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• Crews Battling Wildfire In Byron Area Of Contra Costa County

  30-05-2018 23:30
  BYRON (CBS13) – Firefighters are battling a wildfire in the Byron area of Contra Costa County early Wednesday afternoon.
  The scene is near Mountain House Road and W. Grant Line Road, near Tracy and Mountain House.
  Scene of the fire in Contra Costa County. Several structures are seen on fire. (Credit: KPIX)
  Cal Fire says firefighters are battling a total of seven wildfires in the area, which also includes part of Altamont in Alameda County. Together, the fires total 40-plus acres as of 2:40
  
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• Nearly 1.5 Million Californians Have Already Voted In Next Week’s Primary

  30-05-2018 21:47
  SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than 1.4 million Californians already have cast ballots in the state primary.
  California election officials mailed more than 11.5 million ballots to registered voters. As long as a ballot is postmarked by June 5 it can arrive up to three days later and still be counted.
  Many ballots come in near the deadline so counting continues for weeks, delaying winners in close races.
  Traditionally, only voters who request mail ballots get them. This year, five counties are expe
  
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• CA Assembly Assigns Funds for DOJ Team to Investigate Police Shootings

  30-05-2018 21:32
  SACRAMENTO (CBM) – The California legislature has taken concrete steps to try to address officer police shootings. Assembly Budget Subcommittee 5 on Public Safety has announced it will create a unit of the Department of Justice (DOJ) designated to investigate officer shootings.
  The committee also allocated $9.7 million to fund the team through 2018-19. The DOJ team will consist of three groups of investigators in three regions of the state. However, the investigations still have to be requ
  
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• Wristbands Required For Patton Oswalt’s Golden State Killer Book Event

  30-05-2018 21:29
  CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) – Wristbands will be given out starting at 5 pm for tonight’s Golden State Killer author event in Citrus Heights.
  Michelle McNamara wrote the book “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer” but died in 2016 before it was published.
  Her husband, Patton Oswalt, along with Lead Case Researcher Paul Haynes and crime investigative journalist Billy Jensen, will lead the conversation about the book and
  
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• TURO A New Opportunity For Underserved Communities

  30-05-2018 21:27
  OPINION – Madam C.J. Walker, widely considered America’s first female self-made millionaire, once said, “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” In the spirit of the American dream and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, today’s sharing economy is giving millions of Californians the chance to get up and make their own opportunities.
  Whether driving
  
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• Six Players Scheduled To Workout With Kings Before Draft

  30-05-2018 21:09
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The Sacramento Kings will bring in six more players Thursday for a pre-draft workout.
  The Kings have the #2 pick overall. The team will also draft the 36th player (2nd round).
  Three guards and three forwards will workout Thursday at the Golden 1 Center.Shake Milton (G- 6’6″ 207 lbs.) SMU
  Allonzo Trier (G- 6’5″ 205 lbs.) Arizona
  Jeff Roberson (F- 6’6″ 220 lbs.) Vanderbilt
  EC Matthews (G- 6’5″ 200 lbs.) Rhode Island
  Gary Cl
  
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• $17 An Hour? North Sacramento Chick-fil-A Significantly Raising Wages

  30-05-2018 17:58
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A North Sacramento area fast food restaurant is making national headlines after announcing its plans to pay employees $17 an hour.
  The raise at the Chick-fil-A takes effect on June 4 at the location on Madison Avenue.
  Right now, employees make about $13 an hour.
  Meaning, employees are looking at a 38 percent raise.
  The Madison Avenue location is a franchise. Chick-fil-A corporate says franchise owners are in charge of deciding how much to pay employees and what benefit
  
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• Police: Man Dies After Shooting At Stockton Motel 6 Room

  30-05-2018 16:35
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Officers are investigating after a shooting at a Motel 6 in Stockton left one man dead Tuesday night.
  The Stockton Police Department says officers responded to the motel on Navy Drive just before 9:30 p.m. They found a 26-year-old man who had been shot; he was taken to the hospital but was soon pronounced dead.
  A woman was also at the scene, officers say. She told officers that both her and the 26-year-old man were in a room when two other men forced their way inside. Th
  
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• Rural Stockton Home Break-In Suspect Arrested

