills is home to some 1,000 residents, both disabled and
  
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• Suspect In Hit-And-Run Crash That Killed Jogger Turns Himself In

  27-04-2018 07:02
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A man has been arrested in a hit-and-run crash that killed a jogger on Tuesday.
  Sacramento Police announced an adult male was arrested and the vehicle involved in the crash was found.
  Police say the suspect turned himself on Thursday evening.
  The crash at West El Camino Avenue and Grasslands Drive claimed the life of Ericka Hann.
  It’s a familiar crosswalk to many bikers and joggers, particularly to the state worker who ran through it nearly every day. Erika
  
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• Reality Hits Those Who Crossed Paths With Suspected East Area Rapist

  27-04-2018 06:26
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) — Emotions continue to flow around the Sacramento region, as people digest the arrest of Joseph DeAngelo, the man accused of being the East Area Rapist.
  People who knew DeAngelo and feared him, are speaking out.
  “This is my friend, Joe DeAngelo. Class of ‘64,” said one man, as he flipped through his yearbook.
  Photos brought back memories for the man, who doesn’t want to be identified.
  He says he went to Folsom High School with Jason DeAngel
  
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• Man Who Escaped Hawaiian Mental Hospital Found Fit For Trial

  27-04-2018 04:27
  HONOLULU (AP) – A man who fled from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital- where he was committed after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of a woman’s 1979 killing – is mentally fit to stand trial for an escape charge, a panel of three examiners determined.
  Randall Saito’s defense attorney and a state prosecutor didn’t dispute the panel’s confidential reports during a brief hearing Thursday.
  Saito was captured in Stockton, California, days after walking out
  
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• Nearly 90 People Sickened In Romaine Lettuce E.Coli Outbreak

  27-04-2018 04:02
  STOCKTON – Concerns over E. coli continues to grow after an outbreak linked to romaine lettuce grown in Arizona spreads across 19 states now including right here at home.
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the bacteria has made nearly 90 people sick so far.
  Health officials say restaurants and grocery stores are responsible for the food they sell. Some are posting signs about the E. coli outbreak; others are doing everything possible to assure everyone’s safety.
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• My Love Letter to the Blues

  27-04-2018 03:01
  SACRAMENTO – I was asked if I would be interested in producing a film about West Oakland (CA), a week after reading Isabel Wilkerson’s, The Warmth of Other Suns. Wilkerson’s book is an examination of the Post World War II African American exodus from the deep South, a mass departure, a revolt, if you will, against the harsh Southern Jim Crow life. This premise became the story arch and the genesis of Evolutionary Blues… West Oakland’s Music Legacy.
  I do love the Bl
  
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• ‘Now We Have That Control’: Katie Maggiore’s Brother Speaks Out After Arrest Of Suspected Golden State Killer

  27-04-2018 02:56
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Keith Smith has relived his sister’s murder since 1978.
  Katie Maggiore, 20 and her husband Brian were shot to death while out on a walk in their suburban Rancho Cordova neighborhood.
  But Smith says it took two decades for investigators to link the heinous crime to the man who had raped dozens of women in Sacramento. The man also known as the East Area Rapist and the Golden State Killer.
  “It wasn’t the same as the other cases. He didn’t come into
  
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• President of Ghana to Visit Sacramento – 27th Annual Africa Peace Awards Dinner

  27-04-2018 02:55
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  SACRAMENTO – The President of the Republic of Ghana will make a visit to Sacramento State this week, sharing his desire to create and continue mutually beneficial partnerships with local leaders.
  President Nana Akufo-Addo will be the keynote speaker and an honoree at the university’s 27th Annual Africa & Diaspora Conference on Saturday, April 28. The event is the culmination of a three-day conference that opens Thursday, April 26, presented by the Univer
  
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• East Area Rapist Identified Through Genealogical Websites

  27-04-2018 01:26
  SACRAMENTO, California (CBS13/AP) – More than three decades after his trail went cold, one of California’s most prolific serial killers and rapists was caught by using online genealogical sites to find a DNA match, prosecutors said Thursday.
  Investigators compared the DNA collected from a crime scene of the Golden State Killer to online genetic profiles and found a match: a relative of the man police have identified as Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who was arrested at his suburban Sacra
  
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• RAW VIDEO: Former Police Chief in Auburn Remembers Firing Suspected East Area Rapist

  27-04-2018 01:05
  The suspected East Area Rapist worked as an officer in Auburn in the late 70s. His former Police Chief remembers firing him.
  
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• Investigators Looking for Items Taken from Crime Scenes in East Area Rapist Suspect’s Home

  27-04-2018 00:20
  CITRUS HEIGHTS (AP) – Investigators are scouring the home of a man accused in a string of California killings and rapes, looking for class rings, earrings, dishes and other items possibly taken from crime scenes.
  Sacramento County sheriff’s Lt. Paul Belli said Thursday that authorities are also looking for weapons and other items that can link 72-year-old suspect James Joseph DeAngelo to the crimes in the 1970s and `80s.
  Belli declined to say what investigators have found.
  Police off
  
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• UC Board of Regents Won’t Discuss Tuition Hike During May Meeting

  27-04-2018 00:15
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California will not raise the contentious topic of tuition hikes at next month’s meeting of its governing board, as it continues to lobby for more state funding.
  UC President Janet Napolitano said in a statement Thursday that officials and students at the 10-campus system will push legislators for more funding until the final state budget is voted on in June.
  Given that timing, the UC Regents will not take up the issue, as planned, at the board&
  
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