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• 7 Men Accused Of Groping Girls At Roseville Water Park Won’t Be Charged

  27-06-2018 23:46
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – The Placer County District Attorney’s Office will not be charging the seven men who were arrested and accused of working together to grope girls at a Roseville water park.
  The decision not to charge the men came after an extensive investigation by Roseville police detectives into the May 28 incident.
  RELATED: Why Were 7 Men Accused Of Groping Girls At Water Park Released Without Charges?
  Despite the initial reports, “there was never any evidence of any
  
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• Search On For Stockton Girl, 16, Missing Since Last Friday

  27-06-2018 22:29
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Authorities in Stockton are asking for help in finding a girl who’s been missing since last week.
  Stockton police say 16-year-old Andrea Barrios left her southwest Stockton home last Friday and boarded the ACE Train to Livermore. After arriving in Livermore around 7:45 a.m. that day, she has not been seen since.
  Police say Barrios’ phone is off and family has not been able to contact her.
  Barrios is said to suffer from a medical condition that may require tre
  
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• Man Accused Of Trying To Kidnap Girl, 14, In Modesto

  27-06-2018 22:08
  MODESTO (CBS13) – Police have arrested a man suspected of trying to kidnap a teenage girl in Modesto.
  The incident happened Tuesday around 4 p.m.
  Modesto police say a 14-year-old girl was walking along Tokay Avenue when a man in a car drove up to her. The man then allegedly grabbed her.
  A 41-year-old man from Ceres has been arrested for attempting to kidnap a teenage girl in #Modesto – Detectives say, the suspect approached the victim in a car and attempted to grab her. She was able
  
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• Caught On Camera: Two Packages Taken From Sacramento Porch

  27-06-2018 21:34
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A suspected porch pirate drove onto a Sacramento homeowner’s driveway and stole two packages.
  The Ring doorbell recorded the incident and the video was turned over to Sacramento police.
  The video shows the woman drove up in a red pickup truck, get out, steal two packages, then casually walk back to the truck and drive away.
  Credit: ring.com
  The Ring device alerted the homeowner- who then shared the video with neighbors and police.
  If you recognize the suspected t
  
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• Justice Kennedy retiring; Trump gets 2nd Supreme Court pick

  27-06-2018 21:02
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a golden chance to cement conservative control of the high court.
  The 81-year-old Kennedy said in a statement he is stepping down after more than 30 years on the court. A Republican appointee, he has held the key vote on such high-profile issues as abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, guns, campaign finance and voting rights.
  Kennedy said he had informed his collea
  
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• CA Senate Public Safety Committee Passes of Bill Restricting Use of Force

  27-06-2018 20:38
  SACRAMENTO (CBM) – After more than an hour of heated comments and testimony last week, the Senate Public Safety Committee voted to allow Assembly Bill 931 to proceed. AB 931 restricts police officers from using deadly force only when a life is at stake.
  Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), one of the authors of the bill, said police legislation needed to be updated because they were currently working on a law that was written in 1872. She also presented some startling statistics. A
  
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• Statewide Emergency Alert System Proposed To Help During Wildfires

  27-06-2018 20:22
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – California is working on a new statewide emergency alert system to warn people in an emergency, including wildfires.
  Right now California’s 58 counties have various systems in place, including broadcasting alerts on television and radio and sending recorded messages to landlines. Several counties send text messages to mobile phone users; however, the users need to opt-in for the service.
  The new proposal would make the emergency alert system uniform across all co
  
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• Bicyclist Killed In Hit-And-Run In South Lake Tahoe

  27-06-2018 19:55
  SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS13) – Police are investigating after a bicycle rider was killed in a hit-and-run early Wednesday morning.
  The scene was along Highway 50, west of the Upper Truckee River.
  California Highway Patrol’s South Lake Tahoe division says officers responded to the scene around 5:30 a.m. and found an unresponsive man in the roadway. A damaged bicycle was also found nearby.
  The man was soon pronounced dead.
  It appears a vehicle traveling eastbound on Highway 50 hit the man.
  