  30-05-2018 15:56
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Authorities say they have arrested a man suspected of breaking into a rural Stockton home.
  The incident happened early Sunday morning. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to the 6800 block of S. Roberts Road to investigate an alarm going off at the home.
  Ignacio Anaya’s booking photo. (Credit: San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office)
  Deputies soon found that a sliding glass door was damaged, indicating the home was just broken in
  
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• Man, 26, Dead After Shooting In Rosemont

  30-05-2018 15:33
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – Deputies are investigating a homicide in the Rosemont area that happened early Wednesday morning.
  The scene is along the 9200 block Lilibet Avenue. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, deputies responded to the scene just before 12:30 a.m. to investigate a shooting.
  A man was soon found lying unresponsive on a sidewalk.
  He had been shot several times. Deputies immediately started CPR, but the man was soon pronounced dead by medics.
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• Stephon Clark Shooting Looms Large In Sacramento County District Attorney Race

  30-05-2018 07:49
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s a police shooting that has thrust Sacramento into the national spotlight and has added an extra glare to the race for Sacramento County District Attorney.
  On June 5, Sacramento County voters will pick either current D.A. Anne Marie Schubert or her challenger, deputy district attorney Noah Phillips.
  Even though the protesters’ calls for charges against officers in the March shooting of an unarmed black man have quieted down, the noise they made set the
  
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• Vandals Shoot Out Front Door Of Modesto Funeral Home

  30-05-2018 07:44
  MODESTO (CBS13) – A funeral home in Stanislaus County has been hit once again by vandals.
  The owners of the Franklin & Downs Funeral Home said someone shot through the front door into the business on McHenry Avenue.
  “This is a place families come to grieve the loss of their loved one and have funerals and celebrate their lives and with this door shattered it’s not good for business,” said Kristi Ah, a managing partner.
  It appears someone used a BB gun to shoot out the
  
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• Dangerous Pesticides Prompt Fight Against Illegal Pot Grows

  30-05-2018 07:36
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – It’s a new attack on illegal pot farms that are poisoning the environment, killing animals and now possibly poisoning humans. The State of California is joining forces with the federal government to crack down on illegal pot grows.
  “There are areas in the forest now that have gone from pristine to being killing zones,” said Bill Ruzzamenti, a High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area director.
  U.S. Forest Service officials say every year acres of marijuana
  
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• Vandals Tag Rio Linda High School With Racist Messages

  30-05-2018 07:34
  RIO LINDA (CBS13) — Concern surfaces over racist messages plastered around a Sacramento high school.
  The vandals struck Rio Linda High School last week. One parent says she doesn’t think the district is doing enough to address intolerance, so she’s removed her child from school indefinitely, in fear for his safety.
  The words “Trump will deport you” were tagged on a Spanish teacher’s door at Rio Linda High for Twialla Mitchell’s 14-year-old son to see whe
  
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• Friend Accused Of Torturing, Murdering Nevada County Veteran

  30-05-2018 07:33
  GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — Investigators are revealing disturbing details in a torture and murder case of a beloved Nevada County Vietnam veteran.
  Stanley Norman, 70, was first reported missing weeks ago. Now investigators say his burnt remains were discovered in a Nevada County backyard.
  Nevada County Sheriff’s investigators have arrested his friend, Sean Bryant, for torture and murder.
  “I don’t think Stan should have seen it coming,” Nevada County Sheriff’s Lt.
  
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• Men Arrested After Dragging 165 Feet Of Stolen Copper Cable Behind Car

  30-05-2018 05:22
  BURNEY, Calif. (AP) – Northern California authorities have arrested two men they say towed 165 feet of stolen copper cable behind their car.
  The car, dragging the thick cable, was spotted Tuesday morning in Burney.
  The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office says two men in the car told a deputy they were trying to strip the black protective sheathing from the cable by dragging it because it was too hard to do by hand. The men said they found the cable on the roadside.
  Authorities say a searc
  
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• Sheriff: Man Shot By Deputy In Landlord-Tenant Dispute Dies

  30-05-2018 03:16
  RIVERBANK (CBS13) — A man who was shot by a deputy during a dispute with his former landlord has died from his injuries.
  Investigators say Armando Osuna, 51, had been evicted from a property on Burneyville Road a month ago and had returned on Tuesday for unknown reasons. The property owner called 911 and two deputies arrived.
  “The landlord initially confronted that person and then they had a brief confrontation and then the landlord left and called 911 and requested the sheriff&rsquo
  