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• Sacramento Regional Fire Dispatch Center Sues Software Company For Breach Of Contract, Fraud

  27-06-2018 19:14
  By James Taylor
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Fire officials say the new computer dispatch software they purchased has been a multi-million dollar disaster.
  A 17-page complaint accuses a Texas-based software company of breach of contract and fraud. The company was supposed to modernize the way fire crews are dispatched to emergencies but fire the critical new software doesn’t work, fire officials say.
  Dispatchers at Sacramento’s Regional Fire Communications Center take more than 350,000
  
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• Officers Swarm JetBlue Flight to LA After Radio Glitch Triggers Frightening False Alarm

  27-06-2018 19:01
  LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Passengers on JetBlue Flight 1623 from New York City to Los Angeles spent several hours on the runway Monday, which were punctuated by security officers storming the plane after the plane lost its radio signal.
  Video from Alexa Curtis shows passengers holding their hands up as the officers do their sweep.
  “I hate guns. They were pointing them, like, at us,” Curtis told CBS2 News. “It was traumatizing.”
  She said they waited two hours o
  
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• Mattel Partners With ‘Black Girls Code’ To Promote Cool, Tech-Savvy Barbie

  27-06-2018 18:43
  SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – A Bay Area nonprofit organization is loving the design of a new technology-savvy, African-American Barbie doll that aims to break racial and gender stereotypes.
  The new Barbie has a cool new career: she builds robots and teaches coding.
  Black Girls Code “code divas” 15-year-old Kimora Oliver and 11-year-old Sumayyah Green (CBS)
  “And she has a puff! I’m like, ‘Yasss!’” exclaimed Kimora.
  “I can like totally relate to he
  
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• Containment Grows To 25% On Pawnee Fire In Lake County

  27-06-2018 16:36
  SPRING VALLEY (CBS13) – Crews are slowly gaining ground on the Pawnee Fire.
  As of Wednesday morning, the flames are now 25 percent contained. But mandatory evacuations are still in place for the Spring Valley community.
  #PawneeFire [update] off Pawnee Rd & New Long Valley Rd, northeast of Clearlake Oaks (Lake County) is now 13,5000 acres and 25% contained. Unified command: CAL FIRE, Lake County Sheriffs Office, US Forest Service, & Northshore Fire Protection Districthttps://t.co/Lo
  
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• Police: Man Hits Elderly Stockton Ice Cream Vendor With Handgun, Robs Him

  27-06-2018 16:13
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – Police in Stockton are looking for two men who robbed an ice cream vendor.
  The incident happened just before 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday near South Stanislaus and East Worth streets.
  Stockton police say an elderly man was selling ice cream in the area when a young man went up to him. The young man told the vendor to give up his stuff and then hit him with a handgun.
  The suspect took off after getting some property.
  Police say they’re looking for two men believed to be in
  
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• Man Drowns In South Yuba River In Nevada County

  27-06-2018 15:49
  NORTH SAN JUAN (CBS13) – Authorities say a man drowned after being stuck between rocks in the South Yuba River.
  Nevada County deputies say it happened Tuesday evening near the Highway 49 overcrossing.
  Authorities brought a helicopter to hoist the victim out of the river and tried performing CPR, but he died after they pulled him out.
  Officials have not identified the victim.
  
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• Man Dead After Crash Into Sacramento Home, Report Of Shots Fired

  27-06-2018 15:33
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – One man has died after a car crashed into a North Sacramento home late Tuesday night.
  Sacramento police say officers responded to the scene along Morell Street, near Azusa Street, just after 11 p.m. Witnesses reported that a car had crashed into a building – and gunshots were also reported to have been heard in the area.
  Major Collision / Death Investigation – Morell Street (Press Release). https://t.co/Pl3IQcwy4D https://t.co/OvV7h22Hcb#sacpd pic.twitter.c
  
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• Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Decision Leaves Families Stranded

  27-06-2018 09:17
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — President Donald Trump is celebrating victory after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to uphold the third version of his travel ban.
  San Francisco’s Ninth Circuit court of appeals first knocked down the president’s travel ban. The state of Hawaii led the challenge and argued the ban was biased against Muslims.
  For the President, Tuesday’s 5-4 vote was vindication.
  “A tremendous success, a tremendous victory for the American people. The
  
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• Public Campsite Plans Near Auburn Have Neighbors Concerned