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• Sheriff: Landlord-Tenant Dispute Injures Stanislaus Deputy

  30-05-2018 03:16
  RIVERBANK (CBS13) — A Stanislaus County Sheriff’s deputy is recovering in the hospital after he was injured trying to break up a fight between a landlord and his former tenant.
  It happened near the intersection of Orange Avenue and Burneville Road. Investigators say the deputy’s arm was injured at one point during the confrontation, and another deputy opened fire, striking the former tenant.
  Deputies are investigating what led up to a shooting that happened a few feet from this
  
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• Sacramento Part Of Pilot Program For Digital License Plates

  30-05-2018 02:33
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — California’s capital will be part of a test bed for a new license plate technology that goes beyond metal plates with letters and numbers.
  The plates will start showing up on some cars in the area this week.
  California is one of three states that have legalized the use of digital plates. It’s currently in a pilot program but gathering drivers’ attention.
  The new digital plates use similar low-power technology to Kindle e-book readers to make the plate
  
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• Judge Considering Release Of East Area Rapist Suspect Arrest Info

  30-05-2018 02:31
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The suspected East Area rapist and Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo stood silent and emotionless in a courtroom cage on Tuesday as attorneys argued whether to release information about his arrest.
  The former police officer suspected in more than a dozen murders was handcuffed, and wearing an orange jumpsuit.
  His eyes never left the judge who is weighing how much information to release about his arrest, including what was found inside his Citrus Heights home. Defense
  
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• Questions Raised About 5G Health Risks Months Before Sacramento Launches Service

  30-05-2018 02:24
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sacramento will be the first city in the country to get 5G cell service later this summer, but health concerns are now being raised about the equipment.
  5G uses high frequency waves and is supposed to be 100 times faster than the current cell phone service. However, the 5G waves don’t travel as far as current wireless frequencies so instead of large cell phone tower equipment spread far apart, the 5G requires small cell sites closer together.
  The FCC does set exp
  
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• Southwest Temporarily Ends Nonstop Service Between Sacramento And New Orleans

  30-05-2018 02:13
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Southwest Airlines is pausing its weekly nonstop service between Sacramento and New Orleans.
  The airline says it will discontinue the flights by mid-August. The nonstop service just started in March. The airline says the change is a seasonal reduction for the summer.
  The 4 hour flights departed Sacramento International Airport at 6:25 am and landed in New Orleans at 12:25 pm. The return flight left New Orleans at 8:40 pm and landed at SMF at 11 pm.
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• California, Feds Team Up On Targeting Illegal Pot Grows

  30-05-2018 01:12
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – An alarming increase in the use of a highly toxic and banned pesticide at illegal marijuana farms hidden on public land in California is leading U.S. and state officials to team up on an issue that recently divided them: pot.
  They announced Tuesday that they will use $2.5 million in federal money to target illegal grows even as they remain at odds over the drug and other issues. Federal law still bans pot, but U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott said he will prioritize i
  
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• Scott Peterson Mugshot Shows He Hasn’t Changed Much

  30-05-2018 01:03
  SAN QUENTIN – Scott Peterson had a new mugshot taken in early May at San Quentin.
  Credit: CDCR
  The 45-year-old is on death row for murdering his wife, Laci, and unborn son in 2002.
  Conner would be 15 now if his father hadn’t murdered his mother on Christmas Eve when she was 8 months pregnant.
  Inmates are typically photographed every 5 years or when there is a distinct change in physical appearance, according to the California Department of Corrections handbook. Peterson’s last
  
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• MLS Officially Skips Sacramento Again, This Time For Cincinnati

  30-05-2018 00:28
  CINCINNATI (AP) – Major League Soccer added Cincinnati in its latest round of expansion Tuesday, rewarding a city that has set attendance records during three seasons of United Soccer League play and has a stadium deal in place.
  The announcement on Tuesday brings MLS to 26 teams, two shy of its ultimate goal. It began as a 10-team league in 1996.
  Cincinnati will join next year, continuing to play at the University of Cincinnati’s football stadium while a 21,000-seat soccer stadium is
  
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