  27-06-2018 09:10
  AUBURN (CBS13) — A proposed public campsite in the Auburn area hopes to boost tourism, but locals worry the risk to public safety will come at a high price.
  The campgrounds would be built along the American River in the Auburn State Recreation Area, near the city of Cool. In a public open house Tuesday, the California State Park and Recreation Department laid out its plans, which were met with fiery pushback by some residents.
  People who live in the area that have concerns are mostly worri
  
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• Supreme Court Acknowledges Internment Camps In Travel Ban Decision

  27-06-2018 08:57
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The U.S. Supreme Court is apologizing for its part in forcing Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II.
  The apology came from Chief Justice John Roberts, in his written delivery of the court’s opinion on President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The U.S. government forced more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans into camps in the name of national security.
  And in 1944 the Supreme Court, in a case called Korematsu vs United States, upheld the righ
  
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• Elk Grove Police Investigating Rash Of Armed Robberies

  27-06-2018 08:38
  ELK GROVE (CBS13) — Police are investigating several armed robberies that happened on back to back weekends in different locations.
  It’s concerning for the community and disturbing that in at least one case the suspects were only 14 or 15 years old.
  “On edge for sure, you know, just a little nervous,” said Marissa Creighton who works at the Little Caesars on Laguna.
  She said her store was robbed a few hours after finishing her shift.
  “One of the guys actually held a
  
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• Pawnee Fire Puts 1,500 Under Evacuation Order With Erratic Winds

  27-06-2018 08:27
  SPRING VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California wildfire that has burned some two dozen homes and buildings gained thousands of acres on Tuesday as it burned through tinder-dry chaparral, and residents forced to flee a tiny rural community had no idea when they can return.
  The fire that burned some two dozen homes and other buildings since Saturday continued to threaten about 600 buildings in Lake County north of San Francisco. The entire Spring Valley area was under evacuation orders,
  
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• Why Am I Smelling Smoke In Sacramento?

  27-06-2018 08:17
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Smoke in the Sacramento region may be tied to a fire in Solano County.
  As winds picked up throughout the evening, CBS13 started getting reports of smoke during the 10 p.m. hour.
  We were able to rule out the Pawnee Fire in Lake County, since the wind was coming from the southwest at the time.
  Sac Metro Fire says the fire may be the result of a fire in Solano County
  The current odor of smoke throughout the #Sacramento Region may be due to the Grizzly Fire in Solano Count
  
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• Exam Error May Cost Some State Workers Their Jobs

  27-06-2018 05:47
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A small technicality on a civil service exam may cause big problems for several Cal-OSHA safety inspectors who over the last year have conducted hundreds of investigations in cities across California.
  A civil service exam used to hire and promote Cal-OSHA employees is now in question. A recent audit on its hiring process found an error in how the exam is administered.
  “We’re confident that the state and the department wants the same thing we want which is t
  
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• Hotel Worker Panic Button Law Being Debated

  27-06-2018 01:27
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Hotels will need to provide maids and other workers with panic buttons if a proposed bill becomes law.
  Assembly Bill 1761 would require hotel workers to have panic buttons when they enter guest rooms alone. The button, which would be free, would allow the worker to call for help if he or she is in danger, witnesses a crime, or observes an emergency.
  Employees who are the victims of violent or sexual assault, or sexual harassment, would also get paid time off in order t
  
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• States Sue Trump Administration To Reunite Immigrant Children With Families

  27-06-2018 00:50
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seventeen states, including New York and California, sued the Trump administration Tuesday to force it to reunite the thousands of immigrant children and parents it separated at the border, as the legal and political pressure on the White House to reconnect families more quickly escalated.
  “The administration’s practice of separating families is cruel, plain and simple,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in a statement. “Every day, it
  
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• Snow Leopard Cub At Sacramento Zoo Undergoing Physical Therapy

  27-06-2018 00:27
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The snow leopard cub born at the Sacramento Zoo is undergoing physical therapy to help him with several birth defects.
  The cub, who was a twin, has swimmers syndrome in his rear legs, meaning his legs are “noticeably splayed,” according to a new post on the zoo’s blog. He also has eyelid birth defects and may need surgery in the future.
  Credit: Sacramento Zoo
  The other cub died shortly after birth.
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